The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO—has completed its first science run.

Unifying gravity and quantum theory remains a significant goal in modern physics. Despite the success in unifying all other fundamental interactions (electromagnetism, strong force and weak force) with quantum mechanics and many attempts at explaining a "quantum gravity," scientists are still coming up short. Still, some believe we are getting closer to determining whether these two theories can be combined or whether they are truly incompatible.

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