What are wormholes (in space)?Could space ships travel through them?

Question

Jeff Peckman said that this is how they travel and it's much much faster.Could this mean they don't have to travel light years to get here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUnQe3vOi0

Answer 1

these are theoretical and we do not know much about them.who maybe we can or maybe it would just kill us.

Answer 2

Wormholes are NOT a viable way for humans or ships to travel.

First of all, they are still only theoretical.  They have not been observed.

And even in the theories, the wormholes are atomic sized and only last for fractions of a second.

The amount of energy it would take to create a wormhole large enough to fit a SMALL spacecraft would equal MORE than the planet Earth could produce!

Technically it is impossible.  Unless we harness the power of the hypothesized Strange Energy.  But in order to do that we would have to be a Class 3 civilization already, and at that point Wormhole travel would be obsolete anyway.

Nope, cheating the speed of light is not going to happen anytime in the foreseeable future.

"Warping" space is still the safest bet, and that is completely hypothetical.  The science doesn't even exist to theorize on it.

Answer 3

They are the theoretical counterpart to black holes. There is empirical evidence for black holes but so far none for "worm holes". Maybe they are real, maybe not.  Without knowing anything more about them nobody can say if a space ship can travel through one or not. Peckman is pretty much a crackpot.

Answer 4

I can't even get rid of a gopher in my back yard and you want to go chasing worms in space that you don't even know exist. Please, if you come get this gopher and I'll tell you all I know.

Answer 5

Peckman is as nutty as a fruitcake, so anything he says should be taken with a grain or two of salt.

Wormholes are theoretical speculation.  They may exist, but as of yet they only exist on paper.

Even if aliens traveled through worm holes Peckman wouldn't know it.  I wager he knows nothing about wormholes.

Answer 6

think of space as a woven blanket. (this is a 2 dimensional model, but space has 3 dimensions)

You want to travel from on side of the blanket to the other. Lets say there are two wrinkles in the blanket. If you lay a stick across that wrinkle, you can skip over the middle part of the blanket and cross a lot faster, otherwise you have to travel the whole length. This stick is a wormhole, which is a bridge between bends in space which we can not otherwise cross.

Its like a bridge between the peaks of two mountains. You would have to hike 5 miles into the valley to cross down one hill and up another, but the bridge gets you across in half a mile with no slope.

Does this make sense?

Answer 7

No space ship can travel through something not yet proven to exist.

Answer 8

In theory it is possible, yes.

The author/physicist that I provide a link to below has excellent books and lectures on wormholes, hyperspace, and other theoretical physics.

Psi

Answer 9

I need a worm to chase my gopher, could you help?

Answer 10

i believe its possible