A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold key to quantum...
A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold key to quantum gravity
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Interesting but not new. It was proposed by Leonard Susskind and Juan Maldacena in 2013 (see the paper in arXiv: Cool horizons for entangled black holes, PDF). There are two particularly interesting blog posts in this year on The Reference Frame:
- Maldacena, Susskind: any entanglement is a wormhole of a sort…more precisely, EPR is equivalent to ER
- ER-EPR and distortions in the media
and in Quantum Frontiers:
But you may prefer to read first these two wiki entries:
- Wormhole (or Einstein–Rosen bridge), the “ER” part of the equation.
- Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen paradox (or quantum entanglement), the “EPR” part of the equation.
and then this other one:
- ER = EPR
Image via Phys.org: ‘Spooky action’ builds a wormhole between 'entangled’ quantum particles.