Throwing a wormhole into itself...
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Throwing a wormhole into itself...
What would happen if you took one mouth of a wormhole and tried to force it through the other mouth?
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Re: Throwing a wormhole into itself...
Well, we have no real world examples. But as I understand it, if a real world wormhole can be made at all it will be something constructed with immense energies in a precise balance. So, my non-physicist guess would be that the result would be a collapsed wormhole, a gravitational wave from the collapse itself, and something-or-other from whatever was holding the wormhole stable in the first place. Not knowing what the latter would be makes saying what would happen to it impossible.
IF you could hold the mouths stable, my guess would be that the ends would merge, and the thing would form a closed ring and pinch off from the universe or, again, collapse. But really, this is really pretty much wild guessing.
IF you could hold the mouths stable, my guess would be that the ends would merge, and the thing would form a closed ring and pinch off from the universe or, again, collapse. But really, this is really pretty much wild guessing.
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Now you're thinking with portals!RTHSFF wrote:What would happen if you took one mouth of a wormhole and tried to force it through the other mouth?
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At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
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Re: Throwing a wormhole into itself...
If a wormhole is a warp in the structure of space to have two separate points share the same "position", bringing those two points to occupy the same actual position would mean you'd have no wormhole.
At the very least you might get a sort of wrinkle in space that has objects come out of the wrinkle the same way they came in, kind of like a mirror.
Now, all this is speculation, of course, I'll let the physics heavyweights debate the reality shattering possibilities, and its numbers.
At the very least you might get a sort of wrinkle in space that has objects come out of the wrinkle the same way they came in, kind of like a mirror.
Now, all this is speculation, of course, I'll let the physics heavyweights debate the reality shattering possibilities, and its numbers.
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Incidentally, a precursor to Portal let you shoot the portal gun through an open portal, and create a new opening through the other side. Mind-pretzel ahoy!
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Wouldn't it just return space to normal?
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Re: Throwing a wormhole into itself...
It would be the space-time equivalent of an Intussusception:
An intussusception is a medical condition in which a part of the intestine has invaginated into another section of intestine, similar to the way in which the parts of a collapsible telescope slide into one another.[1] This can often result in an obstruction. The part that prolapses into the other is called the intussusceptum, and the part that receives it is called the intussuscipiens. - wiki
An intussusception is a medical condition in which a part of the intestine has invaginated into another section of intestine, similar to the way in which the parts of a collapsible telescope slide into one another.[1] This can often result in an obstruction. The part that prolapses into the other is called the intussusceptum, and the part that receives it is called the intussuscipiens. - wiki
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Re: Throwing a wormhole into itself...
You can still do that if you step partway through the portal and then fire off 'entry' portal color.Hawkwings wrote:Incidentally, a precursor to Portal let you shoot the portal gun through an open portal, and create a new opening through the other side. Mind-pretzel ahoy!
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