I really don't want to talk about how to make a wormhole.
My question is as this. How could one survive passing through a wormhole without being outright destroyed by the colossal energies, radiation, or the tidal forces in the shearing of space time?
How could we shield ourselves from such an event and survive to pass through it?
(not the hollywood type wormhole but the kind in REAL physics theory)
2007-05-04 00:15:51 · 4 answers · asked by noneya b 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It is the gravity that would pull you apart. There is nothing to shield you from such gravity. Might be someday there will be if we develop an anti gravity sheild.
"However, a known property of wormholes is that they are highly unstable and would probably collapse instantly if even the tiniest amount of matter, such as a single photon, attempted to pass through them. So your movement through them would cause the hole to collapse."
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2007-05-04 03:15:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two words: You couldn't.
There has been a lot of work done on 'condensed matter' in the last 20 years or so, and what it points out is that, at the singularity, there is nothing but a 'quantum foam' that remains of everything that crosses the event horizon.
About the only way to survive would be to invoke some sort of Sci-Fi device such as a 'gravity shield' or 'negative gravity generator'. Maybe, at some point in the far-distant future, such devices will exist. It only took a bit over 60 years between the time we first figured out how to get heavier than air machines off of the ground until we landed on the moon. But I doubt it will happen in our lifetimes.
Doug
2007-05-04 07:30:07 · answer #2 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe is a 3 dimensional spherical entity
A worm hole would require a flat sheet that could fold back on itself.
A worm hole would have to be less than the diameter of an atom,almost a singularity,space would be constricted almost out of existence.
Going through it would cause some physical discomfort and you might even leak back a bit.
All in all I would say they are strictly sci-fi entities,and are interesting to speculate about.
2007-05-04 10:09:03 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole
We may think it like a short-cut.
Have nice day.
2007-05-04 07:32:37 · answer #4 · answered by hanibal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋