No, You Lot Notwithstanding Cannot Probe Quantum Gravity Amongst Quantum Optics

Srsly?

Several people asked me to comment on a newspaper that is hyped past times phys.org every bit a examination of quantum gravity. I’ll brand this brief.

First things first, why are you lot nonetheless next phys.org?

Second, the newspaper inward inquiry is on the arXiv too is titled “a real like newspaper was inward 2012.

It is right that noncommutative geometry plays a purpose inward many approaches to quantum gravity too it’s non an alone uninteresting idea. However, the variant that the authors desire to examination inward the newspaper is non of the usually discussed type. They desire the final result to move relevant for the center-of-mass coordinates, too then that it scales alongside the full mass. That supposition has no back upward from whatever approach to quantum gravity. It’s made-up. It is besides mathematically highly problematic.

Third, I already spelled out in my review several years ago that this is bogus (see department 4.6) too doesn’t follow from anything. Though the academically right phrase I used at that topographic point is “should move regarded alongside caution.”

Fourth, depository fiscal establishment annotation that the newspaper appeared on the arxiv 2 weeks after being accepted for publication. The authors clearly were non great on whatever comment past times whatever blogger earlier they had made it through peer review.

Fifth, allow me lift that i of the authors of the paper, Mir Faizal, is non unknown to readers of this blog. We concluding heard of him when claimed that Loop Quantum Gravity violates the Holographic Principle (it doesn't). Before that, he claimed that the LHC volition brand contact to parallell universes (it won’t) too that black holes don’t exist (they do).

I balance my case.

And don’t forget to unfollow phys.org.