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Physicists Create ‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine'
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[QUOTE="anorlunda, post: 6827301, member: 455902"] Leonard Susskind, director of The Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, made a quick video about that this week. He thinks it is very significant. He also said that it not only simulates a wormhole using quantum computers but also simulates a black hole at the same time. I don't pretend to understand. Susskind has been giving seminars for years under the title ER=EPR. ER stands for Einstein-Rosen Wormhole, and EPR stands for Einstein-Podesky-Rosen objections to quantum theory. The talk is about wormholes connecting two or more black holes; exactly what this week's news claims to simulate. [Note [U]simulate[/U], not [U]observe[/U].] Susskind says his institute believes that this approach may succeed in uniting quantum mechanics with general relativity, and also provide a theory for quantum gravity at the same time. His presentation also brings quantum computers and complexity theory in. That would be very big. Once again, I watched the lectures, but I don't pretend to understand. Note that Susskind did not write the sensationalist title to this video. Nor did he personally post it. [MEDIA=youtube]Q78cdRiWi3s[/MEDIA] p.s. I'm biased because I learned almost all my physics from Susskind's video courses. [/QUOTE]
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