# What Happens When Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Meet?

https://mins.news/en/item/54660

- Ars Technica, 2026-09-11 11:20 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/what-happens-when-quantum-mechanics-and-relativity-meet/

> An international team led by Ben-Gurion University physicist Ron Folman, with collaborators including Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, has built a new interferometer to test how free fall affects an atom’s wave-like behavior. The device sends one atom along two paths at once—one in free fall and one held still—before bringing them together at the same place and time.