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What is a Wormhole?

What is a Wormhole?. Shortcut  a compact region of spacetime whose boundary is topologically trivial but whose interior is not simply connected. Science Fiction?. 1935. Albert Einstein. Nathan Rosen. Collapsing Wormholes. Open for an instant Singularity - Infinite gravity

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What is a Wormhole?

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  1. What is a Wormhole? Shortcut  a compact region of spacetime whose boundary is topologically trivial but whose interior is not simply connected

  2. Science Fiction? 1935 Albert Einstein Nathan Rosen

  3. Collapsing Wormholes • Open for an instant • Singularity - Infinite gravity - Crushed to smallest form of matter EXOTIC MATTER - Prevents collapsing

  4. We’ve got time

  5. SOURCES • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/strange/html/wormhole.html • http://library.thinkquest.org/27930/wormhole.htm • http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schww.html

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