By performing this experiment over and over with a variety of such conditions, Overstreet’s team was able, for the first time, to measure the phase shifts of these atoms and compare them with the theoretical predictions for the gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect. Lo and behold, not only has it been detected, but the match is dead on.

Has a new experiment just proven the quantum nature of gravity?
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John Levin

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