A new quantum gravity paper posits that interacting matter creates randomness, which then warps spacetime (measured as gravity). Without other matter, a pencil wouldn’t fall off a writer’s desk, and skinned knees wouldn’t be a childhood learning experience.

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Randomness is ubiquitous. We can measure the likelihood of a penny landing on tails with high certainty. We’re less able to measure tomorrow’s chance of rain, next year’s chance of college admission, or the chance of getting cancer young.

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Bio: Colleen M. Farrelly