For one thing, it is mathematically incompatible with the quantum laws that govern subatomic particles.
Looking back now, with The Quantum Thief just published, the 32-year-old Finnish mathematician remembers being stunned.
Through the interaction with the quantum vacuum, the mass of the Higgs particle should be about 1017 times higher than the actual Higgs mass measured at the LHC.
Will such a theory, reconciling gravity with the quantum principle, and transforming our conception of space and time, be achieved in coming decades?
"The real difficulty with the quantum of the stress tests is that each set of banks inside each of the EU economies faces slightly different stresses," he said.
They will tussle with the quantum effects that appear when transistors are so small that only a handful of electrons shuffle through them at a time.
Dustin Hoffman and family caught up with some friends, Lisa Love, Geena Davis and Judy Greer, along with the "Quantum of Solace" director Marc Forster.
He also said that the new fund, which will be created by merging the Quantum Emerging Growth Fund with the Quantum Fund, would rely less on borrowed money than in the past.
No one event on its own is going provide the Liberal Democrats with the quantum boost they crave in order to be on level terms with the other parties.
That notion is now at the center of efforts to unite Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the gravity that shapes the cosmos, with the quantum chaos that lives inside it.
Whilst the company is disappointed with the quantum of the penalty, it welcomes the fact that the FSA has not found that any directors or previous directors were at fault".
