• Question: Is there a way to find wormholes, and possibly make them useful and big enough to use?

    Asked by Kai&Olls to Anna, George, Jodi, Rob, Stefan on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Anna Scaife

      Anna Scaife answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      There is a Russian scientist who claimed that you could distinguish between a worm hole and a black hole by looking at the distribution of radio emission close to them, but I don’t know how reliable that prediction is.

      Theoretically worm holes are allowed by general relativity, but some are more stable than others. To make one appear and to make it big enough for a person (let alone a ship or something) would require lots of negative energy. At the moment it seems like it would require so much negative energy that, even if we could harness negative energy (like dark energy), we probably wouldn’t be able to do it. But that just makes it improbable, not impossible 🙂

    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I hope so. Wormholes might be the only sensible answer to interstellar and intergalactic space travel. I have a question to you – if you found a wormhole, that was big enough to go into – would you do it?

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