Lorentz Invariance Violation Limits from the Crab Pulsar using VERITAS

Understand

Quantum gravity (QG) theories over the past fifty years have sought to understand the relationship between the four fundamental interactions.

• A major insight gained in this area is that all interactions could possibly unify at Planck-scale energies ~10$^{19}$ GeV.
• A potential consequence of the unification of gravity with the other three interactions would be a breaking of Lorentz symmetry at Planck-scale energies.
• The interpretation of Time-of-flight (TOF) measurements from gamma-ray telescopes have been able to put constraints on the energy scales of the Lorentz-invariance violations (LIV).