"The notion of a smooth spatial geometry, the central principle of general relativity, is destroyed by the violent fluctuations of the quantum world on short distance scales. ...The equations of general relativity cannot handle the rolling frenzy of the quantum foam. ... Physicists have made numerous attempts at modifying either general relativity or quantum mechanics in some manner so as to avoid the conflict, but the attempts... have been met with failure after failure. That is, until the discovery of superstring theory."
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Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (1999) Ch. 5 The Need for a New Theory: General Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics.
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