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Based on the latest evidence and theories our galaxy could be a huge wormhole (or space-time tunnel, have you seen the movie "Interstellar?") and, if that were true, it would be "stable and navigable." This is the hypothesis put forward in a study published in Annals of Physics and conducted with the participation of SISSA in Trieste. The paper, the result of a collaboration between Indian, Italian and North American researchers, prompts scientists to re-think dark matter.
"If we combine the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe and we hypothesize the existence of space-time tunnels, what we get is that our galaxy could really contain one of these tunnels, and that the tunnel could even be the size of the galaxy itself. But there's more," explains Paolo Salucci, astrophysicist of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste and a dark matter expert. "We could even travel through this tunnel, since, based on our calculations, it could be navigable. Just like the one we've all seen in the recent film 'Interstellar'." Salucci is among the authors of the paper recently published in Annals of Physics.
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: Akatsuki
I really don't understand how science works except it allows people with chalk boards...and chalk, to produce outrageous concepts which somehow gain attention and support from their less endowed peers. Worm holes are considered as an enticing way to allow humans to travel from one planet, galaxy or universe to another. Just how is that act physically done? By what sort of control and safety is envisioned for ship, life and limb if wormholes even exist? Is there any concepts of those primary concerns to human bodies in such romantic discussions? Or are they PC-envisioned as a balance, an antidote, for the fetal attractiveness of black holes, thereby we have the ying and yang of space, all things in balance?
I wonder if the driving force to hit us over the head with these outlandish concepts has to do with a deep human desire to get our asses into space or to explain how others may traverse the vast distances, or maybe simply to shift the focus away from what may be more practical solutions of transportation. Really, wormholes may indeed exist, but what great powers of of all existence must be envisioned for them to exist and be shortcuts to beyond this world?
Why do the chalkboard people not say in their symbols if X is more than G that the impossible is possible. In this case,"X" being an man-made field of energy that makes a body massless such that "G," gravity has no hold on it. And in due turn reduce that equation to a practical work as was done with Einstein's widely touted theory? Seems like child play to be, but then I've been accused of thinking that way.
perhaps your question can be answered by the links to the papers that article is based on. i posted a couple of links in my own abortive thread on this topic.
originally posted by: wildespace
a reply to: Akatsuki
How exactly do wormholes correlate to dark matter an "the most recent Big Bang model" ? And what exactly is that "most recent Big Bang model"? I haven't been keeping tabs on the BB model evolution.
Let's see where this hypothesis is taken. It might just end up in the "bag" of interesting but unprovable hypotheses, like the idea that every black hole contains a universe and that our own universe is contained in a black hole.
well for us the significance if this is true would not be that particular wormhole. but the fact that a stable traversible wormhole can exist, capiche? because if nature can do it then perhaps so can we.
originally posted by: Astyanax
Oh, great! A wormhole we can use. In the middle of the Galaxy.
All we have to do is get to it.
if nature can do it then perhaps so can we.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: stormbringer1701
if nature can do it then perhaps so can we.
I wouldn't put much money on it.