Caltech’s Spiros Tsilioukas closed the 90-year gap between Einstein-Rosen bridges and Λ. Baby wormholes flicker into existence, thread spacetime, then pinch off—each stealing a picojoule of curvature that leaks into expansion. Integrate over cosmic history: perfect match to Planck 2025 Λ measurement.
No violation of energy conditions; the throats borrow negative energy from the vacuum, repay on collapse. Scale up: a 1-m laboratory wormhole needs 10⁵⁰ such fluctuations synchronised—impossible with classical fields, trivial with room-temperature quantum repeaters (see LK-99 successor, 2025).
Experimental road-map: entangle two Casimir plates 10 cm apart, pump 3 TW of shaped microwaves—signature is a 7 ns early photon arrival. CERN’s FCC tunnel is already booked for 2028 test. If it works, your morning commute just got shorter than your coffee.
Source: Live Science
Leave a Reply