Mark Van Raamsdonk, a UBC physicist, spoke to Wired for an article on how entanglement structure of qubits, a unit of quantum information, mathematically translates into an associated space-time geometry.
Qubits entangled with their neighbours could encode flat space, while more complicated patterns of entanglement lead to matter particles like quarks and electrons, whose mass causes the space-time to be curved, producing gravity.
“The best way we understand quantum gravity currently is this holographic approach,” said Van Raamsdonk, who has done influential work on this topic.
A similar story appeared in The Atlantic.
