Wormholes Definition and 113 Threads

Stephen Hawking said wormholes within the fabric of space can't exist, so is it logical to think that you could achieve similar results of a wormhole by creating different areas of probability which take a group of particles and make their location most likely to pop up in another location? How...

"The Einstein-Rosen bridge was discovered by Albert Einstein and his colleague Nathan Rosen, who first published the result in 1935. However, in 1962 John A. Wheeler and Robert W. Fuller published a paper showing that this type of wormhole is unstable, and that it will pinch off too quickly for...

Hello, Is it true that the event horizon will destroy anyone who was able to enter a wormhole before exiting to another location? And is it also true that if fed the correct exotic matter, a wormhole could be opened large enough to travel through? If so, could a wormhole exist in close enough...

I'm sure someone has already thought of this somewhere, but can a wormhole violate the conservation of energy IF the object takes two paths? I mean like this: Imagine a wormhole near a charged object, one closer, the other farther. Then imagine the particle being attracted to the charged...

I won't pretend to by a physicist (yet... maybe in four years :frown:) but I do surf Wikipedia a lot now and then. So I came to a general understanding (I think?) of how transportation through wormholes has you arrive at a frame in the past. Wouldn't this violate the conservation of energy...

What is your understanding of Quantum Foam? How come some physicists believe wormholes are abound in the quantum foam? Since wormholes are doorway to other existences. Can't one say that in every part of space is doorway to other existences and by considering Information Theory. Can't some kind...

Suppose a civilization had the technology to make wormholes. It would likely place them in orbit over its planets. Say one end orbiting Earth and the other end orbiting Mars. Now, it makes sense that gravity would travel through the wormhole, and the planets would alter each others' orbit. To...

If wormholes connect two areas in spacetime, wouldn't that require 5 dimensions? (an extra dimension past 4d spacetime.)

do wormholes actually exist?

From what I know, for a wormhole to be traversable it must be held open by negative mass. A naked singularity is a black hole whose spin is enough that it counteracts its own gravity and allows the singularity itself to be seen. I had this thought: Could a wormhole composed of two naked...

Do many scientists believe in the existence of wormholes? Can further research lead to the invention of the time machine?

Okay, I'm trying to get a grasp of how exactly wormholes function, how they form, etc. Please correct any and all flaws/mistakes in my understanding and further educate me, if you please. :) A wormhole could, theoretically, span any distance. Though the greater the distance (relative to our...

I am in grade 8 so please no gradute equations I would like to know if going through a wormhole (and survied) would you have travel faster then the speed of light creating possible time travel

Hi, I've recently finished a course on GR, and would like to read up more on wormhole and white hole. May I ask if there are any papers, websites or books that introduces the mathematical and physical structure of these stuffs?

wormholes...a mystery or not! do wormholes actually exists? if yes, then, is it true that they act as shortcuts for some other destinations in the universe? and lastly can man himself create them!?.....all a mystery 4 me!

Probably a crazy idea but perhaps possible, so let me ask... GR doesn't prevent particles, even those with mass, to travel at speeds higher than the maximal speed of light (C), if that was their initial speed. Now, the only thing traveling faster than C is expansion of our Universe...

Its said that a wormhole could allow effective FTl travel by creating short cuts in the fabric of space tme. but if the universe is flat , how would this be a short cut? Doesnt the universe need to be curved for that?

I understand what wormholes are to a layman's degree, and perhaps a bit more - a "portal" in the structure we call spacetime. What I do not understand is why we consider their existence at all. (kind of like the superstrings, ho ho ho) I've come to understand that there is some reason to...

could a microscopic wormhole, say the mass of a few molecules, pass through a macroscopic wormhole of a few kilometers diameter without causing the throat of the wormhole to collapse? been pondering a technically FTL communication idea but not exactly sure how wormholes moving through wormholes...

I have a computer science background, so I don't know about this. Can somebody give me some recommendations on good introductory books about -String Theory - Wormholes -Black holes etc. I'm looking something for academics, not for general public. So maybe books for 1st year graduate...

How is time travel possible? i understand that we can warp and modify time but i don't understand the concept... Is there any evidence to suggest that there are wormholes? if so how are they created?

I was just watching Ian Morison on Fora.tv about Time, in chapter 14 he talks about wormholes and time travel. You can see the time travel part here: http://fora.tv/2009/03/19/Ian_Morison_Its_About_Time#Journeying_Through_Space_and_Time_in_a_Wormhole Anyhow, in short he mentions opening a...

Under the general relativity principle, If you take a wormhole, put one end into a gravitational well, then take it out, there would be a time difference between the two openings of the wormhole. But, what effect would it have on the wormhole if you keep the middle area of it near a...

A typical device in (theoretical) time travel is a wormhole, and the usual method of inducing a time shift, i.e. the two mouths at different times, is to subject one mouth to relativistic time dilation. However, I can't see why a relativistic boost will result in a time shift. It seems that...

Wormholes for Dummies Question... First let me say, I am not a scientist, I'm an MBA type, but I am fascinated with physics and the Universe and have the utmost respect for those of you who actually understand it. I was recently watching the Science channel and there was a show on the...

Hello everybody. Let me first quickly introduce myself: I'm an amateur who is interested in various scientific topics. Going from how jellyfish defend themselves and how viruses helped evolution to nuclear fusion and volcanoes. Please note the word amateur... I'm in no way a professional...

I want to know, seeing as space-time is supposed to be curved and a wormhole bisects that curve, whether the curve is like half of a perfect circle. So for example, if there was a wormhole between the sun and alpha centauri, and the distance between them is about 4.3 light years, could you...

Hello, I have the following question: Let as assume that wormholes can exist. What happens if an advanced civilization is able to construct a wormhole with one end on its own planet and the other end of the wormhole below the event horizon of a black hole? Will they be able to see what is...

I'm interested in wormholes but my knowledge of advanced physics and general relativity is lacking. I was wondering, since I read that wormholes aren't ruled out in the wonderful universe of relativity, whether or not it would be possible for a man-made machine to open one?

As far as I understand, the latest calculations say that wormholes do not exist. Nonetheless, as a theoretical construction, they would be a "bridge" between two non-contiguous portions of spacetime. At first I thought they might just be a discontinuity in spacetime, but then I read of the...

First off, I'm curious about the accuracy of this paper: http://www.orionsarm.com/whitepapers/TraversableLorenzianWormholes-Overview.pdf I don't know nearly enough about GR to understand the math of the paper. It seems legit to a layman like me, but it IS posted on a hard sci-fi website...

Sorry for bringing up this subject again but I'm really just looking for some answers. This is strictly hypothetical. Suppose, for a moment, that humanity could somehow overcome these problems (disease, war, global warming, terrorism, etc) and advanced to a stage where it was limited only by...

What initially attracted me to this book was how easy it was to read, or atleast how easy it said it was to read... I have read the first few pages and I am really enjoying it. For anyone that has read it, I would like to know if any of it is dated. It was published in 1999, or that is the case...

Do wormholes really exist in spacetime? I mean, as a race we need to colonize the rest of the galaxy before too long otherwise the sun will extinguish our aspirations to survive, and we really can't just travel in a spaceship so we need to look at other ideas. could "star-trek" or whatever...

I was wondering about an event that took place in a book I'm reading, Stephen Baxter's "Ring." *Spoiler Alert* Baxter definitely does his research, but I wonder sometimes about the accuracy of some things that take place in his novels. In the novel, a wormhole time machine was being constructed...

Will wormholes go away (be found to be a quirk of the theory) or are they to embeded in the theory?

I have been reading a book about black holes and I picked up a lot of information, but some things still bother me. First I don't understand why they think a wormhole exists. I understand that as you get closer to the singularity space time is curved drastically. But if you look at common...

Hi. I have a few questions. Is it theoretically possible to build a wormhole to a parallel or baby universe? Could a sufficiently advanced civilization do this? Could negative mass play a role in it? Could something else?

Hi there, I am still a lay person in this subject, so I have to ask. Don´t we need quantum gravity to study wormholes ? thanks JVD

I was just wondering since I discussed this with some people before, but exactly how likely is it that wormholes in space-time are possible to use for transportation methods or some other form of practical use? One thing I heard as a most likely problem with it is the fact that the massive force...

Matt Visser - Lorentzian wormholes. From Einstein to Hawking (Springer) (1996) Just opened this book. Does anybody know it, and if you do, do you recommend it? Any feedback on this book.

I've been reading Kip Thorne's book "Black Holes and Time Warps" and was wondering about a couple of things. They're really basic questions that have been floating around in my head, but I can't ask any of my friends because none of them know anything about these topics, so...I came here...

can a wormhole be sustained by the emitions from the casimir effect and what would be the proposed setup of the whole device

Hi guys, I had an idea on the formation of worm holes...I'm not sure if this holds up at all but here goes. The basic idea is based on an elastic band. If you stretch an elastic band beyond the elastic limit, cracks start to appear until eventually the band will break...Now, imagine that...

from my understanding of wormholes, you can use a wormhole to build a time machine to go back in past. However, i think you can't go back in time before the time machine was built... right? or is there a way around?

A friend of mine came up with this idea that I would like to ask here. Just assume wormholes do exist and can be stable. Now put 2 wormholes over the surface of the earth. One 100meters above the ground and the other 1 kilometer straight above the first one. Link them so the first wormhole...

Not sure what section this would belong in but; How far from a possibility are they?

there are many small womholes that are continuously created throught time, they may not remain open for long enough for more than a photon to enter them, because they are not generally fed the"unknown matter" that is often spoken of which would be needed to allow them to remain continually open...

there are many small womholes that are continuously created throught time, they may nto remain open for long enough for more than a photon to enter them, because they are not generally fed the"unknown matter" that is often spoken of which would be needed to allow them to remain continually open...

Say we have \sum_{i,j} c_{ij} |i\rangle_A \; |j\rangle_B which is an entangled state, is there a choice for c_ij we can make that would be a wormhole?