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More wormhole musings
🕑 Added 2024-08-25 07:09:57 +0000 UTCSo I made a quick animation to answer some questions you had. Its not exactly what an observer would see in 3d but if the wormhole was in 2d and you were a 3dimensional observer looking down at it, then it is accurate.
the blue and yellow circles are the wormhole openings, in reality they would have no color. the red circle represents a ball being thrown at the wormhole.
As you can see It appears as though there are two balls for a moment, but in reality, it is still one ball. The effect is due to light passing through the wormhole. Its kind of like a reflection.
The black bars are the loadstone, which is holding the wormhole in place magnetically, just like the ball there is only one of them, but you are seeing a reflection. In hindsight I've realized that I didn't scale them correctly, but you get the idea.
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Urbane Myth
Here's a fun thought experiment on twitter (probably only relevant for flat 2d portals): https://x.com/FreyaHolmer/status/1828061570326298906
Zappadow
Oh that's actually really interesting! I had figured that the transfer of electrochemical information would occur much more rapidly than the transit of actual pysical matter and the mass that comes with it. But it does make sense that matter and energy would travel at two diffrent rates. I'm a chemist but physics isnt my strongsuit, I mean I understand the concepts but the way of actually finding out how these things work blows my mind! keep me updated, I'm invested now lmao!
CodyDon Reeder
That is an excellent question. It might actually be the one way time.ilk have to think about it. I imagine someone on Mars would see someone walk up to the hole and stick their arm through with no delay. But if they slapped the hand it would be the 20minutes before the person would respond.
Cenek Sekavec
I love it
Zappadow
Oh or would the delay from pulling my arm back out be 44 minutes? 22 for the signal from my brain to travel through the wormhole then another 22 for my arm to physically travel back to me.
Zappadow
Ah ok, so correct me if I've misunderstood, but, let's say Mars is at aphelion, hole A is on earth and hole B is on Mars. If I were to stick my arm into hole A it would appear to distort inside of the sphere and become essentially become trapped in place, meanwhile on Mars nothing changes at hole B for 22 minutes until my arm finally pops out the other end. And only then would I be able to begin pulling my arm back out, however it would come with the same delay.
CodyDon Reeder
The transit time is the same amount as it would take light to make the trip the long way. When they are close together it would need sensitive equipment to even detect a delay. When they are far apart objects would appear to length contract and freeze in time at the boundary. For example If one end was on Mars and you reached your arm through your arm would seem to compress into a thin disk. After holding it there for several minutes it would expand again. Then the signal from your brain to close your hand would take another several minutes before your hand actually closed. If you tried to rapidly pull your arm out you would find that you are stuck and if you pulled hard enough your arm would tear off.
Zappadow
Ok so that's pretty much how I imagined it, however, would there be a transit time, like going through a tunnel? Or would the entrance in one end and exit on the other be simultaneous like walking through a door? And further more if there is a transit time, does it scale in corelation with distance between hole A and hole B or is the time elapsed always constant?
