So how is GR tamed by QM with the modern QM?
Well Sascha Vonhger has a magnificient teaching series to show you the basics.
This stuff is not about complicated mathematics its about simple understanding and should be able to be followed by any high school student.
First trick is to show there is no local realism this is the heart of Einstein's problem with QM and Bell's inequality
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http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/disproving_local_realism-79216)
That leads to the many worlds interpretations, SUSY and string theory which were all the rage but had basic problems
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http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/many_world_interpretation_splitting_wiener_sausage-80042)
Finally we end up at the nice situation of a toy world in which Einstein and QM can co-exist in new QM world
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http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/eins...l_realism-81490)
It's a simple toy world example but finally GR and QM can co-exist which is something Einstein, Hawkings etc could not.
Now lets extend it out to what they are really saying a real world example
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21...ace.html?page=1)
There is no way to say yet whether this particular model is correct but by now you should get the modern QM idea.
