2007-07-08 08:28:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Wormholes are permitted to exist by the General Theory of Relativity, but none have ever been observed. There is some small justification to infer micro-wormholes' existence from the rapid acceleration of the universal expansion, but I wouldn't put my money on this.
2007-07-08 09:11:21 · answer #1 · answered by ZikZak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a fact that there are real theories predicting wormholes. The wormholes themselves are not yet fact, but probably will be within a few decades.
Wormholes that you can take a spaceship through and emerge at some other point in the Universe, though, are entirely fiction. If wormholes exist, they are tiny and delicate. The gravitational waves caused by a chunk of matter trying to traverse them would destroy them.
You might (might, as in "probably can't, but it's conceivable") be able to send a very weak signal though a wormhole without destroying it. But you'd never know where it was going.
2007-07-08 15:44:05 · answer #2 · answered by Waynez 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is a theory. According to one of Einstein's laws there has to be some kind of thing like this. One of the theories of getting sucked into a blackhole is going through a wormhole.
2007-07-08 17:26:59 · answer #3 · answered by Gadgetyman23 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe its still a theory. Caught a small bit of a tv show last week about wormholes, but I was surfing, so...
2007-07-08 15:34:04 · answer #4 · answered by tombollocks 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's fiction today, but hell flying was fiction 100 years ago.
2007-07-08 15:52:53 · answer #5 · answered by Kaynos 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fiction! A worm hole would have to usurp space which can't be done.
2007-07-09 09:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the time we have worms, we will have wormholes.
2007-07-08 15:36:40 · answer #7 · answered by Crazy Diamond 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No one knows, While some still belive that it connects black holes to quasars, some think this is way out of the park... I am undecided really, it may be possible then again, it may not...
2007-07-08 15:52:09 · answer #8 · answered by Lexington 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Saw one myself ...in an apple.
The half of the worm in the apple appeared to live,
The other half, I can't vouch for.
2007-07-08 18:48:49 · answer #9 · answered by Irv S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is fiction, very fanciful fiction that one would like to believe.
2007-07-08 15:43:25 · answer #10 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋