Jacob Shymanski
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first heard Jul 2026
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And that's why the universe itself has –
arranged itself because of gravity, because it's such a long-range force.
Lead author Pekowski said, many physicists thought about it over the years, but the answer was always the same.
It cannot be done in terms of detecting gravitons.
It was impossible to imagine quantum experiments that go beyond a few atoms, and they hardly interact with gravitons at all.
I mean, it's true.
When you get down to the scale of atoms, when you're doing a lot of theoretical work, you could basically ignore gravity.
It's always just a non-entity at that scale.
Now, you may think, hey, we can detect gravitational waves.
Wouldn't it be fairly straightforward then to detect one of the gravitons that make up these gravitational waves that our LIGO detectors have been detecting for years now?
It's an amazing development.
The paper actually addresses this specifically.
The researchers explained that the famous physicist Freeman Dyson once looked into that specifically, and he calculated that a typical gravitational wave that we detect would consist of, say, 10 to the 36 gravitons, a lot of gravitons, a huge number.
But to detect one or two of those, that would mean that we'd have to increase the position resolution of LIGO to far below the Planck length.
Now, the Planck length is tiny.
Imagine a proton, right?
Really small.
Now, divide that by 100 quintillion.
That's a Planck length.
So yeah, we're not going to improve LIGO to have that kind of spatial resolution.
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