A team of scientists has developed a model that allows the existence of traversable wormholes that conform to the laws of physics without the need for theoretical matter 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 couple theorized the existence of an object called an Einstein-Rosen bridge, a black hole from which nothing can escape, linked to a white hole that nothing can enter and spit out the material that has been sucked into the black hole.
Their ideas about connecting particles and anti-particles through some kind of space-time period never really came true, but later inspired them to work on the concept of wormholes.
The brightest minds in theoretical physics thought that while wormholes might work as solutions to Einstein’s mind-boggling 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 proposes the possibility of traveling through the wormhole without the need for, as yet theoretical, negative mass. This sounds fantastic. Humanity can track one down now and traverse the stars faster than our wildest dreams, right? Not so fast.
While the proposed wormholes are traversable, the object passing through them would have to be in a quantum state for the physics to work and to prevent the wormhole from collapsing. So while microscopic amounts of atoms could get through, until humanity comes up with a shrinkage radius, we won’t be going anywhere in a wormhole anytime soon.
Another “impossible” piece of science fiction to make a reality before we can traverse the galaxy in an instant, it seems.
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