The Unknown Wormholes

By: M. Gilchrist

Space has been one of the many aspects of science least attainable to the human mind, its infinite size thus the name ‘space’ makes it hard to imagine the many possibilities inside it.  
 
The concept of wormholes first originated more than 100 years ago in 1916. Ludwig Flamm was who depicted the idea for the first time. But who really began to develop it was one of, or even the most well-known scientist ever: Albert Einstein, along with Nathan Rosen. The influence of both these scientist onto the topic led to the name Einstein-Rosen bridge, the original name for wormholes.  
 
To understand the concept of wormholes we must view them almost as tunnels, which slices through space from one point to another allowing things to travel quicker than the average way we know of today. This way a trip through space which would take decades could theoretically take hours or minutes.  
 
Although we have never found actual evidence that wormholes exist beyond the pages of fiction or film it has been the answer to some important physics equations. Most importantly Einstein’s theory of general relativity and space-time. Einstein’s idea described how stars, planets and other objects moved throughout the universe and how it is shaped.  As the basis of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, it was proposed an equation in which a German physicist names Schwarzschild solved to find the space time geometry surrounding a static, spherically symmetric mass such as a star or a blackhole. So, in basic words how does the region around these objects work geometrically.  
 
Through this solution, Schwarzschild predicted the distance from the centre of an object at which the velocity where the object can escape from the gravitation pull holding it (escape speed) equals to the speed of light. This is distance is equivalent to a radius commonly known as the Schwarzschild radius. And if an object is compressed within this distance nothing can escape, not even light, thus a blackhole.  
 
Blackholes are essential parts of understanding wormholes as Schwarzschild wormholes, aka Einstein-Rosen bridge, signifies how a black hole, where nothing can escape is connected to a white hole, where matter and light can only leave but not enter. Nowadays this solution has begun to seem oversimplified and inconsiderate to other points necessary to hold/stabilize a wormhole. It is quite probable that in the event of the big bang many small wormholes were formed which could be stabilize due to negative energy, an opposing energy to the wormhole’s gravity, but as the universe stretched they collapsed.  
 
Despite these topics being hard to grasp, the point is to identify the infinite possibilities within space. And how wormholes may be true or not.  
 
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