Nah! Worm Hole!
Posted on 08/22/2015 12:14:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Device acts like a wormhole, as if the magnetic field was transferred through an “extra special dimension”
Ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel, physicists have crafted a wormhole that tunnels a magnetic field through space.
"This device can transmit the magnetic field from one point in space to another point, through a path that is magnetically invisible," said study co-author Jordi Prat-Camps, a doctoral candidate in physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. "From a magnetic point of view, this device acts like a wormhole, as if the magnetic field was transferred through an extra special dimension."
The idea of a wormhole comes from Albert Einstein's theories. In 1935, Einstein and colleague Nathan Rosen realized that the general theory of relativity allowed for the existence of bridges that could link two different points in space-time. Theoretically these Einstein-Rosen bridges, or wormholes, could allow something to tunnel instantly between great distances (though the tunnels in this theory are extremely tiny, so ordinarily wouldn't fit a space traveler). So far, no one has found evidence that space-time wormholes actually exist....
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They all end up in a basement room at fermilab but none of them are matches.
cool.
“It’s cool but it’s sleight of hand.”
That’s what I got from it also.
My understanding of a Wormhole is that it folds space-time bringing two distant (nanometers or/to lightyears) points together, with the ability to move from point a to point b (space) in a fraction of the time the transport would normally take.
Their idea of this technology as a cloak was intriguing, though.
Impossible!
This article was written as if a “wormhole” (as most of us understand the term) was created with magnets. But reading the article that’s not what happened at all. They simply invented a device that (as far as I can tell) separates and shunts a magnetic field away from it’s source and hides the process so it APPEARS magically to be at a distance from its source. It’s cool but it’s sleight of hand. Not magic. Not “extra special dimensions”.
Nah! Worm Hole!
I'm sure the original read "extra spatial dimension."
But the general public thinks the Ferengi are going to come out or something.
American science has been so dumbed down.
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