Fans of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine will be delighted to learn that Hyperspace and Visions author Michio Kaku, a physicist at the City College of New York, thinks wormholes - tunnels through space that collapse distance - are theoretically possible. To visualize how a wormhole works, draw dots 1 inch from opposite edges of a piece of paper. Then draw a line connecting the dots. Now fold the paper in half and punch a hole through both folds where the dot is. Notice how much shorter the distance through the hole to the other dot is. Still, Kaku doubts we'll ever be able to manipulate enough energy - approximately 1 quadrillion times the energy the canceled Superconducting Super Collider was expected to generate - to build our very own wormhole.
2095: Warp Drive
Fans of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine will be delighted to learn that Hyperspace and Visions author Michio Kaku, a physicist at the City College of New York, thinks wormholes – tunnels through space that collapse distance – are theoretically possible. To visualize how a wormhole works, draw dots 1 inch from opposite edges of […]
