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quantum gravity

Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer

By Natalie Wolchover
November 30, 2022
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The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information.

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Hidden Structure

The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End

By George Musser
October 29, 2020
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In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information.

Illustration of black holes connected by a wormhole.
quantum information theory

Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab

By Philip Ball
February 27, 2020
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A proposal for building wormhole-connected black holes offers a way to probe the paradoxes of quantum information.

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Abstractions blog

Why Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Puzzle Keeps Puzzling

By Jennifer Ouellette
March 14, 2018
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The renowned British physicist, who died at 76, left behind a riddle that could eventually lead his successors to the theory of quantum gravity.

A wormhole split in two with swirls of blue on one side and swirls of pink on the other with a ringed planet in the background.
theoretical physics

Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes

By Natalie Wolchover
October 23, 2017
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Physicists theorize that a new “traversable” kind of wormhole could resolve a baffling paradox and rescue information that falls into black holes.

Juan Maldacena
Thinking Places

Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
June 23, 2017
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One of the world’s preeminent theoretical physicists seeks a quiet place to think.

The Quantum Fabric of Space-Time

Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox

By K.C. Cole
April 24, 2015
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A bold new idea aims to link two famously discordant descriptions of nature. In doing so, it may also reveal how space-time owes its existence to the spooky connections of quantum information.

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