WORMHOLE ALTERNATIVE

Rather than turning the very fabric of space-time into an intergalactic conveyor belt, hopping through a wormhole might be an easier alternative. Despite their existence being predicted by Albert Einstein, researchers still aren’t sure if they really exist. In a nutshell, a wormhole is a tunnel that connects two openings in folded space-time. Entering at one end would theoretically see you shoot out the other end much faster than the speed of light travels, having travelled a tremendous distance. The only trouble is that we just don’t know how it would work, and we aren’t even close to creating an artificial wormhole. Scientists are looking throughout the Milky Way, inside black holes and even in fluctuations of space-time called quantum foam for wormholes, and thus far they’ve turned up empty handed. The sooner one is discovered and studied, the closer we might be to using them as space-time highways.