Practical
applications for quantum entanglement have already been proposed, as entangled
particles have been suggest for use in powerful quantum computers and
“impossible” to crack networks. Now, it seems quantum entanglement may be
linked to wormholes.
Entangled wormholes
Theoretical
physicists Juan Martín Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton and Leonard Susskind at Stanford University argue that wormholes are
nothing but pairs of black holes entangled together. A proposed mechanism of
wormhole generation would be that when a black is born, its pair is
simultaneously created as well. Moreover, they conjectured that entangled
particles such as electrons and photons were connected by extraordinarily tiny
wormholes.
Kristan
Jensen, a theoretical physicist at Stony Brook University in New York and his
colleague theoretical physicist Andreas Karch at the University of Washington
in Seattle sought to investigate entangled particles behave in supersymmety
theory which suggests that all subatomic particles have a corresponding partner
or pair.
One
of the biggest challenges physicists seek to address is developing a unified
theory of physics, one that reconciles both general relativity and quantum
mechanics. Supersymmetry is one such proposition that aims to unite the two
grand theories of physics that explain the large universe (general relativity)
and the tiny universe (quantum mechanics).
One
huge idea expressed in this theory relates to holography or the notion that
actions in this universe may emerge from a reality with multiple dimensions;
like a 2-d hologram may give the impression of 3-d object. I’d highly recommend
you watch this video of Carl Sagan discussing the tesserat. Anyway, if you
imagine a physical system that exists in only 3 dimensions, in theory you can
describe that system using objects behaving in the four dimensions that general
relativity describes the universe as having (width, length, depth and time).
Jensen and Karch found that if one
imagined entangled pairs in a universe with four dimensions, they behaved in
the same way as wormholes in a universe with an extra fifth dimension. A wormhole that curves
space and time until two points coincide and entanglement may be one of the
same thing then.
“Entangled pairs were the holographic
images of a system with a wormhole,” Jensen said. Independent research from
theoretical physicist Julian Sonner at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology supports this finding.
“There are certain things that get a
scientist’s heart beating faster, and I think this is one of them,” Jensen told LiveScience. “One
really exciting thing is that maybe, inspired by these results, we can better
understand the relation between entanglement and
space-time.”
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