Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity

(quantamagazine.org)

21 points | by rbanffy 1 hour ago

4 comments

  • Terr_ 1 hour ago
    > a measure of quantumness known as “magic.”

    This naming-proposal couldn't possibly cause any problems down the line...

    > They had worked out a way of running software on a classical computer that would mimic a quantum task.

    When it comes to using a regular computer to mimic (read: fake) the execution of an exotic program/API for nonexistnet future hardware, I highly recommend the humorously titled talk: "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy!" [0][1]

    [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTjPx4NIiM

    [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpInOI4o2LY

    • soco 51 minutes ago
      > This naming-proposal couldn't possibly cause any problems down the line...

      Your worries are a bit late, there's already a huge amount of new age conspiracy bull about quantum healing with wave function collapse, microtubule alignment and biophotons - quality all-you-can-eat word salad buffet.

  • lioeters 33 minutes ago
    Charm, quark, colors, time crystals, holographs.. And now, magic. Don't worry Einstein, no spooky action at a distance here, it's just magical.

    > The more non-Clifford gates you need to produce a quantum state, the more magical that state is. The group found that the particles were highly magical. ..They showed that magic gave space its springiness. Magic, in other words, is connected to space’s ability to bend.

    At some point these physicists crossed over into a very specialized form of poetry, a game of language.

    • etiam 15 minutes ago
      I can sort of appreciate these shenanigans as short-lived common room humor, but I find it obnoxious to put it in the official terminology.

      It's bad enough all the corporations trying to steal perfectly active words for their brand names or products.

    • dabiged 19 minutes ago
      Don't forget snap, crackle and pop, and quantum teleportation.

      Physicists get a failing grade for naming things.

  • sigmoid10 53 minutes ago
    >In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots

    ...ah yes holography again. Not to say that all these insights from it are completely worthless, but unless we actually find a holographic dual of our universe instead of AdS spaces (which are the opposite of our universe if anything), this whole field is starting to feel more like a jobs program for mathematicians out of new ideas.

  • tetrisgm 37 minutes ago
    I gotta say every aspect of this headline reads like bullshit. Unfortunately