Wormholes

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  1. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    I feel pretty smart now because I had already understood a lot of what he had said. But that's just because I watch a lot of documentaries.
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  3. Daddy92 Well-Known Member

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    mm wormholes you say ? like in that movie "Donnie Darko" yea that was the first time i heard of wormholes i dont think humanity will be able to use them even in 200 years.
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    Why? I mean if in 200 years we are able to send robots to foreign moons, why shouldn't we be able to at least begin testing the use of wormholes by then?
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    Stephen Hawking conjectured that while wormholes might be created, they cannot be used for time travel; even with exotic matter stabilizing the wormhole against its own instabilities, he argued, inserting a particle into it will destabilize it quickly enough to prevent its use. This is known as the Chronology Protection Conjecture.
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    A wormhole is created when the Space-Time Continuim is compressed, to bring two points on it closer together. So essentially you would need a very large gravitational force to compress it to a necessary amount in order to create one, and as far as I know I do not think that even black holes are capable of this. Still believe that it is even remotely plausible inside two hundred years, considering that the most powerful, natural, gravitational force in the universe can't create one?

    To completely understand the concept of wormholes you need to have a sufficient knowledge of gravity. Wikipedia is your friend. Also, look up Gravitational Waves. They are fascinating, although merely theoretical at the current moment in time. It is believed, I think, that they are capable of fluctuating throughout Space-Time. Which, ofcourse, might mean that they can be somehow harnessed for time travel, or teleportation at the least.

    My knowledge is shaky at best, by the way.
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    but a wormhole is instable how could you control it? i still think that we re not going to use wormholes at least not in only 200 years.
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    More than 200 years.

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