He can’t beam anyone to the Enterprise and back, but he can zap encrypted information from one quantum device to another. Nezami is no stranger to quantum teleportation. It is this theory of quantum entanglement that sparked the idea of creating a wormhole. Past that point, any qubits (“quantum bits” or basic units of information that can have infinite values) thrown back in would boomerang back, since the black hole had become so entangled with what became its Hawking radiation after billions of years. You would only be able to access those particles after half the black hole evaporated. Some scientists believe that if you (again, theoretically) gathered up all the photons that escaped, you’d recover information that was thought to be irreversibly lost in the black hole’s innards. There have been endless arguments about the quantum value of both the particles and the point of escape, since they could basically be anything. The idea started off the back of Hawking radiation, the thermal radiation that Stephen Hawking thought black holes spontaneously spewed out into space as they slowly “evaporated.” One of a pair of photons should be released back into space while the other remains past the point of no return.
What?! To say this is complicated is an understatement. If these black holes are linked the right way, that scrambled info should zoom through the wormhole that connects them and emerge from the second one intact. Quantum information that falls into the first one will get shredded. You need to entangle black holes, no matter how far away from each other, so much that anything happening to one will affect the other. Theoretical physicist Sepehr Nezami and his team at CalTech now believe there is a way to manipulate black holes into creating that shortcut. Wormholes have been (theoretical) objects of wonder since the dawn of science fiction, but it would be wild if we could prove these shortcuts through spacetime existed, and even wilder if we could create one.
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