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Wormholes, or Einstein-Rosen bridges, are often hypothesized to be spherical in shape. The hole parts, that is.
The 2007 videogame Portal gives a different take on hyperdimensional shortcuts.
In the game, "portals" are these oval-shaped, planar holes in the fabric of spacetime, and they serve well as hyperdimensional shortcuts, reducing the intervening distance between two distant points to zero.
The planar portals are intuitive, we can clearly see how they shift space, how they work just like doors.Spherical wormholes, by contrast, are pretty unintuitive and complex when it comes to visualizing just how they shift space.
If the distance between two wormholes could be reduced to nothing, just like with the portals, what would it look like if a solid cube (companion) was thrown into one of the spherical holes?
And not "look like" in terms of light rays, but in terms of the actual physical events.
I figure that the cube reaches the spherical center of one hole and emerges from the spherical center of the other, but I can't imagine how the space is physically shifted in the intervening journey.
The film Interstellar, while cool, didn't demonstrate what happens clearly.
The 2007 videogame Portal gives a different take on hyperdimensional shortcuts.
In the game, "portals" are these oval-shaped, planar holes in the fabric of spacetime, and they serve well as hyperdimensional shortcuts, reducing the intervening distance between two distant points to zero.
The planar portals are intuitive, we can clearly see how they shift space, how they work just like doors.Spherical wormholes, by contrast, are pretty unintuitive and complex when it comes to visualizing just how they shift space.
If the distance between two wormholes could be reduced to nothing, just like with the portals, what would it look like if a solid cube (companion) was thrown into one of the spherical holes?
And not "look like" in terms of light rays, but in terms of the actual physical events.
I figure that the cube reaches the spherical center of one hole and emerges from the spherical center of the other, but I can't imagine how the space is physically shifted in the intervening journey.
The film Interstellar, while cool, didn't demonstrate what happens clearly.
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