‘Wobbly spacetime’ may help resolve contradictory physics theories

A new attempt to reconcile the physics of the very big and very small offers up a testable prediction: time itself might be ‘wobbly’. Physicists have long sought a unifying theory that integrates the spectacularly successful — but mathematically incompatible — general theory of relativity and quantum theory. The “postquantum theory of classical gravity” suggests that space-time is smooth and continuous, not ‘quantised’ into discrete chunks. But it has fluctuations — which could be revealed by precise table-top mass measurements.

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This theory is based on misunderstandings such as 'time flows' (dimensions don't flow, processes unfold) and 'curved spacetime' (it is the geodesic trajectory in space that is curved, not spacetime).