Terrestrial tests of quantum gravity

  • Oct. 2, 2024, 3:30 pm US/Central
  • Daniel Carney, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Chris Stoughton

I will give an overview of recent activity based on the idea that we can test quantum properties of the gravitational field in experiments. I will emphasize the need to state precisely what hypotheses are being tested, discuss some explicit models of low-energy gravity that violate the usual rules of effective quantum field theory, and discuss some of the basic experimental challenges to getting these tests done.