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Sorry for being so terse, but having read the "Not Even Wrong" blog just moments before I ran across the topic on HN I wanted to get the link out quickly.

While I advise reading the whole post, here is a notable quote:

"The two senior physicists behind this, Joe Lykken and Maria Spiropulu, have histories that go way back of successfully promoting to the press nonsense about exotic space-time structures appearing in experiments that have nothing to do with them."


They went back in time and brought a wormhole from when they'll actually build one using only a piece of string and some paperclips!


I'm loving Scott Aaronson rolling his eyes at this. He actually had a whole section on this in his book for a similar experiment in 2010 on closed timelike curves https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2219. I feel bad for actual quantum computing experts, we're living through a weird quantum hype moment and they have to combat the quantum hype machine making absurd claims on one side and the quantum skeptics saying that quantum computing is useless on the other.


That one's on the front page now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33807169




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