What if a traversable wormhole hits the earth?

So, I the question of what if a black hole hits the earth has been asked to death by various people, but what if the somewhat tamer wormhole hits the Earth?

In particular, we'll say that one mouth is floating somewhere in free space, and the other falls into Earth's gravity well. The radius of the mouths is 1 meter.

Note, that I am talking about a traversable wormholes, as described by general relativity (note that they are predicted to not exist in our universe (hence the alien-geometry tag), but are very well understood in the framework of general relativity). In particular, we are talking about an Ellis wormhole. Here's a video in which physicists simulate one. Note in particular that "real" wormholes are very different from the wormholes usually presented in fiction. For example, they have spherical ends instead of circular ones.

posted almost 7 years ago

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