Deep hole - The key to resolving conflicts of modern physics

A newly discovered equation related to deep holes can solve the conflict between quantum mechanics theory and general relativity of modern physics.

Theoretical physicists at Stanford University, UK, think that the equation that combines the two theories together can be found in the time-space tunnel known as the "wormhole" , according to Science Alert. .

This equation is written in a simple form ER = EPR , based on the abbreviation of some famous theoretical physicists.

ER stands for Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen . Together they wrote a 1935 article describing a wormhole, called the Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

EPR stands for Einstein, Rosen and Boris Podolsky , co-authored another article on quantum entanglement also in 1935.

Since 2013, physicist Leonard Susskind of Stanford University and Juan Maldacena of Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies think that the two papers can describe the same thing that no one has ever studied in this field. consider it, including Einstein.

The key to unifying the two theories can be in the deep hole.(Photo: Mopic).

First, consider each individual side of the equation. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, deep holes are tunnels that connect two places in the universe. If falling into one end of the wormhole, almost immediately you will appear on the other end.

But not only that, the wormhole is also the link between the two times in the universe, meaning you will appear somewhere in the universe, at some point.

Quantum entanglement, on the other hand, describes how the two particles interact as if they shared existence, meaning that whatever happens to a particle will immediately affect the other particle, even if possible. they are separated by light years.

In his new article, Susskind proposed a scenario, with two characters imagining Alice and Bob participating in quantum entanglement. Each person carries a particle in a pair of beads, flying in opposite directions on either side of the universe

At each place, Alice and Bob simultaneously smash two particles with great force and create two separate black holes. Then, according to Susskind, these two black holes will be entangled with each other, in other words, linked together through a giant wormhole.

"If the ER = EPR equation is correct, a deep hole will link those black holes together, so it can be described by the geometry of the wormhole," Science News editor Tom Siegfried said. know.

"More notably, it is possible that two quantum subatomic particles entangled with each other are bound in some way through a form of quantum worm. Because the deep hole is the geometric deformation of spacetime , described by Einstein's gravitational equations, identifying them with quantum entanglement could create a link between gravity and quantum mechanics . "

In addition to Susskind, in early 2016, a research group of the California Institute of Technology, USA, also made a similar hypothesis about the link between changing quantum states with spacetime curvature.

In this group, the natural connection between energy and time curvature is given by Einstein's general theory of relativity. In other words, it is not difficult to get attractive inside quantum mechanics

While this equation still needs to be verified, it is possible that "quantum mechanics and gravitation are much more closely related than we thought , " said Sean Carroll, a member of the research team.