Physicists are proving Einstein wrong (again)

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The title of the article is pretty clickbait-ish for LiveScience, but the work looks legit - in the rather early hypothesization way that it's presented.

New theory could finally make 'quantum gravity' a reality — and prove Einstein wrong

Physicists have developed a novel approach to solving one of the most persistent problems in theoretical physics: uniting gravity with the quantum world.

In a recent paper published in the journal Reports on Progress in Physics, the scientists outline a reformulation of gravity that could lead to a fully quantum-compatible description — without invoking the extra dimensions or exotic features required by more speculative models, like string theory.

At the heart of the proposal is a rethinking of how gravity behaves at a fundamental level. While the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces are all described using quantum field theory — a mathematical framework that incorporates uncertainty and wave-particle duality — gravity remains the outlier. General relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity, is a purely classical theory that describes gravity as the warping of space-time geometry by mass and energy. But attempts to blend quantum theory with general relativity often run into fatal mathematical inconsistencies, such as infinite probabilities.

A pretty good video summarizing the science and whatnot:

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Sounds like very interesting research! ....even if I'm annoyed by the clickbait title they gave it. It's not really about Einstein in that sense...

 

[Erich Templar]

Yeah, that's a terrible title. If true, the theory proves Einstein "wrong" in roughly the same way that Einstein proved Newton "wrong".