{"id":162245,"date":"2023-04-15T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-wormhole-built-on-a-quantum-computer-teleported-information-as-predicted"},"modified":"2023-04-15T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T21:26:12","slug":"a-wormhole-built-on-a-quantum-computer-teleported-information-as-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-wormhole-built-on-a-quantum-computer-teleported-information-as-predicted","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Wormhole\u2019 Built on a Quantum Computer Teleported Information as Predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-wormhole-built-on-a-quantum-computer-teleported-information-as-predicted3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> year 2022.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">quantum computing<\/a> experiment for studying the dynamics of wormholes \u2013 that is, shortcuts through spacetime that could get around relativity\u2019s cosmic speed limits.<\/p>\n<p>Wormholes are traditionally the stuff of science fiction, ranging from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/954120\/on-set-fires-and-jodie-fosters-costume-made-contacts-wormhole-scene-a-slog-to-film\/\">Jodie Foster\u2019s wild ride in <em>Contact<\/em><\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/science-interstellar-look-beyond-wormhole-n241441\">time-bending plot twists in <em>Interstellar<\/em>.<\/a> But the researchers behind the experiment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-05424-3\">reported in the December 1 issue of the journal <em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, hope that their work will help physicists study the phenomenon for real.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a quantum system that exhibits key properties of a gravitational wormhole, yet is sufficiently small to implement on today\u2019s quantum hardware,\u201d Caltech physicist Maria Spiropulu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/about\/news\/physicists-observe-wormhole-dynamics-using-a-quantum-computer\">said in a news release<\/a>. Spiropulu, the <em>Nature<\/em> paper\u2019s senior author, is the principal investigator for a federally funded research program known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/about\/news\/caltech-awarded-federal-funding-quantum-research-83788\">Quantum Communication Channels for Fundamental Physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>face_with_colon_three year 2022. For the first time, scientists have created a quantum computing experiment for studying the dynamics of wormholes \u2013 that is, shortcuts through spacetime that could get around relativity\u2019s cosmic speed limits. Wormholes are traditionally the stuff of science fiction, ranging from Jodie Foster\u2019s wild ride in Contact to the time-bending plot twists [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162245","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=162245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}