Through the Wormholes

Jonathan A. Varela Escapa

One night I was seeing a program on T.V. of the wormhole and I became so intrigued of it to learn more about it. The wormhole definition is a theoretical entity allowed by the Einstein’s theory of general relativity in which space time curvature connects two distant locations. 

The Einstein’s theory of general relativity also known as the Einstein-Rosen bridges, described by the formula: 

In which it describes that the wormhole connects in different parts of space in time.

The Einstein-Rosen mathematically wormhole was derived by the study of black holes, in which a black hole is a region of space time from which nothing, not even the light can escape from it. Einstein’s theory for the wormhole was never intended as a tool for space travel, it was theoretically created at some moment of time in which it will open up briefly then it will close, and anything that tries to pass through it will get crushed when it squeezes apart, so therefore this is not a traversable wormhole, and what we are looking is for a traversable wormhole.

The typically of wormhole that a scientist writes down in equations and studies is very unstable and will vanish in an incredibly short amount of time, and what we want that it stays open so we can theoretically travel through time, therefore we need something to let it open. For a wormhole to be kept open, it requires something called exotic matter or negative matter, we have never seen negative matter before, and this type of matter will have anti gravitational properties. The possibility of a traversable wormhole was first demonstrated by Kip Thorne and his graduate student Mike Morris in 1988, the type of traversable wormhole that they proposed, was held open by a spherical shell of negative matter, and it is referred as the Morris-Thorne wormhole. There have been other theories such as the Matt Visser and the Gauss-Bonnet theory.

The theory of general relativity predicts that if a traversable wormhole exists, this would allow travel in time and space, because the wormhole connects two points in space-time. A traversable wormhole could be used as a time travel machine, and this could be accomplished by accelerating one end of the wormhole to a high velocity relative to the other, and then sometime later bringing it back, this would cause a relativistic time dilation and would result in the accelerated wormhole mouth aging less than the stationary one, but time connects differently through the wormhole than outside it. Therefore synchronized clocks at each mouth will remain synchronized to someone traveling through the wormhole itself, no matter how the mouths move around. This means that anything entering the accelerated wormhole mouth would exit the stationary wormhole mouth at appoint in time prior to its entry or the same age that the accelerated end had been at the moment before entry.

There is still much speculation on whether it is possible for wormholes to actually exist and, if so, what properties they would actually possess. In conclusion, we can say that the wormhole is a system in which something can travel through time and space; in a very distant future we may really discover the facts about the wormhole, and it may be used as a time travel subway through the universe.