Mid-morning.
A gray winter-like Ohio day sets outside the windows. You took time to watch
Morning Joe on MBNBC before Carol switched it to the Today Show. She has worked
up some of the possible itinerary for the Spring trip to Texas and is sending
it on to Alta at her request.
Half
the fun of a trip is the planning.
This is why writing your notes is such a
pleasure for you. Let's see what you have on wormholes. - Amorella
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In physics, a wormhole is a
hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that would be, fundamentally, a
"shortcut" through spacetime. For a simple visual explanation of a
wormhole, consider spacetime visualized as a two-dimensional (2D) surface. If
this surface is folded along a third dimension, it allows one to picture a
wormhole "bridge". (Please note, though, that this is merely a
visualization displayed to convey an essentially unvisualisable
structure existing in 4 or more dimensions. The parts of the wormhole could be
higher-dimensional analogues for the parts of the curved 2D surface; for
example, instead of mouths which are circular holes in a 2D plane, a real
wormhole's mouths could be spheres in 3D space.) A wormhole is, in theory, much
like a tunnel with two ends each in separate points in spacetime.
There is no observational evidence for
wormholes, but on a theoretical level there are valid solutions to the
equations of the theory of general relativity which contain wormholes. Because
of its robust theoretical strength, a wormhole is also known as one of the
great physics metaphors for teaching general relativity. The first type of
wormhole solution discovered was the Schwarzschild wormhole which would
be present in the Schwarzschild metric describing an eternal black hole, but it
was found that this type of wormhole would collapse too quickly for anything to
cross from one end to the other. Wormholes which could actually be crossed in
both directions, known as traversable wormholes, would only be possible
if exotic matter with negative energy density could be used to stabilize them.
(Many physicists such as Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne and others believe that
the Casimir effect is evidence that negative energy densities are possible in
nature.) Physicists have not found any natural process which would be predicted
to form a wormhole naturally in the context of general relativity, although the
quantum foam hypothesis is sometimes used to suggest that tiny wormholes might
appear and disappear spontaneously at the Planck scale and stable versions
of such wormholes have been suggested as dark matter candidates. It has
also been proposed that if a tiny wormhole held open by a negative-mass cosmic
string had appeared around the time of the Big Bang, it could have been
inflated to macroscopic size by cosmic inflation.
From Wikipedia Offline - wormholes
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We
have stabilized dark matter traversable wormholes the problem is finding one
without authorization as this group of explorers is on a highly unorthodox
clandestine operation. - Amorella
What
wit, Amorella! What a clever inside joke wrapped up in dark humor rather than
dark matter!
Fortunately, Yermey is a part of this small
group of rebels. While searching through the Schwarzschild wormhole Yermey
discovered one that is not collapsible. He calls it the AtoZanreturnworm; at
least that is a reasonable translation. This should serve as background. See
what Doug thinks. Post. - Amorella
1519
hours. We had our favorite, most excellent, Papa John pizza for lunch and will
finish it at supper. Doug wrote back:
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Dick, It sounds good to
me. In elsewhere maybe there is a station going in a circle at which all can
dock, like a floating boat. Also it was brought to my attention that a new
particle has been discovered in elsewhere called orndoffium, a very rare
particle with special powers. Can possibly communicate with Amorella. As
far as authorization, the old explorers never asked for it when they claimed
something.
Doug and Nancy
** **
Doug's
humor beside, if it sounds okay to Doug it is okay with me. I don't know about
a circling floating dock. Yermey is not going to tell anyone about the
wormhole, yet Ship knows. This brings up more intrigue as far as Ship is
concerned.
A possible makeshift station (a transplanted
Ship sensor on a long slab of dark matter that is shuffled from one side of the
wormhole to the other) in the wormhole becomes a homing reference point for
Ship in JDGspace and wormed dark matter. For now a mention is all that is
needed. - Amorella
I
immediately think of Ringworld by Larry Niven, which was one of the
books I taught in my Science Fiction/Futures Study classes at Indian Hill.
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Ringworld
Plot summary (heavily edited for setting)
The novel opens in 2850.
They (Louis Gridley Wu, Nessus, Kzin and
Teela Brown] first travel to the Puppeteer home world, where they learn that
the expedition's goal is to explore a ringworld: an artificial ring
about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit
(which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference), encircling a
Sol-type star. It rotates, providing artificial gravity that is 99.2% as strong
as Earth's gravity through the action of centripetal force. The ringworld has a
habitable flat inner surface equivalent in area to approximately three million
Earth-sized planets. Night is provided by an inner ring of shadow squares
which are connected to each other by thin, ultra-strong wire (shadow square
wire).
From: Wikipedia - [introductory to the] Ringworld
Plot
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1640
hours. What comes to mind is created an artificial mini-world from basic dark
matter, mainly for safety of Ship and crew. This, by the third book, could
bring ThreePlanets and Earth much, much closer together and add dynamics along
the way as the bridge building across the Styx did in the original book four
draft.
You and Carol are at McD's on
Mason-Montgomery Road watching traffic. Carol is reading her November, Money
magazine and drinking a medium decafe coffee with three creams and two Splenda.
You have a large diet Coke. Interesting, though rather than a small world, a
"Status Science Station-with-other-particulars" is more what Yermey
would think, actually much closer to Doug's original thought than your own. -
Amorella
That's
fine with me. I tend to get carried away from time to time.
1752
hours. We are home and Carol is talking to Alta about the Spring trip. I am
getting my head into Yermey and Ship and feel much better, much more in tune.
You know more about the world, boy.
Imagination can produce expanded consciousness, not perhaps as most people
would think of expanded consciousness, but an open and clearer mind of
operations is at work. Post. - Amorella
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