ER=EPR

Could we be on the verge of unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity?

Cornell's Professor Leonard Susskind published a paper, about a year ago (published on April's 9th and revised on April's 23rd of 2016), where it states that particle entanglement (spooky action at a distance as Einstein named it) can be described using the geometry of wormholes, or as Tom Siegfried over at Science News, says:

"If ER = EPR is right, a wormhole will link those black holes; entanglement, therefore, can be described using the geometry of wormholes. Even more remarkable ... is the possibility that two entangled subatomic particles alone are themselves somehow connected by a sort of quantum wormhole. Since wormholes are contortions of spacetime geometry - described by Einstein’s gravitational equations - identifying them with quantum entanglement would forge a link between gravity and quantum mechanics."

Leonard Susskind itself gives us this introductory insight into his paper, placed on public peer review on arxiv.org;

"Quantum gravity may have as much to tell us about the foundations and interpretation of quantum mechanics as it does about gravity. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and Everett's Relative State Formulation are complementary descriptions which in a sense are dual to one another. My purpose here is to discuss this duality in the light of the of ER=EPR conjecture."

The paper can be accessed here

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02589

Very interesting times ahead of us...

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