The Exotic Wormhole

Curious Cases

BBC

Science

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

"What are wormholes and do they really exist?" asks Manlee-Fidel Spence, aged 12. In this exotic episode, the doctors investigate how wormholes would work.

Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen explains why wormholes could allow you to travel through time as well as space. And physicist Jim AlKhalili outlines the infinite problems this could generate.

When it comes to wormholes and time travel, many science fiction stories have married solid science and successful storytelling, as Jennifer Oullette describes, but others really have defied the laws of physics. Jim also reveals why some quantum physicists now think that wormholes could be everywhere. But don't expect to jump back to 1955 any time soon.

Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford Producer: Michelle Martin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	MUSIC
0:10.6	I'm Dr Adam Rutherford.
0:12.1	And I'm Dr Hannah Fry.
0:13.5	And you are going to send us your everyday mysteries.
0:16.4	And we are going to investigate them.
0:18.3	Using the power of...
0:19.6	Science!
0:20.4	Science!
0:21.1	Science!
0:22.1	I like it.
0:26.0	We have come to the end of another series.
0:29.7	Of the curious cases of Rutherford and Fry.
0:32.0	Everyone is sad about it.
0:33.6	I'm not.
0:35.1	Oh, no, sorry. Are we recording this?
0:36.4	Yes.
0:37.3	Yes, we are.
0:38.5	Everyone's sad about it.
0:39.6	Yes.
0:40.0	And we're particularly sad about this one,
0:41.2	because actually this is Michelle Martin,
	...

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