University of Cambridge physicists have developed a
theoretical foundation for the existence of wormholes, which are pipelines that
connect two dissimilar places in space-time. Time travel and instant communication
across great distances may become possible if a piece of data or a physical
object could pass through the wormhole.
"But there's a problem: Einstein's wormholes
are extremely unsteady, and they don't stay open long enough for something to
pass over."
In 1988,
physicists reached the deduction that a type of negative energy called Casimir
energy might keep wormholes open.
The hypothetical solution established at Cambridge
has to do with the properties of quantum energy, which conveys that even
vacuums are teaming by means of waves of energy.
“Does this mean we have the technology for building
a wormhole?” asks Matt Visser at the Victoria University of Wellington in New
Zealand. “The answer is still no.” Still, he is intrigued by Butcher’s work.
“From a physics perspective, it may revitalise interest in wormholes.”
If you visualize two metal plates in a vacuum, some
waves of energy would be excessively big enough to fit between the plates,
meaning that the space-time among the plates would have negative energy.
"Under the right circumstances, could the
tube-like shape of the wormhole itself generate Casimir energy? Calculations
show that if the wormhole's throat is orders of magnitude longer then the width
of its mouth, it does indeed create Casimir energy at its center."