The explanations are up to date and the author knows how to provide honest accounts of his exotic subject matter a good virtue of the book is that it successfully distinguishes between truth and fiction. John preskill, a black hole and quantum gravity expert at caltech, says the new traversable wormhole comes as a surprise, with implications for the black hole information paradox and black hole. In his book black holes and time warps, astrophysicist kip thorne opened a door for nonscientists to enter the world of twisted space. Schwarzchild embedding diagram, which is the wormhole analogue for a static, nonrotating, schwarzchild black hole. Oneway wormholes are onewaytrip wormholes, meaning you can only travel once through them, and you would need a separate wormhole for the return trip. Black holes, wormholes and time machines, second edition. Theoretical physicist jim alkhalili finally lays science fiction to rest as he opens up einsteins universe. Explore free books, like the victory garden, and more browse now. Jim alkhalilis black holes, wormholes and time machines, appearing in a newly revised second edition, fulfils this need admirably. Alkhalili talks about a range of modern science topics.
Like black holes, wormholes arise as valid solutions to the equations of albert einsteins general theory of relativity, and, like black holes, the phrase was coined in 1957 by the american physicist john wheeler. Space travelers in a hurry pop into a wormhole and reach a distant part. With his second monumental insight, einstein showed how spacetime is warped and stretched by the gravity of all objects in the universe and even punctured by black holes. Download black holes, wormholes and time machines, 2nd. Wormholes black holes and wormholes the physics of the. New wormhole could resolve the black hole information. If you read about this sort of thing a lot as i do, this might not be anything new to you. Black holes do not exist they are worm holes claims. Buy black holes, wormholes and time machines 1 by jim alkhalili isbn. Black holes could actually be colliding wormholes live.
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