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SUBMITTER: Crowley BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3389367 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20120704
A common misperception of quantum gravity is that it requires accessing energies up to the Planck scale of 10¹⁹ GeV, which is unattainable from any conceivable particle collider. Thanks to the development of ultra-high intensity optical lasers, very large accelerations can be now the reached at their focal spot, thus mimicking, by virtue of the equivalence principle, a non Minkowski space-time. Here we derive a semiclassical extension of quantum mechanics that applies to different metrics, but u ...[more]