According to a news release from the University of Washington, quantum entanglement, a difficult to understand wonder of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once called “spooky action at a distance,” could be even “spookier” than the great physicist anticipated.

Physicists at UW and Stony Brook University in New York think the event might be linked with wormholes, hypothetical characteristics of space-time that in popular science fiction can offer a quicker-than-light alternate route from one area of the universe to another.

According to Andreas Karch, a UW physics professor, one couldn’t actually pass through these wormholes.

Quantum entanglement takes place when a pair of particles interface in ways that mandate that each particle’s conduct is relative to the conduct of the others. In a pair of entangled particles, if one particle is detected to have a certain spin, for instance, the other particle detected at the same time will have the opposite spin.

The so-called “spooky” part is that the association stays true no matter how distant the particles are from each other. If the conduct of one particle alters, the conduct of both entangled particles alters at the same time.

Recent studies showed that the features of a wormhole are the same as if two black holes were entangled, then yanked apart. Even if the black holes were located on opposite sides of the universe, the wormhole would link them.

Black holes, which can be very small or extremely big, are present throughout the universe, but their gravitational pull is so powerful than not even light can get away from them.

According to Karch, if two black holes were entangled, an individual positioned outside the opening of one would not be able to observe or communicate with an individual positioned just outside the opening of the other.

“The way you can communicate with each other is if you jump into your black hole, then the other person must jump into his black hole, and the interior world would be the same,” Karch noted.

The research reveals an equality between quantum mechanics, which handles physical events at extremely small scales, and classical geometry.

“Two different mathematical machineries to go after the same physical process,” Karch posited.

The outcome is a tool physicists can utilize to form extensive knowledge of entangled quantum systems.

“We’ve just followed well-established rules people have known for 15 years and asked ourselves, ‘What is the consequence of quantum entanglement?”

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