Period 6 Group 3, Jeff, Shashank, JingJing

       Although Wormholes were first proposed in 1935 my Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen, they are just a part of science fiction and have not been physically proven yet, only proven through the use of equations. At first they were called Einstein- Rosen bridges, after the discoverers, but are now more commonly known as wormholes.
      What exactly are wormholes?
Wormholes are theoretical passages through space and time that can be used as shortcuts. Although this seems like an amazing discover, wormholes are not as simple and as useful as they sound. Wormholes are very unstable and can collapse easily, and emit high radiation.
      How exactly are they formed?
Wormholes are formed when one hole in space, possibly a black hole, starts to branch and connect to another rip or hole in space. A good way to picture this is if you imagine the universe to be single sheet or plane. On that plane, there exists multiple holes, but we will just pretend there are only two holes for simplicity. In order for two holes to be connected, the sheet must be folded in such a way so that two layers are formed, each layer containing one hole, and are stacked one on top of the other so that they are connected.

Above is a pictorial depiction of a wormhole 

Some theories suggest that the two "mouths", or holes, that are connected are two black holes. But a wormhole can not simply be created by the black hole formed by the collapsing of a star.

What can we do with wormholes?
Worm holes, if they exist, will allow us to travel from a certain point, point A, to a designated point, point B, much faster, even at an instant, when the normal way to travel from A to B would take light-years. This form of travel would also allow the user to travel at speeds faster than the speed of light. Because of this fact, it can be said that wormholes would allow us to travel even back in time. This idea can be supported with Albert Einstein's theory of Quantum Leap.
      His theory states that if a clock in motion were to be compared to a clock at rest, the clock in motion would appear to be running slowly. This illustrates that time is relative to the speed at which an object is moving. If this were to be applied to wormholes, then time travel would be possible.
      For example, if an astronaut were to leave earth, travel at the speed of light for a small amount of time, such as a year, and then returned to earth, all at the speed of light, he would be in the future. This is because from the astronauts perspective, only a year has elapsed, but if he was to be observed at a different perspective, from that of earth,  much, much more time has elapsed. So if one were to travel through a wormhole, they would be traveling at speeds faster than the speed of light, thus successfully traveling through time. While only a few seconds would pass from the traveler, all around, time would speed up and he would be possibly in the future.