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OP t1_ja5dkay wrote

From the article

>If wormholes exist, they could magnify the light of distant objects by up to 100,000 times — and that could be the key to finding them, according to research published Jan. 19 in the journal Physical Review D.
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>Wormholes are theoretical funnel-shaped portals through which matter (or perhaps spacecraft) could travel great distances. To imagine a wormhole, suppose all of the universe were a sheet of paper. If your starting point were a dot at the top of the sheet and your destination were a dot on the bottom of the sheet, the wormhole would appear if you folded that sheet of paper so the two dots met. You could traverse the entire sheet in an instant, rather than traveling the entire length of the sheet.
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>Wormholes have never been proven to exist, but physicists have nonetheless spent decades theorizing what these exotic objects might look and how they might behave. In their new paper, the researchers built a model to simulate an electrically charged, spherical wormhole and its effects on the universe around it. The researchers wanted to find out whether wormholes could be detectable by their observed effects on their surroundings.

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t1_ja5ebge wrote

If they bend light the same way how will they tell the difference?

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t1_ja5hl7w wrote

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From the article

>If wormholes exist, they could magnify the light of distant objects by up to 100,000 times — and that could be the key to finding them, according to research published Jan. 19 in the journal Physical Review D.
>
>Wormholes are theoretical funnel-shaped portals through which matter (or perhaps spacecraft) could travel great distances. To imagine a wormhole, suppose all of the universe were a sheet of paper. If your starting point were a dot at the top of the sheet and your destination were a dot on the bottom of the sheet, the wormhole would appear if you folded that sheet of paper so the two dots met. You could traverse the entire sheet in an instant, rather than traveling the entire length of the sheet.
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>Wormholes have never been proven to exist, but physicists have nonetheless spent decades theorizing what these exotic objects might look and how they might behave. In their new paper, the researchers built a model to simulate an electrically charged, spherical wormhole and its effects on the universe around it. The researchers wanted to find out whether wormholes could be detectable by their observed effects on their surroundings.

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t1_ja61d1n wrote

Neither black holes nor wormholes bend light. They bend the spacetime that light travels through. When you look at images of a black hole the space is physically bent so much you can see the other side. Also black holes aren't actually 3D spheres.

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t1_ja98vd4 wrote

Why does anyone insist on believing in worm holes? Like we're really living in some silly space exploration game? You fly a spacecraft into a cosmic lens like that and it gets crushed down to the size of an atom and everyone dies a gruesome death. I'm sorry I love space, but it's just not a convenient place.

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t1_ja9izma wrote

This is all theoretical, of course. Remember that guys, before you start condemning it. Just sayin. 🤷

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t1_jabpzcq wrote

Replying to bobalou2you (#2,038,949)

From the article:

> Liu also noted that wormholes would magnify objects differently than black holes do, meaning scientists could distinguish the two. For example, microlensing via a black hole is known to produce four mirror images of the object behind it. Microlensing via a wormhole, on the other hand, would produce three images: two dim ones, and one very bright one, the authors' simulations showed.

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