imported_Ziggy
03-May-2004, 06:33 PM
I once heard somewhere that by createing a wormhole that leads to it's beging point, and going through it at reavalistic speeds, you can travel backwords through time, or something like that. Can anyone give me a more detailed description?
Fraser
03-May-2004, 07:39 PM
The gist of traveling through a wormhole would work like this.
Let's say you created a wormhole, and connected one point here on Earth, and then put the other end on a spaceship and traveled at near light-speed for a few years. As predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity, there would be a significant time difference between the two ends of the wormhole. The end on Earth would have experienced millions of years, while the one on the spaceship would only have seen a few years. You could then travel through the wormhole and go back in time, but only to the point when the wormhole was first created.
That said, creating and moving a wormhole is completely theoretical, and could very well require more energy than is available in the entire Universe.