![]() ![]() Recently reports on a new result seem to suggest otherwise: ‘ Physicists Create the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’ writes for example the New York Times. SUGGESTED READING Chaos theory eliminates quantum uncertainty By Tim Palmer However, we have never observed such a wormhole, nor is it clear whether they even exist in our Universe. Dreams of sending information or even overcoming enormous distances in space by travelling through a tunnel in spacetime have fascinated scientists and science fiction writers since wormholes were first described by Einstein and Rosen in 1935. It’s a feature of the geometry of spacetime often depicted by a folded paper, bringing distant points in direct contact. Martin Bauer explains what the Sycamore experiment was actually all about.Ī ‘wormhole’ is a structure connecting disparate points in space based on special solutions of Einstein’s field equations. Not only did they not create a wormhole in spacetime, the kind that Einstein’s equations suggest is possible, they didn’t even create a hologram of a wormhole, as the original Nature article claimed. ![]() Recent headlines about physicists having created a wormhole using Google’s quantum computer are misleading. ![]()
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