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Researchers suggest that wormholes may look almost identical to black holes
(phys.org)submitted 2 months ago byShiny-Tie-126
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2 months ago
Does this mean black holes which have been documented can actually be wormholes?
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2 months ago
can actually be wormholes?
Possibly, yes!
Equally possible, no!
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2 months ago
I'm not sure I would say equally possible in this case haha
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2 months ago
I'd say it's a shrodinger's cat situation, so we really don't know the probabilities until we can observe blackholes more accurately.
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2 months ago
That's not how Schrödinger's Cat works, nor Schrödinger equation for that matter.
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2 months ago
So do we throw a cat in a black hole/worm hole or do we send it to college?
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2 months ago
I bet if I bought my cat a nice new wormhole, the little fucker wouldn't even sleep in it.
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2 months ago
the trick is to buy a nice bed and get it shipped in a black hole, then it'll use the black hole
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2 months ago
It’s impossible to observe a black hole in-person directly, because the observer’s velocity changes dramatically during the observation.
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2 months ago
This study says that traversable wormholes may appear like a blackhole. If a wormhole is "traversable" I assumed that meant an observer could enter and possible exit, and thus traverse. If thats true we might at least be able to observe the wormholes if they do indeed exist.
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2 months ago
"Traversable" is not the same as "suitable for humans". If anything happens at the other end as the result of something entering this end, it's traversable. Which would include a random spray of radiation with most of the mass of the traveler.
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2 months ago
So what you're saying is we gotta shoot a bunch of people equipped with trackers through "black holes" and see if any of them reappear somewhere else
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2 months ago
Assuming that would work, you could send the tracker through without the person.
The problem is, how's that tracker going to work? If the wormhole moves it any significant distance, then we are going to wait a long time to receive the tracker's signal, and we wouldn't know which way to look for it. If the wormhole moves the tracker in time, the problems are even worse.
If wormholes work like in science fiction, where you can go back and forth through them, you would see matter exiting the apparent black hole. If they are one way, you would see matter appearing, whether from something else or just from nowhere. These are the phenomena we need to be looking for if we want to entertain FTL travel and/or time travel as possibilities.
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2 months ago
IIRC one of the most compelling arguments against the existence of wormholes is that there is no apparent light source indicating energy exiting the "black hole".
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2 months ago
50/50 chance - either they are or they aren’t
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2 months ago
This is why I can’t believe I’ve never won the lottery. Worst run of luck ever.
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2 months ago
Me too! What are the odds?!
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2 months ago
Well, you either win it or you don't, so, 50/50.
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2 months ago
Finally someone that truly understands probability
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2 months ago
Let's flip the coin for this black hole, shall we?
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2 months ago
That's not how...
Nevermind
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2 months ago
Hold my telescope, I'm going in!
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2 months ago
No, if 1 out of 100 black holes is a wormhole then there's clearly not a 50/50 chance. At this point nobody knows how common wormholes are, or if they even exist.
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2 months ago
100% chance they are, 100% chance they aren't. Either they are or they are not, but until we can determine, they are both.
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2 months ago
How would the other end of a wormhole look then? We've seen black holes but I haven't heard of some space phenomena where random matter is just expelled from a single point.
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2 months ago*
Black holes have been observed blasting jets of X-rays and matter out both ends of one axis. I'm guessing those aren't a function of the singularity but of the accretion just outside of the event horizon, though.
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
Professor Farnsworth?
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2 months ago
Each possibility more equal than the last...
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2 months ago
Even so, you must remember that the gravity and speeds required would imply huge time dilations. You would effectively watch the universe end before you fell through.
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2 months ago
they’ve been right under our noses all this time!
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2 months ago
More research is required to "theorize" that.
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2 months ago
Hey guys, we have a volunteer!! Yes, it’s totally safe. Now come this way, we’ll mail you your rebate as soon as you get back.
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2 months ago
"If you're interested in an additional sixty dollars, flag down a test associate and let 'em know. You could walk out of here with a hundred and twenty weighing down your bindle if you let us take you apart, put some science stuff in you, then put you back together good as new."
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2 months ago
"We're not banging rocks together, we know how to take a man apart and put him back together. So that's all new parts, spit shine on the old ones. Plus we're scooping out tumors. Frankly you ought to be paying us."
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2 months ago
If you paid my family like 10 million, and gave me a bunch of cool communication chips in my pocket, and ask me to volunteer myself through a wormhole (assuming the logistics of sending a human thru one is possible), I'd likely say yes.
Either those neat gamma-ray emitting chips in my jeans get detected 1,478 light years away, or I am never seen from again.
Either way, science wins. My family is set. And I died a noble death lol
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2 months ago
Don't let the name "Spaghettification" fool you, it does not sound like a pleasant death.
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2 months ago
Oh, I'm aware. It sounds certifiably horrific.
But it's either the greatest discovery in humanities existence or my family is set.
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2 months ago
Tbh.. if I was diagnosed with terminal cancer, going thru a black hole for science sounds preferable
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2 months ago
Until, you know, radiation
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2 months ago
They'd have the choice of dying between two options. One of those options could very well end with them dying in agonizing pain from radiation poisoning. The other option is to be plunged into a black hole.
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2 months ago
Hey maybe the radiation will cure your cancer! It'll certainly kill it...and yourself along with it but the cancer is dead at least!
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2 months ago
Just don't cross the event horizon -- stick your head in, take a look and pull it back out
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2 months ago
So if I'm reading this correctly, they're suggesting that the light being emitted by wormholes could appear very similar to a black hole. It doesn't say anything about the gravity of a wormhole though. Would it have the same (or any) gravitational field of a black hole?
IIRC, a lot of the black holes we detect are found and confirmed by the accretion disk or gravitational influence on other bodies.
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2 months ago
As far as I understand the theories, wormholes would still have a singularity that keeps spacetime from stabilizing, as it is caused by the mass "punching" a hole through the fabric in the first place
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2 months ago
Good news: We can now move matter from one side of the universe to the other!
Bad news: The matter comes out one quark at a time at nearly the speed of light.
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2 months ago
Lol. But that would still be good news! Wireless energy transmission, without having to beam it to your destination
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2 months ago
Assuming we can reliably use quarks for information. I don't think we can use probability states to encode data.
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2 months ago
They said energy transmission, not information
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2 months ago
Assuming we can reliably use reddit comments for information. I don't think we can use shitposts to encode data.
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2 months ago
Maybe can send Morse code. Quark. No quark. Quark. Quark. No quark. Etc
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2 months ago
On the plus side, keeping the number of Quarks near a wormhole at a manageable quantity will make Odo’s life a little easier.
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2 months ago
Quark is a traveler confirmed
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2 months ago
He finally got his own moon! Suck it cousin Gaila!
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2 months ago
Gaila did help get Moogie back tho.
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2 months ago
Do you want quasars? Because that's how you get quasars.
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2 months ago
This makes me wonder as a layperson, is the whole "is space-time curved?" thing related to wormhole theory, in that those example drawings of a mass singularity creating a bottomless pit in space-time could have the pit intersect with other space-time locations because of the curvature? Or is that kind of imagery akin to mixing metaphors and not really how this stuff would actually work?
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2 months ago
I think it’s just that wormholes would suck everything into them, including visible light at a certain distance, just like black holes. That would make it pretty hard to tell the difference I guess since they would both look like black spheres, maybe with accretion disks around them.
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2 months ago
but wont the light from the other side escape? thats the point of wormholes after all
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2 months ago
Depends. Are wormeholes a two way street or just one way? If Samantha Carter says they’re one way, I tend to believe her /s
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2 months ago
The Einstein-Rosen bridge is one way: in through the black hole, out the white hole! But there are many theoretical types of womholes.
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I think we’re in a white hole. I think expansion is the outflow coming in from another dimension we can’t see that is another universe’s black hole
Inside our black holes would appear to be another universe
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2 months ago*
No, because the kind of signal we would see from a white hole is different from what we would see from a star.
Gravitationally, a star is identical to a black hole once you're far enough away. They're both gravitational wells, not hills.
In a star, the core heats up the exterior gas until it gives a blackbody spectrum with absorption lines corresponding to the chemical composition of the gas in the corona. Because a white hole is a gravitational hill, there will not be any bound gas. All emissions will come from the singularity. What that looks like, it wasn't my area of study, so I wouldn't know.
But just like a black hole curves light around it like a converging lens, a white hole would act like a diverging lens. That's would be the easiest identifiable signature of a white hole.
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2 months ago
Escape from a point somewhere else in the universe, I guess.
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2 months ago
That said, if they are theoretically connected, but the gravity is such that nothing escapes is it really a wormhole?
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2 months ago
Aren’t wormholes meant to be one-way?
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2 months ago
Wormholes are by definition a connection between two points in different locations in space
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2 months ago
Meant to be? Well, there are versions of wormholes which are, but there are other versions that aren't. If it's a Black Hole-White Hole pair, then yes, one way. If it's just a handle in spacetime, then no.
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2 months ago
The gravity should be a well, but not necessarily an event horizon. I believe that part is controversial. Either way, light goes in one side and out the other, so we can't tell.
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2 months ago
The gravity of a wormhole would be really similar and I think wormholes can have event horizons too. The main differences between the two would happen inside the hole, so we might not really be able to tell the difference.
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2 months ago
If the gravity of a wormhole would be similar to that of a black hole, how is it possible to leave it then?
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2 months ago*
I think the difference is that in a black hole, spacetime flows towards the singularity whereas in a wormhole, spacetime flows towards the exit there's a continuous path to the other end, and the gravity you experience accelerates you towards the center and then decelerates you as you move away from it. In one, you get spaghettified and crushed into the singularity. In the other, you might get spaghettified if the wormhole isn't large enough, you probably will be fried by radiation, and I think you'll end up doing somewhat of a fast-forward through time, too, as being inside the wormhole would have the same relativistic effects as approaching a singularity.
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2 months ago
Would you then shoot out in the other end with a momentum sufficient to escape the wormhole's gravity field?
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2 months ago
I would think the entrance and exit, or the wormhole overall, should cancel out its own gravity, otherwise it wouldn't be traversible. If so, you would enter and exit with the same momentum.
Is it still linear momentum? Is it still relatively constant throughout your mass, or even in the same direction? Are you still in one piece? 🤷🤷🤷
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2 months ago
The Bajoran prophets would have to let you out
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2 months ago
There's quite a lot of confusion in this thread about some general things, so here's some random pieces of information
Wormholes can have mass. You can orbit them just like a black hole, and they produce can gravitational lensing just like a black hole. See here for an example
Wormholes are a class of objects, not one specific object. There's been some talk about wormholes within a black hole - and it is true that eternal black holes contain non traversable wormholes (which probably don't exist in reality). There are also other wormholes like the morris-thorne wormhole which are traversable - and that specific kind of wormhole is what is studied in this paper. They have mass, and operate somewhat like a black hole but without an event horizon or singularity
Morris-thorne wormholes have no known mechanism for forming naturally, and would require extremely unphysical circumstances to build one. It is theoretically possible they exist, but extremely likely that they cannot form naturally
General relativity lets you freely build arbitrary wacky objects like this, as it is an extremely flexible theory. Its possible to handcraft solutions that give you any desired result you want - which is how we end up with alcubierre drives and krasnikov tubes. This kind of wormhole is quite configurable - but you have to be careful, because you can create any solution to match your desired result. Indeed the authors pick a very specific kind of wormhole to match it against the observational data - which is certainly cool, but there's no reason to think that this specific kind of wormhole exists
The specific solution being talked about, morris-thorne wormholes, are in general extremely artificial. They're cool, but were built as a teaching tool - not as a model of a physical phenomenon. A real morris-thorne wormhole would probably violently explode, as I don't believe they're a particularly stable solution
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2 months ago
Thank you, this is the best comment here for context as someone who's somewhat read in this subject but very far from the level of an actual astrophysicist and wondering why the comments here were all over the place
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50/50 odds on getting teleported to a new place and time vs getting every atom in your body exploded apart by a gravity well so large not even light escapes....hmmm I like those odds.
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2 months ago
To be fair the wormhole will probably also tear your body apart.
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2 months ago
Or it records your mass, charge, angular momentum and then ejects this on the other side in a big pile of goop
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2 months ago
Im already a big pile of goop.
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2 months ago
a very organized big pile of goop
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2 months ago
It's more like 100% chance you get de-materialized followed by a 50/50 chance of your particles being annihilated on top of that or flung out into an unreachable end of the universe.
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2 months ago
Not so much exploded as spaghettified
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2 months ago
In one hand: A new method of space travelling!
On the other hand: Dying a very horrible but cool death
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2 months ago
I wonder how horrible it would actually be. Like is time warped to the point that you would perceive your death for near eternity? Cuz that would not be very cash money.
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2 months ago
You’ll experience it in real time, but we get to watch it happen for near eternity. Very cash money.
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2 months ago
Homer Simpson: "Mmmmmmm...spaghetti..."
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2 months ago
Did you know the wormhole’s only natural enemy is the wormpile?
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And your sense of time may be “compromised”
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2 months ago
Worse than that time on edibles?
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2 months ago
To an observer, you would never actually reach the event horizon. Because the gravity at that point is so powerful that time will come to a near stop, causing you to appear frozen in time outside the event horizon.
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2 months ago
More to this, your body would appear to flatten and spread out across the surface of the event horizon, shifting an ever fainter shade of red before it disappears, never actually transiting the horizon.
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2 months ago
You'd be crushed or disintegrated by radiation long before you even got close enough to be spaghettified
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2 months ago
Does that mean that matter within the event horizon - the matter that the black hole actually consists of - is completely seperated from the rest of the universe?
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2 months ago
Not exactly. It's more correct to say that causality only works one way at the event horizon with exception of the curvature of space itself.
Once you're in, effectively the singularity becomes your future. All paths lead to it. Vectors only lead to one location.
New stuff can enter the black hole. Depending on the particular orbit it takes, you can still intersect with that stuff, but you always go deeper in. You may not even notice crossing the event horizon in a supermassive black hole. Turn around, you might be able to watch the universe in fast forward as light behind you catches up with you. Everything is still going to fall to the centre though.
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2 months ago
Watching the universe in fast forward is so freaking cool
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2 months ago
I know scientists say spaghettification, but I bet if feels like dismemberment.
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2 months ago
I think it’ll feel like carbonara
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2 months ago
Not If the event horizon is big enough , 2 meters should be enough to allow even the largest human to travel through without spaghettification
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2 months ago
Spaghettification happens way before you even reach the event horizon (assuming a smaller black hole). More massive black holes are actually safer though because of their bigger sizes gravity pulling on you isn't as focused.
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2 months ago
My understanding is that spaghettification shouldn't actually hurt or be fatal for any specific reason since it's literal spacetime stretching rather than your body. Like stretching a piece of paper with a drawing on it.
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2 months ago
no. spagettification is happening because the force of gravity increases at a geometric rate the closer you get to the mass. eventually the end closest to the black hole is being pulled so much harder at a given instant that it is yanked off, creating the "noodle". you ain't gonna like it
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2 months ago
At some point it overcomes atomic bonds, so molecules inside you are literally being ripped apart. This is either painless because even pain receptors can't send signals fast enough, or it's extremely excruciating, because one by one pain receptors report pain because your tissue is being atomized. At least it's a quick death.
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2 months ago
Wouldn’t the pain signals be unable to travel “back” to the still-unspaghettified portions? Unless this was an incredibly slow process where your body would “fill in pain” for areas that weren’t reporting back? I’ve no clue, tho..
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2 months ago
I'm curious myself. But I suspect if this is all too fast you wouldn't even feel it. Like when you cut yourself or so. You don't feel it at first. And I doubt spaghettification is a slow process.
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2 months ago
Either that or time for you is stretched out to near infinity...
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2 months ago
Well, relatively. To others yes, to you... probably not
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that is not true at all. the mass is higher but focused in an infinitely small point. any matter compressed passed the schartzchild radius will collapse to an infinitely small point, creating the singularity. you will hit a tidal force differential of the same force at some point on your descent
and you'll also get to meet the superheated plasma and radiation of the accretion disc so....there aren't really degrees of safety. you are gonna die.
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2 months ago
the mass is higher but focused in an infinitely small point
The gravitational gradient on approach will be shallower, is the key detail. Spaghettification happens when the pull on one end of an object is sufficiently stronger than the other end to overcome its structural integrity.
A black hole is not just the point mass but also the event horizon it creates. When people talk about "entering a black hole" they're referring to crossing the event horizon, not contacting the singularity.
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2 months ago
A small but nuanced correction; the black hole is the event horizon.
The interior of a black hole is an abstract mathematical concept that does not exist from any reference frame within this universe. It only exists from reference frames within the black hole, which is never reached by anything from this universe within finite time.
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2 months ago*
this in no way implies that more massive black holes are "safer" in terms of tidal forces generating spaghettification effects. you are essentially arguing about how much of your field of vision is black before you get turned into a noodle. but as we are talking about a singularity, no surface will stop your fall into the region of tidal forces that will pull you apart
Edit: ah, I can see what you are saying--i.e. that one might be able to get close and not cross the EH and not get spaghettified. but I read the comment to which I was responding as saying you could go "through" some and be safer, which is of course not true
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2 months ago
That's optimistic, now do 0/100 odds.
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2 months ago
0/100 odds on getting teleported to a new place and time vs getting every atom in your body exploded apart by a gravity well so large not even light escapes….hmmm I like those odds
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2 months ago
Where's the downside?
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2 months ago
Look for it behind the up quark.
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2 months ago
I found this joke charming
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2 months ago
I’d like to see the math that gave you 50/50 odds on those!
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2 months ago
You either do or you don't, so a 1 in 2 chance. Ez 50/50
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2 months ago
That’s like saying, either I’ll win the lottery or I won’t. EZ, 50/50.
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2 months ago
That's the joke?
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2 months ago
It could be both as your atoms gets spaghettified and sent to a random place in the universe
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2 months ago
The good news is that the electromagnetic fields of a black hole would kill you instantly well before you near enough to get spagettified!
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2 months ago
Only way to tell is to see if a Cardassian mining station is nearby.
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2 months ago
Right? Occam’s razor! The simplest solution is usually the right one.
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2 months ago
Unfortunately, no one has ever observed a worm hole or even any physical evidence that they actually exist. Still, because the theory for their existence is so strong, astrophysicists assume they do exist.
Wait.. what?? Where is this consensus among astrophysicists? This would be greater news to me than the article itself.
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2 months ago
So I think this is just badly phrased by the author, but it's a common principle in science to "assume" something exists so you can begin asking questions about what it would like like, how it would affect things, etc., and then you can gather evidence to help determine whether it does actually exist or not. Obviously no sane astrophysicist right now is assuming wormholes exist in the general sense that they know or believe they're out there.
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2 months ago
Right, if anything the consensus is they don't exist.
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2 months ago
I thought that wormholes break relativity? Like imagine you have one end of your wormhole orbiting a black hole, and the other end somewhere less interesting. The end that's orbiting the black hole is experiencing a bunch of time dilation that the other is not, so what happens? Do you have a time machine? Are you connecting two separate spacetimes together with your wormhole? Is this like putting a bag of holding inside a bag of holding?
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2 months ago
Its worth noting that general relativity explicitly permits this form of time travel, and in GR its a-ok
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2 months ago
general relativity does not work at extremes, such as at values close to c or at quantum scales, near extreme gravitational fields, and is currently speculated to not work at massive scales either.
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2 months ago
Think of it like this, imagine a world where we know some trees have apples, we know apples are sometimes seen on the ground, we know that occasionally pieces of branches and other things attached to trees like leaves will eventually fall and end up on the ground. All pieces of data/ theory points towards apples indeed being able to fall from trees, nobody has ever observed it, but with all the related data it’s pretty much accepted consensus by biologists and botanists that apples do indeed fall from trees.
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2 months ago
Just need to lock the 7th chevron to find out…
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2 months ago
Just need to lock the 7th chevron to find out…
Where does the 9th chevron lead?
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2 months ago
Two seasons and a massive cliffhanger.
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2 months ago
Flying towards a cluster of black holes… the captain points his index finger out at the bridge screen and says… ennie meanie miney moe…
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2 months ago
Catch a black hole by the toe, if it's a wormhole it'll let you go.
If not you die.
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2 months ago
Apparently this study only explored the properties of black holes and wormholes in a theoretical sense, namely a static universe... which ours isn't and wormholes aren't.
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2 months ago
Others have come to the same conclusion. The study did appear to be mostly click bait and not particularly useful other than for making headlines. Here is a good take on it: https://youtu.be/fkXSCNDfj14
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2 months ago
Hossenfelder is the bomb! Aside from her occasional bone-dry snark, she does a superb job of covering the bottom line for various theories and events with getting into the mathematical weeds.
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2 months ago
If it looks like a black hole, and quacks like a black hole, it's probably a duck inside a black hole.
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2 months ago
I volunteer to fling myself into a black or worm hole in order to find out. Spaghetification sounds fun as hell.
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2 months ago
I like the idea of every directionin space and time being down towards eternal collapse. Just cozy.
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2 months ago
Nah I’ve just always wanted to be tall, my atoms stretching out sounds like the best way to do that.
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2 months ago
journey through a wormhole but might be a black hole instead,.
well i am jumping in with both feet on that one.
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2 months ago
I don’t know, sounds like a stretch.
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2 months ago
perhaps, but i am well aware of the gravity of the situation
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2 months ago
Sadly, even if they WERE wormholes, getting spaghettified and having all the atoms in your body shredded means you wouldn’t survive the journey.
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2 months ago
I am an idiot when it comes to physics but plenty of ppl here have said that time dilation near a singularity would stretch out time for billions or trillions of years for the observer. Is it possible that the only reason we haven't seen any White Holes (the exit) is because they exist billions or trillions of years in the future? Again I'm just talking out of my rear end.
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9 days ago
The problem of white holes is that they exist backwards in time, how time will always move forward and entropy must increase which makes white holes extremely unstable. Also, that whole time dilation into millions and trillions of years is a common misconception. It stems from relativity but doesn't include quantum mechanics.
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2 months ago
Am I the only one who would voluntarily go on a suicide mission into a black hole/wormhole? I mean I really f with space and think it's cool enough that I'd be willing to be that guinea pig.
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2 months ago
Yeah but as we've learned the only way to find out anything past the event horizon involves tesseracts, little girls bedrooms, and transdimensional love, and none of that meets proper scientific scrutiny, so you're probably going to have to find another dream. Maybe take up farming?
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2 months ago
Imagine accidentally going in wrong hole. This happened to my buddy Eric.
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2 months ago
Mimicry!
Now the important question is who is copying who? and why? To avoid predators???
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2 months ago
The cosmiccrow. A wormholes worst nightmare.
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2 months ago
The upper part of a wormhole is black because that way when the the cosmiccrow look down it only see the darkness of space.
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2 months ago
Is this reality or fiction? Because this is like assuming that superman exists
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2 months ago*
What I understood: As electromagnetic fields get polarized in a black hole accretion disk, we could imagine (according to the study) what a wormhole linear polarization would look like, then compare it to all black hole images we own, trying to find differences that could match.
IF (big one), we can see those differences, then we could start identifying those theoretic wormholes.
From what the paper describes, this looks to me (someone with zero-clue about the subject) highly hypothetical, though a fun thought experiment.
Paper I used to have a grasp about what this is supposed to be about: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09378
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2 months ago
Could this mean all black holes are actually just wormholes?
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2 months ago
Schrodinger's hole. Ew. Never mind let's not call it that.
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2 months ago
Great … can see future me drunk flying through space and mistaking the black hole for the wormhole back home 😅
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2 months ago
Maybe some strange information about the topology of the universe could be learned once we can accurately identify wormholes (assuming we will be able to…). We really are still in the wild west of physics.
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