{"id":161165,"date":"2023-03-27T22:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T03:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-build-baby-wormhole-as-sci-fi-moves-closer-to-fact"},"modified":"2023-03-27T22:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T03:23:33","slug":"scientists-build-baby-wormhole-as-sci-fi-moves-closer-to-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-build-baby-wormhole-as-sci-fi-moves-closer-to-fact","title":{"rendered":"Scientists build \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-build-baby-wormhole-as-sci-fi-moves-closer-to-fact2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2022 \ud83d\ude17<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) \u2014 In science fiction \u2014 think films and TV like \u201cInterstellar\u201d and \u201cStar Trek\u201d \u2014 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 miniscule simulated black holes \u2014 those extraordinarily dense celestial objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape \u2014 in a quantum computer and transmitted a message between them through what amounted to a tunnel in space-time.<\/p>\n<p>It was a \u201cbaby wormhole,\u201d according to Caltech physicist Maria Spiropulu, a co-author of the research published in the journal <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-05424-3\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Nature<\/a>. But scientists are a long way from being able to send people or other living beings through such a portal, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2022 \ud83d\ude17 WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) \u2014 In science fiction \u2014 think films and TV like \u201cInterstellar\u201d and \u201cStar Trek\u201d \u2014 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. Scientists have long pursued a deeper understanding of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"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-161165","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\/161165","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}