Wormhole Facts for Kids

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11 Wormhole Facts for Kids

  1. A wormhole is a theoretical connection between two different points in spacetime.
  2. A wormhole is also called an Einstein-Rosen bridge or an Einstein-Rosen wormhole.
  3. A wormhole is just a theory. No evidence exists proving wormholes exist or existed in the past.
  4. You can image a wormhole as a tunnel that has two ends, both going to different points in spacetime. These points can lead to different locations, different points in time or a combination of both.
  5. Another way to imagine a wormhole is to think of an earthworm eating through a piece of cake. While one end is sticking out of the top of the cake, the other is sticking out the bottom.
  6. Researchers believe a wormhole could connect different parts of the universe that are billions of light-years away, to different points of time (time travel) or even an alternate universe.
  7. A wormhole in theory could be used to travel faster than the speed of light, allowing humans to explore the galaxy and the observable universe.
  8. A traversable wormhole in theory could be used to travel back in time, however you could not travel into the future.
  9. A wormhole in theory could be used to communicate or travel to parallel universes.
  10. The first proposed concept of a wormhole was by Hermann Weyl in 1928. He referred to his proposed idea as a one-dimensional tubes.
  11. The term wormhole was coined in 1957 by American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler in a paper that was co-authored by American physicist Charles Misner.

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