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  "abstract": "Particle accelerators have carried fundamental physics to remarkable precision, but the Planck scale remains fifteen orders of magnitude beyond any foreseeable collider. We argue that this impasse is not a temporary shortfall but an insurmountable one. The way out runs through condensed matter physics: laboratory tests of generalized uncertainty relations, analog systems, and --- most provocatively --- frameworks in which spacetime itself is a condensate. We review the string-loop picture, in which quantization turns the world sheet into a three-dimensional fractal, the corpuscular description of black holes as self-sustained graviton condensates, and the phase-transition structure connecting the Riemannian phase to a pre-geometric one. The conclusion is deliberately provocative: the question of quantum gravity is no longer a question of energy, but of crossing the bridge.",
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  "title": "Condensates: A Bridge to Quantum Gravity",
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