Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel writes nonsense about the incompatibility of gravity and quantum physics

 

Leonov Vladimir

March 2026

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5270-0824

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leonov-Vladimir/research

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Leonov Vladimir. Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel writes nonsense about the incompatibility of gravity and quantum physics. – Preprint: ResearchGate, March 2026, Download PDF: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14699.09765

Abstract

The foundations of the theory of quantum gravity were laid by me in 1996 after the discovery of the quantum of space-time (quanton) in the form of a 4D-tetraquark [23]. The quantized vacuum consists of 4D-tetraquarks filling the entire Universe. The 4D-tetraquark is the x-quark of the zero element of Mendeleev's Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. A 4D-tetraquark consists of four quarks (antiquarks): two electric (±1e) and two magnetic (±1g). Quarks have no mass and serve as carriers of colossal energy. Mendeleev's zero element also has a y-quark, which is an electron neutrino or gluon inside the spherical shell of a nucleon.       Quantum gravity begins with the formation of mass for particles as a result of spherical deformation of the quantized vacuum. The gluon shell of the nucleon compresses the quantized vacuum, giving it mass in the form of an equivalent of the energy of spherical deformation of the quantized vacuum. An electron neutrino can split into an electric quark and an antiquark, which lead to the production of a pair of electron and positron particles as a result of spherical deformation of the quantized vacuum around the central charges of the quarks. For this reason, quarks and antiquarks cannot exist in a free state inside a quantized vacuum, instantly binding into elementary particles, solving the confinement problem. Thus, the quantized vacuum serves as the basis of quantum gravity, which induces particles inside the vacuum as a result of the spherical deformation of the quantized vacuum by the electric charge of quarks and antiquarks and the gluon shell of nucleons.

17 pages, 7 figures.

Key word: quantum gravity, quarks, quantized vacuum, Quantum Superunification Theory, 4D-tetraquark, zero element, Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, electron neutrino, gluon, confinement, nucleon,

Content

1. Introduction

2. Without Einstein, we might have missed General Relativity [20]

3. The basis of the Leonov Superunification Quantum Theory

    is the quark structure of the quantized vacuum

4. Quantum gravity is an induced state of a deformed quantized vacuum

5. The theory of quantum gravity with 4D-tetraquarks

    has been confirmed by experiments on the Leonov interferometer.

6. Conclusion

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