Re: Wormholes

Keith Elis (hagbard@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 04 Dec 1997 18:05:11 -0500


John K Clark wrote:

> [...] After a few days of
> work he found that wormholes could be stabilized and made to do useful things
> if you had something that pushed the wormholes walls apart gravitationally,
> something with a negative energy density from light's frame of reference,
> something like antimass. Thorn called this stuff "Exotic Material".

If exotic material [there's got to be a better name for it...] has enough negative gravitation to keep
a wormhole open, it sounds like it would be very useful in a propulsion system for interstellar
spacecraft. But then what happens to conservation of energy? Kinetic energy is created out of nothing
more than two particles in close proximity?

Keith