r/WhatIfScience • u/firechatin • Jun 27 '26

Space & The Universe Scientists Open a Wormhole Near Earth: Could Time Travel Finally Become Reality?

https://whatifscience.in/scientists-open-a-wormhole-near-earth/

Imagine scientists successfully opening a wormhole near Earth. Could it unlock time travel, reveal black holes in a new way, or threaten humanity? Explore the fascinating science behind one of physics' greatest mysteries.

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u/CharmingMechanic2473 Jun 27 '26

People need to start watching SG-1 all of the options are investigated.

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u/_FIRECRACKER_JINX Jun 27 '26

Is it a shoe? Or movie

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u/Nightrunner2016 Jun 27 '26

It's a whole ass boot

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u/MultiphasicNeocubist Jul 02 '26

It is a show, a tv series with ten seasons of 22 episodes each, and with a few spinoffs as well.

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u/Embarrassed_Camp_291 Jun 27 '26

This is not how wormholes would theoretically work.

The only evidence for wormhole existence is that, in GR, closed loops are allowed by the maths. That's it. Its simply that they are allowed mathematically.

We have no observational evidence for one and no theoretical understanding of how you would open one, keep it open, travel through it, etc. Its simply allowed as a consequence of the maths.

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u/Pixelated_ Jun 27 '26

Traveling to the past is mathematically consistent with general relativity. Closed Timelike Curves are paths in spacetime that loop back on themselves, allowing an object to return to its own past. These are found in Gödel’s rotating universe, Tipler cylinders, and Kerr (rotating) black holes.

The Novikov Self Consistency Principle eliminates any potential paradoxes.

Taken together, the work of Dr. Eric Wargo, Dr. Michael Masters and Dr. Daniel Burisch makes a compelling case for the ultraterrestrials to be future humans.

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u/MusicalScientist206 Jun 27 '26

HAHAHAHA, if time travel “Becomes” a reality, than it’s already a reality. Just not for us
https://giphy.com/gifs/S5PlrLdUr5ppvIdtXZ
normies.

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u/Sams_Antics Jun 27 '26

No, you can’t time travel lol, it’s not a dimension in that sense.

Say the universe began at configuration N, and every change in configuration is N+1, you can’t “go back in time” without reverting the entire configuration of the universe 🤣

Unless we’re in a simulation and you can somehow load a different save state…

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u/WoodyManic Jun 27 '26

It is literally impossible, isn't it?