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    REALITY CHECK SCIENCE BEHIND THE HEADLINES A SIMULATION WORMHOLE: COULD THIS HELP PHYSICISTS UNITE GRAVITY AND QUANTUM THEORY?

    Jan 20, 2023 3 minutes

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    “The wormhole in the laboratory experiment is as real as it would be if it connected two astronomical black holes”

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    On November 2022, physicists using Google's Sycamore quantum processor in the US carried out a calculation that is equivalent to sending matter through a ‘wormhole’, a shortcut through the fabric of space-time. What this means for physics is a matter of controversy, but the

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