Fermilab Public Lecture: Joe Lykken, Fermilab Quantum Institute
- When:
- Friday, February 17, 2023 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Where:
- Virtual
- Speaker:
- Joe Lykken, Fermilab Quantum Institute
- Title:
- Wormholes in the Laboratory
- Description:
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A wormhole, also known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge, is a hypothetical tunnel connecting remote points in spacetime. While wormholes are allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, wormholes have never been found in the universe. In late 2022, the journal Nature featured a paper co-written by Joe Lykken, leader of the Fermilab Quantum Institute, that describes observable phenomenon produced by a quantum processor that “are consistent with the dynamics of a transversable wormhole.” Working with a Sycamore quantum computer at Google, a team of physicists was able to transfer information from one area of the computer to another through a quantum system utilizing artificial intelligence hardware.