How would mankind "tame" wormholes enough to use them for travel?

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 to give ships wormhole engines"” like warp drives or hyperdrives, except instead of speeding the ship up, it uses a dark energy generator to warp spacetime and open a wormhole for the ship to pass through to end up at a given destination.

My question: how, if it's possible at all, would humans go about not only creating wormholes safely and regularly, but also creating them with specific entrances and exits, that is, they can control where the wormholes begin and end in space. For some reason or another, humans cannot cause the wormholes to end at any other time than the present.

So is it possible to fine tune the space part of a rift in space-time, and not the time part? If so, how large would the generator be? (I'm intent on the whole dark energy thing) Could it plausibly fit on a spaceship? How quickly would a person be able to whip up a wormhole on command? How dangerous would it be to travel through a new wormhole, and how long would it remain stable for after creation?

Sorry if I'm overloading on the questions, but this is the one part of my book that really needs some clarity in my head. I can't allow time travel for obvious reasons, but I also can't allow FTL, and wormholes seemed like the go-to solution.

Thanks in advance!

posted about 7 years ago

Kai Christensen‭

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