You can’t get entangled without a wormhole

Re:You can’t get entangled without a wormhole by andrewflnr on Saturday December 07, 2013 @05:35PM (#6868006)

  Now an MIT physicist has found that, looked at through the lens of string
  theory, the creation of two entangled quarks — the building blocks of
  matter — simultaneously gives rise to a wormhole connecting the pair.

So, yeah, theory, and pretty far-out theory at that. I'm pretty sure the "holographic duality" thing is purely a theoretical device as well.

It would be nice if they could get an experimental prediction out of this that could verify/falsify string theory without requiring a particle accelerator the size of the solar system.

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Re:You can’t get entangled without a wormhole by Steuard on Saturday December 07, 2013 @10:20PM (#6868826)

Definitely pure theory, of a very abstract variety.

But that being said, don't devalue gauge/gravity holography too quickly. Holographic arguments can be used to connect physical theories pretty similar to known, measurable particle physics to a gravitational/stringy theory (not a "theory of everything" variant, mind you) where some results are easier to calculate. Those methods are actually within spitting distance of being experimentally relevant today. (But even if these methods were to give an experimental prediction that was confirmed at RHIC or the LHC or somewhere, it would only be evidence supporting the math of string theory. It wouldn't be directly related to whether string theory is a correct theory of quantum gravity.)

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Re:You can’t get entangled without a wormhole by Ygg2 on Saturday December 07, 2013 @07:28PM (#6868391)

> without requiring a particle accelerator the size of the solar system.

Spoil sport. I was looking forward to RFHPC in the next millenia or so.

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