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ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:

> f_markwort@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:

> > OK, we might as well get this over with.  I imagine the net will be  
> swim-
> > ming with wormhole questions after the new Star Trek episode.  So, what
> > are they, are they real, can do travel in space-time using them, and  
> 
> Wormholes are not new to the Star Trek universe, having appeared in one of  
> the motion pictures (the first one, I think). Wormholes are mathematically  
> possible, but there is no particular evidence to suggest that they are  
> anything more than that. A wormhole would indeed allow matter to be  
> transported between fixed points in space-time. I suppose the chances of  
> surviving such a trip are probably comparable to the chances of surviving  
> after having your molecules disassembled and reassembled in a transporter  
> beam.

Less than one week ago I finished trying to read "Cosmic Wormholes: the
search for interstellar shortcuts" by Paul Halpern.

Now, I'm basically a bonehead when it comes to understanding things
theoretically and technically advanced and "indistinguishable from
magic."  So, grad students and postdocs, what's the judgement on
Halpern's explanations and physics?  Is the book worth the attention of
someone desiring to be introduced to the concepts and theories, or
should it be used to keep the computer desk from wobbling?  Inquiring
minds want to know.....





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