what is dimensional wormhole theory?
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it's a wormhole that takes you to another dimension, i guess.\n\nthat means it will take you from a 4-d world to a 8-d or \n2-d world.\n\nyou could go to the inside of an electron, if this us possible.
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Additional info: I've talked to Holger Bech, one of the three founding fathers and Danish, and not even he believes in the theory. Basically, this is due to the String Theory postulating the existence of 9 dimensions. We can see that this is pretty far from the case, with there only being 3 physical dimensions and time, equaling 4. Furthermore, S.T. postulates that almost 300 of a specific grouping of particles exist. Experimental testing estimates that only 16 exist.
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The "foamy" spacetime would look like a complex turbulent storm-tossed sea. Some physicists theorize the formation of wormholes therein; speculation arising from this includes the possibility of hyperspatial links to other universes.\n\nQuantum foam is theorized to create masses of virtual particles. These virtual particles make their existence known by the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect is a physical force exerted between separate objects.\n\nDutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir first proposed the existence of the force, and he formulated an experiment to detect it in 1948 while participating in research at Philips Research Labs. The classic form of his experiment used a pair of uncharged parallel metal plates in a vacuum, and successfully demonstrated the force to within 15% of the value he had predicted according to his theory.\n\nSome physicists theorize that having two sets of these charged metal plates will create/connect a worm  hole between them.\n\nIf you want to take it a step further. Have a pair of plates on earth and another on a space craft moving close to the speed of light. Jumping in between the plates entering/the worm hole will allow you to travel backwards in time!
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Classical physics theories describe three physical dimensions: from a particular point in space, the basic directions in which we can move are up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Movement in any other direction can be expressed in terms of just these three.\n\nTime is often referred to as the "fourth dimension". It is, in essence, one way to measure physical change. It is perceived differently from the three spatial dimensions in that there is only one of it, and that movement seems to occur at a fixed rate and in one direction. The equations used by physics to model reality often do not treat time in the same way that humans perceive it.\n\nTheories such as string theory predict that the space we live in has in fact many more dimensions (frequently 10, 11 or 26), but that the universe measured along these additional dimensions is subatomic in size. As a result, we perceive only the three spatial dimensions that have macroscopic size.
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Basically, the space that you and I experiences daily is 3 dimensions: up/down, left/right, forward/backwards. But space doesn't have to be 3 dimensions. It can be any number of dimensions. Of course, it is very difficult for us 3-dimensional beings to imagine what these dimensions are, or where they are. The problems is that we can NEVER see the fourth spatial dimension, never mind the 5th or the 6th, etc. etc. Let me explain why.\n\nImagine for a moment that we are 2-d beings, not 3-d. And we live on the surface of a sphere (like a ballon). This sphere is our universe. Everything we see, touch and experience happens on the surface of this sphere. We can go left/right and forward/backwards. But we can never go up or down. When we travel in one direction, we will eventually circumnavigate the sphere and make a complete circle, which brings us back to the initial starting point. If we ask the 2-d beings to imagine 3-dimensional space, all we can tell them is that the 3rd dimension (up/down) is orthogonal (a fancy way of saying perpendicular) to the surface of the sphere.\n\nThis is exactly our situation when we talk about the 4th, 5th, 6th, whatever nth dimension. They are defined as the dimension that is orthogonal to the n-1 th space. So the 4th dimension is orthogonal to our 3-dimensional space, and the 5th dimension is orthogonal to the 4-dimensional space, etc. etc.\n\nNow about Super String Theory and these higher dimensions: what the theory predicts is that our universe does indeed have more than 3 spatial dimensions. Some version sof the theory say there are 10, some say there are 11. Whatever the number (it doesn't really matter in our discussion here), these higher spatial dimensions are currently curled up into very very tiny spaces. So what does that mean?\n\nWe now go back to our 2-d being living on a sphere example. For the time being, let's say we are now on a flat 2-dimensional surface (like a sheet of paper). Super String Theory says that the higher dimensions are curled up. So let's consider in our case the 3rd dimension as the curled up dimension. This means that if we were to magnify any point on the 2-d surface all the way to about 10^-35 meters (Planck Length), we will see that there is a tiny loop (like a loose thread on a knitted sweater).\n\nNow imagine if our 2-d being were (1) small enough to see and fit inside the loop, and (2) able now to travel in the 3rd dimension, then for it to go in the up/down direction, the 2-d being will now be just going around in circles inside the loop. Remember in the previous case, our 2-d being can travel in one direction on the surface of the sphere and then return to the same point. Well, here our 2-d being is traversing through the 3rd dimension, except that there is no up and down because the 3rd dimension is "curled up" into a loop. So the 2-d being just goes around the loop in circles.\n\nIf you understood the above, then now we can answer the question, what and where are these higher dimensions in our universe. They are culred up in every point in our 3-dimensional space, and if we were small enough and we could move into these higher dimensions, then we would be moving through these very convoluted curled up loops, but not really able to go anywhere.\n\nBecause these higher dimensions are curled up into such tiny tiny loops (remember 10^-35 meters), only the most elementary structures like "strings" are affected by them. The size of these strings are of course on the order of 10^-35 meters long, and can traverse through the curl up dimensions. When the strings vibrate, the vibrations in the 3 large dimensions don't have any effect, but in the curled up higher dimensions, the vibrations can create resonance like playing a musical note.\n\nThese resonances are the stuff of reality, meaning these vibrational resonances of the strings inside the curled up dimensions is what creates matter and energy and thus everything that&#
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No one to date has been able to create a wormhole although mathematically it should be possible there are many reasons why it is very improbable. Firstly a wormhole theoretically would decay supremely fast and to counteract this you would need an enormous quantity of negative energy to keep this open. For a wormhole of one meter you would need about as much energy as the sun has produced in its lifetime. Secondly there is no known way to create a wormhole. A wormhole theoretically is when you twist space time and you can connect two distant points with no space in between them. As of right now wormholes are just a weird concept that arises out of messing with einstein's relativity equations.
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yes one day we will have the technology of creating and maintaining wormholes. they have already proven this in the lab. it is called the casimer affect.\n\ntwo charged metal plates close to eachother create a negative energy. having to set of these plates connects the space between them via a wormhole.\n\nthe problem is the scale of the plates required to allow a spacecraft to go through is massive. but perhaps one day they will figure out a way to use natural existing exotic materials or objects in space to do this.
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Take a sheet of paper and imagine it is space. Mark two dots on two different parts of the sheet. If u were a traveller going from one dot to another, you'd normally travel in a straight line. BUT, if u bend the sheet such that the dots touch each other, u can actually travel from one dot to another in no time at all. This new path in three dimensional space will be a wormhole while the curved sheet represents curved space.
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Of course information is an important basic concept in physics. I do not understand what you even mean with this question. \n\nFor example, the restrictions that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light only refer to INFORMATION TRANSFER. \n\nThere is a huge field of quantum information theory in physics that is very active. \n\nIf you want to do dimensional analysis, as one does with other dimensional units (essentially using group theoretic principles in studying a problem), I am sure you can devise a scheme using "bits" or some other units of information and do dimensional analysis (for example, one might consider nats, shannons or hartleys; see reference below)
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Dimensions are not the same thing as a parellel universe.  It's one popular misconceptions carried on by mystics but created by turn-of-the-20th-century scientists when spirits were thought to exist in higher dimensions.\n\nDimensions are concepts of sides of objects and time, no more, no less.  We exist in what is visually a four dimensional universe, height, width, depth, and time.  We can't visualize objects in higher dimensional space because there is no evolutionary advantage to such a thing; tigers don't leap out at you from the fifth dimension.  String theory suggests there are 11 dimensions (or more); at the Big Bang all the dimensions existed at once then split apart.  Our 4-dimensional universe expanded in the however many other dimensions (the number depends on the theory) shrunk down to the Planck length (10^-35 meters).\n\nA parallel universe is usually what people and mystics mean when they say dimensions.  Even though a parallel universe is technically just another universe existing just out of reach of our own (possible even nanometers away).  This theory seems to be common to multiverse theory, string theory, m-theory, and a few others.\n\nOnward, if we shrink to smaller than an atom, down to the Planck length for example, we'd not lose our four-dimensionalism.  We'd just be really, really small.  We wouldn't be visible to the naked eye nor the most powerful of electron microscopes.  Nothing that exists today can probe down to that desperately small scale; there are plans to eventually do so, however.  We wouldn't slip into another world or into a 3-dimensional space (length, width, and time).\n\nThis isn't an insane question, nor is it stupid.  It's actually asking something very simple.  Remember Einstein asked himself a simple question when considering light.  "What would happen if you were to race alongside a beam of light?"  Einstein was a master of looking at things at their simplest level; from that question above came one of the most remarkable and elegant theories ever to exist: Relativity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory\n\nI know giving a url as an answer is a cop out, but really, it is the best way to explain something as complex as the string theory. READ IT! It's pretty cool!
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Differential geometry/manifolds, Optimization word problems in 3D, topology proofs.
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This is a good question, and one that physicists have been speculating about for a long time.  Firstly, wormholes are NOT assumptions or science fiction. They are a valid theory that is supported by mathematical models. As for whether quantum exchanges occur between universes, the simple answer is that no person knows for sure. Hypothetically, it's possible, but since all these other universes operate under different laws of physics than our own, the exact nature and mechanics of such a transfer will have to remain a mystery until we understand a great deal more than we do now.
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I like to add conceptual dimensions like color, (red, green, and blue each get one) temperature, pitch, volume, etc. Then the nine dimensional origin (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0) would be a point located at the center of the 3-D grid colored 50% grey at zero degrees centigrade exhibiting middle C at zero decibels.\n\nI could also imagine extra dimensions represented in the form of trajectories, but more often than not I am thinking in the terms above.
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I don't think that is correct.   I assume you mean fourth spatial dimension, rather than the Minkowski 3 space, 1 time geometry of relativity.  For that, time is actually a dimension, and the question pretty much answers itself.\n\nThe best insight into a spatial fourth dimension is to read the delightful classic little book, "Flatland". Almost any library or bookstore should have it. It works on the analogy of an individual who lives in a two dimensional world - his name is "A. Square" - who learns about three dimensions.\n\nAnother way to insight would be to look up "tesseract" on a search engine. Aside from hits on Madalyn L'engel's misuse of the term in her children's boooks (avoid her description), you should find many discussions on how to represent simple four dimensional objects in three dimensions, just as we represent three dimensional objects on a flat piece of paper with perspective.\n\nFour dimensions would have two directions that are perpendicular to our three dimensional world. They have been given the names "ana" for four dimensional "up" and "kata" for four dimensional "down" with respect to our space. Of course these are just the Greek words for up and down. \n\nSo borrowing a description from Flatland, if a four dimensional sphere were to start anawards of our world and move through it in the kata direction, what we would see, as it intersected our world woild be first a tiny three dimensional sphere (cross section of the four dimensional sphere near its kata pole) which grows in size to a maximum (the "equator" passing through), and then decreases gradually again to its mini size before vanishing, having passed commpletely through our world and out the other side.
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you're thinking of a worm hole. a black hole will, as far as we know tear things apart to as it takes them to a different part of our universe, which doesnt make sense because nothing can escape from them. Anyway, a worm hole, which is theoretical -mostly- is like two black holes connected at their vertex's. think of the universe as a thin sheet of paper. one black hole is is on the right side, and another on the left. fold the piece of paper so that the black holes are lines up. instead of traveling from point A to point B, you just go through space in manner of speaking from point A to point B "just like that". there really isnt any just like that, but that's as best i can describe it with out actually showing you. sorry if this makes no sense.
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Yes. Wormholes subconciously send a ray of time 100 Million years  later into our universe. Witch means we wouldn't notice that it use to be the dinosaurs time and a quasar or worhole zapped us here now! You can never enter a wormhole once you enter it its portal to time closes and anybody who goes in it is trapped in eternal nothingness.