A team of scientists has developed a model that can exist continuous wormholes that comply with the laws of physics without the theoretical need to keep them open. But there is a catch.
The concept of wormholes dates back to the earliest days of Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen’s work on general relativity. The pair has the existence of an object called an Einstein-Rosen bridge, a black hole from which nothing can escape, connected to a white hole, into which nothing can enter, which is the material contained in the black hole sucked, spit out.
Their ideas about particles and antiparticles connected via a kind of space-time pipe never really worked out, but later inspired work in the concept of wormholes.
The best minds in theoretical physics thought that while wormholes might work as solutions to Einstein’s astonishing equations, they would collapse too quickly for anyone to even try to travel through them.
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However, new research by a team led by theoretical physicist Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo suggests the possibility of traveling through the wormhole without the still theoretical negative mass. That sounds fantastic. Mankind can now locate one and traverse the stars faster than our wildest dreams, right? Not so fast.
Although the proposed wormholes are traversable, the object passing through them must be in a quantum state so that the physics can work out and prevent the wormhole from collapsing. Although microscopic amounts of atoms could pass through it, we will soon go nowhere in a wormhole until humanity devises a shrinking ray.
Just another ‘impossible’ piece of science fiction to make it a reality before we can cross the galaxy in the blink of an eye.
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