Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?

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From Stargate to Interstellar, wormholes are our favorite method for traveling across fictional universes. But they are also a very serious field of study for some of our greatest minds over the last century. So what’s the holdup? When do we get to wormhole ourselves out of here?

Hosted by Matt O'Dowd
Written by Matt O'Dowd
Graphics by Leonardo Scholzer, Yago Ballarini, & Pedro Osinski
Directed by: Andrew Kornhaber
Camera Operator: Bahaar Gholipour
Executive Producers: Eric Brown & Andrew Kornhaber

#space #astrophysics #interstellar

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[hdshjs]

I like the background here. It's nice to know that Matt came back from space, even if just for a short time, and recorded the episode at home for once :)

[deeliciousplum]

14:19 painfully adorable kitteh travels through wormhole and finds itself on Matt O'Dowd's vid on wormholes. 🐈

[Aquillyne]

I like the idea that there are millions of little wormholes that can be expanded. It’s very much like The Subtle Knife: “windows can be found anywhere, but not everywhere”

[TVNDRA]

The fact that you’d have to calculate your math 100% dead accurate when plotting a jump otherwise you get pulled into a black hole is terrifying

[liamjohnston]

The conditions is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.
- Einstein Barbosa

[mrspidey]

"I need someone to hang out with"
Cat: Am i nothing to you??

[isntitabeautifulday]

The automatic english subtitles translate "Schwarzschild" by "fart shields". Have a good day.

[asdfdfggfd]

The best way to survive going through a wormhole is to install a teleporter device on either end, then just send the teleporter data between the sides. This also greatly reduces the amount of exotic matter a space traveler needs to make in their particle accelerator.

[Its-Just-Zip]

I really needed that joke about a galactic scale pandemic, got a solid laugh out of me there.

Thank you.

[FullmoonWlf]

A living cat showed up, a minute of silence for the dead version of it

[danielcoert]

Amazingly explained once again! I don't know how Matt makes these ideas so understandable. Please do a video on Sir Roger Penrose' CCC theory sometime!

[tomkerruish]

Creating a wormhole is easy: you just need a piece of paper to fold and a pencil to poke through it. Works in the movies every time! (Thanks to Andrew Dotson for this observation.)

[battlefieldcustoms]

Video: *shows science and unimaginable mathematical data*

Youtube commenters: oH LoOK A kItTy

[abraneveah]

Most important question: what is the name of the grey kitty?

[megan_alnico]

AMA - Ask Me Anything: Anything Goes

AMAA - Ask Me Almost Anything: Normally used to say ”Ask me anything that's safe for work”

Or at least that's what I understand from my Reddit experience.

[JrunkJesus]

Me: “hmm...I never thought about that. Totally makes—OOH KITTY!!!😻”

[Jop_pop]

As an amateur mathematician I appreciate your casual use of the term "multiply connected" 2:36

[Maddin]

Let's assume you have a stable, traversable wormhole: How would you control the location of the entrance/exit?

[sermah]

"In 1915 Carl's fart shields.."
Thx Youtube

[igorastral]

Keep up the excellent work you have been doing so far! Thank you Matt!