Wormhole travel may be possible — if slow

Wormholes exist — say Havard physicists — but travel through these tunnels connecting distant areas of spacetime would be ponderously slow.

Travel via wormhole has long been a staple of science fiction across all forms of media — but these objects have always remained purely theoretical. Thus meaning such travel methods were restricted to flights of fancy.

The Avengers — Thanos sends his Chituari army to Earth via wormhole. New research suggests he should’ve packed them a lunch. No wonder they were cranky. (Marvel/Disney 2012)

Now a study from Danial Jafferis and Ping Gao of Havard University, in collaboration with Aron Wall from Stanford University shows that wormholes may indeed exist. But the authors warn not to pack your bags just yet; travel from one side of the galaxy to the other via wormhole may indeed be possible, but so slow, that it would be more practical to go the long way around.

Jafferis, who presented his findings at the April 2019 meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver, Colorado, says: “It takes longer to get through these wormholes than to…