Physicists Create ‘The Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/science/physics-wormhole-quantum-computer.html

by jaydub • 4 years ago

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__lbracket__• 4 years ago

I've not read the paper, or the original NYT article and will probably wont. So downvote if you want.

But I'm getting a little jaded of "performative science":

1. A group gets some result (in this case probably well explained by maxwell + schrodinger equation)

2. Interpret this within some cool framework like wormholes or relativity

3. Rush to announce

This is then followed by long tail of incremental work that leads to nowhere.

Not saying this particular work is like that, but there have been too many premature celebrations of work which later proved to be unreproducible or unimpactful. Perhaps what I'm describing is a typical scientific process, but after the advent of "Twitter Driven Science", in general i'm feeling less sure of the interpretation and impact of these works.

DemocracyFTW2• 4 years ago

Looks more like an artificial black hole as far as trust in and quality of science reporting is concerned, see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33809177 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33807169

Physicists Create ‘The Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’

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