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A recent study published in The European Physical Journal C suggests a link between general relativity and quantum mechanics. The article, titled "Quantum mechanics from general relativity and the quantum Friedmann equation", is written by Marco Matone of the Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei" at the University of Padua and Nikolaos Dimakis of the Department of Physical Sciences at the Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. Since the early twentieth century, physicists have sought a theory that reconciles general relativity and quantum mechanics. Einstein, despite having provided the groundwork for modern cosmology, was unable to develop a theory that harmonized gravity and quanta. In the years since, several lines of inquiry have attempted to bridge the conceptual gap between the two perspectives, but without decisive results. Matone and Dimakis' work falls into this history by taking a unique method that reinterprets general relativity using mathematical structures found in quantum mechanics. A perspective that could indicate a new, conceptually simpler path toward unification.
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