Physicists have figured out how to look for wormholes for time travel and between universes

By: Maksim Panasovskiy | 10.03.2023, 22:43
Physicists have figured out how to look for wormholes for time travel and between universes

The wormhole is a feature of spacetime that represents a tunnel in space at every moment in time. It is compatible with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, but its existence is still no more than a hypothesis that no one has been able to prove. The concept of a wormhole was first introduced by John Archibald Wheeler, a physicist from the USA.

Chinese scientists seem to have come up with a way to find wormholes. They believe that wormholes can be detected by circumstantial evidence, as is the case with black holes. The latter completely absorb all light, so they cannot be seen. However, scientists are confident that black holes exist and even manage to study them.

Simulations by Chinese scientists have demonstrated that wormholes can have enormous mass to refract light from objects behind them. In simple words, wormholes will magnify distort distant stars behind them. This is what black holes and galaxy clusters are able to do.

Scientists believe that the object behind the wormhole will appear in three magnified copies, one of which will be brighter than the others. In the case of black holes, the effect is different. A black hole causes not three but four copies, but all of them have about the same brightness level.

Despite this, the work of Chinese scientists can hardly be called a revolutionary discovery. Even if the simulations were indeed correct, finding a mole hole would be as easy as hearing a man whispering at a rock concert. Andreas Karch, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin, says this. So there's still room for improvement.

Source: space