[TheThinker]

QM accommodates itself very readily to SR, and this is all that is required to understand what is being claimed in the article.

Isn't this significant? Wasn't Einsteins quest to find a way to bridge the gap btw relativity and quantum mechanics?

[dr_lew]

QM went "relativistic" a long time ago, but this just implies adapting the basic equations to SR, as in the Dirac equation for the electron.

The famous gap between GR and QM arises because of the different approaches to gravity. GR treats it as a geometric consequence of curved space-time. QM wants to treat everything as a "field" specified as a function of space-time, so that a special relativistic "flat" space-time is the blank canvas on which QM field theory works. It doesn't know how to involve the canvas itself in its manipulations. ( I sure there are some who would claim otherwise, but this is the difficulty, at any rate. )

The result reported in the article is within the realm of traditional ( special ) relativistic QM, and does not address the celebrated gap between GR and QM.