Re:Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
by kgwgk on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:49AM
(#33818893)
It was so bad that they had to take it back: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/159835363751585382...
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
by happytoexplain on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:19PM
(#33820259)
Thank you, I noticed it changed and was looking for the statement of edit. I don't see it anywhere on the article - am I missing it, or are we really expected to check Twitter for changes to published articles?
Also:
>To avoid further confusion with wormhole in the sci-fi sense of a passageway that a person can fly through...
I don't know if there is a name for this flavor of "sorry-not-sorry", but it's upsetting that a professional writer would engage in it. The wormhole did not have to be a full blown "science fiction" gate that people can "fly through" for the article to have been accurate. It could have been a nanometer-sized space that existed for a microsecond, across which a single bit of data was transmitted.