The lore regarding EPR wormholes is that the internal traversal time (measured from outside) is always at least as long as the time it takes to just travel via normal space-time. One can see a teleological reason for this, in that (in a relativistic universe) wormholes could otherwise become paradox-generating time machines. But the mechanism that enforces this seems to be quite subtle, deeply quantum, and deeply involved in exactly how space-time emerges from entanglement. With Claude, I have discussed two relevant papers coauthored by Maldacena, first this one from 2020, then (starting with my third prompt) this one from 2018. The discussion becomes more fundamental as it goes on.
The lore regarding EPR wormholes is that the internal traversal time (measured from outside) is always at least as long as the time it takes to just travel via normal space-time. One can see a teleological reason for this, in that (in a relativistic universe) wormholes could otherwise become paradox-generating time machines. But the mechanism that enforces this seems to be quite subtle, deeply quantum, and deeply involved in exactly how space-time emerges from entanglement. With Claude, I have discussed two relevant papers coauthored by Maldacena, first this one from 2020, then (starting with my third prompt) this one from 2018. The discussion becomes more fundamental as it goes on.