For gravity (which we do not really know how to “quantize” anyway!), this function immediately carries over to the macroscopic domain without any changes, as we shall see in a later chapter, and the g...For gravity (which we do not really know how to “quantize” anyway!), this function immediately carries over to the macroscopic domain without any changes, as we shall see in a later chapter, and the gravitational potential energy function I introduced earlier in this chapter is an approximation to it valid near the surface of the earth (gravity is such a weak force that the gravitational interaction between any two earth-bound objects is virtually negligible, so we only have to worry about grav…
