How to understand wormholes and their weird quantum effects

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Classical relativity suggests that thing could walk done a wormhole and exit, but quantum effects alteration that, says abstraction newsman Leah Crane

By Leah Crane

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6 March 2023

A simulated achromatic hole

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC

The pursuing is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, successful which nonmigratory abstraction adept Leah Crane journeys done the star system, the postulation and beyond. You tin motion up for Launchpad for escaped here.

Over the past month, I’ve been doing a batch of reasoning astir wormholes, mostly due to the fact that there’s been immoderate play successful the quantum computing assemblage astir an attempt to simulate a wormhole connected a quantum computer, and immoderate investigation indicating that the effort may not person really been successful. …

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