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immortalis88 t1_j7sjw6a wrote

Have you ever heard someone talk about how objects with mass warp the fabric of space-time? This has been demonstrated by people taking a bowling ball and placing it in the middle of a sheet being held at all 4 corners. The bowling ball bends or ‘warps’ the sheet (fabric) in a similar way that mass from planets, stars or black holes warp space around them.

Now imagine that something bends the fabric so much - almost like folding a towel in half - that a point on one end of the fabric comes in contact with a point on the far side of the fabric. Now you can virtually jump from one point in space to another point, covering what would normally be a great distance nearly instantly.

I’ve been drinking and that’s the best I can do 🤣✌️

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Minefreakster t1_j7soce1 wrote

Best explanation I’ve seen tbh

Though I don’t condone teaching tipsy, you might be an exception.

Edit: Wording

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AverageJoe-707 t1_j7s11e5 wrote

I fold paper towels a lot when I'm cleaning, but it doesn't seem to help me jump forward to being done cleaning. Sad.

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astromaddie t1_j7s9c2x wrote

Basically, imagine the paper is the fabric of the universe. Now imagine it’s a box, instead of a flat paper. You fold it the exact same way, but because you need to fold the two-dimensional paper in one dimension higher (3D) than the physical medium of paper, you would need to fold the three-dimensional cube in one dimension higher (4D) than the physical medium of space.

Does that make sense?

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Anonymous-USA t1_j7szma3 wrote

That’s how a black hole warps space. That takes such immense mass that it would be impossible to travel through that. A wormhole could only be traversed if space-time were more like Swiss cheese with natural holes and tunnels. And we could only (still) traverse the surface of that Swiss cheese, but we’d get to the other side very fast.

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Anonymous-USA t1_j7sze28 wrote

Here is a good explanation with a good picture: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/what-is-a-wormhole/amp/

Unfortunately the picture shows our 3D universe as a 2D graphic folded on itself in 3D, then projected again as a 2D picture! So it could be confusing. But the movie Interstellar shows the best graphic of how a wormhole should and would work. If it exists.

If humans were to travel through the wormhole, we wouldn’t actually leave space and travel down the middle (like shown in the movie Contact) but along the surface — always touching that paper.

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a4mula t1_j7s0lqu wrote

If you understand how a U-shaped piece of paper with two points connected by a tunnel would work...

I'm not sure there's much more to the understanding.

That's how it's possible.

The physics inside a wormhole wouldn't be like that of the paper certainly.

After all, it's not paper and a tunnel. It's connecting two singularities in a way that gets rid of their infinite natures in a physically accurate way.

But it means you can't pass information through them. Because the information can never move faster than light and the space between these two black holes would.

At least that's what I take from EPR=EP

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0XKINET1 t1_j7s01m9 wrote

Contract space-time in front of the crafts, expand space-time behind them. How? Not sure.

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T0000Tall t1_j7s0uhn wrote

You are thinking of a warp drive. Wormhole is more like a tunnel thru spacetime.

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