Dr Giacomo Rosati, Professor at the University of Wrocław, Department of Physics and Astronomy, is one of the co-authors of the article “Could quantum gravity slow down neutrinos?” in the prestigious journal Nature Astronomy. 

A team of researchers from the University of Naples, the University of Wroclaw and the University of Bergen analysed a model of particle propagation based on quantum gravity in which the velocity of ultrarelativistic particles decreases with increasing energy.

This effect is assumed to be negligible, proportional to the ratio of particle energy to the Planck scale, but can accumulate to observable levels when observing very distant astrophysical sources. This is a milestone in the field of quantum gravity research, as it is the first time that this level of statistical evidence supporting quantum gravity has been found.

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