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Stellar Wormholes May Exist
seagirlreed writes "Pairs of stars could be connected via wormholes filled with 'phantom matter,' according to Kyrgyz researchers. If a wormhole exists within a star, the stellar body may exhibit measurable properties astronomers might detect. Although interesting, other scientists are skeptical, pointing out that this is highly speculative research."
Stellar wormholes exist? Yay interstellar subway system!
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Is there any evidence to support this hypothesis whatsoever? Or is this purely based on random scifi-based wishful thinking? The article seems to say "if you accept that A (which really has nothing to support it at all) is true, then B can also be true." Uhh, yeah.
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If only we could find Daniel Jackson, they'd be able to unlock the mystery of wormholes...and then our military can take over it just like they do everything else. ;) Even Stargate didn't dispute that fact!
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Isn't all research essentially speculative?
Although interesting, other scientists are skeptical, pointing out that this is highly speculative research.
Is there any evidence to support the assertion that the other scientists are interesting?
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TFA says "Also, if the wormhole is short, so that the two stars it links don't lie far apart, an observer might see another unusual signpost -- two closely spaced objects with nearly identical properties."
However, the wormhole doesn't need to be short, which would mean regions of the universe far apart from each other would have similar properties if wormholes existed.
This would solve one of the big problems in modern cosmology, the horizon problem: how can regions of the universe that couldn't possibly have communicated with each other in the lifetime of the universe have similar properties?
Although interesting, other scientists are skeptical, pointing out that this is highly speculative research.
Is there any evidence to support the assertion that the other scientists are interesting?
You asked about them.
Q.E.D.
The original paper makes it clear that this, like every other wormhole solution in General Relativity, requires "strange matter" - in their case, "as exotic matter, a massless ghost scalar field has been chosen". The interesting thing is that it links two stars together in a way that may have observable consequences (material would flow from one star to the other to keep the pressure in the cores equal, which would change how the star would evolve from one in isolation).
Note that these wormholes require the "exotic matter" to exist, so it's a mistake to say that this proves they can exist or whatever, as there is no actual evidence for any of the strange or exotic matter possibilities required to support them.
Now, suppose that such exotic matter does exist. Could this be used for transportation by an advanced civilization ? Maybe. You would have to find a wormhole end point in orbit about a black hole, and wait (or engineer) for the star to expand and for the black hole to "eat" the star's gas. If that process could go to completion, voila !, a naked wormhole would be left, and, if that were stable, you could use it for transportation.
Figuring out the necessary black hole engineering to do this is left as an exercise for the reader.
sheesh... I think I must be working to hard today... I read the headline as "Stellar Wombles May Exist".
Although, thinking about it those stellar wormholes would be great for getting rid of the rubbish on Wimbledon Common (-:
"about the space ship mission to the sun, they were going to go at night". no wonder we never heard from them, they went through the worm hole, (and got worms)
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as we have absolutely no definitive concrete concept of the process/evolution/time/space/circumstance even of who/where we are right
?here? this second? there appears to be a remarkable absence of fear becoming available as never (seen by us) before, as we (hopefully, most of us) move (may as well, everything else is) to the next 'level' of this ever-expanding 'situation'?
it would also appear that there are some elements of 'society' that would prefer that we resign ourselves to triviality & discomfort, prior to dying prematurely, stuff like that. that's not what's happening at the million baby+ play-dates etc... no need to doubt/fear/thank them, they believe they were created for us/this time of transition, & remain hopeful that we will fail to 'moof it' for ourselves/them.
A Langston Field will protect you from the heat and radiation, at least for a while...
Assuming they exist, I wonder if they'd be more likely to form between binary stars. If not, then pairs might as well be between galaxies; making the phenomenon exceedingly difficult to find.
So far, scientists have invented the following imaginary forms of matter/energy in an attempt to prop up their failed models and understanding in recent times: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and now Phantom Matter. They have also created concepts like cosmic strings, branes and a multiverse. We don't have the technology to test for or detect any of those things. Isn't anyone else bothered by this? We all laugh at the idea of "ether" now but why are so many ready to accept these new invented types of matter/energy?
It seems to me that if these scientist were interested in pursuing intellectual honesty, they would admit that the models are broken and go back to the drawing board rather that trying to create something out of thin air.
I find it ironic that people on the internet these days like to put down faith and god but seem to completely miss that these scientists making shit up and you are just accepting it as fact.
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I was going to go with one of a dozen SG-1/SGA episodes myself.
Suns + wormholes almost always result in a rockin' 1960s adventure - unless it results in changing the makeup of a star and (nearly) dooming the neighboring civilizations.
But you need the Alderson drive to get you through the wormhole that you find inside the red giant star
Say did Larry and Jerry ever do a sequel to The Gripping Hand ?
And wormholes are almost always the result of world choices meant to ease production, most notably the work of scriptwriters or authors.
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Congress will immediately begin cutting the budget for all intra-stellar mass transit.
SHUT UP. The emperor's clothes are beautiful, and you're just jealous you can't see them.
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The Lorentz equations, born within ether theory, bloomed later handsomely within special relativity. Same formulae, slightly different interpretation.
That's how scientific progress work.
Anyone ever read crackpots for fun? I've read Richard Hoagland's website a few times over the years, for laughs, and this sounds like the same type of "hyper-dimensional" bullshit that he claims to have "discovered". I love science, but this type of bullshit has to go. Unless there is some observation they've made, or some data they can point to, this isn't much different than Hoagland just making shit up.
I 'd rather have a General Products n5 shell. It's been extensively tested.
This is obviously a hoax. Who's dumb enough to believe there's a place called Kyrgyz? That's just nonsense.
Sometimes you just need the ability to bring two points together when no straight line between them exists.
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Can anyone explain to me the difference between 'highly speculative research' and pseudoscience? Apart from acceptance by the scientific community as being deserving of funds I am having trouble differentiating them.
I was going to go with one of a dozen SG-1/SGA episodes myself.
Suns + wormholes almost always result in a rockin' 1960s adventure - unless it results in changing the makeup of a star and (nearly) dooming the neighboring civilizations.
Or blowing up the star and its planetary system and hurling you into another galaxy.
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Sometimes you just need the ability to bring two points together when no straight line between them exists.
A straight line exists, it's just at a higher dimension.
That depends on the universe of interest.
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Heck, I'd like to do it probably daily. Sadly, wishful thinking fails yet again... and again ;/
But seriously, IMHO that's often a case of limited (but "broad", man!...) imagination. And/or making our world much smaller than it is (but comfortable for minds used to circumstances on Earth)
Choosing two points which are quite close generally - so communication is fairly rapid - but requirement for some very high energy maneuver precludes them from being easily reachable (say, very different inclinations / intermittently approaching planetary systems in double star system / opposite directions of revolving) would be more, well, respectful to the intellects of the audience.
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