Bullgrit
Adventurer
Can you explain this? What does "something is allowed by the math" mean?These structures in spacetime are allowed by the math.
Bullgrit
Can you explain this? What does "something is allowed by the math" mean?These structures in spacetime are allowed by the math.
Can you explain this? What does "something is allowed by the math" mean?
Can you explain this? What does "something is allowed by the math" mean?
This is perhaps best compared to faster than light travel. The math of relativity blows up, or gives you self-contradictory results, if you try to have an object that travels faster than the speed of light. Things get divided by zero, and you get a big mess. FTL is forbidden by the laws of physics as we currently understand them.
Question - isn't that when you try to accelerate something to the speed of light? Doesn't the maths allow for objects moving permanently faster than light? Hypothetical particles like tachyons, for example? Or am I misremembering?
It's not like a wormhole is like dark matter (another concept that the math allows [read: requires])
I guess I'm getting hung up on the idea that looking at the math, (which I'm picturing as multitudes of equations, each filling up an entire whiteboard , can give someone the concept of something as extremely specific as a wormhole.
-- it seems that a wormhole is a very specific structure with a very specific function with very specific requirements, compared to dark matter that is basically, something has to be somewhere to make this calculate out.
Would you put the exotic matter required for wormholes in the same category as tachyonic matter? That is, a kind of matter which, if it existed, would behave in exceptional ways compared to ordinary matter, but for which there is no physical evidence?