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Here’s a simple how-to on how to construct a traversable cosmic wormhole that could send your spaceship to the furthest reaches of space: take two charged black holes, place them back to back, and thread two cosmic strings through both. Stretch both strings to infinity and presto! You’ve got yourself a traversable wormhole.Confused yet? A team of astrophycisists dreamed up this solution, which could technically send travelers to a distant corner of the universe, in a preprint paper on arXiv earlier this month — and Ohio State University astrophysicist Paul Sutter published a terrific breakdown of the concept in Live Science.The barebones: a charged black hole, which is a theoretical black hole that carries an electric charge and has an oppositely charged black hole on the other end of it, will act as our wormhole.But there’s a catch, before you decide to just jump into that wormhole: wormholes are by nature incredibly unstable. To make sure either charged end stays fully stretched out, a pair of cosmic strings — hypothetical, one dimensional defects in space-time — could hold them in place.Unfortunately, cosmic strings are also not a great travelling companion.“You never want to encounter one yourself, since they would slice you clean in half like a cosmic lightsaber, but you don’t have to worry much since we’re not even sure they exist, and we’ve never seen one out there in the universe,ö Sutter wrote. Phew!While wormholes — and cosmic strings — have yet to be proven to exist, Russian physicists suggest that we could measure their shape by looking at the ripples they leave behind in space-time.Unfortunately, these ripples or gravitational waves could sap black holes’ mass and cause them to eventually collapse in on themselves.But the hope is that the strung-up wormhole could be stable for just enough time to send something or someone — say Matthew McConaughey’s character in Christopher Nolan’s 2014 space movie “Interstellarö — on a hell of a journey.
73, Scott KF5JRV
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