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The Growth of Wormholes

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Wormholes or Einstein-Rosen bridges grow with time. To illustrate this fact we examine the Penrose diagram Fig. 12.1 of an AdS “eternal” black hole, or what is really two entangled black holes connected by an Einstein-Rosen bridge.

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    About a millisecond for a solar mass black hole.

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    This is the no-collisions assumption discussed at length in Lecture I. It is expected to be correct for sub-exponential time.

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Susskind, L. (2020). The Growth of Wormholes. In: Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45109-7_12

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