It has been suggested that the fuzzy nature of spacetime at the Planck scale may cause lightwaves to lose phase coherence, and if severe enough this could blur images of distant point-like sources sufficiently that they do not form an Airy pattern at the focal plane of a telescope. Blurring this dramatic has already been observationally ruled out by images from Hubble Space Telescope (HST), but I show that the underlying phenomenon could still be stronger than previously considered. It is harder to detect, which may explain why it has gone unseen. A systematic search is made in archival HST images of among the highest known redshift quasars. Planck-scale induced blurring may be evident, but this could be confused with partially resolved sou...
One aspect of the quantum nature of spacetime is its “foaminess ” at very small scales. We reassess ...
Using mid-infrared and radio criteria, we select a sample of candidate z~2 obscured quasars. Optical...
If spacetime undergoes quantum fluctuations, an electromagnetic wavefront will acquire uncertainties...
It has been noted (Lieu & Hillmann) that the cumulative effect of Planck-scale phenomenology, or the...
Aims. The small-scale nature of spacetime can be tested with observations of distant quasars. We com...
Plausibly spacetime is "foamy" on small distance scales, due to quantum fluctuations. We elaborate o...
One aspect of the quantum nature of spacetime is its "foaminess" at very small scales. Many models f...
It has been noted (Lieu & Hillmann) that the cumulative effect of Planck-scale phenomenology, or...
At Planck scale, spacetime is "foamy" because of quantum fluctuations predicted by quantum gravity. ...
Extra-galactic sources of photons have been used to constrain space-time quantum fluctuations in the...
Light rays from a multiply imaged quasar usually sample different path lengths across the deflector....
The process of forming an image of a cosmological point source (CPS) in condition of high optical de...
Context. Strings and other alternative theories describing the quantum properties of space-time sugg...
t was recently proposed to use extra-galactic point sources to constrain space-time quantum fluctuat...
Aims. The small-scale nature of spacetime can be tested with observations of distant quasars. We com...
One aspect of the quantum nature of spacetime is its “foaminess ” at very small scales. We reassess ...
Using mid-infrared and radio criteria, we select a sample of candidate z~2 obscured quasars. Optical...
If spacetime undergoes quantum fluctuations, an electromagnetic wavefront will acquire uncertainties...
It has been noted (Lieu & Hillmann) that the cumulative effect of Planck-scale phenomenology, or the...
Aims. The small-scale nature of spacetime can be tested with observations of distant quasars. We com...
Plausibly spacetime is "foamy" on small distance scales, due to quantum fluctuations. We elaborate o...
One aspect of the quantum nature of spacetime is its "foaminess" at very small scales. Many models f...
It has been noted (Lieu & Hillmann) that the cumulative effect of Planck-scale phenomenology, or...
At Planck scale, spacetime is "foamy" because of quantum fluctuations predicted by quantum gravity. ...
Extra-galactic sources of photons have been used to constrain space-time quantum fluctuations in the...
Light rays from a multiply imaged quasar usually sample different path lengths across the deflector....
The process of forming an image of a cosmological point source (CPS) in condition of high optical de...
Context. Strings and other alternative theories describing the quantum properties of space-time sugg...
t was recently proposed to use extra-galactic point sources to constrain space-time quantum fluctuat...
Aims. The small-scale nature of spacetime can be tested with observations of distant quasars. We com...
One aspect of the quantum nature of spacetime is its “foaminess ” at very small scales. We reassess ...
Using mid-infrared and radio criteria, we select a sample of candidate z~2 obscured quasars. Optical...
If spacetime undergoes quantum fluctuations, an electromagnetic wavefront will acquire uncertainties...