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Juan Maldacena: What Is A Wormhole? (#338)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Constructing a Humanly Traversable Wormhole
This chapter explores the construction of a wormhole for human travel, discussing the challenges of using light matter fields and proposing the concept of a dark sector. It delves into models involving extra dimensions and curved space, addressing the need for a large enough opening and the time dilation effect. The fascination with time travel and wormholes is also discussed, along with the motivation behind studying theories of everything and the limitations of current theories.
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