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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6637845" data-attributes="member: 177">You shift from wondering (which implies a question) to a statement.Would there be a big transition?&nbsp; That depends on what you call &quot;big&quot;.&nbsp; In general, this thing is supposed to be traversable.&nbsp; You need spacetime to be pretty flat on distance scales roughly on order of the size of the object that goes through - otherwise you either turn the item into spaghetti, or you have a problem of the subject's head being in today, while her feet are already in next week.&nbsp; So, where you expect people to go, spacetime isn't terribly curved, and what curvature there is can't change a whole lot.I think most of the traversable solutions have spacetime largely flat along the throat of the wormhole and out into &quot;normal&quot; space, and squeeze to very steep curves towards the edges/sides.&nbsp; So, you can travel down the middle, but hitting the &quot;wall&quot; would be bad for you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6637845, member: 177"] You shift from wondering (which implies a question) to a statement. Would there be a big transition? That depends on what you call "big". In general, this thing is supposed to be traversable. You need spacetime to be pretty flat on distance scales roughly on order of the size of the object that goes through - otherwise you either turn the item into spaghetti, or you have a problem of the subject's head being in today, while her feet are already in next week. So, where you expect people to go, spacetime isn't terribly curved, and what curvature there is can't change a whole lot. I think most of the traversable solutions have spacetime largely flat along the throat of the wormhole and out into "normal" space, and squeeze to very steep curves towards the edges/sides. So, you can travel down the middle, but hitting the "wall" would be bad for you. [/QUOTE]

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