Wormholes could provide instantaneous passage between distant points in the Universe. <\/p>
We’ve all heard of the concept of wormholes in space: passages through space and time that instantly transport someone or some thing to another dimension.<\/p>
But are wormholes real? Could they actually exist?<\/p>
Put simply, wormholes are shortcuts through space-time.<\/p>
In principle, it\u2019s possible to enter one mouth of a wormhole, travel a short distance through its tunnel, and emerge from the other mouth on the far side of the Galaxy, perhaps through a white hole<\/a>.<\/p> More cosmic conundrums:<\/strong><\/em><\/p> Remarkably, wormholes are possible in theory according to Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity. Unfortunately though, their mouths snap shut as soon as they are created.<\/p> However, American physicists Kip Thorne and Michael Morris discovered in 1988 that the mouths could be propped open with \u2018exotic matter\u2019, and the wormhole made traversable.<\/p> Nobody knows whether this exotic matter, which has a gravitational repulsion rather than attraction, even exists.<\/p> However, if it does, a team led by the American physicist John Cramer discovered in 1995 that, with it, a wormhole might be detectable.<\/p> If the mouth of a wormhole containing exotic matter passes between a distant star and the Earth, its repulsive gravity should cause the star\u2019s light to dim.<\/p> However, immediately before and after the objects are aligned, light is focused.<\/p> Consequently, the passing wormhole\u2019s mouth should cause a star\u2019s light to brighten, fade and brighten again.<\/p> In February 2006, a team led by the physicist Kamal Kanti Nandi in China pointed out that if the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy was a wormhole, it could create two images of a distant star.<\/p> However, these images would be just 17 millionths of an arcsecond apart. This is way beyond our current observing capabilities, but it might be attainable in the future.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Wormholes could provide instantaneous passage between distant points in the Universe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":53414,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2024\/01\/do-wormholes-actually-exist.jpg",1200,744,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2024\/01\/do-wormholes-actually-exist-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2024\/01\/do-wormholes-actually-exist-300x186.jpg",300,186,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2024\/01\/do-wormholes-actually-exist-768x476.jpg",768,476,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2024\/01\/do-wormholes-actually-exist-1024x635.jpg",800,496,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2024\/01\/do-wormholes-actually-exist.jpg",1200,744,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2024\/01\/do-wormholes-actually-exist.jpg",1200,744,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Wormholes could provide instantaneous passage between distant points in the Universe.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/53413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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