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Did physicists make a wormhole in the lab? Not quite, but a new experiment hints at the future of quantum simulations

  • Written by: Sam Baron, Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, Australian Catholic University
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Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of physics.

Soon after the news broke, physicists and experts in quantum computing expressed scepticism that a wormhole had in fact been created....

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