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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My dryer has a wormhole that sucks up all my left socks.
Cool!
What could possibly go wrong?
I dunno ..... amphibians becoming literate?
Interesting- this could potentially eliminate the time lag involved in communications with space probes.
How weird....just watched a time-travel movie from 2006 this evening call Deja Vu that used the Einstein/Rosen bridge theory. Synchronicity much ?
Is No Mans Sky the new universe
My boys say it’s like infinite But man created
I ain't buying it.
WTF is an “extra special dimension”?
I declare shenanigans.
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”.
I believe that Rod Serling had the inside dope on that.
Could be useful in fusion magnetic confinement....
The robins have been eating those magnetic worms and now they’re stuck to the radio towers.
The horror. The horror.
I can understand that dryer type of wormhole.......but not the other kind.
That’s not a wormhole. That’s a gnome business plan.
Step 1, Steal socks and underwear.
Step 2, Something something something.
Step 3, Make money!
Cheers!
This like when popular news articles refer to a Pepper ‘s ghost, a video image reflected in a pane of glass, as a ‘hologram’. There is advanced technology invoked that is actually not there.
Thanks Squawk 8888. If your last name were Rosenbridge, it would be difficult to resist naming the kid Einstein.
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