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 in terms of wormhole connections where metric fluctuations give rise to an indetermination relationship that involves the Riemann curvature tensor. At low energies (when ), these connections behave like an exchange of a virtual graviton with wavelength 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.
Highlights
The formulation of an effective theory of quantum gravity can be considered the holy grail of modern physics
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
Einstein’s equations we find that, at Planck scales, the singularities expected from quantum gravity can be interpreted in terms of wormhole connections between the events, as required in the ER
Summary
The formulation of an effective theory of quantum gravity can be considered the holy grail of modern physics. We analyze Einstein’s equations in a finite volume of space–time down to the Planck scale, finding wormhole connections that avoid the singularity problem and an indetermination relationship that involves the Riemann curvature This finds application to the ER = EPR conjecture—in this framework, geometry behaves as a geodesic tensor network that defines the quantum state properties of a fundamental quantum state of a given metric [54] and a virtual graviton exchange becomes equivalent to entanglement to which one can apply the concept of Penrose’s decoherence of a quantum state [55].
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