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Speck Tater

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4. The problem with your chord of the cirlce illustration is

Reply to phantom power (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2012, 12:42 PM

Nov 2012

that the circle is already 2-dimensional and you've only used two dimensions for your wormhole. You need to draw your circle on a piece of paper and then wad the paper up into a tight ball to connect points through the third dimension.

Distance in dimension N+1 is not necessary correlated to distance in N dimensions. A two-dimensional wormhole in two-dimensional space is not a wormhole, it's an alternate route in 2D. Whether a wormhole is or is anot a shortcut would depend on the geometry of space in dimensions higher than the three we are aware of.

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wormholes - how short is a shortcut, really? [View all] phantom power Nov 2012 OP

But what if you view it dipsydoodle Nov 2012 #1

I like that! Stargazer09 Nov 2012 #3

Interesting question Stargazer09 Nov 2012 #2

I seems more likely to me... Speck Tater Nov 2012 #5

The problem with your chord of the cirlce illustration is Speck Tater Nov 2012 #4

The circle is a 1D manifold curved in 2D, so... phantom power Nov 2012 #6

Ah! That makes sense. Speck Tater Nov 2012 #7

The universe is flat on a cosmological scale. DetlefK Nov 2012 #8