Wormholes are conduits that connect two disparate locations in space and time, and physicists at the University of Cambridge have provided a theoretical basis for their existence. If data or a physical object could pass through the wormhole, time travel and immediate communication across huge distances would become conceivable.
However, there is an issue: “Einstein’s wormholes are extremely unsteady, and they don’t stay open long enough for something to pass over.”
Casimir energy, a form of negative energy, was first hypothesized to be responsible for maintaining open wormholes in 1988.
The Cambridge-proposed approach is based on the peculiarities of quantum energy, which imply that even vacuums are teeming with waves of energy.
Matt Visser of New Zealand’s Victoria University of Wellington wonders, “Does this mean we have the technology for building a wormhole?” Again, “the correct answer is no.” But Butcher’s writing still intrigues him. From a scientific point of view, this could spark new curiosity about wormholes.
Some energy waves, if visualized as being too large to fit between two metal plates in a vacuum, would cause the space-time between the plates to have negative energy.
Could the wormhole’s tube-like shape, given the correct conditions, produce Casimir energy? Casimir energy is created at the center of a wormhole, according to calculations, if the wormhole’s throat is many times longer than its mouth.
