According to this paper, Quantum entanglement may in reality be a wormhole.
How are wormholes and quantum entanglement similar?
They are actually really similar when you think about it.
Wormholes are basically space warping on itself so you can go through it to another point in the universe almost instantly. While, quantum entanglement is two particles interacting with each other over any distance instantly, they even act as one particle.
How does this even help anyone?
Well if we made the particles into a black hole.... they would act as portals to the edge of the other one. This means that they would act as portals to the edge of each other because quantum entanglement they act as one entity in two places and they warp space to create its own pocket inside it. Which means that space would likely be shared by both of them and act as a "buffer" that we could travel through.
wow this was shorter than I expected. Whatever I have some filler
Time itself is a dimension as well so you could theoretically travel through time as well with wormholes but we have not actually tested this for obvious reasons. Although the problem is unless we find out somehow this occurs naturally we can only go back as far as the first wormhole. Unless we find time traveling aliens to help us out.
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What is Quantum entanglement? oh and i heard somewhere that Mathematicians have worked out there are 9 parallel universes? Is that true? What is Dark matter? And anything else like time travel that is cool please feel free to ad. I love this stuff but i need it broken down for me. Sorry i'm not as smart as you.
Quantum entanglement is where particles act as one over a long distance. In physics for some retarded reason dimensions can mean like 5 things ( seriously we need people better at naming stuff) so you have to be more specific. Infinite universes most likely. Dark matter is what we have named the force slowing things down we think it is a form of matter that does not interact with light so its "dark".
This stuff is so cool. Thanks for taking time to reply.
I had similar thoughts like that myself. Producing entangled particle is one thing. Taking one to another place light years away is another. It would take a long time, but then travel through the entanglement or worm hole should be very fast in Principal. I imagine it like this, regardless how long the worm hole is in wrapped space, the time unit should be instantaneous. I have some of my own thoughts about Space and time. Dr. Joan Vaccaro has done some interesting research on how we get pushed into the future and do not get stuck in the present.
I've always thought of Quantum Entanglement someday perhaps being very useful for long distance communication with no latency. I hadn't really considered the wormhole potential.
@dwinblood It won't be unfortunately. As much as we might like it to. Energy and information are the same thing. Any energy will disrupt an ER bridge.
As soon as you try to send any information through, the entanglement will "decohere" i.e. disappear.
Could you change the state of one entangled pair though and have something monitoring state changes at the other end? If you can then you don't send energy you just change the state and have something measure those state changes on the other end.
The only signal that can make it is the "it's ok to collapse" signal.
This "signal" is the fact that it was observed.
There is an alternative interpretation and I'm not 100% we ever actually refuted it, since the mechanism to refute it is pushing the limits of electrical switching capability but...
The alternative interpretation of EPR is that the state for each particle was set at creation.
Imagine you have two suitcases and a single pair of gloves, a left hand and a right hand glove.
You blindfold yourself and using tongs you pick up one glove and stick it in the suitcase on your right and another glove and stick it in a suitcase on your left.
Now you randomly mail the suitcases, one goes to bob in Hawaii and the other goes to alice in Antarctica.
No matter who opens which case, when. As soon as one case is opened the contents of the other is immediately known.
This was refuted in the mid 1970s, but the equipment to refute it was barely able to perform electrical switching at the requisite frequency. I have to admit, I haven't seen any new tests of bells theorem in the last decade or so.
I'll be honest with you. My instincts tell me the "mailed glove" scenario seems more likely. Which means that anything which proceeds from the bell's inequality test is suspect and should be repeated with more modern equipment and in a room that is better shielded from cosmic rays.
I think Susskind feels a little hesitance here too. He keeps saying "if ER=EPR" then...
i just love reading stuff like this even if i don't get most of it. Is that wrong?
Yeah I know the basic concepts, but I know that I am lacking in knowledge of entanglement. Thanks for taking the time to respond in some detail. This is something I need to research a little more as it is interesting and I don't know nearly enough about it.
Nice work!