The important parts of the article: The two senior physicists behind this, Joe Lykken and Maria Spiropulu, have histories that go way back of successfully prom

The important parts of the article: The two senior physicists behind this, Joe Lykken and Maria Spiropulu, have histories that go way back of successfully promoting to the press nonsense about exotic space-time structures appearing in experiments that have nothing to do with them. and Update: Andreas Karch on Twitter I think has an accurate characterization of this “mostly a publicity stunt”: Experimentally it’s of course cool they can do SYK – as a demonstration they have control over their device. They can couple 9 qbits in a pre-specified way. But I guess we knew they could do this before. Going after SYK in particular, in my mind, is mostly a publicity stunt.