{"id":229148,"date":"2026-01-16T01:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/wormholes-may-not-exist-weve-found-they-reveal-something-deeper-about-time-and-the-universe"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:34:59","slug":"wormholes-may-not-exist-weve-found-they-reveal-something-deeper-about-time-and-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/wormholes-may-not-exist-weve-found-they-reveal-something-deeper-about-time-and-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Wormholes may not exist\u2014we\u2019ve found they reveal something deeper about time and the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wormholes-may-not-exist-weve-found-they-reveal-something-deeper-about-time-and-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time\u2014shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.<\/p>\n<p>In 1935, while studying the behavior of particles in regions of extreme gravity, Einstein and Rosen <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pr\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRev.48.73\" target=\"_blank\">introduced what they called a \u201cbridge\u201d<\/a>: a mathematical link between two perfectly symmetrical copies of spacetime. It was not intended as a passage for travel, but as a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/topics\/great-mysteries-of-physics-134803\" target=\"_blank\">maintain consistency<\/a> between gravity and quantum physics. Only later did Einstein\u2013Rosen bridges become associated with wormholes, despite having little to do with the original idea.<\/p>\n<p>But in <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1361-6382\/ae3044\" target=\"_blank\">new research<\/a> published in <i>Classical and Quantum Gravity<\/i>, my colleagues and I show that the original Einstein\u2013Rosen bridge points to something far stranger\u2014and more fundamental\u2014than a wormhole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time\u2014shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, while studying the behavior of particles in regions of extreme gravity, Einstein and Rosen introduced what they called a \u201cbridge\u201d: a mathematical link between [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229148","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}