I Wormholes & Warp Drives: Can Circular Polarizers Create Them?

[sddfds]

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circular polarizers wormholes warp drives

hello i would like to ask if circular polarizers generate wormholes and warp drives. thanks very much.

 

[phinds]

Summary: circular polarizers wormholes warp drives

hello i would like to ask if circular polarizers generate wormholes and warp drives. thanks very much.

HUH? Are you talking about THIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_polarization ?
What would that have to do with wormholes and warp drives?

 

[sddfds]

HUH? Are you talking about THIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_polarization ?
What would that have to do with wormholes and warp drives?

yes, circular polarization. polarization singularities are the superposition of phase singularities which are black holes. thanks.

 

[Ibix]

yes, circular polarization. polarization singularities are the superposition of phase singularities which are black holes. thanks.

I think you need to supply a reference to support this claim.

 

[Nugatory]

yes, circular polarization. polarization singularities are the superposition of phase singularities which are black holes. thanks.

The word “singularity” is used to describe points where an otherwise well-behaved mathematical formula doesn’t apply; the most easily understood example might be Coulomb’s Law $F=q_1q_2/r^2$ which works everywhere except where $r=0$. It is important to understand that the problem here is in the math, not the physics.

A polarization singularly is a point where the standard polarization equation doesn’t work, so has nothing to do with the gravitational singularity where the equations of general relativity don’t work.

 

[sddfds]

these are some references. thanks.

https://www.proquest.com/openview/253c09c3a9b389c0627cd09bd7f48f2b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=426327

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/las...rom-black-holes-to-laser-speckle-and-rainbows

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.261.7029&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic...ortex (also known,is known as singular optics.

 

[Ibix]

As @Nugatory notes, you seem to have confused the singularities in the mathematics of optics with the singularities in the mathematics of spacetime, some of which are inside black holes. They are not the same thing.

 

[sddfds]

ok thanks a lot.

 

[PeterDonis]

i would like to ask if circular polarizers generate wormholes and warp drives

No, they don't. First, as others have posted, the "singularities" that appear in the references you give on polarizers are not the same as the singularities that appear in GR at the centers of black holes. Second, even leaving that aside, wormholes and warp drives are not black holes and do not have spacetime singularities in them.

 

[sddfds]

are optical black holes the same as gravitational black holes. thanks.

 

[ergospherical]

there's a close mathematical analogy between a sub-field of optics called transformation optics and general relativity. if you have a light ray with some sort of bendy trajectory, you can 'undo' the bendiness by doing a coordinate transformation and use the same transformation to calculate the refractive index n(r) you'd need to give the bendy trajectory in the first place.

went to see John Pendry speak about his work on this subject (specifically, metamaterials) a while back - he is considered to be in the running for a nobel prize at some point!

 

[PeterDonis]

are optical black holes the same as gravitational black holes.

No.

 

[PAllen]

these are some references. thanks.

https://www.proquest.com/openview/253c09c3a9b389c0627cd09bd7f48f2b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=426327

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/las...rom-black-holes-to-laser-speckle-and-rainbows

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.261.7029&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_vortex#:~:text=An optical vortex (also known,is known as singular optics.

"Optical black holes are not true singularities. They use optical effects to simulate gravitational black holes, which are singularities. The distinction is important." Right from your sources. So the answer is simply NO.