Wormholes Could Let You Travel Across the Universe Instantly

Añadido: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Let's talk about worm holes. I mean, what is a worm hole? And what happens to you if you enter one? Here is the simple version. Take a piece of paper, draw a dot on the left side, and a dot on the right side. The distance between them, that's 100 light years of space. Now, fold the paper so both dots touch, then push a pencil through both dots at the same time. That hole is connecting two distant points directly as a worm hole.

[00:00:24]Not going around space, going through it. Einstein and his colleague, Nathan Rosen, discovered them in 1935. Not looking for them, just solving the equations. The math of general relativity showed that two black holes could theoretically be connected by a tunnel through space-time. They called it an Einstein-Rosen bridge. Scientists call them worm holes. And for 90 years, the problem was the same. To keep the tunnel open, you need matter with negative energy. Something we've never found. Something that might not exist.

[00:00:54]In 2026, a team published a new solution, a rotating worm hole that stays open using only an electromagnetic field and a scalar field called a dilation. No exotic matter, no negative energy. Both fields appear naturally in string theory. That is our best attempt at a theory of everything. If string theory is right, the dilation exists.

[00:01:16]And if the dilation exists, these worm holes are a natural prediction of Einstein's equations. Not a trick, a real object the universe is allowed to make. So, what happens to you if you enter one? You approach the mouth, a sphere in space, probably near a massive object like a black hole. You cross the throat, the narrowest point of the worm hole. Tidal forces, depending on the worm hole size, might stretch you or might be gentle. And then, you emerge from the other mouth somewhere else.

[00:01:44]Maybe light years away. Maybe in a different time, because a worm hole doesn't just connect places, it can connect moments. If one mouth was accelerated to high speed and then slowed down, time would have passed differently at each end. Enter one mouth, exit the other one in a different year. But can you come back? That depends on the type. The 2026 rotating solution appears to be reversible in both directions. You could go and return, but there is a catch that even the most optimistic physicist agree on.

[00:02:14]The wormhole would be unstable. The moment matter, when you pass through it, it begins to collapse. The throat closes. You'd need to move fast, very fast, and on the other side, whatever is there, you'd be the first human in history to have taken a shortcut through space-time.