Practical applications for quantum entanglement have already been proposed, as entangled particles have been suggest for use in powerful quantum computers and “impossible” to crack networks. Now, it seems quantum entanglement may be linked to wormholes.
Entangled wormholes
Theoretical physicists Juan MartÃn Maldacena at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Leonard Susskind at Stanford
University argue that wormholes are nothing but pairs of black holes entangled
together. A proposed mechanism of wormhole generation would be that when a black
is born, its pair is simultaneously created as well. Moreover, they conjectured
that entangled particles such as electrons and photons were connected by
extraordinarily tiny wormholes.
Kristan Jensen, a theoretical physicist at Stony Brook
University in New York and his colleague theoretical physicist Andreas Karch at
the University of Washington in Seattle sought to investigate entangled
particles behave in supersymmety theory which suggests that all subatomic
particles have a corresponding partner or pair.
One of the biggest challenges physicists seek to address is
developing a unified theory of physics, one that reconciles both general
relativity and quantum mechanics. Supersymmetry is one such proposition that
aims to unite the two grand theories of physics that explain the large universe
(general relativity) and the tiny universe (quantum mechanics).
One huge idea expressed in this theory relates to holography
or the notion that actions in this universe may emerge from a reality with
multiple dimensions; like a 2-d hologram may give the impression of 3-d object.
I’d highly recommend you watch this video of Carl Sagan discussing the
tesserat. Anyway, if you imagine a physical system that exists in only 3
dimensions, in theory you can describe that system using objects behaving in
the four dimensions that general relativity describes the universe as having (width,
length, depth and time).
Jensen and Karch found that if one imagined entangled pairs
in a universe with four dimensions, they behaved in the same way as wormholes
in a universe with an extra fifth dimension.
A wormhole that curves space and time until two points coincide and
entanglement may be one of the same thing then.
“Entangled pairs were the holographic images of a system
with a wormhole,” Jensen said. Independent research from theoretical physicist
Julian Sonner at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology supports this
finding.
“There are certain things that get a scientist’s heart beating faster, and I think this is one of them,” Jensen told LiveScience. “One really exciting thing is that maybe, inspired by these results, we can better understand the relation between entanglement and space-time.”