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!"

Comments

Oh No!

[Bob McCown]

A completely theoretical and as-yet-to-be-discovered phenominon is unstable, and unusable for transportation? Say it aint so!

Re:Oh No!

[borroff]

I can just see the dialog now:

Captain: I'll give you a ride on my space elevator if you show me your wormhole.

Green-skinned lady-of-casual-virtue: Well if it wasn't a nanotube, maybe you'd get somewhere! It takes exotic matter to keep my wormhole from collapsing.

Of course they're unstable.

[allanc]

That's why the artificially-created stable one near the Deep Space Nine station was so strategically valuable.

You know what's bullshit

[Adult film producer]

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!

This explains the low-attendance ...

[Kaemaril]

Well, no wonder the time-travel convention was a bust :)

Not true

[barcodez]

The one I was using tomorrow worked just fine, well, it did until it broke yesterday.

Re:Am I the only one...

[Danger Stevens]

males ages 9 through 120, who readily associate almost anything they encounter with their own genitals or breasts.

As a male, I admit I spend way too much time associating things with my breasts.

Re:Hilarious?

[Danger Stevens]

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.