🚨 SCIENTISTS SAY “MAGIC” MAY BE WHAT GIVES SPACE-TIME ITS GRAVITY. For years, physicists have understood how entanglement can build the structure of space-time in holographic models. But something was missing: why does space-time curve in response to matter the essence of gravity? A team including Charles Cao and... John Preskill now proposes the missing ingredient is a quantum property called “magic” a measure of how complex and non-classical a quantum state is (the kind that makes quantum computers hard to simulate classically). In their theoretical framework, adding this magic turns rigid space into something that can bend. Matter can now tell space how to curve. Why this matters: • It offers a new way to think about how gravity emerges from quantum information • It connects ideas from quantum computing (error correction, magic states) directly to fundamental physics • It suggests space-time itself may be one of the most quantum objects in existence The deeper implication: Gravity may not be a fundamental force at all. It may be what happens when quantum information becomes sufficiently complex and “magical.” This is still early theoretical work in specific holographic models. But it hints that the pliability of the universe might have quantum roots we are only beginning to understand. What do you think is gravity ultimately just extremely complicated quantum information, or do you think we’re still missing something much deeper? Follow for more frontier quantum gravity and quantum information research.show more

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