Susskind: Quantum entanglement and Einstein-Rosen bridges are the exact same phenomenon
Leonard Susskind · Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics · Y Combinator · Dec 6, 2018 · at 51:23
Stanford theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind discusses the ER = EPR conjecture, which links general relativity wormholes with quantum entanglement.
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“In very recent years, we found out that entanglement and Einstein-Rosen bridges are the same thing. That, in particular, an example would be if you have two black holes. Black holes have all kinds of internal structure to them. They're quantum mechanical objects. If the two black holes are entangled, they will have an Einstein-Rosen bridge connecting them. If the two black holes have an Einstein-Rosen bridge, they will be entangled. We found out that they are the same thing. Quantum entanglement, and the kind of connectivity between systems that were called Einstein-Rosen bridges.”
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