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Wormholes and Einstein Rosen Bridges

Written by: Ashraya Karki - 23066, Grade XI

Posted on: 23 March, 2022

In actuality, a wormhole is a circular or spherical hole that connects two points by bending and twisting spacetime. It's like a portal through which you may go to other areas of the cosmos in a couple of seconds. Wormholes are consistent with Einstein's general theory of relativity, but their existence remains a mystery. Many scientists believe wormholes are just projections of a fourth spatial dimension, much like a two-dimensional human may only perceive a piece of a three-dimensional object. So the issue remains: do wormholes exist, or are they merely magic disguised as physics and arithmetic.


 

Einstein Rosen Bridge are links between regions of space that may be treated as vacuum solutions to Einstein's field equations and that are now believed to be essential components of the maximally extended form of the Schwarzschild metric characterizing an everlasting black hole with no charge and no rotation. Einstein Rosen Bridges, describes every blackhole as a wormhole connecting different parallel worlds.


 

In two dimensions, when spacetime bends in response to things above them, some objects may be dense enough to break spacetime itself, resulting in a blackhole. A one-way barrier arises in the center of the singularity, trapping anything that enters it. However, according to the wormhole theory, instead of singularity, there could be another side of the universe that is identical to ours but mirrored upside down, with time running backwards, meaning that in our universe, things fall into blackholes, whereas in that universe, the blackhole spills things out like a big bang, resulting in a white hole. This idea has one flaw: this wormhole cannot be bridged since crossing to the other side would take an endless amount of time. So instead of getting to the other side, we'll just perish crossing it.

Let's take a look at what spacetime is before we go into the wormhole. Spacetime is a four-dimensional mathematical model that integrates the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional manifold. Consider spacetime to be a great stage on which the universe performs its dramas. Unlike our man-made stages which are sturdy and don't change, we discovered that spacetime fluctuates and is not the same everywhere thanks to Einstein's theory of relativity. The body on that stage has an effect on it, causing it to stretch. It's similar to a trampoline. So there was an idea that this bending spacetime might be ripped apart to create a wormhole.

In two dimensions, our spacetime resembles a flat sheet bent in such a manner that it overlaps two spots, and tearing it at just the right angle may provide a channel connecting those two locations, allowing us to travel faster than light itself. It's only a hypothesis, and no one has ever discovered a wormhole. Though Einstein's theory of relativity suggests that a wormhole may exist, this does not imply that it should. Many wormhole theories exist, and some of them are even conceivable.


Wormholes, in summary, are circular or spherical holes that connect two places by bending and twisting spacetime. It's like a doorway that allows you to go to different parts of the universe in a matter of seconds. Spacetime is a four-dimensional mathematical concept that combines three dimensions of space and one degree of time into a single four-dimensional manifold. Our spacetime in two dimensions resembles a flat sheet twisted in such a way that it overlaps two areas, and tearing it at exactly the right angle may build a conduit linking those two sites, allowing us to travel faster than light itself, forming a wormhole.Einstein Rosen Bridges are connections between regions of space that can be treated as vacuum solutions to Einstein's field equations and are now thought to be essential components of the maximally extended form of the Schwarzschild metric, which characterizes an eternal black hole with no charge and no rotation. Every blackhole, according to Einstein Rosen Bridges, is a wormhole linking distinct parallel universes. This opens up a lot of possibilities for wormholes, but it has one flaw: it can't be traversed since it would take an endless amount of time to do so.