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wormhole
wormhole (wûrm´hol´)
noun
A hole made by a burrowing worm.
In 1963, Roy Kerr, a
New
Zealand mathematician, found a solution of
Einstein's
equations for a rotating
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black
hole, which had bizarre properties. The black hole would not collapse
to a point (as previously thought) but into a spinning ring (of neutrons).
The ring would be circulating so rapidly that centrifugal
force
would keep the ring from collapsing under
gravity.
The ring, in turn, acts like the Looking Glass of Alice. Anyone walking
through the ring would not die, but could pass through the ring into an
alternate universe. Since then, hundreds of other "wormhole" solutions
have been found to Einstein's equations. These wormholes connect not only
two regions of space (hence the name) but also two regions of
time
as well. In principle, they can be used as
time
machines. Recently, attempts to add the
quantum
theory to gravity (and hence create a "theory of everything") have given
us some insight into the paradox problem. In the quantum theory, we can
have multiple states of any object. For example, an electron can exist
simultaneously in different orbits (a fact which is responsible for giving
us the laws of chemistry). Similarly, Schrodinger's famous cat can exist
simultaneously in two possible states: dead and alive. So by going back
in time and altering the past, we merely create a parallel universe. So
we are changing someone ELSE's past by saving, say, Abraham Lincoln from
being assassinated at the Ford Theater, but our Lincoln is still dead.
In this way, the river of time forks into two separate rivers.
-
Michio
Kaku, Theoretical Physicist
SAKHAROV CLAIMS WE CAN INSTANTANEOUSLY CROSS SPACE
As reported in the July 1999 issue of "Physics Today," two and a half months before his death, the world-renowned Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov gave a speech in Lyons, France.
Included in that speech was the
following: "We are looking into the fantastic possibility that regions of space
separated from each other by billions of
light
years are, at the same
time,
connected to each other with the help of additional parallel entrances, often
called 'wormholes.' In other words, we do not exclude the possibility of a miracle:
the instantaneous crossing from one region of space to another. The elapsed
time would be so short that we would appear in the new place quite unexpectedly,
or, vice versa, someone would suddenly appear next to us. I talk of such things
in order to show what kinds of questions are being raised and discussed at the
cutting edge of science."
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