In theory, this would turn them into a functioning wormhole.
The physics team has a plan to build a functioning wormhole that could act as a bridge across two points in space. And all it takes is … two quantum entangled black holes.
Conventional science tells us that nothing ever escapes the enormous gravitational pull of a black hole. But according to theoretical studies from a few years ago, two completely entangled black holes should be able to transfer quantum information between them – rather than destroy it – after it passes the event horizon, Quanta Magazine reports.
In this sense, black holes recreate a phenomenon called quantum teleportation that engineers use to build quantum computers. The physics of quantum teleportation is getting incredibly complex, but it mostly involves transferring encrypted information from one machine to another.
The creation and quantum bonding of true black holes in a laboratory is a step beyond current scientific capabilities, but now University of Maryland researchers Christopher Monroe and Brian Swingle have said they can build a quantum circuit that behaves like entangled black holes.
What is most confusing is that, according to earlier models, the circuit would behave exactly like a tiny black hole could. That is, the resulting system is not just trying to recreate the activity of the black hole – it will be indistinguishable from a real black hole.
If that works, they can inject information into a single 'black hole' that will consume it. After a while, this information will have to come out of the second, already decrypted.
This distinguishes the experiment from existing methods of quantum teleportation, as the transmitted information appears still completely encrypted, and then it must be decrypted, which makes the process longer and less accurate as the quantum computer tries to recreate the original message.
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