Reality check: No, physicists didn’t make a real wormhole. What they did was still pretty cool: they squeezed wormhole-like behavior out of qubits. Still, "Don't hold your breath about sending your dog through a wormhole." https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1901098
@JenLucPiquant tbf EP=EPR conjecture is that this is a real wormhole. Just not what you like to imagine.
@tryggth @JenLucPiquant That might be true if we lived in an AdS universe, but we don't.
@amandagefter @JenLucPiquant
Yes, you are right. But I'm not sure the general proposition is tied to AdS though AdS was used as a way to make the proposition plausible.
@tryggth @amandagefter @JenLucPiquant But if EP=EPR were true then wouldn't all quantum computers (and various other systems with quantum entanglement) be producing wormholes all the time? I think the point is that this is no more creating an actual wormhole than any other quantum computer, but what is interesting is that it may be simulating a wormhole in a way that may have promise for probing ideas about quantum gravity.
