JohnSSM Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I read an exciting new article today about entangled particles being connected with wormholes, and this network of wormholes makes up the "fabric" of space time. Ive done lots of reading about entanglement and still have one huge question. How does one entangle particles? How do particles get entangled? I assume that entanglement begins at some common source, but what is that source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 The particles must be indistinguishable with respect to the entangled property, and have some conserved property that can be entangled. Sometimes the entanglement comes from a single transition/interaction that gives two particles, and sometimes it's by mixing particles in some way to make them indistinguishable. Thise are the two methods that I recall. What/where was the article? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnSSM Posted November 4, 2015 Author Share Posted November 4, 2015 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/entanglement-gravitys-long-distance-connection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatfaal Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 From a brief reading this is highly speculative - it seems to take long term stable wormholes as an acceptable sine qua non whereas stable wormholes (whilst not contradicting GR in some forms) would still seem to require the existence of exotic (ie made-up at present) matter with negative mass. It is cutting edge speculation that may in 50 years be seen as the first inklings of a greater understanding of gravity in the the realm of the very high energy - but it is at present way way from being a theory. It seems that much of this is string theory being repackaged by slightly disillusioned theoretical physicists - there is a beautiful and self consistent mathematical foundation; it must be useful for something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Phrases such as this indicate that this is theory with no experiment to support it provocative paperhave high hopes for where this entanglement-spacetime connection will lead thembold claimhave more work to do to prove the equivalencetheir approximations have a long way to go to match reality and it sounds like this is proposed only in the context of black holes and the firewall problem, rather than run-of-the-mill entanglement. It seems to me that Hawking radiation particle pairs should be entangled, owing to the conservation laws they have to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puppypower Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 The simplest explanation; Occum's Razor, is entangled particles could occur if space-time becomes dissociated into space and time that become separated from each other. As a visual analogy, consider space-time as a fabric. Next, say we separate the fabric of space-time into separate threads of space and separate thread of time, like a hole in blue jeans. If we now follow a white space thread, that is independent of the blue time threads, since time is no longer connected, things can happen over space without time; entanglement. A wormhole is just a larger hole in the blue jeans of space-time; space threads become concentrated. -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 The simplest explanation... Please, just stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 The simplest explanation; Occum's Razor, is entangled particles could occur if space-time becomes dissociated into space and time that become separated from each other. As a visual analogy, consider space-time as a fabric. Next, say we separate the fabric of space-time into separate threads of space and separate thread of time, like a hole in blue jeans. If we now follow a white space thread, that is independent of the blue time threads, since time is no longer connected, things can happen over space without time; entanglement. A wormhole is just a larger hole in the blue jeans of space-time; space threads become concentrated. ! Moderator Note This is not the first time you've been asked NOT to post speculative ideas as explanations in mainstream science sections. WE HAVE STUDENTS WHO RELY ON ACCURACY AND NEED YOU TO STOP IMMEDIATELY!!! If you can't understand the need for such a restriction, then just keep doing it and things will sort themselves out. If you'd like to stay a member, though, you should follow the rules you agreed to when you joined. Report this note if you must, but don't talk about it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnSSM Posted November 4, 2015 Author Share Posted November 4, 2015 I was gonna say, im pretty sure space and time are the same thread...ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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