How can we experimentally test for the distance of wormholes? Particles of matter would be traveling in slightly different ways around wormholes than

around normal black holes. This is something that astronomers might eventually

be able to detect and if those are detected not only would that be a Nobel Prize

winning it would be the kind of a thing that would allow us to realize that some of these places would seem inaccessible forever are actually not necessarily in principle and accessible.

I certainly hope that the universe ends up being a place where principle and

accessible I certainly hope that the universe ends up being a place where the ideas we can think of are also ideas that we can test.

Hello everybody and welcome to a very special episode of the Into the Impossible podcast featuring yours truly Dr Brian Keating professor of

experimental astrophysics at the University of California San Diego and Brian Keating, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics

at the University of California, San Diego,

and the Associate Director of the Arthur C. Clark

Center for Human Imagination.

And today's special episode is on honor

of two momentous human beings.

One is Alfred Nobel, who endowed the Nobel Prizes back in 1896 in his will.

And I speak about that at great length in my first book called

losing the Nobel Prize not to be confused with my second book think like a

Nobel Prize winner or on that later But the second individual is another great scientist

who, like Alfred Nobel, was renowned for his contributions

made to science and society, and even to the extent of him influencing and being

influenced by one of the three winners of the Nobel Prize in physics this past week,

Anton Zeilinger.

Now of course I'm talking about my great, but sadly,

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