Mystery Photon Might Be First Evidence for Quantum Gravity
Sabine Hossenfelder
Oct 3, 2026 15:00
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In October 2022, a detector in Russia caught a single photon with an energy far beyond anything our particle colliders can produce. According to physics as we know it, it should never have made it to Earth. Now a team of physicists says it might be the first evidence for quantum gravity. Let's take a look.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1103/zjh2-mc47
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