How to help people hang out in the universe

Does the deep hole of the universe exist and become a door that opens up the possibility of traveling through space for humanity?

Does the deep hole of the universe exist and become a door that opens up the possibility of traveling through space for humanity?

With the speed of rapid development of science and technology, humans began dreaming of touching to the most remote areas in the universe, beyond the solar system.

However the universe is too large. The closest star to Earth is Urine (Proxima Centauri) - a red dwarf, which is also 4.22 light-years away from the face system (about 42 trillion km).

With that distance, even Voyager (the fastest speed ship today) needs more than 80,000 years to reach this planet.

So how can people reach such 'hopeless' distance places? Many of the ideas given by the researchers, including a prominent idea, are included in many fictional scenarios: wormholes.

What is wormhole actually?

In theory, the wormhole is like a tunnel in space-time, a kind of shortcut that connects two points thousands of light-years apart.

Astronauts can use this tunnel to save time up to . thousands of generations to travel around the universe.

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Deep hole is like a spaceless tunnel

But this is still the idea of ​​a . fictional type. Does the worm hole exist? Is there a way for people to find a means to travel to another galaxy or somewhere farther away?

According to scientists, this is very difficult but traveling with deep holes can be done with special conditions.

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Deep hole travel is possible

The story revolves around a deep hole that originated in the early twentieth century. Until the 1900s, Newton's theory of gravity still played an important role in the assumption that everything in the universe had gravitation. The bigger the object, the stronger the gravitational pull, so people get 'stuck' to Earth, instead of flying straight into space.

But in 1915, Albert Einstein introduced a completely different concept of gravity. He said that gravity is the result of distortion of space and time, in other words, the fourth dimension.

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Deep hole is actually deformed space?

Since then, Einstein and his colleague Nathan Rosen have come to a conclusion: wormholes are essentially deformed, bent spaces to connect two points in spacetime.

The result will be a tunnel, straight or curved, connecting two points away from each other for thousands of light years in the universe.

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The presence of deep holes will help to bend space and time in reality?

Deep hole - is it feasible?

According to Einstein's theory, deep holes may exist, but no concrete evidence exists. Fumio Abe, Nagoya University astrophysicist, proposed a method to find a giant wormhole by looking at the brightness of a star when moving in front of a deep hole.

However, this proposal is difficult to verify because mankind has yet to find signs of deep holes that can form naturally.

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Deep holes can naturally appear and disappear

On the other hand, according to physicist John Wheelers, the wormhole may naturally appear and disappear, because it is made up of 'virtual' particles, which may suddenly exist and disappear. These holes will therefore be very small, about 10 - 33cm long, so it is almost impossible to find.

So suppose to find a microscopic worm, what people will do to magnify them. According to experts, this requires a special fuel called "strange matter" (exotic matter) .

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The presence of exotic matter is a prerequisite for deep hole amplification

According to Eric Davis, the forms of matter in the universe have a positive energy density and pressure. But foreign matter is different, can carry negative energy, but positive pressure, or vice versa.

This type of material can amplify the size of a deep hole to allow people or spacecraft to slip through. However, strange material exists only in theory and yet no one knows how to find it.

Not stopping there, what will happen if people complete all of the above?

Richard Holman, a physics professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said that when putting any form of matter into the worm hole, they could become unstable. In other words, you can die as soon as you step into the deep hole to travel the universe.

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Strange matter can amplify the size of a deep hole

He said that if a deep hole could be used, with countless planets outside the universe, there must be a different species of human being to do this. However, so far there has been no evidence of this possibility.

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Strange material is the necessary and sufficient material to create deep holes

In contrast, Davis has a more optimistic view of using deep holes in future space travel. He said that exotic matter is a necessary and sufficient material to create deep holes for each person.

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Will people be able to set up an interstellar tourist map like this in the future?

Currently, he is focusing on creating them at the International Organization Icarus Interstellar. He shared that, in a distant future, people still hope to find a method of space travel that is convenient and fast to reach out into space.

* The article is based on Loren Grush's views posted on Popsci.com website.

Update 17 December 2018
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