The theory revolves around tunnels that act as a link between one dimension and another: according to a new hypothesis it is possible to travel in space time.
Initially, the existence of black holes was only theoretical. It could have been nothing more than the anomaly of the complex system of calculations used by scientists to explain the general theory of relativity.
Today a similar fate touches the wormholes, literally “worm-shaped holes”, which were first hypothesized by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. According to the hypothesis of the two physicists, it would be an inter-dimensional access door that would work exactly like the hole of a bathtub. With the difference that, instead of ending up in the pipes, once sucked by the opening, the protagonist of this unlikely adventure would find himself in another tub, exactly the same as the first.
The hypothesis of the practicability of wormholes by man, as a means of connection between one dimension of space and time and another, has come up against two seemingly insurmountable issues: the fragility and smallness of these curious formations. In fact, following the implications of the theory of relativity, any object entering a wormhole would end up “plugging” it.
How we managed to hypothesize tunnels for space-time travel
Secondly, man would be considered, in the theory associated with wormholes, a macroscopic traveler: on the contrary, in physics only very small tunnels have been hypothesized, so the problem of smallness could be circumvented only with an unusual but still plausible type of matter. Just as the problem of fragility would only be circumvented with the discovery of a so-called “exotic” type of matter capable of stabilizing the formation.
A very interesting theoretical hypothesis, however, was developed by physicists Ping Gao and Daniel Jafferis of Harvard University, and Aron Wall, then of the Advanced Study Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, in 2017.
The researchers argued that one way to open wormholes could be through quantum entanglement, which is a standard feature of physics that can connect quantum entities over long distances. This would then be the exotic ingredient sufficient to “stabilize” the wormhole and allow a macro traveler to pass through the formation.
Because the problem of tunnels too small for a human might have been solved
To get around the microscopic wormhole problem, however, Nabil Iqbal, a physicist, of the University of Durham in England and Simon Ross, his colleague at the same institute, recently used the idea of special disturbances within the magnetic fields surrounding a black hole, which could, in theory, generate stable wormholes.
The combination of these two theories could represent an important step for the theory of inter-dimensional travel.
Of course, at the moment all this seems like science fiction: but black holes, too, were long ago considered some kind of anomaly. And then we even managed to take a picture of them.
Who knows, maybe the same thing will happen with the space-time tunnels.
Space is undoubtedly the last frontier of human exploration. And there are many hypotheses about its mysteries, but also the missions concretely put in the field to solve them. Given the number of planned expeditions, we could legitimately ask to whom belongs the Moon, if it should become a source of income (here the answer). The International Space Station, on the other hand, is already a source of earnings, at least from the entertainment world (here’s how).