• Question: Do you believe that two black holes could in theory join to make a wormhole even if just for a microsecond?

    Asked by to Sam on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Sam Connolly answered on 16 Jun 2014:


      We know that wormholes are possible in theory, but we don’t know how you can make one, or how easy it is. Scientists do try and work out how they might work, I’ve read a few studies people have done on them recently, but they’re pretty complicated! We don’t know if any exist already, or if it’s even possible to make one, but we also haven’t found any reason why you can’t make one. Using black holes probably wouldn’t be a surprising way to be able to make them though, because they bend space in strange way, more than anything else! So I definitely wouldn’t say I don’t think it’s possible! I hope that there is a way to make them somehow though, it’d be really cool to be able to get around space really quickly with worm holes, because everything is so far away from us! Plus the coolest thing about worm holes is that you can use them to make time machines!

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