Like initials carved in a tree, ER = EPR, as the new idea is known, is a shorthand that joins two ideas proposed by Einstein in 1935. And Einstein, as he so often does, sits right in the center of it all, still turning things upside-down from beyond the grave. Yet a bold new strain of thinking suggests that quantum correlations between specks of impressionist paint actually create not just Dalí’s landscape, but the canvases that both sit on, as well as the three-dimensional space around them.
At their core, the two descriptions contradict each other. But the quantum particles that occupy this space are more like something from Georges Seurat: pointillist, discrete, described by probabilities. The smoothly warped space-time landscape that Einstein described is like a painting by Salvador Dalí - seamless, unbroken, geometric. One hundred years after Albert Einstein developed his general theory of relativity, physicists are still stuck with perhaps the biggest incompatibility problem in the universe.
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