Why Warm Holes are not available for interstellar Travel Paul Sutter Wormholes are the shortcuts in the universe that allow travelers to go from one star system to another, and thus they are used in many science fiction novels and movies. However, is it likely for us to really travel through wormholes? Paul Shutter, an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center, gives a clear answer in his article “Are Wormholes a Dead End for Faster-Than-Light Travel?” that we cannot use these wormholes to do intergalactic travel because it cannot be naturally formed and stabilized and people cannot travel through them even if they were stable. Shutter provides a possible solution of building a tunnel with material of negative mass but such material disobeys many physics laws. As a result, Shutter concluded that wormholes are not possible for space travels. The same law that predicted the phenomenon of black hole predicts white holes and proved that they should be naturally connected, thus creating a space tunnel known as the wormhole. However, Shutter explains that there are no known ways for a white hole to appear and the process that formed the black hole will …show more content…
If you enter a wormhole, “you can die—miserably—as you careen into the singularity.” Shutter points out that it is, theoretically, possible to construct a transferrable wormhole as long as we can make sure that the entrance doesn’t sit in the event horizon and that it is strong enough to withstand extreme gravity and will not tear apart as travelers fly through. And Shutter provides a solution: a material with negative mass. Such material, according to shutter, “‘inflates’ entrance to wormhole outside the boundary of event horizon” and is capable of stabilizing the throat of the