How to spot a Wormhole
Wormholes may be purely theoretical, but that hasn’t stopped researchers from developing a method to locate them.
Wormholes — tunnels in spacetime that allow almost instantaneous passage from one location in the Universe to another — have long been an element of science fiction tales and thus, are a mainstay of pop-culture. But, these passages through spacetime have their origins in the formulation of Einstien’s theory of General Relativity.
More formally known as Einstein-Rosen bridges, wormholes emerge from a particular solution of the Einstein field equations that form the foundations of general relativity.
And though wormholes remain strictly theoretical with no solid evidence of their existence, that hasn’t stopped researchers Dejan Stojkovi, PhD, cosmologist and professor of physics in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences and De-Chang Dai, PhD, of Yangzhou University in China and Case Western Reserve University from describing a method to spot them. Their findings are published in the journal Physical Review D.
