The great quantum space-time tangle

• Autores: Adam Becker
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2927, 2013, págs. 10-11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Space-time, the very fabric of the universe, may be a tangled place. Entanglement, a feature of quantum mechanics that links objects over great distances, could be responsible for its structure. What's more, entanglement may fill the universe with a thicket of cosmic tunnels called wormholes. All these ideas fall out of a new theory that is making inroads into unifying gravity, which operates on large scales, with quantum mechanics, the science of the very small. A successful theory of quantum gravity is one of the biggest goals of modern physics. Here, Becker discusses the great quantum space-time tangle.