AaS! 45: Wormholes - deal or no deal?
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
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🗓️ 6 December 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Are wormholes real or what? How did we even start thinking of them? If we could build one, would it be possible to actually, you know, use it? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 0:45.3 | So many ways. |
| 0:46.7 | So many questions. |
| 0:47.4 | We have one simple goal with this show. |
| 0:51.7 | Complete knowledge of time and space. And on the road to complete knowledge of time and |
| 0:57.9 | space, we have two questions from Twitter at Brett Heinz 61 asking, what would we find at a |
| 1:05.5 | wormhole? And at Skatata asking, how do we know that wormholes can exist in black holes if the gravity doesn't allow anything to escape? |
| 1:16.8 | Two excellent questions. |
| 1:19.1 | And wormholes are, I don't even know where to start. |
| 1:22.9 | Well, I do know where to start because I already typed up my notes for the episode. |
| 1:26.9 | But it's just like |
| 1:27.9 | wormholes are this mainstay feature of science fiction. Like every science fiction show you could |
| 1:37.1 | possibly ever want to watch or read about or anything somehow involves wormholes. wormholes as we'll discover are really |
| 1:47.0 | really handy for making shortcuts across the universe so if you don't want your episode to be like |
| 1:54.0 | four and a half years long you actually want to condense it down to say 42 minutes so you have |
| 2:00.6 | some time for some commercials you need a |
| 2:03.2 | wormhole now to talk about wormholes we first need to talk about general relativity because |
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