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Wormholes Unstable (BBC)
An anonymous reader writes that "The BBC reports on recent theoretical physics research showing that wormholes may not be very useful for space or time travel. Wormholes with smooth or classical spacetimes appear to be unstable and fall apart quickly. Too bad for budding time travelers and space explorers!"
who read the headline as "Windows Unstable" and thought, duh... of course it is...
Duh, that's why they have the dampener things on the stargate.
A completely theoretical and as-yet-to-be-discovered phenominon is unstable, and unusable for transportation? Say it aint so!
This work obviously needs to be run by a futurologist for a second opinion.
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
According to the article theoretically a wormhole that opens to a random place/time is still stable. It would make a great getaway. "You don't know where I'm going and neither do I. *poof*"
That's why the artificially-created stable one near the Deep Space Nine station was so strategically valuable.
Well there goes my plans for the summer!
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"I felt a disturbance in the force. It was as if millions of sci-fi fan boys suddenly lost their erections and started crying."
That they made jodie foster wear that goofy outfit when she travelled through the wormhole.. come on, I'd like to think todays audiences are mature enough to handle a little bit of nudity, seeing her hotly oiled up and sleek body slips through the cosmic threshold shouldn't dismay anyone.
I'm going with her on the next trip, in the raw baby!
Even better, he can retrospectively arrange a girlfriend!
Well, no wonder the time-travel convention was a bust :)
Man, if only we had known that wormholes were unsafe for space travel back in 1995, we could have been spared the agony of seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager
JANEWAY: Chakotay, take us into the wormhole.
CHAKOTY: Aye aye, Captain!
PARIS: (aside to TORRES) Heh, she said "wormhole."
*crunch*
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Yeah, I imagine 150 years from now people joking, "10 to the power of 60 ought to be fine tuned enough for anybody."
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* Garbage disposal, including of Objects of Power of the sort that seemingly vanquished evil galactic overlords require for their return to total mastery.
* Practical jokes. "Star? Your planet orbited a star? I don't see a star around here, do you?"
* Sex toys for transcended superbeings who exist as fluctuations in the quantum foam but who have not forgotten what it was like to be carbon based, young, and in estrous on the sunny plains of Ghyr'd'tos.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
...we fired a beam of concentrated verteron particles to help stablize the nutrino field, then use the warp field generated by the nacelles to bind the fabric of space-time while travelling through the event horizon?
*g33kd*
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Is it just me or do other people also find it disturbing that trekkies consider DS9 to be a reliable and reputable source of scientific information about wormholes?
I agree. DS9 hasn't been on TV for years; anything you learned from that is going to be out-of-date now.
I get all *my* scientific knowledge from 'Enterprise'...
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Speaking of wormholes, there appears to be one in Slashcode that is making comments disappear from one thread and have them appear in another, possibly in a completely different article.
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Apparently everyone at slashdot thinks this is funny. Isn't this supposed to be BAD NEWS?
This isn't the cancellation of Star Trek, this is real space travel. And therefore less important.
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I get all *my* scientific knowledge from 'Enterprise'...
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Not only are they unstable, but they're way too small to travel through. But they are a nice place for the worms to live.
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Of course they're unstable... they only stay open long enough to let the sliders through, and close before any of the heavily armed soldiers stop gawping long enough to consider following...
If runways allow vertical travel, their length is nearly irrelevant.
He was droped into warmhole. How we can save him?