Wormhole Flashcards
How can wormholes be spotted?
Physicists think that perturbations in the orbit of the stars near supermassive blackholes could be used to detect wormholes
What’s a wormhole?
A wormhole is a passage between two separate regions of the spacetime which could belong to our universe or to a different one
How do scientists plan on spotting a wormhole?
They plan on spotting a wormhole around Sagittarius A, an object that’s thought to be a supermassive black hole. It’s considered a good place for spotting a wormhole because they’re expected to require extreme gravitational conditions. If a wormhole does exist near Sagittarius A nearby stars would be influenced by the gravity of stars at the other end of the passage.
How are wormholes gonna look like?
Wormholes are not going to look like those we see in science fiction. Because in order to get through a wormhole you need a source of negative energy to keep it open but scientists don’t know how to produce that.
Why do they exist?
Wormholes are a legitimate solution to Einstein’s equations. Our technology is not able to detect them yet though scientists say that it’ll be possible within one or two decades. Though scientists are not able to detect wether wormholes will be traversable or nor not. Because gravity is the curvature of spacetime, the effects of gravity are felt on both sides of a wormhole, wether objects can pass through or not.
