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I'm seeing headlines like "Scientists just made a wormhole to learn more about traversing space and time" in response to this recent Nature paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-054

In fact, from what I can tell, they ran a computation on a quantum computer that would correspond to a certain quantum field theory if you expanded it from a limited number of quantum bits to an infinite number. And that quantum field theory has a conjectured relationship (duality) to General Relatively in 1+1 dimensional Anti-De Sitter space (which is neither the dimensionality nor geometry of spacetime that we actually inhabit). They did a calculation on the quantum computer that should approximate a quantum teleportation in the field theory, which (if the conjectured duality is true) should correspond to traversing a wormhole.

Now, I think that's an interesting result, but I also think it's being way overhyped to the public, and people are imagining that someone has built a literal wormhole in their lab. I suppose there's a certain symmetry, though, since I have always thought that the name "quantum teleportation" over-hypes that technology and gives laypeople a totally incorrect, Star Trek-y impression of what's happening.

@internic

Welcome to #journalism my child.

Where info is reinterpreted, wrongly embedded and #facts get ripped out of context

tl;dr:
A reality #distortion field

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