Wow! Is this going to happen every time we hit that button?
Posted on 03/09/2021 8:20:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
Two separate groups of researchers have suggested new theories as to how to make wormholes safe enough to be traversable by humans. Both papers were published today in the journal Physical Review Letters.
If wormholes were to exist, any conventional matter would end up jamming the connection up as something travels from one side to the other. That’s why some theorists suggest using exotic matter to keep the wormhole open.
But we may not even need exotic matter, as Jose Blázquez-Salcedo from the Complutense University of Madrid and his colleagues suggest. In their framework, matter is made up of fermions, an elementary particle that is treated by many as the building block of matter.
By changing the fermions’ mass and charge, Blázquez-Salcedo argues that traversable wormholes could indeed exist — but only if the ratio of the total charge to the total mass within the wormhole is larger than a theoretical limit originally set by black holes.
Juan Maldacena from the Institute for Advanced Study, New Jersey, and Alexey Milekhin from Princeton University may have a solution for a much larger traversable wormhole.
Their five-dimensional wormhole, as detailed in a separate paper, could theoretically allow a person to travel across an entire galaxy in less than a second, experiencing a force of less than 20 g.
The only trouble is that only the person traversing the wormhole would perceive a second going by. To any outsider, the journey would appear to take thousands of years.
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
It will eventually boil down to a height requirement and only one piece of carry-on luggage.
Well... DUH!
Just the other day Stacey Abrams and Joe Biden said exactly the same thing at a news conference...
“...Just the other day Stacey Abrams and Joe Biden said exactly the same thing at a news conference...”
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Yep, I distinctly heard Joe refer to it. He very specifically said “You know... that thing”.
Wow! Is this going to happen every time we hit that button?
I was told by the Air Force during a high school recruiting effort, I could not be a fighter pilot because I was over 6’.
After some careful calculations, the height limit for a wormhole traverse is .2 angstroms and the only acceptable luggage would be tapioca.
Finally!
I just want one in my Tennessee bathroom going to a beach in Florida.
I want to be able to step out on the beach anytime I want. And then come back to TN directly to the shower to wash off the sand.
Probably. (Now where’s my towel?)
Oh and I’ll put a curtain up in my bathroom if people can see through the wormhole.
Wouldn’t want any unintentional private shows going on.
If Bidet were the pilot there would be zero chance of ending up in the correct galaxy—and in space no-one can hear you scream!
“Let’s imagine there are wormholes.”
“Okay.”
“Let’s imagine there’s a way for humans to safely travel through them.”
“Okay.”
“Let’s get paid by the taxpayers for imagining all this.”
“What?”
Yeah, I really don’t mind paying for imagination... but still.
are you familiar with Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey?
No, but I looked it up, thanks:
“The Institute’s mission and culture have produced an exceptional record of achievement. Among its present and past Faculty and Members are 35 Nobel Laureates, 42 of the 60 Fields Medalists, and 19 of the 22 Abel Prize Laureates, as well as many MacArthur Fellows and Wolf Prize winners. Past Faculty have included Albert Einstein, one of its first Professors who remained at the Institute until his death in 1955, and distinguished scientists and scholars such as Kurt Gödel, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Erwin Panofsky, Hetty Goldman, Homer A. Thompson, John von Neumann, George Kennan, Hermann Weyl, and Clifford Geertz.”
Impressive!
My problem with government funded research is only that the government can be SO wrong.
Somebody has been binge watching Star Trek “Deep Space Nine”.
Will they at least serve drinks and snacks?
Look! Alice went down a rabbit hole and look at the trouble she got into.
The same for the black hole that Creighton went into in “Farscape”.
I’m sticking here on earth
“The only trouble is that only the person traversing the wormhole would perceive a second going by. To any outsider, the journey would appear to take thousands of years”.
Minor ‘only trouble’. You come back and everyone you know is gone. Sounds like a Washington Irving plot.
“Angstrom”
I haven’t heard that word since P-Chem.
experiencing a force of less than 20 g.
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Might be a big show stopper
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