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Thousands of particle physicists dont have much to do than add another decimal place to their measurements of known physics.

Someone said this in 1900 too when classical physics was mostly wrapped up save for a few loose ends like newly discovered radiation

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But in this case, we know our physics is wrong. We still don't have a decent theory of quantum gravity.

We just don't know what the solution is.

Most likely, gravitation is an effect which we already know, but at much lower resolution. IMHO, it is similar to Casimir effect, but at much higher frequency, e.g. 1E(1E200) Hz.

Source, please?

It's a very old idea, almost as old as the Higgs mechanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_gravity

Getting it to work is another matter, though.

This other gravity theory sounds a bit better than Sakharov's induced gravity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity

It was the American physicist Albert Michelson (the creator of the beautiful Michelson interferometer design which enabled very precise measurements of the speed of light) who said "it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established . . . An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."

Subsequently, the sentiment of this statement has been misattributed to Lord Kelvin.

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