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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 7420851" data-attributes="member: 13107">Additional text omitted.Wouldn't it be easier to work directly with the wormhole geometry?&nbsp; That's what the linked PDF does, with, effectively, a wormhole length as one of the wormhole parameters.&nbsp; Also, in their analysis, time dilation effects are virtually nil, so the length can be used directly to measure transit times.There is an interesting example of one of the cases: Greg Egan, in &quot;Diaspora&quot; (Millennium, 1997), postulates that elementary particles are wormholes.&nbsp; But Egan's wormholes have Y=X, so not useful for crossing our universe.&nbsp; (But useful for entering a higher level dimension, since the worm holes have shape in higher dimensions and can be used to transport information and create material in the higher dimension space.)From the wikipedia article (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)):" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)):</a>&quot;An appended glossary explains many of the specialist terms in the novel. Egan invents several new theories of physics, beginning with Kozuch Theory, the dominant physics paradigm for nearly nine hundred years before the beginning of the novel. Kozuch Theory treats elementary particles as semi-point-like wormholes, whose properties can be explained entirely in terms of their geometries in six dimensions. Certain assumptions common to Egan's works inform the plot.&quot;Thx!TomB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 7420851, member: 13107"] Additional text omitted. Wouldn't it be easier to work directly with the wormhole geometry? That's what the linked PDF does, with, effectively, a wormhole length as one of the wormhole parameters. Also, in their analysis, time dilation effects are virtually nil, so the length can be used directly to measure transit times. There is an interesting example of one of the cases: Greg Egan, in "Diaspora" (Millennium, 1997), postulates that elementary particles are wormholes. But Egan's wormholes have Y=X, so not useful for crossing our universe. (But useful for entering a higher level dimension, since the worm holes have shape in higher dimensions and can be used to transport information and create material in the higher dimension space.) From the wikipedia article ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)):[/url] "An appended glossary explains many of the specialist terms in the novel. Egan invents several new theories of physics, beginning with Kozuch Theory, the dominant physics paradigm for nearly nine hundred years before the beginning of the novel. Kozuch Theory treats elementary particles as semi-point-like wormholes, whose properties can be explained entirely in terms of their geometries in six dimensions. Certain assumptions common to Egan's works inform the plot." Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]

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