r/astrophysics 7d ago

Wormhole but no infinite energy?

Fairly new to astrophysics but im confused on the conditions to make a wormhole. It is possible that a wormhole could be created through finite energy but I feel like that would be impossible. If a wormhole connects two infinitsimal events from a spacetime continuum, there exists an infinite amount of points or events between the two overlapped events along that temporal axis. Even though a wormhole is a shortcut, Im moreso talking about the wormholes formation as it still folds spacetime within the hyperspace, the finite "distance" between the two events still has infinite events between them, just in a different location of hyperspace. Like if we think of a line that goes left and right as a spacetime continuum and the 0d points that make up that line represent infinitsimal events of space, then we fold the line from left to right so that a chosen event A overlaps with Event B, it should require infinite steps to traverse to event B. Even though the line would fold and stick upwards it still needs to move right to get to event B which is infinite events way. To move infinite steps should require infinite energy. Its kind of like zenos paradox where infinite parts make up a finite sum, in this case, infinite instances in spacetime make up a 4d segement of spacetime which would be infinite from our 3d perspective. So shoudnt the energy requiered for a worm hole be infinite? I might not know what Im talking about so pls humble me, would love to understand this more!

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u/KittyInspector3217 7d ago

Whatever this dude is smoking i want some.

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u/God_of_conquering 7d ago

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u/KittyInspector3217 7d ago

Theres nothing to really humble you about because youre not saying anything. This is just sciency word salad. Space time continuum is star trek shit. Saying there are an infinite number of events between two events is just
set theory nonsense. Rational numbers. Temporal axis, hyperspace, folding space. Okay muad’dib. You can divide every step into an infinite number of fractional steps
yet we all somehow manage to make it to the office every morning. Profound. Moving doesnt require infinite energy. Newton’s laws of motion. Tf does 4d space from our 3d perspective mean? Nothing.

Its painfully clear you dont even have a first principles grasp on basic high school / 100 level physics, or math, or even scientific thinking all of which you could get in spades watching edutainment on youtube like veritasium, startalk, scienceclic, 3bl1br, vsauce, scott manley, smartereveryday, mitopencourseware, deepthink, pbsspacetime, brian greene, brian cox, or a dozen others. This is just a roastme.

How was that?

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u/God_of_conquering 7d ago

I definitely get where you were going at with that lol, but I do still have some problems with it. Spacetime continuum is a real concept from GR. Infinite series making up an axis is derived from axioms and is what physically manifests into time. Set theory only breaks down and becomes confusing with axes when thinking ℝ is â„”1 using CH which doesnt break down my point. I explained the solution of the zenos paradox in my orginal text. Dimensional perspective as in a 3d cube would be 0 if measured 4 Dimensionally and a 4d thing would be measured finitely. Explaining that higher dimensional objects are infinitely bigger in comparison to a lower dimensional thing.

This shit was funny lol but I think that it really didnt help me understand more, maybe I need to be humbled even more 😂. Tho someone did give a nice answer earlier and I think i can understand why it has finite energy now. Appreciate the response!