Wormholes
Lonnie Brunson
Guy Scronce
Composition
• Two mouths
• Throat
General Relativity and
Wormholes
• Essentially a black hole without the
singularity
• Throat could possibly connect two black
holes
• Quantum foam
Black Holes and White Holes
Making a Wormholes Practical
• Exotic Matter
Riemann Cuts
• Formulated by Georg Riemann
• Connections between space with no length
Einstein-Rosen Bridge
• Connect a black hole with a mirror universe
• Kerr solution to Einstein's equations allows
for the physical travel through wormholes
Kip Thorne Wormholes
• Rely on Exotic Matter to support its
stability
• Can be used as a time machine
Limitations and Paradoxes
• Grandfather paradox
• Problems with black holes and white holes
• Limitations of wormholes and exotic matter
Science Fiction
• Fantastic possibilities have led to popularity
in science fiction
• Sliders
• Event Horizon
• Contact
• Star Trek
Event Horizon
Contact
• Carl Sagan’s novel
• Used Kip Thorn wormhole and ideas for
time travel
Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine
• Features a wormhole that provides travel to
another place in space
• Links the Alpha quadrant and the Gamma
quadrant