Abstract
In this essay we argue that a ghost-free non-local higher derivative extension of General Relativity may be able to render gravity asymptotically free in the deep ultra-violet, while recovering the Newtonian gravitational potential in the far infrared. Such a construction has fundamental consequences for the way we think about gravity at short distances and times -- we will show how in such models cosmological and blackhole singularities could be resolved providing us with encouraging signs for a possible consistent ultraviolet completion of gravity.
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