What would it feel like passing through a wormhole?

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Kolanaki@yiffit.net⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

We kinda know what happens if you get sucked into a black hole because of math (spaghettification, what outside observers would see, etc); can the same be said about worm holes? Would you even notice if you passed through one? What would they look like? What would someone watching someone else go through a wormhole look like?

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JesusSon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Probably pretty cramped, worms are tiny.

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- BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve seen that dune documentary, and they are really not.
  
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oo1@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
“. . . you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”

“Well what’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”

“You ask a glass of water.”

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NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

feel

Nothing.

You would not feel a thing.

The only known wormholes are so tiny that only single elementary particles can pass through.

Now imagine that not one of the molecules of your body is missing, not one atom from that molecule, but only one elementary particle from one atom.

No way to feel that.

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- Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The Princess and the Pea, reborn
  
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  - meekah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    SciFi edition
    
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- db2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Kinda depends on what that atom becomes once its constituent parts have changed. Perhaps nothing, perhaps it becomes something that explosively cannot exist.
  
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  - deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m pretty sure a single atom could completely convert to energy, as in perfect E=mc^2 with no losses, and you still wouldn’t notice.
    
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- potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Theoretically could that cause an issue? I’m a computer guy and I think that if one bit on a computer is flipped, that could cause a major issue with the computer, but is that the same with a human?
  
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  - NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The bits in a computer have different meaning. Some are super important, others are not.
    
    Biological bodies don’t have that flaw. Small parts can also have more significance than others, but the difference is not that problematic. And even such small parts are made of many many atoms.
    
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scytale@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The movie Interstellar supposedly had physicist consultants to try to depictions of space stuff as accurate as possible, in particular the blackhole. Not sure if the wormhole is the same, since we have no actual scientific data or evidence of one. So that’s probably the best guess they could make.

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- PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not supposedly, actually. Kip Thorne was a consultant.
  
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BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ask RFK Jr

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lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Let’s assume a big stable wormhole and the gravitational forces of surrounding supporting objects are balanced perfectly, so a human can pass through in a small space capsule in the center.

In this scenario, you would just see the region of the other side twice and the space in between, a circle around the hole, stretched until you’re going through. While going through, some objects on the outside would look stretched.

If it’s not perfectly balanced, you won’t survive going through without being squished or torn. If you come too close to avsurrounding supporting object, you’ll get slingshotted away or will fall into them.

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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Can a physicist explain: does spaghettification destroy the object passing through by means of extreme elongation, or is it an external observation of extreme warping of the space, including the objects within it?

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- twofont@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The first one, spaghettification is the result of the gravitational gradient across the object falling into the black hole.
  
  From the perspective of an outsider, the opposite actually happens. The object falling into an becomes more and more flat, eventually becoming an infinitely dim 2d imprint on the surface of the event horizon.
  
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  - JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I suppose the part i’m having trouble with, is that extreme gravitational gradients also bring with it extreme warping of space time. Meaning since the space is also being warped, with the object within it, is it actually being destroyed? So if a 1m3 object in a 1m3 space is acted in by an extreme gravitational anomaly that warps the space to 5m3, is the object actually being warped to 5m3, since the space itself is warped, i.e. it’s still relatively the same size as the space it occupies.
    
    Not a physicist btw, so pls be gentle.
    
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DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
“I mean, that must be terrible. Can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole?”

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TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Interstellar might be your best basic reference for this. There was a lot of legit math that went into the movies effects.

youtu.be/69EUgdj7lzI?si=YhvTO7HUA_SavvQl

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muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Depends we have multiple mathematical models for how wormholes work. Some models u cant cross through at all all. Some fuck with gravity so bad u would probably get Spaghetified. And some u wouldnt even notice except for the light looking all weird and cool af. There are multiple yt videos covering it including a really cool symulation iirc.

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Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Wait, are worn holes a real thing?

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- Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  On paper, yeah. We haven’t found any, though. At least, not that I’ve heard. But black holes were the same deal when I was a kid. Then we found one.
  
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- NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Google for Einstein Rosen bridge.
  
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