Thursday, June 20, 2013

Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox - space - 20 June 2013 - New Scientist

Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox - space - 20 June 2013 - New Scientist:  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 (see diagram). 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

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