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11 years ago
About a year or two ago I recall reading about some experiments for measuring the energy transitions of subatomic particles falling through a gravitational field.  The experiments proved that gravity, like other forces, is quantized at the subatomic scale.  Can anyone recount the details of those studies?  Since we no longer fund new accelerators in United States perhaps experiments to study quantum gravity should become our next great goal for physics research funding?
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11 years ago
I don't know of any experiments that have shown gravity to be quantized.  The energy levels you would need exceed what we can (and maybe ever will be able to) generate.

Were you thinking maybe of experiments that send particles across two paths at different gravitational potential?  The one whose path goes at higher potential should oscillate at a slightly different rate, so it will have a phase shift, which you can measure by recombining the beams and letting them interfere.

While that experiment is neat, I don't see how it tells you anything about the quantization of the gravitational field.

See if you can dig up a link to what you're thinking of.
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11 years ago
The experiments at the large hadron collider in Geneva are focused on discovering the Higgs Boson, a theoretical particle that would explain connections between mass, inertia and gravity. However, many suspect that gravity is not quantized and there are no particle interactions of this force, that gravity is a result of spacetime perterbation, as in Einstiens relativity.
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11 years ago
The quest for a theory of quantum gravity is well under way. Google "quantum gravity" to get some useful links about the theory and experimental methods for testing the theory. This is cutting-edge research.
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