A wormhole would just be that you would just go through on one side, come out the other. It's a whole every direction you look at when we think of a hole in a floor,. This is a hole in full three dimensional space. No matter which direction you go in, you're entering the hole and you'll come out in another place. Is that mathematically possible? Yes. On paper, we can do that. But you need some matter that can, that's the opposite of gravity. So it's negative energy stuff. And that's how the warp drive people do it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is the host of the weekly show “Star Talk” on National Geographic and the head of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He has a new book “Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization” out now.
Neil deGrasse Tyson joins the show to chat with Theo about cosmic musings, the new space race, facts vs. feelings, flat-earthers, climate change and much more.