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Just a layman question: does this have any implications for theories of quantum gravity, like LQG or String theory?



Yes, the authors discuss the implications for scalar-tensor theories, and it doesn't look great for many of them. The Nature News and Views article by Clifford Will [1] offers a decent overview.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05549-4




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