{"id":151622,"date":"2022-12-01T21:23:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-create-baby-wormhole-as-sci-fi-moves-closer-to-fact"},"modified":"2022-12-01T21:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:23:18","slug":"scientists-create-baby-wormhole-as-sci-fi-moves-closer-to-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-create-baby-wormhole-as-sci-fi-moves-closer-to-fact","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create \u2018baby\u2019 wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-baby-wormhole-as-sci-fi-moves-closer-to-fact.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign up for CNN\u2019s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.<\/p>\n<p>In science fiction \u2013 think films and TV like \u201cInterstellar\u201d and \u201cStar Trek\u201d \u2013 wormholes in the cosmos serve as portals through space and time for spacecraft to traverse unimaginable distances with ease. If only it were that simple.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long pursued a deeper understanding of wormholes and now appear to be making progress. Researchers announced on Wednesday that they forged two minuscule simulated black holes \u2013 those extraordinarily dense celestial objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape \u2013 in a quantum computer and transmitted a message between them through what amounted to a tunnel in space-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for CNN\u2019s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. In science fiction \u2013 think films and TV like \u201cInterstellar\u201d and \u201cStar Trek\u201d \u2013 wormholes in the cosmos serve as portals through space and time for spacecraft to traverse unimaginable distances with ease. If only [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,1617,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}