Down the Wormhole

More mysterious quantum forces.

Quantum particles entering a wormhole may experience an entirely new class of force

There is a gangrenous rot at the heart of modern physics. The two most successful pillars of modern physics, quantum theory and general relativity, are at loggerheads and something has to give.

There is no clearer demonstration of this than in the study of quantum mechanics in curved spaces. Quantum mechanics works well in the flat Euclidian space in which we appear to live but nobody knows how it fares in the curved space that general relativity predicts. And surprisingly, physicists have spent little time bothering to find out.

But today, Rossen Dandolo from the Universite de Cergy-Pontoise in France, takes a stab at nailing the behaviour of quantum particles in the highly curved geometry of a wormhole.

His starting point is the Heisenburg Uncertainty principle which states that you cannot know a particle’s location in space and its momentum at the same time. It is only possible to measure one or the other with any degree of certainty.

Read the complete article here. {via MIT Technology Review}