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.
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"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."