Publicity Stunt Fallout
It seems unfair to dismiss this as a publicity stunt or fraud, or to say this is no closer to a real wormhole than a drawing. It&#x27;s fundamentally impossible to really describe what is happening here to the general public without tons of quantum mechanics background. Any summary of research like this is inherently a subjective description of why scientists feel it&#x27;s important, rather than a coherent description of what actually occurred.<p>However, the quantum process they are describing really did physically occur on the quantum processor, which I feel is really different than a simulated quantum experiment on a regular cpu. It is truly a real observation of a real quantum experiment, which demonstrates that the system they setup really exhibits properties of wormhole physics that had previously only been predicted theoretically.<p>Is it possible that experimental physicists are just insulted by the way this is presented, because it&#x27;s presented as an experimental milestone, but, because of the use of a quantum processor, they didn&#x27;t really have to build anything... it&#x27;s just math and code?