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Neil DeGrasse Tyson just shared this:
A wormhole lab test just worked — without breaking the laws of physics
In a small underground lab in Pasadena, California, physicists at Caltech and Fermilab just completed something almost unthinkable: they successfully simulated the passage of quantum information through a real-world model of a wormhole — without destroying the data or breaking the known laws of physics.
Using a quantum processor and highly entangled qubits, they modeled a special kind of “Einstein-Rosen bridge” on a system called SYK (Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model), which behaves similarly to black hole physics. In this test, they encoded a signal — a tiny piece of quantum data — into one side of the “wormhole” system. To their surprise, the information passed through the simulated structure and emerged intact on the other end, just as predicted by the mathematics of quantum gravity.
What makes this more than a sci-fi demo is how it connects general relativity and quantum mechanics, two fields that have resisted unification for over a century. Einstein predicted that wormholes could exist, but their stability and actual traversability have always been in question — especially when quantum information (which is fragile) is involved.
This isn’t a full-blown tunnel in spacetime — yet. But it’s the first experimental glimpse into how a real, controllable wormhole could work, if built on quantum rules. The fact that the system respected causality and conserved energy adds immense credibility. No shortcuts, no broken physics — just a new window into something once thought permanently theoretical.
The team believes future quantum networks could one day utilize wormhole-like structures to send information securely through space, using entanglement instead of wires or radio signals. While it won’t let us walk through to another galaxy — yet — it shows the door is not locked anymore.
A wormhole lab test just worked — without breaking the laws of physics
In a small underground lab in Pasadena, California, physicists at Caltech and Fermilab just completed something almost unthinkable: they successfully simulated the passage of quantum information through a real-world model of a wormhole — without destroying the data or breaking the known laws of physics.
Using a quantum processor and highly entangled qubits, they modeled a special kind of “Einstein-Rosen bridge” on a system called SYK (Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model), which behaves similarly to black hole physics. In this test, they encoded a signal — a tiny piece of quantum data — into one side of the “wormhole” system. To their surprise, the information passed through the simulated structure and emerged intact on the other end, just as predicted by the mathematics of quantum gravity.
What makes this more than a sci-fi demo is how it connects general relativity and quantum mechanics, two fields that have resisted unification for over a century. Einstein predicted that wormholes could exist, but their stability and actual traversability have always been in question — especially when quantum information (which is fragile) is involved.
This isn’t a full-blown tunnel in spacetime — yet. But it’s the first experimental glimpse into how a real, controllable wormhole could work, if built on quantum rules. The fact that the system respected causality and conserved energy adds immense credibility. No shortcuts, no broken physics — just a new window into something once thought permanently theoretical.
The team believes future quantum networks could one day utilize wormhole-like structures to send information securely through space, using entanglement instead of wires or radio signals. While it won’t let us walk through to another galaxy — yet — it shows the door is not locked anymore.
