Quantum wormholes could (actually) carry people to other stars and even galaxies!

New Scientist ^ | 18:10 23 May 02 | Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition

[vannrox]

WOW!

[martin_fierro]

This story reads like a "flying cars" article out of "Popular (Quantum) Mechanics." <|:)~

[LurkedLongEnough]

Just tell us, is there a hole big enough for Hillary and Rosie, plus Senator Byrd?

[SauronOfMordor]

It would be a delicate operation, however. Add too much negative energy, the scientists discovered, and the wormhole will briefly explode into a new universe that expands at the speed of light, much as astrophysicists say ours did immediately after the big bang.

Why do I get the feeling that this might be a bad thing?

[Jzen]

Quantum wormholes

I've read this article before and been looking for these quantum wormholes. I believe I have actually found them. I was at the park the other day and there was this little green building that looked like a spaceship, I got in and by golly there it was the Quantum wormhole. Needless to say, I jumped right in.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes.

[dd5339]

Ping!

[sharktrager]

This is bogus. I've got a wormhole in my closet and it just takes me to the Wendy's down the street.

Distant galaxies indeed!

[Jzen]

Once I made it through the wormhole I was scared. Because just then I looked up and saw someone plugging it up.

[Vermont Lt]

OK, so it takes this S-Load of equipment to get the door open. Who is going to volunteer to get through...without the equipment to bring themselves back. I guess we could just tie a rope around them like they did in Poltergiest--and Yank really, really hard when they are ready to come back.

I keep thinking of the Simpsons where Homer fell into the black hole.

[mhking]

[Bikers4Bush]

I say go for it, right after the geniuses can assure me that this isn't how our own universe was created however many billions of years ago.

"Everything is looking good Zotarc, go ahead and add the ghost radiation......oh sheeeete....". boom

[mc5cents]

HOLY SPACE TRAVEL BATMAN!!

Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

[mc5cents]

"Everything is looking good Zotarc, go ahead and add the ghost radiation......oh sheeeete....". boom

LOL Shaboom shaboom eyadatadatada...

[Aracelis]

Space-travel ping!

[Wright is right!]

They're looking for wormholes in all the wrong places. All wormholes are connected directly to home CLOTHES DRYERS. And they operate on SOCKS.

Michael

[CubicleGuy]

Why do I get the feeling that this might be a bad thing?

I'm sure we'll get it right on the fifth or sixth try...

[Aracelis]

"Everything is looking good Zotarc, go ahead and add the ghost radiation......oh sheeeete....". boom

ROFL! I can see this happening...let's give Willy and Hill the honor of being the first to travel through the wormhole.

[nina0113]

Who is going to volunteer to get through...without the equipment to bring themselves back.

You don't know any real space nuts, do you. There are thousands of people who would line up for the chance, even if they KNEW FOR SURE it was a one-way trip. If I were single I'd be one of them.

[Spacetrucker]

Awwww, shucks. 'tain't nuthin'. They wuz doin this in that 80's show, Quantum Leap. :o)