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DENVER, CO – With fresh approaches to quantum gravity, the big
questions about the beginning of the universe and the
possibility of time and space as particles--once thought
"existential in nature"--are now seriously being considered.
Einstein's theory of relativity might not be completely
accurate, according to physicist Fotini Markopoulo Kalamara with
the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, who will
present a topical lecture today at the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting. Einstein
claims that massive stars will collapse into black holes once
they've burned up all of their energy sources. But, these black
holes are still a mystery. This is where Markopoulo Kalamara's
specialty, quantum gravity, comes into place. "We need a new
theory to replace the theory of general relativity, so we can
understand what's going on inside the black hole," she s