Regarding Entangled Particles.

[JohnSSM]

I read an exciting new article today about entangled particles being connected with wormholes, and this network of wormholes makes up the "fabric" of space time. Ive done lots of reading about entanglement and still have one huge question. How does one entangle particles? How do particles get entangled? I assume that entanglement begins at some common source, but what is that source?

[swansont]

The particles must be indistinguishable with respect to the entangled property, and have some conserved property that can be entangled. Sometimes the entanglement comes from a single transition/interaction that gives two particles, and sometimes it's by mixing particles in some way to make them indistinguishable. Thise are the two methods that I recall.

 

What/where was the article?

[JohnSSM]

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/entanglement-gravitys-long-distance-connection

[imatfaal]

From a brief reading this is highly speculative - it seems to take long term stable wormholes as an acceptable sine qua non whereas stable wormholes (whilst not contradicting GR in some forms) would still seem to require the existence of exotic (ie made-up at present) matter with negative mass. It is cutting edge speculation that may in 50 years be seen as the first inklings of a greater understanding of gravity in the the realm of the very high energy - but it is at present way way from being a theory. It seems that much of this is string theory being repackaged by slightly disillusioned theoretical physicists - there is a beautiful and self consistent mathematical foundation; it must be useful for something...

[swansont]

Phrases such as this indicate that this is theory with no experiment to support it

 

provocative paper
have high hopes for where this entanglement-spacetime connection will lead them
bold claim
have more work to do to prove the equivalence
their approximations have a long way to go to match reality

and it sounds like this is proposed only in the context of black holes and the firewall problem, rather than run-of-the-mill entanglement. It seems to me that Hawking radiation particle pairs should be entangled, owing to the conservation laws they have to follow.

[puppypower]

The simplest explanation; Occum's Razor, is entangled particles could occur if space-time becomes dissociated into space and time that become separated from each other. As a visual analogy, consider space-time as a fabric. Next, say we separate the fabric of space-time into separate threads of space and separate thread of time, like a hole in blue jeans. If we now follow a white space thread, that is independent of the blue time threads, since time is no longer connected, things can happen over space without time; entanglement. A wormhole is just a larger hole in the blue jeans of space-time; space threads become concentrated.

[Strange]

The simplest explanation...

 

Please, just stop.

[Phi for All]

The simplest explanation; Occum's Razor, is entangled particles could occur if space-time becomes dissociated into space and time that become separated from each other. As a visual analogy, consider space-time as a fabric. Next, say we separate the fabric of space-time into separate threads of space and separate thread of time, like a hole in blue jeans. If we now follow a white space thread, that is independent of the blue time threads, since time is no longer connected, things can happen over space without time; entanglement. A wormhole is just a larger hole in the blue jeans of space-time; space threads become concentrated.

 

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[JohnSSM]

I was gonna say, im pretty sure space and time are the same thread...ha