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Originally Posted by troutman
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Just based on my extremely shallow understanding of worm holes and physics (mainly what I learned from watching PBS Spacetime), we don't even know if worm holes exist. They can exist in theory, but it isn't a certainty. On top of that, even if they did exist, travelling through one, peering through one, or even sending a signal through one would be impossible in theory without keeping it open with "phantom energy", something that hasn't even been considered theoretically possible. It's something conceived by theoretical physicists basically in order to complete the "what if" thought experiments, but there are no grounds to believe it actually exists.