{"id":84578,"date":"2018-11-08T01:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ripples-in-space-time-could-reveal-the-shape-of-wormholes"},"modified":"2018-11-08T01:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:02:33","slug":"ripples-in-space-time-could-reveal-the-shape-of-wormholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ripples-in-space-time-could-reveal-the-shape-of-wormholes","title":{"rendered":"Ripples in Space-Time Could Reveal the Shape of Wormholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ripples-in-space-time-could-reveal-the-shape-of-wormholes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wormholes \u2014 yawning gateways that could theoretically connect distant points in space-time \u2014 are usually illustrated as gaping gravity wells linked by a narrow tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>But their precise shape has been unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, a physicist in Russia has devised a method to measure the shape of symmetric wormholes \u2014 even though they have not been proven to exist \u2014 based on the way the objects may affect light and gravity. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/58245-theory-of-relativity-in-real-life.html\">8 Ways You Can See Einstein\u2019s Theory of Relativity in Real Life<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/articles\/2018\/11\/08\/ripples_in_space-time_could_reveal_the_shape_of_wormholes_110794.html\">https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/articles\/2018\/11\/08\/ripples...10794.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wormholes \u2014 yawning gateways that could theoretically connect distant points in space-time \u2014 are usually illustrated as gaping gravity wells linked by a narrow tunnel. But their precise shape has been unknown. Now, however, a physicist in Russia has devised a method to measure the shape of symmetric wormholes \u2014 even though they have not [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84578","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=84578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}