Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox

• Autores: Jacob Aron
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2922, 2013, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wormholes--tunnels through space-time that connect black holes--maybe a consequence of the bizarre quantum property called entanglement. Two physics heavyweights, Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advance Study in Princeton, and Leonard Susskind of Stanford University, California, have come up with the most audacious one yet: a new kind of wormhole that means the black hole-photon entanglement needn't be broken in the first place. First, the pair showed that these space-time tunnels, usually described by the maths of general relativity, also emerge from quantum theory, if two black holes are entangled. It's as if the wormhole is the physical manifestation of entanglement. The pair then extended this idea to a single black hole and its Hawking radiation, resulting in a new kind of wormhole. Crucially, they suggest that this wormhole, which links a black hole and its Hawking radiation, may not be a problem for quantum monogamy in the way that normal entanglement is. As a result, the firewall needn't appear, preserving relativity.