{"id":181190,"date":"2024-01-23T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/astrophysicists-offer-theoretical-proof-of-traversable-wormholes-in-the-expanding-universe"},"modified":"2024-01-23T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:22:27","slug":"astrophysicists-offer-theoretical-proof-of-traversable-wormholes-in-the-expanding-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/astrophysicists-offer-theoretical-proof-of-traversable-wormholes-in-the-expanding-universe","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicists offer theoretical proof of traversable wormholes in the expanding universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophysicists-offer-theoretical-proof-of-traversable-wormholes-in-the-expanding-universe3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The expansion of the universe at some stage of evolution is well described by the Friedmann model. It was derived from general relativity a hundred years ago, but it is still considered one of the most important and relevant cosmological models.<\/p>\n<p>RUDN University astrophysicists have now proven the theoretical possibility of the existence of traversable wormholes in the Friedmann universe. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2218-1997\/9\/11\/465\">published<\/a> in the journal Universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA wormhole is a type of highly curved geometry. It resembles a tunnel either between distant regions of the same universe or between different universes. Such structures were first discussed in the framework of solutions to the gravitational field equations a hundred years ago. But the wormholes considered then turned out to be non-traversable even for photons\u2014they could not move from one \u2018end of the tunnel\u2019 to the other, not to mention going back,\u201d said Kirill Bronnikov, doctor of physical and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mathematical+sciences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mathematical sciences<\/a>, professor of RUDN University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expansion of the universe at some stage of evolution is well described by the Friedmann model. It was derived from general relativity a hundred years ago, but it is still considered one of the most important and relevant cosmological models. RUDN University astrophysicists have now proven the theoretical possibility of the existence of traversable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,41,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-information-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181190","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=181190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}