What would be needed to make a wormhole.?

Question

How much power and what would you need to make a wormhole.
So you can travel to star systems in half the time it normaly takes.
Is there anyother force besides Gravity that can make worm holes.

Answer 1

First, it is interesting enough to know how the "wormhole" got it's name. It refers to worms eating through pages of old maps at medieval monasteries in Europe, thus creating a tunnel through the book connecting different locations shown on the maps. That said, wormholes are non-vacuum solutions to the Field Equations of matter and energy. They do not have event horizons and require the presence of exotic matter streams through the wormhole to yield a stable solution. The lack of event horizons allows travel. Their presence would have trapped matter and ergo make them an endless journey through a black hole. The issue with wormholes is the availabity of "exotic" matter not currently detected. By exotic matter we refer to non-baryonic and nowadays non-dark matter, even though the latter is by it's nature exotic. However, it is well understood and could be detected within a few years. In order for the exotic matter itself to stabilize the tremendous tidal forces within a wormhole it must have an important property, that is negative energy. Particles with negative energy are seen in some quantum mechanical phenomena, where even time travel is also claimed to be measured but nothing is seen or expected to be measured at interstellar scales envisioned by science fiction. For such type wormholes, exotic particles with negative energy like the graviton have been studied that aim in stabilizing the throat of the wormhole bridge (also called Einstein-Rosen), where the stress-energy tension is greatest. To your specific question, the energy required to open and sustain a wormhole, depends - by all means a very simplistic view - to the radius of the throat. To sustain a throat radius of 1 km one will need about 10^46 ergs of energy for wormhole travel with conditions that allow humans through (e.g. normal gravity). To appreciate this amount of energy, that value is equal to the energy dumped by a quasar in 1 second. A mathematically demanding review of wormhole travel can be found in the reference attached.

Answer 2

You don't need anything to make a wormholes because it can't be done...at least not within the bounds of the physical laws of the universe.

Turn off the television and put away the science fiction books. It amazes me the incredible things which so many people think are actually possible. Yeah, and it's possible I could turn an elephant into a petunia. Sheesh.

Answer 3

If you actually understand wormholes, then you understand how the Schwarzchild solution to the Einstein field equation depends upon gravity in deriving the Lorentizian (traversable) wormhole.

Separating gravity from the idea of a wormhole is like spearating gravity from the idea of mass.

Answer 4

First of all, they are just conjectured and secondly I recall hearing a reliable physics person say it would the the equivalent amount of energy as a supernova to create one if (it can happen) big enough to get a few atoms through.

Answer 5

A wormshovel

Answer 6

Brain Power, a lot of it