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General Relativistic Wormhole Connections from Planck-Scales and the ER = EPR Conjecture.

Authors :
Tamburini F
Licata I
Source :
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) [Entropy (Basel)] 2019 Dec 18; Vol. 22 (1). Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Dec 18.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

Einstein's equations of general relativity (GR) can describe the connection between events within a given hypervolume of size L larger than the Planck length L P in terms of wormhole connections where metric fluctuations give rise to an indetermination relationship that involves the Riemann curvature tensor. At low energies (when L ≫ L P ), these connections behave like an exchange of a virtual graviton with wavelength λ G = L as if gravitation were an emergent physical property. Down to Planck scales, wormholes avoid the gravitational collapse and any superposition of events or space-times become indistinguishable. These properties of Einstein's equations can find connections with the novel picture of quantum gravity (QG) known as the "Einstein-Rosen (ER) = Einstein-Podolski-Rosen (EPR)" (ER = EPR) conjecture proposed by Susskind and Maldacena in Anti-de-Sitter (AdS) space-times in their equivalence with conformal field theories (CFTs). In this scenario, non-traversable wormhole connections of two or more distant events in space-time through Einstein-Rosen (ER) wormholes that are solutions of the equations of GR, are supposed to be equivalent to events connected with non-local Einstein-Podolski-Rosen (EPR) entangled states that instead belong to the language of quantum mechanics. Our findings suggest that if the ER = EPR conjecture is valid, it can be extended to other different types of space-times and that gravity and space-time could be emergent physical quantities if the exchange of a virtual graviton between events can be considered connected by ER wormholes equivalent to entanglement connections.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1099-4300
Volume :
22
Issue :
1
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
33285778
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/e22010003