Moving object launched by observer into a Wormhole

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The discussion centers on the mechanics of wormholes and their effect on objects, specifically a baseball thrown by an observer. It concludes that when a baseball is thrown into a wormhole, its position in space-time changes without affecting the observer's location. The action of throwing the baseball does not create a paradox; rather, it simply alters the baseball's trajectory through space-time. The observer remains unaffected by the baseball's subsequent path, whether it is thrown in different directions or dropped into a wormhole.

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Wormholes usually send things through time and space, right?
So if an observer threw a baseball through a wormhole, the baseball's position in space-time would change.
However, can that action affect the observer's location in space and time, or would it create some sort of paradox?
 
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You throw a baseball in one direction, it will follow one path through space-time; throw it in another direction and it will follow another path; don't throw it at all and it will follow yet a third path. Drop the ball into a hole in the ground and it will end up in a different place than if you drop it to the ground; drop the ball into a wormhole and it will also end up in a different place than if you drop it to the ground. There's no paradox here and the observer is unaffected by the path the baseball follows after it leaves his hand.
 

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