what are they,and how are they known to be detected as them?
2007-09-13 15:47:28 · 19 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Wormholes are a byproduct of mathematical musings of the structure of space. Sadly most of the out there maths we have don't really hold up anyway.
Lots of the talk about wormholes rely on string based theories which at this point are far from proven (in fact there are still several flavours of the same theory which means either some or most likely all are wrong).
We need molecular computing before we will be able to work out too much more about such things, if they truely exist.
2007-09-13 18:39:39 · answer #1 · answered by delprofundo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kyle H has got his hypotheses confused with his theories. Wormholes are hypothetical. Mathematics might show that they should exist. That is not really evidence. Therefore they are hypothetical. If there is experimental or observational evidence that tends to support the idea, then wormholes might just make it into theory.
One or two people have disappeared suddenly without trace, the best known case is possibly that of Benjamin Bathurst who vanished in a small European town in 1809. But it seems likely that he was murdered. Maybe he fell into a wormhole though, leaving his coat and trousers behind.
2007-09-13 23:46:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anybody who says wormholes are a theory is wrong because a theory is a hypothesis that has been tested several times and has been proven to be true. Now tell me how Einstein managed to make conclusions about a wormhole when he had no idea if it even existed or has never seen one. No one has tested the hypothesis experimentally and therefore it cannot be a theory. "Contact" with Jodie Foster is a pure science fiction movie (not saying its not a good one though). If nobody knows if a wormhole exists, then why need to know what it is?
A simple answer would be:
Quoting
"A worm hole would be a kind of short cut between two points in space, but not a means to travel faster than light..." Hypothesized by Einstein
2007-09-13 16:15:31 · answer #3 · answered by Kyle 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
do no longer hassle, no person else has seen a wormhole the two. jointly as they are allowed by ability of the Einstein field Equations, artwork executed some years in the past on the math, and making use of computer simulations confirmed that IF a wormhole exists, it would close as quickly as a particle entered it. This surprisingly much actual precludes using wormholes as a sort of transport, except we are in a position to locate a fashion of becoming our own and preserving them open. you're, therefor, probable caught right here on earth with something human beings in the meanwhile a minimum of.
2016-11-10 09:39:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That two points were adjacent in some kind of wrinkled 3-space would imply that for a 'wormhole' to exist there would have to be a 'tearing' and then sewing together of this space. This would lead to various infinities unacceptable to physics and maths. The only way to achieve it would be if there were 'multi-spaces' wherein the topology of each successive n-space contained different parity 'holes' and some how a transform could be effected between these where our laws of physics were conserved. ie where a tear in 3-space corresponded to a smooth conformal transition in 4,5,6 or n-space.
2007-09-13 16:45:52 · answer #5 · answered by alienfiend1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in science fiction. None have been observed in nature and none have been created in laboratory conditions. Once it was found that black hole's are not some mysterious portal to another dimension, college kids came up with wormholes to replace the fun. The problem with the math is that wormholes are destroyed as soon as they are formed. Not much time travel fun.
2007-09-13 15:56:42 · answer #6 · answered by Troasa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one has ever gone through a wormhole, it has not been proven that there is a wormhole. Maybe wormholes exist we will probably find out one day.
2007-09-15 07:31:55 · answer #7 · answered by lil1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Nobody has gone through a wormhole. In fact, nobody has even observed what mich even -be- a wormhole. Look around on the web for 'wormholes' and you'll find a bunch of descriptions of what they are (in theory).
Doug
2007-09-13 15:51:41 · answer #8 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one has passed through a worm hole yet...except Jodie Foster in the movie 'Contact.' No such thing as a worm hole has ever been found, but certain of Einstein's equations show that they are possible.
A worm hole would be a kind of short cut between two points in space, but not a means to travel faster than light. You can get an idea of what a worm hole could do by putting two dots on a piece of paper 3 or 4 inches apart. Now just fold the paper in such a way that the two dots are directly opposite and you'll see that the distance between them is now far less than when the paper was flat.
2007-09-13 15:52:18 · answer #9 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Of course Wormholes Exist..
Don't listen to anyone..
My garden is full of them.
2007-09-17 07:32:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋