Worm hole?

Question

If a worm hole can suck the you in and stratch you out and crush you, why do people think that you can go through a worm hole and make it from point a to point b in half the time? I just don't get it

Answer 1

Woof... this one might have better luck in a science catagory.

But, let's see what we can find, shall we?

Another name for what you're asking about is known as an Einstein-Rosen Bridge. The general idea being that it might be possible to safely traverse certain types of wormholes. These types might allow various forms of travel that do not subject a craft to the gravitational tidal forces refered to in your question.

Indeed, some of the new theories may permit wormhole formation without the necessity risking annihilation from massive (10+ solar masses) blackholes.

The theories and maths involved can be—to put it mildly—rather complicated. Fortunately, one needn't be able to solve the equations to understand the concepts.

In summary, the trick to such travel using gravitaionally-created wormholes is the formation of a "navigable apature." These would form on the outmost edge of the rotating blackhole. From sheer speed of rotation, a blackhole might resemble—if one could see such a thing—a phonograph record with an apple in the middle of it.

Or for you new kids out there...a CD with a golfball in the middle. :-)

Way out on that edge, the matter density may be low enough to permit a craft to make use of a generated wormhole without being subjected to the tridal forces (radiation and heat another matters).

If one manages to enter safely, the wormhole may make an effective "shortcut." An example used in some of the reference material is worth noting.

You would still be travelling at sublight speeds (though still bloody fast, since you'll have to match the rotation of the blackhole), but your trip will take less time as you effectively travel a shorter distance.

"As an analogy, running around to the opposite side of a mountain at maximum speed may take longer than walking through a tunnel crossing it. You can walk slowly while reaching your destination more quickly because the length of your path is shorter. "

Hopefully, the above will help shed a little light on this one, without giving people headaches. There are links to some excellent books on the subject contained in the Reference.Com article listed below, for those who'd like to learn more—especially about the latest theories.

Answer 2

Way back in the 80s, I learned that travel through a worm hole (admittedly theoretical) *would* be possible *without* gravity problems *if* the black hole creating the worm hole were donut-shaped (toroidal) and rotating. All a traveler would have to do is travel along the axis where gravity would be 0.

Of course, when's the last time anyone saw a massive solid object in space shaped like a donut. :)

Maybe some of you physics gurus know if this is still theoretically true? After all, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that *someday* the human race could construct such a black hole.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 3

Worm holes are all through the atmosphere. They have to do with the magnetics in the earth. They are so minute you cannot see them. They are especially prevelant over the bermuda triangle area. The theory is that sometimes the earths magnetism is upset and one of the worm holes expands for a split second and consequently something could be in just the right spot at the right time and be zapped in. It is believed that the ships and planes and such are taken to a different dimension.

Answer 4

The only thing that will crush you to death is a Single Black Hole to the point of singularity. A wormhole is a WHOLE different story (get it? lol). A wormhole is 2 black holes extended from one universe (not limited to) to another each a couple of lightyears away. Traveling through a wormhole is only tremendously sucking you to the other side of the wormhole an a WHOLE different place in time no damage is done only incredible suction.

Answer 5

Wormholes don't necessarily exist. They are a theoretical construct. Just speculation by frustrated physicists who like to *appear* as if they are on the cutting edge of science. In my opinion, they are as imaginary as the luminiferous ether or parallel Universes.

But if they did exist, they would be associated with black holes or extreme curvature of the spacetime continuum. People talk about using them for travel to other dimensions or white holes on the other side of the Universe, (probably more undisciplined speculation.) But you are correct in pointing out that you would not be able to survive the trip. You might as well talk about disintegrating your body and projecting it along a telephone line. Or diving into your toilet in the hopes of finding a quick route to China. Those examples are no more absurd than the notion of traveling close enough to a black hole to experience significant relativistic effects.

So far, wormholes are nothing more than science fiction. Brandon, I would challenge you to show one piece of evidence corroborating the existence of wormholes or the possibility of time travel. Gravitational red shift doesn't cut it. Remember, this is a science forum and extraordinary claims need to be backed up. (Hang in there, kid. You've been cuffed by an old salt, but you grow stronger by it. You might occupy the Newton chair one day.)

Edit: kilroymaster, as I said before, most people can't get enough of that stuff. UFO fans need to peddle this "worldwide panic" myth in order to justify a huge government cover-up. And that is necessary to explain why there is so little actual evidence. Anyway, the question didn't have to do with UFOs.

Answer 6

What you're referring to is a Black Hole, not a Wormhole.

Answer 7

Because they think in the future, people will have more high-tech, stronger materials for space crafts and space suits, so we might be able to. Personally, I don't think so.

Answer 8

Its because we are not being told all that our and other governments know.... So whats left is confusion......................... And I know that we are still getting signals from space craft that we have launched into space...... Another thing are we really ready to know................................................................................................ I believe that only less than 1% of 1% of the worlds populations would not panic if a vistors from the depth of outer space landed in their back yard................................

Answer 9

black and wormholes can do that and let you travel through time