Wormhole could be real but also real slow
"It takes longer to get through these wormholes than to go directly" Jafferis said
(Web Desk) – Wormholes which could be used to travel from one space to another could be possible according to new studies from Daniel Jafferis and Ping Gao from Harvard University and Aron Wall from Stanford University but real-life wormholes would not be instantaneous transportation source.
"It takes longer to get through these wormholes than to go directly," Jafferis said, "so they are not very useful for space travel."
According to an online site, the discovery, presented by Jafferis on Saturday at the 2019 American Physical Society April Meeting in Denver, is really more about quantum mechanics than intergalactic travel. His theory states that two black holes connected at a quantum level can act as a wormhole through which light can travel. This means that light and information can be retrieved from a black hole.
"From the outside perspective, travel through the wormhole is equivalent to quantum teleportation using entangled black holes," Jafferis said. "I think (this new research) will teach us deep things about the gauge/gravity correspondence, quantum gravity, and even perhaps a new way to formulate quantum mechanics."
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