Wormhole Theory Explained – Breaking Spacetime!
1,320Do wormholes really exist like we think they do? And what are they really like if so? Join me as we explore the Wormhole Theory!
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So if you've watched any kind of sci-fi show that dealt with space travel and such, you more than likely have heard of the concept of wormholes. To put it in the most basic of terms, wormholes are "shortcuts" in the universe. You go in through one side of the universe, and you come out in an area that is REALLY far away from where you were just a few minutes ago. Star Trek Deep Space Nine based an entire series on a space station that protected a wormhole that led to another quadrant of space. But are these things really possible in our own universe? And if they were, wouldn't we have found one yet? The answers may surprise you, especially when you hear that wormholes were speculated upon by one of the most brilliant minds in the world...Albert Einstein.
In 1935, Einstein and Nathan Rosen illustrated the idea through the theory of general relativity, proposing bridges across space-time, connecting two different points of space-time, and theoretically creating a shortcut that could reduce travel distance and time. Einstein-Rosen ”or“ wormholes ”.
Because if you open a "hole" in space-time...there has to be something else on the other side, right? Believe it or not, Einstein and others have noted that there are potentially 5 different kinds of wormholes. Here are some basic explanations of each:
Traversable Wormholes: These wormholes are the most famous, especially in science fiction movies, holes through which they cross at a point in the universe to get out of somewhere else. Not unlike the Star Trek Deep Space Nine wormhole.
Non-Traversable Wormholes: Nothing can cross, either because these worm holes fall apart (may contain an inlet point without an outlet), or to sabotage the particles before they reach the other end.
One-Way Wormholes: You can travel through one wormhole and need another wormhole to return. In one of the solutions of Einstein’s equation, it turns out that wormholes can be found in black holes but are not crossable. White holes have a role in wormholes. They are the opposite of black holes where they throw matter with enormous force.
Two-Way Wormholes: This type of wormholes is the same way back and forth.
Intra-Universe: These holes are located in our universe and are to travel from one point within our universe to another point.
Inter-Universe: These wormholes connect our universe to another parallel universe. You can see DC Comics or Marvel for these very unique kind of "crisis" wormholes.
Well, we've already talked about that a little in that there are a lot of theoretical wormholes in the universe via black holes, white holes, and other massive galactic entities...but...they're only theoretical at present. To be clear, that doesn't mean that they DON'T exist, but it's another case of, "It could be real...and it could not." This is the type of thinking behind another cosmic theory and mystery known as Dark Matter and Dark Energy. But that's another topic entirely.
Not to mention, while the Theory of Relativity is a profound piece of math that helps describe various things, and is widely accepted as being true...it's still just a theory. And if you were to dive deep into the math, you'd see that things within it are open to various interpretations and have multiple possible outcomes in regards to reality as a whole. Meaning that there are multiple ways to view these numbers, and wormholes are only one of those answers. Which is possibly why we have only dreamed and pictured wormholes and not technically found them.
Or, it could be that the wormholes are out there in space right now...and we just haven't found them yet. "But how could we not notice a wormhole in space?" you might be asking right now. Well never forget that space is MASSIVE, trillions of lightyears long, and we're only able to speculate and view a small part of it with only some regularity. Case in point, we're able to find and view stars and planets in galaxies far away, but we're still finding new moons on Saturn and Jupiter, which are only hundreds of millions of miles away. So how can we see one and not the other within a good amount of time? Because while there are many, MANY people looking into space, they can't view EVERYTHING at all times.
Even if the whole planet was a giant telescope or "space radar" system we create, we wouldn't be able to observe everything at once at all times. And since the planet ISN'T that, we have to scale down our reach, and thus you see why certain things are missed. So why not wormholes?
So if they are out there, when were they made? The most probable answer is the Big Bang, which is the theoretical event that scientists speculate was the birth of our universe.
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