Hi Jgiumelli and Jordan66.
Certainly, if you go out into your backyard and dig aroud you will find worms living in holes. But maybe you mean the space ones.
This is an interesting question and depends what you mean by real.
If you mean have people ever seen one, or been able to make one, then no.
But they are solutions to the equations of general relativity, so they are theoretically real.
Here is a link to more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_holes
Well, they have never been observed, although they are theoretically allowed as a solution to Einstein’s field equations. A vast number of black holes exist in the Universe and they devour a lot of material and produce a lot of radiation, so they are easy to observe. What we need is a prediction regarding what we would expect a worm hole to look like, and search for them. Einstein’s equations also admit other phenomena, like white holes. These are sort of the opposite of black holes. You cannot enter them but matter and light can escape them. While the mechanisms for forming black holes are pretty clear (matter collapsing to very high densities), there is no known mechanism to form a white hole, even though they are theoretically possible. A general rule of thumb I use is, if nature allows something theoretically, chances are it exists in some form somewhere.
Of course! If you go out and look at the lawn after it rains you can even see them. A good worm-hole is easy to spot because of the little mound of dirt next to it called a ‘casting’ A cast is essentially worm poo as the earthworm slides backwards, sticks its bottom outside and does a poo. It is mostly dirt though.
I suspect you may have been asking about a different kind of worm-hole though 😉
In the Stargate reality, yes! 🙂
In our reality, as far as we know, it is theoretically possible for them to exist but no one has ever seen one or been able to create one yet. That doesn’t mean that they don’t exist somewhere out there! They might and we just don’t know about them yet.
Hi Jgiumelli and Jordan66.
Certainly, if you go out into your backyard and dig aroud you will find worms living in holes. But maybe you mean the space ones.
This is an interesting question and depends what you mean by real.
If you mean have people ever seen one, or been able to make one, then no.
But they are solutions to the equations of general relativity, so they are theoretically real.
Here is a link to more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_holes
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Well, they have never been observed, although they are theoretically allowed as a solution to Einstein’s field equations. A vast number of black holes exist in the Universe and they devour a lot of material and produce a lot of radiation, so they are easy to observe. What we need is a prediction regarding what we would expect a worm hole to look like, and search for them. Einstein’s equations also admit other phenomena, like white holes. These are sort of the opposite of black holes. You cannot enter them but matter and light can escape them. While the mechanisms for forming black holes are pretty clear (matter collapsing to very high densities), there is no known mechanism to form a white hole, even though they are theoretically possible. A general rule of thumb I use is, if nature allows something theoretically, chances are it exists in some form somewhere.
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Of course! If you go out and look at the lawn after it rains you can even see them. A good worm-hole is easy to spot because of the little mound of dirt next to it called a ‘casting’ A cast is essentially worm poo as the earthworm slides backwards, sticks its bottom outside and does a poo. It is mostly dirt though.
I suspect you may have been asking about a different kind of worm-hole though 😉
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In the Stargate reality, yes! 🙂
In our reality, as far as we know, it is theoretically possible for them to exist but no one has ever seen one or been able to create one yet. That doesn’t mean that they don’t exist somewhere out there! They might and we just don’t know about them yet.
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