Question: What do you know about WormHoles?

Clare Burrage answered on 15 Mar 2012:

I have a whole book about wormholes in my office! Wormholes are basically short cuts through space and time.
Einstein’s theory of relativity tells us that we can bend and warp space and time as long as we have enough energy, and if you could bend space enough to bring two points close together that would normally be far apart, then you would have created a wormhole.
Wormholes are very hard to study, because the theories that we use to describe physics – like Einstein’s relativity – don’t work at the really high energies that you would need to make a wormhole. We don’t even know if wormholes are realy possible or not, or whether you could travel through one without destroying it.