Everyone wants wormholes to exist. or at least conceivable. Presently, one College of Bristol physicist feels that we can make wormholes work, when our quantum PCs get somewhat more, indeed, quantum. What's more, he has a plan to back it up.
In a paper that was published in the journal Quantum Science and Technology, Hatim Salih, a co-founder of the startup DotQuantum and honorary research fellow at Bristol's Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, stated that there is a real opportunity to develop "counterportation," which is similar to teleportation but does not involve particles actually moving.
“Here’s the sharp distinction,” Salih says in a news release. “While counterportation achieves the end goal of teleportation, namely disembodied transport, it remarkably does so without any detectable information carriers traveling across.”
To make his lab-based wormhole sound plausible, Salih writes that computers can harness laws of physics by reconstituting objects across space without any particles crossing this space:
“This is a milestone we have been working toward for a bunch of years. It provides a theoretical as well as practical framework for exploring afresh enduring puzzles about the universe, such as the true nature of spacetime.”