• Question: Does wormhole really exist? If it does,are we able to use it in the future?

    Asked by Constancexbo to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      @Constancexbo At the moment wormholes only exist in theory. Einstein predicted them in his theory of general relativity, but they require a very large mass in order to bend space-time enough (sounds like a Star Trek plot!). In fact, earlier this year a group from Italy predicted that a wormhole existed in our very own galaxy. But is is only a prediction – not yet observed!

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      We don’t have any evidence of wormholes existing in the Universe. Mathematically they’re possible, but even the mathematical ones look like they’d be unstable and hard to pass information through. It could be in the future we figure them out, though!

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