What is the Connection between Quantum Foam and Wormholes?

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The discussion centers on the relationship between Quantum Foam and wormholes, with some physicists proposing that wormholes may exist within Quantum Foam, potentially acting as doorways to other existences. The conversation highlights the Planck scale's irrelevance to everyday life, asserting that while wormholes could theoretically allow information transfer between worlds, this does not occur under normal circumstances. The concept of black holes is also explored, with one participant suggesting they function as barriers rather than gateways, and speculating on the connection between black holes and dark matter.

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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 of information be passing back and forth in the natural wormholes in the quantum foam between our worlds and the other side? How do you refute this possibility?
 
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yeah? and? so what?...

If it happens at the Planck scale it doesn't really mean much to everyday life.
 
If it were true that things pass through the wormholes, then we are capable of the same.
But alas! it does not happen with us, at least not under normal circumstances, and so nothing passes from the other way all the same.

Now what happens in a black hole is rather arguable, however. My idea has been that black holes are plugs, like quarks on wine bottles that happen to also be vacuums. Therefore, nothing can pass through them.

But gravity in other universes hurling things into ours- that is something we'll just have to wait on Hawking to figure out. Perhaps that is the origin of dark matter. Of course, I have absolutely no backing for that, just my own ideas lol.
 
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