From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Apr 24 1999 - 11:04:52 MDT
"Gina Miller" <echoz@hotmail.com> writes:
> Anything placed inside of a worm hole, the excessive gravitational
> pull of the black hole would rip apart long before it passed through
> either a wormhole or a white hole.
Please don't mix up the holes, they are very different. A stable
traversible wormhole is a possible solution of GR (assuming some weird
matter fields) and would have a very different topology from black
holes and white holes.
> We can't even really discover
> whether either phenomenon exists!
Actually, black holes seem to have moved out from the "weird
possibility" category among astrophysicist and into the "odd object"
category. I get the impression that the confidence in the data
supporting their existence is rather high these days.
Wormholes are still in the theoretical physics toybox. The Topological
Censorship Theorem seems to limit them, unless we can find a way to
mess up the null energy condition :-)
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