• Question: Do wormholes exsist as a means of transportation?

    Asked by roselil to Ed, Sam, Steve, Vera on 22 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Sam Tazzyman

      Sam Tazzyman answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      Not at the moment, except in science fiction. No people have even been to a black hole, and I don’t know if astrophysicists even know whether worm holes actually exist.

    • Photo: Vera Weisbecker

      Vera Weisbecker answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      Like Sam said, I doubt that they exist. They are a good idea though!

    • Photo: Steven Daly

      Steven Daly answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      The reason people think that wormholes could exist is because they are allowed according to solutions to what is known as the Einstein equation. This is the equations that tells us how matter makes gravity happen, not that I even begin to understand it it is REALLY complicated!

      I think the main problem with wormholes is that they require something that has negative mass to be stable, and there is no such thing as something with negative mass.

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