Okay, travelling faster than the speed of light is enticing, afterall, we get to disprove Einstein (that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light). Since wormholes are (might be) the only way to travel faster than the speed of light bw two points, do you think its possible to create a wormhole?
If it is, how much energy do you think it would take?
Do you think we could accumulate enough energy to bend the fabric of time and space, talkless of ripping it?
2006-12-12 07:35:46 · 4 answers · asked by Shalltell 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
interesting question
Kip Thorne was first calculating the possibility to create a worm hole. Energy as large as contained in a black hole would have been necessary as far as i remember
and the general outcome was, that it was possible to create one, but it would have been impossible to hold it open large enough and long enough to travel through.
if WE could accumulate enough energy ? .. no
maybe if you reduce scale we can possibly create minitiure black holes being existant for a fraction of a second before collapsing, but therefor we already need enormous energies.... so ...no
2006-12-12 08:09:52 · answer #1 · answered by blondnirvana 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think Wormholes are possible.
The Energy requirements would be dependant upon the surrounding space.
The less matter/energy in the region of the path, the less energy it will take... I would even predict the energy requirements would be nearly equal to the total energy value of the matter and energy that would have to be cleared out of the path of the Wormhole...
Those numbers are quite large by today's estimates, but by the time we're ready to start traveling inter-stellarly, we should be able to collect energy on a super conductor until we achieve enough to discharge the current for a momentary Electro-Magnetic Worm-hole...
2006-12-12 08:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by Jorrath Zek 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if to black holes were to link(such an event would only happen when galaxies were colliding)a traveler could possobly go faster than the speed of light put such travel would be impossoble because it would only last for 1 eighth of a second.as fast as you can blink.
2006-12-12 09:48:31 · answer #3 · answered by hkyboy96 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is possible, The Navy did it in 1945, by accident though, It was called the Philadelphia Experiment. They tried to cloak a ship and it failed. But it opened a "rip" in time and space and it actually burnt some of the men on board into the deck and hull of the ship. alot of energy at that. Heard from a friend that the Navy is thinking about doing it again, but this time not in a harbor port. Mid ocean so no civilian is witness to it this time.
2006-12-12 07:50:26 · answer #4 · answered by jtracer48 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋