"It's sort of like, how do you create something that will warp space and then put it in front of your spacecraft?" What about teleportation?Ī related science fiction idea is teleportation - the possibility of instantly conveying a person or ship into another part of the universe. "The problem is, where do you get the black hole and how do you get it in front of your spacecraft?" Shostak said. But the object would need to have the density of the center of a black hole in order to work. Perhaps similar to the "hyperspace engine" seen in the "Star Wars" movies, the object would distort the shape of space around it, essentially bringing the chosen destination closer to the ship. Technically, it would be possible to warp space to create wormhole if one could place a very dense piece of mass in front of their ship, Shostak said. "But the question is, can we actually use them for transportation?"įinding or creating a wormhole that's going to the right place and scooting through it before it closes up and smashes your spaceship to pieces are two unsolved problems that the laws of physics don't clearly bar or allow. "Wormholes, we think, are made all the time on a microscopic level," Shostak said. However, our access to these inter-space freeways would be limited by the size of the portal.
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