Wormholes?
I just wish there were a wormhole so that I could go to Mars... Oops! I didn't mean the planet, Mars but Mars, the coffee shop. Who wants to go that planet anyway!
Don't know what wormholes are?
Don't know what wormholes are?
A wormhole is a concept that represents a non-trivial solution of the Einstein field equations using the Kasner metric: a non-trivial resolution of the Ehrenfest paradox structure linking separate points in spacetime.Did you understand? Probably not. Curse you Wikipedia for this explanation. Oh, I forgot about Simple Wikipedia...
A wormhole is a theoretical connection between a black hole and a white hole creating a shortcut through time and space.
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It is not known if wormholes exist in nature. Scientists believe that if wormholes existed they could not be made following any traditional scientific methods. In order to hold a wormhole open, a form of theoretical exotic matter would be needed. Otherwise the wormhole would simply disappear very quickly after its creation. If plotted on a 2-dimensional plane, the wormhole bends the plane, like folding a paper, so that the two ends would be touching (as seen in the picture). The term wormhole was first used by John Wheeler, a theoretical physicist. It is also known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge. A wormhole is much like a tunnel with two ends each in separate points in space time. Researchers have no observational evidence for wormholes.Now that's way better!
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