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Re:Equivalence principle of general relativity holds even at... by Santosh83 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @06:38AM (#17462154)
Just a layman question: does this have any implications for theories of quantum gravity, like LQG or String theory?
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Re:Equivalence principle of general relativity holds even at... by RedOrGreen on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:13PM (#17465937)
Yes, the authors discuss the implications for scalar-tensor theories, and it doesn't look great for many of them. The Nature News and Views article by Clifford Will [1] offers a decent overview.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05549-4

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