I Event Horizon movie, with some interesting concepts (papers cited)

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Please hear me out; I've referenced some good papers below, and I think you'll find the movie clip intriguing.

Is there anything solid to this movie? The faster than light travel. The dimensional gateway. The folding of spacetime, passing through the hole, and then the return of spacetime to normal.

I don't want to be faulted for speculation - I'm just curious. I'm not putting this in the Sci-fi section, because I've heard that there might be solid physics behind it.

And there are some good papers on arxiv about related concepts...


In this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04641), the Casimir energy is described in relation to wormholes. But I don't understand how it would lead to the formation of a wormhole. My understanding of Casimir is that the vacuum energy (as very briefly mentioned in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05010), can exert a force, pushing together two objects, which are close enough together to not have much energy between them, but enough energy outside of the pair, in order to create a pressure difference, and push them together.

And from a less reputable source, but seems to break it down pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole



Thanks,

Jake
 
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jaketodd said:
Is there anything solid to this movie?
No. The sciency-sounding black hole stuff is like the wardrobe in the book “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, there because the author needed some magic to set up the story. You wouldn’t expect to learn anything about wardrobe design from Lewis’s classic, and you shouldn’t expect to learn anything about event horizons from this movie.

It’s a fine movie, but it’s not about physics so it’s off-topic here and this thread is closed.
 
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