{"id":145461,"date":"2022-09-02T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/astrophysicist-says-we-may-have-already-observed-wormholes-created-by-alien-civilization"},"modified":"2022-09-02T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:23:09","slug":"astrophysicist-says-we-may-have-already-observed-wormholes-created-by-alien-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/astrophysicist-says-we-may-have-already-observed-wormholes-created-by-alien-civilization","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicist Says We May Have Already Observed Wormholes Created by Alien Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophysicist-says-we-may-have-already-observed-wormholes-created-by-alien-civilization2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntrinsically unstable, a wormhole would need \u2018stuff\u2019 with repulsive gravity to hold open each mouth, and the energy equivalent to that emitted by an appreciable fraction of the stars in a galaxy,\u201d reads <em><i>Science Focus<\/i><\/em>\u2019 story. The idea would be that \u201cif ETs have created a network of wormholes, it might be detectable by gravitational microlensing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That technique has been used in the past to detect thousands of distant exoplanets and stars by detecting how they bend light. Whether it could be used to detect wormholes, to be clear, is an open question.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, spotting wormholes isn\u2019t our only shot at detecting life elsewhere in the universe. <i>Science Focus<\/i> also pointed to the search for theoretical megastructures that harness the energy of a star by fully enclosing it, or atmospheric <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-hunting-alien-civilizations-pollution\" class=\"\">chemicals linked to human pollution<\/a>, or extremely thin reflective spacecraft called <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mission-catch-up-interstellar-object\" class=\"\">light sails<\/a>, any of which could theoretically lead us to discover an extraterrestrial civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIntrinsically unstable, a wormhole would need \u2018stuff\u2019 with repulsive gravity to hold open each mouth, and the energy equivalent to that emitted by an appreciable fraction of the stars in a galaxy,\u201d reads Science Focus\u2019 story. The idea would be that \u201cif ETs have created a network of wormholes, it might be detectable by gravitational [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}