First of all, you would need materials that could not, to our knoledge, exist in the real universe. You would need exotic material. I will talk to you about this later. First of all, imagin the singularity of a black hole. For a worm hole to form, you would need two singularities to reach out into hyper space and meet each other. The odds of this happening are very, I emphasize the word "VERY", large; considering hyper space is about as large as space itself. Once the singularity touched the other singularity, they would destroy each other; creating, thus, a temperary portal between one reference point and another. This gate will not last long because of the tiny bits of radiation that would imedietly fall into the worm hole, making the throte contract and pinch of in much less then a second, making it impossible for any matter to get through. Thats where the exotic matter comes in. It threds the worm hole open for intersteller travel.
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First of all, you would need materials that could not, to our knoledge, exist in the real universe. You would need exotic material. I will talk to you about this later. First of all, imagin the singularity of a black hole. For a worm hole to form, you would need two singularities to reach out into hyper space and meet each other. The odds of this happening are very, I emphasize the word "VERY", large; considering hyper space is about as large as space itself. Once the singularity touched the other singularity, they would destroy each other; creating, thus, a temperary portal between one reference point and another. This gate will not last long because of the tiny bits of radiation that would imedietly fall into the worm hole, making the throte contract and pinch of in much less then a second, making it impossible for any matter to get through. Thats where the exotic matter comes in. It threds the worm hole open for intersteller travel.