A more sober take on this story can be found here: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13181 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13181

A more sober take on this story can be found here: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13181 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13181 summary: The claim that “Physicists Create a Wormhole” is just complete bullshit, with the huge campaign to mislead the public about this a disgrace, highly unhelpful for the credibility of physics research in particular and science in general. … As far as I can tell, all they did was perform elaborate SYK calculations on a classical computer, together with simulations of noise on the Google quantum computer, trying to find a possible calculation on the quantum computer that would have signal, not just noise. Once such an N=7 SYK calculation was identified, they used a 9 qubit quantum computer and the noisy result matched the simulation result from the classical computer, exactly as expected. Seeing the completely expected match between results from a 9 bit noisy quantum computer and the results of the simulation of this on a classical computer caused Maria Spiropulu to say that “I was shaken” and “It was nuts. It was nuts”, while Joe Lykken felt that the moment was on a par with discovery of the Higgs particle.