Here's How We Could Detect a Wormhole

[Judi Lynn]

By Mike Wall 3 hours ago Science & Astronomy

But any finds would probably be tentative, unfortunately.



Diagram of a wormhole.Diagram of a wormhole.(Image: © Shutterstock)

Weird star wiggles could betray the presence of wormholes, if these fabled space-time tunnels do indeed exist, a new study suggests.

Wormholes are sci-fi staples; over the years, many stories, books and movies have sent their protagonists zipping between widely separated locales via these cosmic shortcuts. Wormholes are possible, according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, but nobody has ever spotted one.

The new study provides a possible way to make the first tentative detection: look for slight but strange movements of stars.

"If you have two stars, one on each side of the wormhole, the star on our side should feel the gravitational influence of the star that's on the other side," study co-author Dejan Stojkovic, a cosmologist and professor of physics at the University at Buffalo in New York, said in a statement. "The gravitational flux will go through the wormhole."

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[Nitram]

1. Wouldn't there be many other more plausible reasons for a "slight but strange movements of stars?"

They would have to be eliminated first.

[BadgerKid]

2. Like that one Stargate episode

Where the gravitational effect of a black hole was propagated through the stargate to Earth.