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This title is painfully sensationalist. Physicists simulated a wormhole using a quantum computer, they did not create one.
by TchoBeer 4y ago
This title is painfully sensationalist. Physicists simulated a wormhole using a quantum computer, they did not create one.
- dang 4y agoWe've grafted the word 'purportedly' from the article's opening sentence into the title.
- kgwgk 4y agoIt was so bad that they had to take it back: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1598353637515853827 https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/159835363751585382...
- happytoexplain 4y agoThank you, I noticed it changed and was looking for the statement of edit. I don't see it anywhere on the article - am I missing it, or are we really expected to check Twitter for changes to published articles? Also: >To avoid further confusion with wormhole in the sci-fi sense of a passageway that a person can fly through... I don't know if there is a name for this flavor of "sorry-not-sorry", but it's upsetting that a professional writer would engage in it. The wormhole did not have to be a full blown "science fiction" gate that people can "fly through" for the article to have been accurate. It could have been a nanometer-sized space that existed for a microsecond, across which a single bit of data was transmitted.