Trying to solve quantum gravity is frustrating. We have made tremendous progress in quantum theory, but it seems that every ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

The largest-ever survey of physicists from around the world—released today—shows a distinct lack of consensus across many of ...

Physicists from around the country converged at UC Santa Barbara for two days of talks and camaraderie in memory of esteemed physicist Professor Jim Hartle, one of four cofounders of the campus’s ...

A new study links the universe’s expansion to quantum topology, suggesting that hidden mathematical structures may stabilize ...

Scientists have achieved two major breakthroughs: experimentally uncovering how quantum order collapses in real-world environments and proposing new gravity models that could replace the Big Bang ...

Quantum gravity and cosmology represent a frontier in theoretical physics where the principles of quantum mechanics are integrated with the framework of general relativity. This synthesis is crucial ...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, SWITZERLAND, March 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — In recent decades, physics has entered a period of rapid expansion in empirical knowledge ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth curvature of spacetime, the other the jittery statistics of particles and ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Renowned physicists, including two Nobel Prize winners, will gather at the Vatican Observatory near Rome next week to ponder the unresolved mysteries of the cosmos and to honor ...

Bouncing cosmology offers an alternative to the classical Big Bang paradigm by postulating that the Universe undergoes a contraction phase followed by a non-singular bounce and then re-expands. This ...