Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity A recently proposed experiment would confirm that gravity is a quantum force. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine March 6, 2018 Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity | Quanta Magazine excerpt: "Bronstein figured out how to describe gravity in terms of quantized particles, now called gravitons, but only when the force of gravity is weak — that is (in general relativity), when the space-time fabric is so weakly curved that it can be approximated as flat. When gravity is strong, “the situation is quite different,” he wrote. “Without a deep revision of classical notions, it seems hardly possible to extend the quantum theory of gravity also to this domain.” His words were prophetic. Eighty-three years later, physicists are still trying to understand how space-time curvature emerges on macroscopic scales from a more fundamental, presumably quantum picture of gravity; it’s arguably the deepest question in physics. “What’s beautiful about the arguments is that you don’t really need to know what the quantum theory is, specifically,” Blencowe said. “All you have to say is there has to be some quantum aspect to this field that mediates the force between the two particles.”
"A recently proposed experiment would confirm that gravity is a quantum force." So they haven't actually really discovered anything or confirmed anything but "in theory" they're already predicting the outcome?
They are attempting to provide a way to test quantum gravity against Relativistic, but I wouldn't hold my breath just yet. The Large Hadron Collider encountered the same problem with the discovery of the Higgs Boson. It has a mass of 125GeV, indicating that higher energy cosmic ray experiments are required to decide the issue of supersymmetry. In other words, assuming symmetry is fundamental, it is so fundamental that it is all but impossible to determine if it is fundamental, and is pushing the limits of our current technology. Mathematical examination of Relativistic time dilation, has indicated that the weak influence of the gravitation field permeating the entire universe, is enough to cause the collapse of the wave-function in something as big as an atom. This proposed table-top experiment sounds cheap and easy, but is much more difficult than it appears to be superficially, however, it could prove that the wave-function never collapses and we live in a quantum universe. There is already a wealth of data they are accumulating to support the idea and the fact they are coming with new proposed was to test it is merely and indication that they are closing on the answer.