Traversable Wormholes

Until recently, it was thought that travel through a wormhole, like that seen in the 2014 Christopher Nolan film Interstellar, was forbidden by the laws of physics. Prof Daniel Jafferis and his team have recently had a breakthrough and found a way to make it physically allowed. Prof Jafferis dropped by the Cool Worlds Lab to tell us about this fascinating idea.

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► Gao, Jafferis & Wall (2016), "Traversable Wormholes via a Double Trace Deformation": arxiv.org/abs/1608.05687
► Outro music by Taylor Davis:    • The Avengers Theme - Violins Cover - ...  

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