Quantum theory's last challenge

Abstract

Quantum mechanics is now 100 years old and still going strong. Combining general relativity with quantum mechanics is the last hurdle to be overcome in the "quantum revolution".

Comments: (9 pages, LaTex) This is the preprint version of an article that appeared in the issue 6813 (volume 408) of Nature, as part of a 3-article celebration of the 100th anniversary of Planck's solution of the black-body-radiation problem