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Posts by pregunton‭

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Rigorous Science The mass of an economically feasible non-microscopic traversable wormhole

I finally found how to calculate the mass in the general case. Here is an answer summarizing my comments and calculations (but I'm still not an expert in general relativity, so please take it with ...

posted 6y ago by pregunton‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by pregunton‭

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Rigorous Science Creating a wormhole connecting two universes with different spacetime metrics?

Within general relativity at least, I think this is impossible. The metric tensor of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold is usually taken to be everywhere nondegenerate (see e.g. this source. A metric is ...

posted 5y ago by pregunton‭

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Rigorous Science Would planets be cubic in my "cuboverse"?

Summary The main idea behind the "cuboverse" is that spacetime distances are measured by (something close to) the sup norm or infinity norm. Under this norm, spheres (the set of points at a fixed ...

10 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by pregunton‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by pregunton‭