{"id":76732,"date":"2018-03-10T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T05:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-magnetic-wormhole-that-connects-two-regions-of-space-was-created-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:05:41","slug":"a-magnetic-wormhole-that-connects-two-regions-of-space-was-created-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-magnetic-wormhole-that-connects-two-regions-of-space-was-created-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"A Magnetic \u2018Wormhole\u2019 That Connects Two Regions of Space Was Created in The Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-magnetic-wormhole-that-connects-two-regions-of-space-was-created-in-the-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2015, researchers in Spain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/09\/150903081506.htm\">created a tiny magnetic wormhole<\/a> for the first time ever. They used it to connect two regions of space so that a magnetic field could travel \u2018invisibly\u2019 between them.<\/p>\n<p>Before you get too excited, it wasn\u2019t the kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/time-travel-has-been-simulated-by-australian-physicists\">gravitational wormhole<\/a> that would theoretically allow humans to travel rapidly across space in science fiction TV shows and films such as <em>Stargate<\/em>, <em>Star Trek,<\/em> and <em>Interstellar<\/em>, and it wouldn\u2019t have been able to transport matter.<\/p>\n<p>But the physicists managed to create a tunnel that allowed a magnetic field to disappear at one point, and then reappear at another, which is still a pretty huge deal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/magnetic-wormhole-that-connects-two-regions-of-space-has-been-created\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/magnetic-wormhole-that-connects...en-created<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2015, researchers in Spain created a tiny magnetic wormhole for the first time ever. They used it to connect two regions of space so that a magnetic field could travel \u2018invisibly\u2019 between them. Before you get too excited, it wasn\u2019t the kind of gravitational wormhole that would theoretically allow humans to travel rapidly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76732","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76777,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76732\/revisions\/76777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}