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What is an Einstein-Rosen bridge? No wikipedia links, and laymans terms only.
pic unrelated, I suspect.

>> No.1845981

Wormhole.

A bridge in between two points in normally unconnected spacetime.

>> No.1846004

>>1845981
How does it work?

>> No.1846007

>>1846004
It doesn't, a senile old mans idea.

>> No.1846011

>>1845981
building off of that, an easy way to think of it is as if we took a piece of paper that represents spacetime, folded it over on itself, and poked through it with a straw.

the analogy doesn't do it justice because you have to account for the fact that it's not simply connected. but i don't think that's relevant to what you want to know.

>> No.1846041

>>1846011
Im actually not that interested in a metaphor, I'd rather hear the actual mechanics explained, I realize that goes against the laymans bit though

>> No.1846049
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1846049

>>1846011
>poking a hole in spacetime
Where this thread is going, we won't need eyes to see...

>> No.1846057

>>1846041
There are no actual mechanics. Nobody's ever successfully done what he's describing.

Thus far, wormholes exist only in mathematical models, not in observable reality.

>> No.1846135
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1846135

Watch Sliders. It explains everything.

>> No.1846140

>>1846049
haha, good point. i didn't mean it like that. the reason i said straw was because i was trying to conjure up the image of a tube connecting one side to the other.

let's try again. if you're familiar with string theory, supposedly traversable wormholes could be opened up by cosmic strings and then cosmic expansion would sort of blow up the hole so that a tunnel was created connecting one point in spacetime to another, making it possible to travel instantly from the first point to the next.

>> No.1846160

>>1845973

silly rabbit.

and i quote... "Einstein-Rosen Bridge is a 2003 12" release by Venetian Snares. It features 'Einstein-Rosen Bridge', a track taken from The Chocolate Wheelchair Album, with two other wild, different versions."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein-Rosen_Bridge_(EP)

happy now?

>> No.1846219

>>1846160
i luled so hard my roommate let out a huge snore because i almost woke her up.