Finding hypothetical wormholes is not difficult, according to the new theory, but not everyone agrees.
A group of scientists from China have presented their new study in which they claim that Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and black holes can help in the search for hypothetical space passages called wormholes, writes Space.
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For many decades, scientists from all over the world have been building theories about what wormholes, or as they are also called wormholes, can look like, with the help of which you can very quickly move in space from one point to another. Given that no one has ever found these space passages, scientists are also looking for ways to find them.
Imagine that you are on a spaceship and instead of flying for a very long time to a distant star, which is, for example, 50 light years away, you use a special passage in space – a wormhole. According to the theory, once you hit this object, you will immediately find yourself on the other side at approximately the distance you need.
Imagine that you are on a spaceship and instead of flying for a very long time to a distant star, which is, for example, 50 light years away, you use a special passage in space – a wormhole. According to the theory, once you hit this object, you will immediately find yourself on the other side at approximately the distance you need.
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This process can be visualized using a regular sheet of A4 paper. Put one point on opposite sides of the sheet, and then bend it in half so that the two points touch. Then take a regular pen or pencil and pierce this piece of paper. In this case, the handle will be the same spaceship, and the touching points will be a passage in space, that is, a wormhole. Based on the theories of physicists, these wormholes can thus bend space-time. And through these passages, any matter can penetrate, not just a spaceship.
For many decades, scientists from all over the world have been building theories about what wormholes, or as they are also called wormholes, can look like, with the help of which you can very quickly move in space from one point to another. Given that no one has ever found these space passages, scientists are also looking for ways to detect them.
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Some scientists believe that no wormholes really exist, since they have not yet been discovered, but other theoretical physicists continue to insist on the opposite. For example, recently a group of scientists from China created a new computer simulation to figure out how to find wormholes in space.
According to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, any object in space that has a huge mass can bend space-time, including light that comes from a more distant object.
Thus, for example, astronomers are now finding very distant galaxies that cannot be seen directly. To do this, they use massive objects such as other large galaxies or clusters of galaxies that bend and amplify light from distant objects.
Black holes, which are considered to be among the heaviest objects in the universe, can do the same. In a new study, scientists suggest that wormholes are actually likely to have the same mass as black holes. Their simulations show that such wormholes can make the light from more distant objects about 100,000 times stronger. And that will be the key to finding wormholes.
In a new study, scientists suggest that wormholes are actually likely to have the same mass as black holes. Their simulations show that such wormholes can make the light from more distant objects about 100,000 times stronger. And this will be the key to finding wormholes
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That is, with the help of the influence of a wormhole on the space surrounding them, these objects can be detected, scientists say. At the same time, the researchers concluded that despite the fact that wormholes can amplify light in the same way as black holes, there is still a difference in this process. Actually, therefore, it is possible to distinguish a black hole from a hypothetical wormhole.
According to scientists, if you observe a distant object that is behind a black hole, you can get four mirror images of this object. Modeling showed that in the case of a wormhole, only three images would be obtained, with one of them being very bright and clearer.
Although this is a very interesting theory, some American scientists believe that detecting wormholes will not be as easy as their Chinese counterparts have described. According to researchers from the US, you need to know exactly where to start looking for a wormhole, because not only black holes are very massive objects, but very large galaxies and clusters of galaxies are also such. This means that they also bend and amplify the light, as mentioned above.
Although this is a very interesting theory, some American scientists believe that detecting wormholes will not be as easy as their Chinese counterparts have described. According to researchers from the US, you need to know exactly where to start looking for a wormhole, because not only black holes are very massive objects, but very large galaxies and clusters of galaxies are also such.
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Therefore, it is not clear how to implement this method of searching for wormholes in practice, although the Americans agree that the new theory is very interesting and perhaps future technologies will be able to distinguish the amplification of light created by a wormhole from the same effect created by other massive space objects.
Focus already wrote that 2 years ago a study appeared in which physicists claim to have found a way to detect wormholes, which, in their opinion, are hiding in the centers of some galaxies.
Focus also wrote that scientists proposed using unusual matter to create wormholes for traveling through the Universe.
