https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/categories/15/tags/2220.rssNew Posts Tagged 'wormholes' - Scientific SpeculationScientific Speculation - Codidact2020-06-04T13:23:31Zhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/250336Does crossing a wormhole happen instantaneously, or with the course of time?ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΜΙΧΑΗΛΙΔΗΣhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/429922019-02-14T10:57:22Z2020-06-04T13:23:31Z<p>I have seen many science fiction movies that depict traveling in space through wormholes. The appearance though, and the time it takes to cross a wormhole, tends to vary:</p>
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<li><p>On one...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262771Would would occur if a person travelled from a wormhole in flat empty space, to one on Earth?MrKredhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447622020-04-30T07:33:17Z2020-04-30T23:04:33Z<p>We are using a <a href="http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/refael/league/thorne-morris.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Morris-Throne Wormhole Metric</a>. Let's presume the throat of this wormhole (in <a ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/261495How to build a wormhole for FTL communication? [more Engineering than Physics question]Rodolfo Penteadohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/446872020-03-13T12:44:57Z2020-03-16T06:13:04Z<p>I came to SE WB while I was researching about space radiators for my sci-fi. I don't remember where exactly I found an answer to my question (<a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/que...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/259940Could these new wormholes be used as a hammer space?Mephistopheleshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/35842020-01-29T20:11:18Z2020-01-30T21:29:18Z<p>So, if you remember these two questions:</p>
<p><a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/166848/32097">What can these negative-mass-free wormholes be used for?</a>
and <a href="https...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/259900What can these negative-mass-free wormholes be used for?Mephistopheleshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/35842020-01-28T17:17:38Z2020-01-29T09:41:30Z<p>There might be a way to build traversable wormholes without needing negative mass.</p>
<p>Take a gander: <a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-04-wormholes.html" rel="noreferrer">https://phys.org...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/258240Long range laser using wormholesSE is too politically correcthttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/443242019-12-04T02:52:43Z2019-12-04T15:42:07Z<p>So, I was recently watching <em>Stargate: Atlantis,</em> and I saw a very interesting concept. In one episode, the villainous Replicators use the stargate network to fire what is essentially a h...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/258004Can wormholes be used to trap people?overlord - Reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78782019-11-25T14:43:35Z2019-12-04T08:10:09Z<p>I was looking at the diagram for a wormhole: A 2D plane is bent and then its ends are pinched together, creating a kind of 3D tunnel representation of what a 2D wormhole would be:<br>
<a href="h...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/231694Avoiding Violation of Causality with Stable WormholesCerezahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/409362017-06-02T19:51:34Z2019-11-19T18:50:10Z<p>In laying out the groundwork for a series of stories I'd like to write, I'm positing a somewhat modernly-realistic take on the "well-aged human empire in the stars" type of setting the classic a...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/252963Would dumping vast amounts of electric charge into a traversable wormhole be a viable way to keep the wormhole open?Anders Gustafsonhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/379592019-05-17T07:52:38Z2019-05-24T04:25:38Z<p>It's possible to have lots of electric charge while having only a small amount of mass, and a black hole with a significant electric charge has properties that are different from one with no ele...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/273585Creating a wormhole connecting two universes with different spacetime metrics?Anders Gustafsonhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/379592019-04-25T03:00:30Z2019-04-25T08:52:28Z<p>A civilization wishes to create a wormhole connecting its universe to a universe with a different spacetime metric. For instance if we describe a timelike dimension with <span class="math-conta...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/273567Calculating Wormhole Wind SpeedsCameron Farleyhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/528592019-04-09T20:43:08Z2019-04-10T21:18:06Z<p>Here's something I've never noticed anyone asking when it comes to wormholes/portals: If they allowed air to pass through them, how fast would the wind be? Should atmospheric pressure difference...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/251738Non-causality-violating FTL travel. / Can omnipotence beat causality?TheDyingOfLighthttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/432232019-04-04T15:10:31Z2019-04-06T18:15:08Z<p>While building my sifi world I dug into ftl-travel and encountered these mean bullies, causality and relativity. They told me I can't have faster than light travel, because effect can't precede ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/273451The mass of an economically feasible non-microscopic traversable wormholeHendrik Liehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/372912019-01-20T17:53:46Z2019-02-12T12:47:39Z<h1>Background</h1>
<p>In my hard sci-fi settings, there is an advanced Type II Civilization, that are progressing toward Type III Civilization (yes, I am referring to <a href="https://en.wikipedi...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/249708Could you carry a wormhole through another wormhole?Cerezahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/409362019-01-22T10:32:03Z2019-01-27T08:19:00Z<p>Okay, let's assume that travel between star systems is done through stable, stationary wormholes on the outer boundaries of each system. This alone is slightly magic for now, of course, but let'...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/222770How much energy would opening a worm hole require approximately?user2638180https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/378392016-09-02T17:33:42Z2018-08-01T12:03:41Z<p>I'm building a story about a world where it has been discovered how to travel to any possible universe according to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation" rel="no...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/231769What kind of stellar core or degenerate material would be needed to create a survivable explosion?Werrfhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/45832017-06-05T12:46:49Z2018-07-20T17:36:27Z<p>The Scenario:</p>
<p>A group of scientists on a research space station are conducting tests on a Bose-Einstein condensate. They can't figure out why it is that every time they get their condens...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/243676Would there be stress on my wormhole between two planetary surfaces due to their orbits?JBHhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/29562018-07-14T21:00:48Z2018-07-17T02:25:03Z<p>Building on this question: <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/270/settings-formed-by-uncontrolled-terraforming-of-venus-and-mars-via-portals">Settings formed by Uncontrol...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/239511What is INSIDE a Wormhole?Lenhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/74542018-02-15T21:28:41Z2018-07-05T21:50:21Z<p>IF they were real, would wormholes work in the way that they do in sci-fi (for all intents and purposes "teleportation", travel without movement, FTL, immediately "appearing" at the other locati...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/241684Wormhole travel system: how would they connect the systems?user_194421https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/405142018-05-05T09:44:59Z2018-05-06T00:57:02Z<p>Here, star systems are connected with "wormholes". The wormholes facilitate travel at $250\ c$, regardless of mass. They are made using special ships. Any travel (including military vessels) not...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/230920What if a portal is opened from the Mariana trench to the Sahara desert?McGuckethttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/407972017-05-02T14:10:03Z2018-01-31T00:51:56Z<p>The first portal is placed at bottom-most point of the Mariana trench (the deepest part of any ocean, located in the western Pacific Ocean) and the second is placed in the Sahara desert in Afric...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/238609How could a Wormhole be transported?Ravi Mattarhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/419222018-01-18T18:08:40Z2018-01-24T04:47:59Z<p>In my universe, humanity has learned how to open wormholes for transportation, how they are opened is irrelevant and can be hand-waved, what must be kept in mind is that when they are opened, tw...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/238279Can time dilation happen in a higher dimensional space or inside a wormhole?Peacemanhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/416712018-01-06T14:21:41Z2018-01-09T15:12:33Z<p>A wormhole usually helps us to create a shortcut to a distant object through a higher dimensional space. Can the time factor in that higher dimensional space differ from our three-dimensional s...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/238276(Please Someone Explain) Is time travel using wormhole as portals possible logically?Peacemanhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/416712018-01-06T11:48:20Z2018-01-07T04:51:07Z<p>I am working on a story and came up with a doubt regarding an explanation given for time travel using wormholes as portals.</p>
<p>The below given is taken from Wikipedia link: <a href="https:/...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/234439Travelling through a black hole like through a wormhole?SovereignSunhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/46662017-09-04T10:09:19Z2017-09-09T18:23:00Z<p>To add to my previous question. Can a black hole be a wormhole or can a wormhole exist within a black hole? The result I want to get is this:</p>
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<li><em>You enter a black hole in one part...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/234433What could lead to the appearance of a wormhole relatively close to our planet?SovereignSunhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/46662017-09-04T08:34:37Z2017-09-04T12:14:30Z<p>I was thinking of different ways a <strong>wormhole</strong> could appear relatively close to our planet but even reading much about wormholes I can't think of any possible conditions.</p>
<p>I...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/230391How would mankind "tame" wormholes enough to use them for travel?Kai Christensenhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/407222017-04-16T14:07:11Z2017-04-16T15:36:34Z<p>OK, so I'm writing a Star-Wars-esque science fiction book set some centuries in the future. Rather than break the laws of physics and say that faster-than-light travel is possible, I've chosen t...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/225966How to Visualize a Wormhole Somewhat Accurately?TheTimeVoyagerhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/388172016-12-04T17:11:30Z2017-04-07T02:53:28Z<p>So, as I've mentioned in previous questions, I am writing a series in which the four young main characters encounter natural, traversable wormholes that connect the present time to another one. ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/228891What happens to the space created due to wormholes?Karan Desaihttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/49182017-02-25T09:12:15Z2017-02-26T08:11:49Z<p>I am working on a story which is based on space time hacking and moderation. While researching I found that a wormhole is simply a Folded time-space-as shown in demonstration below (Image credit...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/228733Requirements for using a wormholearihttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/404472017-02-21T06:39:03Z2017-02-21T08:42:55Z<p>I have a story that requires travel through a wormhole. I know the basic requirement to go through a spherical wormhole would be that the object must be smaller than the wormhole diameter. Assum...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/212641Can I map the location of my convenient store inside a wormhole?user6760https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/373502015-06-25T03:51:07Z2016-11-22T01:47:58Z<p>Set in the distance future probably a type 3 civilization on a Kardashev scale, I plan to setup multiple chain of convenient stores at many wormholes where there are heavy traffics, how can I cr...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/225439How Effectively Could a Telescope Look Through a Wormhole?shiningcartoonisthttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/381382016-11-21T17:52:35Z2016-11-21T20:29:48Z<p>Could a high powered telescope in space (such as the Hubble Telescope) be capable of peering through a large worm hole with enough clarity to detect that a planet is somewhere on the other side?...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/216129Wormhole inside a human brain?Anders Gustafsonhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/379592016-01-01T04:15:27Z2016-11-19T15:44:08Z<p>Would it be possible to produce a pair of human brains that are connected by a wormhole that has each end inside one of the brains? What I had in mind is that the wormhole would have neurons in...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/222257How far can space time be warped, twisted, and pulled?Mattiashttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/390022016-08-21T06:48:29Z2016-11-10T16:16:26Z<p>In the story I'm writing, an ancient civilization once roamed the local group, traveling from galaxy to galaxy with ease. Thousands of millennia after their disappearance, humanity stumbles acro...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/222787How close can a wormhole appear next to a star so that it doesn't affect it?Melichttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/394982016-09-03T08:04:34Z2016-09-03T12:48:41Z<p>In context, I need to transport a package that has gotten very close to the sun, and I've chosen to use a wormhole.
What I need to know is if there is a certain distance that needs to be consid...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/213670How to put up road signage for wormholes?user6760https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/373502015-08-24T05:06:11Z2016-08-01T12:11:37Z<p>Set in year 2615 A.D. humans have colonized nearby star systems, we can travel between different star systems using artificial wormholes. A spaceship leaving Solar system for Alpha Centauri have...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/272067The Babbage ProbeScott Downeyhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/365962015-08-24T09:45:52Z2016-02-17T00:17:02Z<p>I'm currently exploring a setting where humans have managed to create traversable wormholes with one critical flaw - something in the wormhole both kills multi-cellular life and destroys electro...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/215984Technological applications of light only wormholesVakus Drakehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/376282015-12-21T17:54:32Z2015-12-22T18:29:27Z<p>For this question I'm assuming a utterly infeasible technological breakthrough suddenly makes wormholes technology possible.
However there is a major catch, the 2D "windows" as they're called do...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/214477Could a wormhole exist on a planet?Alykhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/380322015-10-03T04:29:58Z2015-10-03T17:37:10Z<p>For my story to work, my characters have to stumble across a small wormhole that actually exists <em>on Earth</em> and is responsible for multiple disappearances throughout history. It connects ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/210593Taming wormholesJorge Aldohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/371232015-03-22T17:15:46Z2015-09-27T17:20:33Z<p>An ancient civilization mapped wormholes when the universe was quite young and smaller. This allowed them to reach other galaxies (wormholes from our galaxy to others). They mapped it all.</p>
...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/213664Creating wormholes that aren't magicNonafelhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/378202015-08-23T20:56:02Z2015-08-28T16:20:22Z<p>Please note for this, assume technology is being used for their creation, not any kind of space major or anything. </p>
<p><strong><em>Edit: Removed the ability to do so within systems without ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/209960Would Building a Waypoint/Colony station in Slip Space be Logical?JDSweetBeathttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/822015-03-03T14:15:09Z2015-03-28T16:38:56Z<p>Definitions:</p>
<p>Slip Space - The area of space separating planes of the universe. Think of the universe as a flat piece of paper. Now imagine this flat piece of paper wrapped into a spheric...