The Wormhole and the Quantum World

Looking through my notes, I found an excerpt from the book “Secrets of Space and Time” (2000,  ISBN 5-7838-0711-7) by Viktor Komarov, a Soviet and Russian popularizer of science:

“A few years ago (before 2000), the famous American planetary Explorer Carl Sagan decided to take up the pen and wrote a science fiction novel “Contact.” The heroes of this work discover the entrance to a mysterious tunnel on Earth. It immediately leads them to the area of the star Vega, which is 27 light-years away from the Sun.
We learn in the course of the action that the miracle tunnel is only part of a gigantic space transport system that a powerful super-civilization that lived in our area of the Galaxy created in remote times.
Kip Thorne (American physicist and astronomer, Nobel prize winner, one of the world’s leading experts on relativity) took a different approach to the Sagan hypothesis – he was interested in it in essence. And without fear of wasting time, he and his staff sat down to calculate. … Computing … they showed that a wormhole made of anti-gravity material would be stable enough to travel through the Universe.”

DQ Herculis, which I became interested in thanks to the book by Isaac Asimov “Exploding Suns: The Secrets of the Supernovas” and Dimash Kudaibergen’s DQ, is located near Vega, by cosmic standards.

The theme of the wormhole is played in the first version of “Old Town Road” video for a song by American hip-hop artist Lil Nas X featuring country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. The second version of the clip is dedicated to the Storming of Zone 51, and I wrote about it earlier.

Let’s go back to Carl Sagan’s novel. There is a film “Contact” (1997) by Robert Zemeckis, based on the book. It stars actors such as Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey… Jodie Foster’s character, Ellie, devotes her life to space exploration. Working at the Observatory, she picks up a signal from space, presumably from the star Vega. The signal contains a blueprint for the installation that allows Ellie to travel through the wormhole system later. Wormholes turn out to be portals of interstellar communication routes in the Community of Civilizations of the Universe.

She meets a representative of an extraterrestrial civilization in a place that she drew when she was a child. But for the observer from the outside, the heroine’s body remains in place. Was this meeting real? If you imagine a person “connected” to digital virtual reality, then he can really meet someone in the virtual world, and from the point of view of an outsider, his body will not move anywhere.

Now we can say that, probably, the Community in the book “Contact” and, accordingly, in the film, there is a Community of Quantum Worlds. The quantum approach gives the opportunity for the heroine to be in two places at the same time.

DQ and Q-bit. The Quantum Approach

Our scientists, engaged in creating a quantum computer, introduced the concept of “Q-bit” (qubit, quantum bit). The unit of information “bit” in the usual binary system has two discrete values – “0” or “1.” When applied to the situation with Ellie, only one of the options for her presence at the observation point is possible: “0” – if her body moved, and “1” – she remained in place.

The Q-bit breaks these representations because, in addition to the eigenstates “0” and “1,” it can be in a so – called “quantum superposition” – a superposition of mutually exclusive states. But for any measurement of the Q-bit state, the meter will show either “0” or “1.” From Wikipedia:

“An example of a physically observable manifestation of the wave nature of quantum systems is the interference peaks from an electron beam in a double-slit experiment. … Contrary to a classical bit that can only be in the state corresponding to 0 or the state corresponding to 1, a qubit may be in a superposition of both states. … The general principle of superposition of quantum mechanics applies to the states … of any one dynamical system. It requires us to assume that between these states there exist peculiar relationships such that whenever the system is definitely in one state we can consider it as being partly in each of two or more other states.”

Thus, from the point of view of quantum mechanics, the heroine could be in two mutually exclusive states. Today, scientists in the world say with confidence that the observed object can be located simultaneously in different states (places).

In the summer of 2019, a team of physicists from Austria and China reported a successful experiment not even with Q-bits, but with Q-trits – three-level quantum states. The experiment confirmed the existence of it. From the media:

“…scientists managed to teleport a three-dimensional quantum state. In other words, the photon was located in all three optical fibers simultaneously.”

In 1963, before the release of the film “Contact” and the advent of quantum computers, the British popular science television series “Doctor Who” was released. “Quantum superposition” was quite common for the main character and his guests. The Doctor and his companions traveled through time and space. And then the companions returned to their relatives and friends in their own time. It seemed to those around them that they were always there and never disappeared.

The word “quantum” means “how much” in Latin. How many possible mutually exclusive states are there? Kabbalah gives an idea of the four spiritual worlds above our lower physical world (Underworld). Apparently, there is a primary source above them, from which ideas and projects of different realities originate, in which not people at all can be reasonable. In this perspective, the Humanity project contains 6 levels. The 6th is already going beyond the boundaries of human ideas.

Isaac Asimov in the story “The Last Question” neatly brings people to the fact that people will eventually leave their bodies in the physical world, moving on to life in the big space of quantum reality (see the post. “The Last Question Isaac Asimov Collection Nine Tomorrow 1959“). The lower physical world of the light reality of continuous processes makes it possible to create living and inanimate matter with new forms, new bodies, to be reborn in them, to change your mind and worldview, to explore new possibilities, as well as to cultivate new intelligences in order to have a constant influx into the already existing digital reality with discrete preset options.