How to understand wormholes and their weird quantum effects


A simulated black hole

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC

The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, in which resident space expert Leah Crane journeys through the solar system, the galaxy and beyond. You can sign up for Launchpad for free here.

Over the past month, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about wormholes, mostly because there’s been some drama in the quantum computing community around an attempt to simulate a wormhole on a quantum computer, and some analysis indicating that the attempt may not have actually been successful. …

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