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When a Quantum Particle Blurs Causality ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Quantum Matter Makes Lightcones Quantum"
· Tomohiro Fujita, Misao Sasaki
arXiv:2606.03671 · 2026-06-02 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · General Relativity HEP Theory Quantum Physics
When the source of gravity behaves like a quantum object, the boundaries between cause and effect blur.
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When the source of gravity is quantum, the boundaries of cause and effect blur. Light cones are no longer strict: events can both influence and not influence each other—simultaneously. Such quantum causality leads to a new understanding of time.

🎯 The Shapiro delay is real: a radio signal is delayed when passing near a massive body. In a new study, it is described for the first time not as a precise value, but as a quantum phenomenon with inherent uncertainty.

Scientists
Christian DopplerD. B. McLaughlinDidier QuelozMichel MayorR. A. RossiterAlbert Einstein
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spacetime curvature speed of light
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Doppler effectprinciple of constancy of the speed of lightmass–energy equivalenceMaxwell's equationsLorentz transformationsequivalence principle
Original: arXiv:2606.03671 · CC BY · bridge42worlds