• Question: Will it be possible in the future to find a source of energy and/or to able to keep wormholes in space, stable enough to send matter through and not worry about the wormhole expanding too much or going unstable due to the possible exsistance of exotic particles?

    Asked by mckay to David, Rebecca, Simon, Verity, Wei on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Rebecca Handley

      Rebecca Handley answered on 13 Jun 2011:


      Yes and no! I’m not a physicist, but I love science fiction and I believe that wormholes exist but I don’t think we will ever be able to use them. They are too unstable – I think whatever we put into one would be destroyed, as the laws of physics that exist on Earth are not the same in a wormhole. I wouldn’t worry about them becoming unstable, they have so much energy that anything we could do to one would be really small and insignificant. But thats just what I believe!

    • Photo: David Armstrong

      David Armstrong answered on 13 Jun 2011:


      Sorry mckay – wormholes are something I don’t know anything about. I hope one of the others do.

    • Photo: Wei Xun

      Wei Xun answered on 13 Jun 2011:


      Wow, what a question!

    • Photo: Wei Xun

      Wei Xun answered on 13 Jun 2011:


      Oh dear, having only a passing interest in astrophysics I have no idea.

      But did you read about the theoretical anti-black-hole predicted by Einstein, aka white hole?It’s the exact opposite of the black hole, so nothing can enter it. But apparently it probably can’t exist in the real universe, shame!

    • Photo: Verity Nye

      Verity Nye answered on 15 Jun 2011:


      I don’t know. Have you asked Professor Brian Cox? He’s on twitter and facebook. He should be able to answer your question.

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