Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of physics.
Soon after the news broke, physicists and experts in quantum computing expressed skepticism that a wormhole had in fact been created.
Media coverage was chaotic. Outlets reported that physicists had created a theoretical wormhole, a holographic wormhole or perhaps a small, crummy wormhole, and that Google's quantum computer suggests wormholes are real. Other outlets soberly offered the news that no, physicists didn't make a wormhole at all.
If this has you confused, you're not alone! What's going on?
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