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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford
Also, on another note, wouldn't the most feasible way for humans to travel be something along the lines of the movie Event Horizon - where they essentially create a mini-black hole that folds space-time, and then just rip a hole through it and unfold it again?? Is that worm-hole technology, or is worm-hole travel limited to the theoretical worm holes that are out there in space already and we just have to find them?  |
My understanding is they are two seperate things. I haven't explored space folding much, but I believe it is closer to Star Trek's warp drive. With Warp drive the ship is distorted to go from 100 meters long to several kilometres. At that point it can travel at a relative speed of 0.5c, but due to the distortion it actually is travelling at several times the speed of light from point A to point B.
With a wormhole, think of a 2 dimensional person living on a planet. He knows he can walk a certain distance to get to a certain point. One day he falls into a wormhole and comes out at his destination, but he traveled a much shorter distance. Because he is two dimendional he cannot comprehend how three dimensional space and physics works. In that same way, we cannot fully comprehend how 4 or 5 dimensional space and physics works.