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Scientists have, for the first time, established quantum research that allows studying the physics behind the theoretical wormholes.
It has not created an actual wormhole, but it allows researchers to investigate connections between theoretical wormholes and quantum physics (a prediction in quantum gravity).
A team, led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology, applied the new “wormhole teleportation protocol” using Google’s quantum computer.
It is the first-of-its-kind “quantum gravity experiment on a chip,” as researchers have described it.
The research can be seen as an indication for the holographic principle, an extensive hypothesis about how the two pillars of fundamental physics, quantum mechanics, and the general theory of relativity.
The holographic principle hypothesizes a “duality” between the two frameworks. It says the bending space-time continuum described by general relativity is really a quantum system of particles in a “mask”.
Space-time and gravity emerge from quantum effects as a 3D hologram projected from a 2D pattern.
“The relationship between quantum entanglement, spacetime, and quantum gravity is one of the most important questions in fundamental physics and an active area of theoretical research,” says Caltech researchers.
The study titled “Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processer” was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
