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    Theory Colloquia

    (Quantum) Gravity without relativity

    by Dr Diego Blas

    → Europe/Zurich
    TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

    TH Theory Conference Room

    CERN
    Description
    In this talk, I'll review the status of Horava gravity. I'll first discuss Horava's idea to complete General Relativity to a power-counting renormalizable theory, and show a particular candidate free of any blatant pathology. This theory breaks Lorentz invariance and modifies GR at any energy scale. I'll then focus on experimental constraints, and conclude that this proposal is a viable theory of gravity with a known UV completion. During the talk, I'll emphasize the challenges faced by the proposal.