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Yeah and maybe we could do GR experiments on a table top. Gravity goes as 1/r^2 so a small r might make the mass terms irrelevant, and you could check GR in various ways [1] especially Shapiro delay[2]. This would, in turn, give a way to probe quantum gravity effects.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro_time_delay




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