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Do wormholes really exist?
Question Date: 2005-11-17
Answer 1:

This is an interesting question. Actually, the concept of wormholes is an important ingredient in science fiction movies and literature. For now, wormholes are mostly speculation. The idea that wormholes provide a quick and easy way to traverse vast expanses of space without the passage of time makes them suitable for science fiction movies and literature. Nevertheless, the concept is something which, according to traditional physics, should be impossible.

A wormhole is the idea of a bridge or tunnel that provides a shortcut from one region of the universe to another, and to make things even more fantastic, wormholes could effectively connect not only different parts of the Universe, but even different Universes!



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