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Advanced Astrophysics (and Arts and Crafts), Friday
Someone was scrambling on the crafts portion of the class, it would seem. Or thought that puppets were awesome for high school age students. Who knew? There were some helpful worksheets on how to make paper bag puppets and all the supplies of glue, construction paper and paper bags that one might desire waiting for the class when they arrived. Fun times!
But that wasn't the important part if you asked Reed. The lecture waste important part, damn it.
"A wormhole is, contrary to what you might have seen or read in science fiction, purely speculative," Reed said, bringing up an image of a wormhole for them to see what he meant. "We have yet to actually observe one happening to prove or disprove our theories.But according to our understanding of timespace as it stands now, they are possible."
Oh yeah, science for the win there.
"The initial theory was known as the Einstein-Rosen Bridge--" AND NOT A GODDAMN RAINBOW. THOR. MAKING SCIENCE CRY. "--in which Einstein's field equations were solved with vacuum solutions. This theory, though, does not mean travel through them is possible."
He took a moment to write up the equation for this particular kind:
"This particular type of wormhole is unsustainable and unstable. It's likely to simply pinch off and disengage before even light could pass through."
Sorry, scifi writers!
"But there is a second type that is thought to be traversable. This one is more in line with common perceptions of what a wormhole is," Reed said, adding a second equation.
"These are thought to involve travelling from one universe to another, near instantaneous travel within a single universe, or, possibly, even time travel. Though, as I said before, these remain only speculations until we have hard data on the matter and not simply math."
But that wasn't the important part if you asked Reed. The lecture waste important part, damn it.
"A wormhole is, contrary to what you might have seen or read in science fiction, purely speculative," Reed said, bringing up an image of a wormhole for them to see what he meant. "We have yet to actually observe one happening to prove or disprove our theories.But according to our understanding of timespace as it stands now, they are possible."
Oh yeah, science for the win there.
"The initial theory was known as the Einstein-Rosen Bridge--" AND NOT A GODDAMN RAINBOW. THOR. MAKING SCIENCE CRY. "--in which Einstein's field equations were solved with vacuum solutions. This theory, though, does not mean travel through them is possible."
He took a moment to write up the equation for this particular kind:
"This particular type of wormhole is unsustainable and unstable. It's likely to simply pinch off and disengage before even light could pass through."
Sorry, scifi writers!
"But there is a second type that is thought to be traversable. This one is more in line with common perceptions of what a wormhole is," Reed said, adding a second equation.
"These are thought to involve travelling from one universe to another, near instantaneous travel within a single universe, or, possibly, even time travel. Though, as I said before, these remain only speculations until we have hard data on the matter and not simply math."
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