Randomized trial shows the modified Feynman propagator in spacetime, suggesting new insights into quantum gravity effects.
The action for a relativistic free particle of mass m receives a contribution -mds from a path of infinitesimal length ds. Using this action in a path integral, one can obtain the Feynman propagator for a spinless particle of mass m. Assuming that the path integral amplitude is invariant under the ``duality'' transformation ds→LP²/ds, one can calculate the modified Feynman propagator. I show that this propagator is the same as the one obtained by assuming that quantum effects of gravity lead to modification of the spacetime interval (x-y)² to (x-y)²+LP². The implications of this result are discussed.
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