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The Challenge of Unifying General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
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The idea of locality, which is built into every field theory including general relativity, may not be fundamental to the nature of our existence. This presents challenges for unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics as the quantum theory of gravity is not a field theory.
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The concept of locality, which is built into every quantum field theory including general relativity, may not be fundamental to the nature of our existence.
1:02:18 - 1:06:23 (04:04)
Quantum Field Theory
Summary
The concept of locality, which is built into every quantum field theory including general relativity, may not be fundamental to the nature of our existence. Evidence suggests that the quantum theory of gravity is not a field theory, making it difficult to find a classical precursor and quantizing it.