It’s a science fiction, it’s tiny and it doesn’t exist in physical space, but researchers say they’ve created what is, theoretically, a wormhole.
The researchers stated that they simulated two tiny black holes in a quantum computer and transmitted a message between them through what was in a time tunnel.
They said that based on teleported quantum information, the worm appeared to be traversable, but no rupture in space and time was created in the physical experiment, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.
A wormhole – a rupture in space and time – is considered a bridge between two remote regions in the universe. Scientists refer to them as Einstein-Rosen bridges after the two physicists who described them: Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.
He looks like a duck, walks like a duck, ducks like a duck. So at this point we can say that – we have something that we look at in terms of properties, it looks like a worm, scientist and co-author of the study Joseph Lykken of Fermilab, America’s particle physics and accelerator laboratory.
Caltech scientist Maria Spiropulu, co-author of the research, described it as having the properties of a “baby wormhole,” and now hopes to make “adult wormholes and wormholes step by step.” Worm dynamics observed in the quantum device at Google are called Sycamore quantum processes.
Experts who were not involved in the experiment advised that it is important to note that the physics of the wormhole was not actually created, but that it identified future possibilities.
Daniel Harlow, a scientist at MIT, told the New York Times that the experiment was so simple that the model was just as easy to trace as using pen and paper.
“I would say that this doesn’t teach us anything about gravity that we didn’t already know,” Herlaus wrote. “On the other hand, I think it’s exciting as a technical thing, because if we can’t do this (and we still haven’t been able to), pretending to be more interesting than the theory of gravity would be far, far off the table.”
The authors of the study themselves stated that there is still a long way to know how to prevent humans or other animals from being sent through such a gate.
“Experience, for me, is very important. And they come to me and ask me, “Would you put your dog in the worm?” Yes, no, “Spiropoulos told reporters in a short video. “… It’s a huge leap.”
Lykken added: “There is a difference between being possible in principle and being possible in reality.
“Don’t hold your breath about sending your dog through a wormhole.” But we have to go somewhere. I think it’s just exciting that we’ll be able to get our hands on this at all.
Such wormholes are consistent with Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which regards gravity as one of the fundamental forces in the universe. The name “wormhole” was coined by physicist John Wheeler in 1950.
“Those ideas have been around for a long time, and they’re very powerful ideas,” Lykken said. “But we are at the cutting edge of experimental science and have been working for a long time to find a way to test these ideas in the laboratory. And this is really exciting. Not just: Well, wormholes are cool. It’s a way to look at the very fundamental problems of our universe in a factory setting.”
With Reuters
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