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Quantum mechanics does not take gravity into account at all. So when the energy levels of the hydrogen atom are calculated, the results should be exact only in flat spacetime (no gravitational fields). Energy levels of an H atom in a gravitational field should require a quantum gravity theory.
Has any experiment ever shown a difference between energy levels of an atom on Earth (or on the sun) and that which standard quantum mechanics predicts? (I am not referring to a gravitational redshift of the light emitted. I mean an actual violation of standard QM inside the atom.) The difference would be very tiny but it would give an experimental test of any new quantum gravity theory.
Jeff
Has any experiment ever shown a difference between energy levels of an atom on Earth (or on the sun) and that which standard quantum mechanics predicts? (I am not referring to a gravitational redshift of the light emitted. I mean an actual violation of standard QM inside the atom.) The difference would be very tiny but it would give an experimental test of any new quantum gravity theory.
Jeff
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