ERC Consolidator Grant · 2016
Quantifying Quantum Gravity Violations of Causality and the Equivalence Principle
Quantum gravity must violate at least one of three principles at the foundations of physics: unitarity, causality, or the equivalence principle. Recent theoretical work on black holes has shown that such violations are not limited to extremely short distances, where quantum gravity effects are expected, but also occur at distances much larger than the Planck scale. This work has revealed a huge gap in our understanding: we have no working criterion for when quantum gravity violations of the usual laws of physics are important. This theoretical crisis is also an opportunity, since quantum gravity effects may be observable if they occur at longer distance scales. I propose a series of…
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