Wormholes- are they plausible in terms of travel?

Question

I saw a documentry about wormholes in terms of altering space &time to travel the universe instantaneously, and ultimately back in time if desired. Apparently to create a wormhole you would need to harness the energy released by an exploding supernova and somehow concentrate it onto a specific area in space in the hope of creating a hole in space time!!??!
- is this theory accredited or not?

Any ideas?+ other info would be great...

Answer 1

If you think of space as a mattress,
planets, stars, and things with mass as golf balls, oranges and bowling balls.

you then place these objects on the mattress you'll get dimples on the surface of the mattress. This is how i think of gravity (imagine you spilled a tub of malteasers on the bed, they would roll down into the dimples created by the object on the mattress)

Now imagine that you have something so heavy that the mattress could not support the weight of this object, a hole would be created in the mattress. (this is where your star going supernova comes in... in essence it becomes a black hole).

Now imagine something so massive that it bends the mattress in half then busts a hole straight through not just one side but right through both sides... you have a wormhole, capable of allowing you to travel from 1 point in space to another faster than the speed of light!

For time travel your talking about looping strings of time, i tried to understand that but it was so far beyond my comprehension, that and the M theory - where there are whole universes that pass through each other... were probably occupying several universes at the moment but cant see them because their on a different phase frequency of space and time?!?

Answer 2

Well wormholes are rare you will need a massive overgrown star to explode supernova, a star is three dimensional a black hole is formed in the centre of a supernova because the top and bottom collapse in to the core of the star there is gravity all over the surface of the sun before the supernova happens but when everything collapses in to the centre gravity is going to stop this means there is no gravity= black hole. but with an abnormally larger star in supernover the collision will be so big that the laws of physics change because there is too much energy for a small black hole to form in comparison to a worm hole where there is only two dimensions and it stays still, it is not visible,a black hole and a worm hole are a bit similiar. Now if you go in to a worm hole you will instantly come out in a different place in space that would take thousands of light years to get to! if you had not gone through that wormhole. Well get a piece of paper and make a red mark on one end and a blue mark on the other end and push both sides of the paper in to each other till both the red and the blue are touching that's how a wormhole works it can get you from one point right to the other. A wormhole is basically a portal between space and time, we won't really be able to go throgh a worm hole because we don't know exactly were one is in space and it is too far away for a rocket to go, if we did though which is unlikely but still possible with our technology in the future we will need millions and millions of tons of fuel on a rocket or whatever we will have to get to one which will have a tremendously huge mass of fuel! AND also i forgot to add that big supernova needs to be on it's own away from anything else around it for a full and proper explosion to occur, worm holes are strange things nobody really knows how being inside one is like, there could be all sorts of mysterious and physics in the universe and beyond it.

Answer 3

Wormholes are still much speculation. We don't even know if they are at all possible.
Therefore, any property they may or may not have is even more speculative.
As for the energy needed, the theory says that you'd need at least the energy of a large supernova, all this is says is that you cannot have one without at least harnessing that much energy. But that does not mean this will be enough in all cases.

Answer 4

Yes it is possible in terms of mathematics and in terms of travel but the problem is getting enough power to create it in the first place you need half a galaxy to create one not a supernova the mathematics has been worked out for it

and time travel is possible to but again it has never been done or you can't go back further than when the time machine was built or there would be one made now

thanks for asking such a sensible question

Answer 5

Hold on because here come the science bit,
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Yes it is possible just not plausable at this present time.
There are lots of theorys many too dificult to explain just in words but first you should think of what they are proposing.


If you imagin space as a stretch flat rubber sheet and planets/stars as ballbearings pushing down on it (the weight of the balls reletive to each other. i.e. pluto small ball sun large)

Then what they are talking about is causing enough concetrated energy to warp this rubber sheet (space) enought to break through the sheet and attach to another sheet causing a tunnel.

controling this much energy seems unlikly, some leading scientics belive there may be some wormholes there alredy we just have to find them.


So in theory yes possible but with our technology as it is now not plasable.
Hope that helped and not confused thing further :)

Answer 6

It is theoretically possible for rudimentary forms of matter to be displaced, but for complex structures like human beings I doubt that it will ever happen.

I don't think that time travel as depicted in movies and literature is possible. And I don't mean that in terms of the technological possibilities. I don't think time exists, rather, that it is a concept of the human mind.

I liken the idea of time travel to a video tape. If you remove a scene from one part of the film and splice it elsewhere, then you are altering the storyline. How is that possible in the universe? How is one plucked from a series of events and inserted where they did not exist - especially in a universe that has no clock?

The Big Bang on our scale happened around 15 billion years ago (for argument's sake). But that's on our scale, or our perception. But on a universal scale, it's duration is probably within a microsecond.

Answer 7

this is theoretically possible, but to do this without creating a black hole is difficult. also, we've been waiting about 150 years since we saw the last superova from earth, and then you'd need to know when one was happening and get to it...for which you might need a wormhole lol? Don't believe everything you see on tv lol

Answer 8

It's all theoretical at the moment, no one can actually make one. Try Kip Thorne's book "Einstein's Outrageous Legacy" - it's a few years old now but it covers the basic theory behind it and is an accessible read.

Answer 9

as a results of fact a wormhole could be defined by potential of technological know-how. God can no longer. no longer something could ease the minds of atheists approximately God different than being waiting to define Him in medical words and verify precisely how He ticks. Edit: yet scientists can clarify how wormholes artwork, and that they do no longer contradict our modern expertise of technological know-how. God, by potential of definition, contradicts our expertise of technological know-how, as a results of fact he's bigger than the regulations of physics and isn't any longer sure by potential of them. purely like human beings in the time of Galileo could no longer settle for that the earth orbited the solar as a results of fact it contradicted their expertise of technological know-how, atheists at present won't be able to settle for God as a results of fact He contradicts their expertise of technological know-how.

Answer 10

Nope, we can't make them and they just fall out of some of the ewquations. They may not even exist.