{"id":89523,"date":"2019-04-15T07:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/travel-through-wormholes-is-possible-but-slow"},"modified":"2019-04-15T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:22:21","slug":"travel-through-wormholes-is-possible-but-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/travel-through-wormholes-is-possible-but-slow","title":{"rendered":"Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/travel-through-wormholes-is-possible-but-slow.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Harvard physicist has shown that wormholes can exist: tunnels in curved space-time, connecting two distant places, through which travel is possible.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t pack your bags for a trip to other side of the galaxy yet; although it\u2019s theoretically possible, it\u2019s not useful for humans to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/travel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">travel<\/a> through, said the author of the study, Daniel Jafferis, from Harvard University, written in collaboration with Ping Gao, also from Harvard and Aron Wall from Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes longer to get through these wormholes than to go directly, so they are not very useful for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space+travel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space travel<\/a>,\u201d Jafferis said. He will present his findings at the 2019 American Physical Society April Meeting in Denver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-wormholes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard physicist has shown that wormholes can exist: tunnels in curved space-time, connecting two distant places, through which travel is possible. But don\u2019t pack your bags for a trip to other side of the galaxy yet; although it\u2019s theoretically possible, it\u2019s not useful for humans to travel through, said the author of the study, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89523","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\/89523","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}