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[Majorjim!]

Welcome to The Science Labs!

It really should be renamed to 'The philosophy forum'.

[Accelerando]

It really should be renamed to 'The philosophy forum'.

Let's split it off into its own website and call it Spacebabbles.net

[SciMan]

A lot of good general information about wormholes can be found here. This stuff is from the Orion's Arm website, which deals with "Hard" sci-fi, in other words everything must be at least theoretically physically possible (breaking laws of physics is strictly forbidden). So, even tho it's got "fiction" in it, it's still at least marginally useful from a scientific standpoint.

This paper from the same site has a more detailed and technical overview that explains the theories and math being used (PDF).

Basically:

1. Wormholes are the only way to get faster than light travel and/or communication.
   
2. Wormholes weigh a lot so they're always fixed installations.
   
3. Wormholes are incredibly hard to make, lots of energy, mass, and time go into making a wormhole factory.
   
4. Wormholes can only be moved before mass is added to them to bring them to a usable diameter, and they still weigh a lot even in their small state.
   
5. Wormholes require negative stress-energy, as well as an active control system to maintain the wormhole in a stable and traversable state.
   
6. Physically traversable wormholes require no significant gravitational fields (moon, planet, star) within a radius of 327 AU or they will destabilize.
   
7. Comms wormholes require much more complex control systems, and can only pass light. But they can tolerate significant gravitational fields much closer to them.
   
8. No type of wormhole is allowed to form a time machine. Any attempt to create a wormhole time machine results in the wormholes destabilizing.
   
9. A wormhole that loses stability for any reason will implode, resulting in extremely large releases of energy and the formation of a black hole at both ends of the wormhole. The energy released is directly proportional to the mass of the wormhole. The implosion of a small wormhole can release enough energy to destroy any and all life on an entire planet. Implosion of a very large wormhole can rival a supernova in terms of total energy released.
   

For reference, I think wormholes are one of those "Sure, we can figure out how it works if it already exists, but how do you make one of them in the first place?" kind of things.

It seems like those kind of things are quite common in The Science Labs, so I think it fits right in.

[WinkAllKerb'']

It really should be renamed to 'The philosophy forum'.

nope an old study (wich hopefully outdate and tend to be more & more false thoose day) mostly showed that:

if you take a said problem and present to an audience saying it's a math problem guy tend to succes better than gal

if you present it as an artitistic problem then gal perform better than guy.

it's mostly binded and related in educational standard roles attribution habits over ages (ref, neuro, psycho,ego&group&sexual identification etc. etc. etc. etc.).

fact it's the same problem either it's philosophy or science ... just expressed a different way ... time to translate word into math and math into word ; ) isn't what's "meta "..." algorythms" more or less are already doing ?

Edited July 20, 2015 by WinkAllKerb''