Dr. Arlen Anderson Department of Physics, UNC-Chapel Hill
4 PM, Thursday, November 2, 1995
Room 101, Olin Physical Laboratory
A wormhole is a bridge or tunnel in spacetime, a shortcut connecting two distant locations. If one could travel through wormholes, one could cross enormous distances and even travel through time. Microscopic wormholes are predicted in many approaches to quantum gravity, but can traversable macroscopic wormholes exist? Are the laws of physics consistent in their presence? Addressing these questions provides a forum for sharpening our understanding of the physics of general relativity and opens new perspectives on the issue of causality.