My favorite one are the idiots who argue the world is a simulation, because they ran the universe in a simulation, and asked the simulation to determine if the simulated universe was a simulation, and it discovered that it was.
From the headline you provided? I don't need to read the article. It's obvious bullshit. Either you got it very wrong, or it's actually a computer 'simulation' of a wormhole, which is uninteresting bullshit.
"Someone put some theoretical math into a 'simulation' and the theoretical math produced the expected result" ISN'T NEWS.
So, if I simulate a happy family on my computer by playing Sims, is that a breakthrough in my relationships? Am I finally no longer a loser but a respectable member of society? Will my mom start talking to me again?
If we COULD manipulate wormholes, that would leap space travel infinitely. I REALLY don't trust teleportation but folding space to make two spots closer together is a lot better of an idea.
Teleportation makes a lot more sense though, all it takes is something going on at a level below our current understanding. Folding space is only a byproduct of math that shoehorns in a not-alike 4th time dimension into space, so is certainly not how space actually is.
Curved space is like saying taste is composed of saltiness, sweetness, sourness, and sweat - one of these things doesn't belong. Useful in food science maybe because it explains spicy foods. Really the sweat is the result not a taste itself, just like time is the result of space not space itself.
The risk with teleportation is you enter the philosophical issue of are you still you on the other side as you are essentially breaking someone down, atom by atom, then reconstructing those atoms in a similar structure somewhere else.
Yeah but the worst case is there's two of you. One chooses to get murdered so the other can live... basically euthanasia with an upside.
But the amount of information you'd have to send, it'd probably be faster to deep freeze you and send you on a spaceship than through a portal. Like sneakernet is still faster than internet.
Quote from a reasonable voice from the New York Times article:
“The most important thing I’d want New York Times readers to understand is this,” Scott Aaronson, a quantum computing expert at the University of Texas in Austin, wrote in an email. “If this experiment has brought a wormhole into actual physical existence, then a strong case could be made that you, too, bring a wormhole into actual physical existence every time you sketch one with pen and paper.”
Gell-Mann amnesia effect in full force.
Also it's a useless article, dosen't even have a link to a paper or a preprint.
Journalists impressed by buzzwords
INTO THE TRASH IT GOES
This, it was not a physics experiment but a simulation based on rules.
My favorite one are the idiots who argue the world is a simulation, because they ran the universe in a simulation, and asked the simulation to determine if the simulated universe was a simulation, and it discovered that it was.
No shit.
That's actually a bit interesting. I thought quantum computers were still theoretical.
Article links to a NYT article that has a link to the paper on Nature. Locked behind a paywall though, which is sometimes to be expected.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3
From the headline you provided? I don't need to read the article. It's obvious bullshit. Either you got it very wrong, or it's actually a computer 'simulation' of a wormhole, which is uninteresting bullshit.
"Someone put some theoretical math into a 'simulation' and the theoretical math produced the expected result" ISN'T NEWS.
So, if I simulate a happy family on my computer by playing Sims, is that a breakthrough in my relationships? Am I finally no longer a loser but a respectable member of society? Will my mom start talking to me again?
I'd like to simulate a million dollars in my bank account.
familyfunds [sims last name] [money wanted]
You must stay below 8 digits for the amount of money though.
If we COULD manipulate wormholes, that would leap space travel infinitely. I REALLY don't trust teleportation but folding space to make two spots closer together is a lot better of an idea.
Teleportation makes a lot more sense though, all it takes is something going on at a level below our current understanding. Folding space is only a byproduct of math that shoehorns in a not-alike 4th time dimension into space, so is certainly not how space actually is.
Curved space is like saying taste is composed of saltiness, sweetness, sourness, and sweat - one of these things doesn't belong. Useful in food science maybe because it explains spicy foods. Really the sweat is the result not a taste itself, just like time is the result of space not space itself.
The risk with teleportation is you enter the philosophical issue of are you still you on the other side as you are essentially breaking someone down, atom by atom, then reconstructing those atoms in a similar structure somewhere else.
Yeah but the worst case is there's two of you. One chooses to get murdered so the other can live... basically euthanasia with an upside.
But the amount of information you'd have to send, it'd probably be faster to deep freeze you and send you on a spaceship than through a portal. Like sneakernet is still faster than internet.
Yeah, if time isn't an issue, cryogenics and travel would be the way to go. If time is an issue, I'd still go with wormholes
Because I've done entire philosophy debates about teleportation including the dreaded ship analogy that I've been scarred for life in ever trying it.
Quote from a reasonable voice from the New York Times article:
Quantum physics is fascinating. Interesting story
So when is Scorpius coming after these guys?