Wormholes

Wormholes...smells of worms, right? I assure you they can very much be for humans as well. In fact, they are perhaps the only hope for the salvation of human race in distant future. If some disaster is to strike a place, rats are the first to sense it(except the one that the cat brings with itself) and would desert the place before the whole thing goes into mess. Now what if i say our home(our universe) is going to see a catastrophe...an eventual death(believe me, i'm not a paranoid)...cosmologists say it could have two forms- big freeze or the big crunch...what shall we do when the eventuality approaches...well, follow rat wisdom- desert the place...flee the universe...go to another universe(i know you are thinking: what crap is this?...how come there are more that one universe?). Few years back, existence of multiple universes was nothing more than science fiction but now nobody denies it. Infact Michio Kaku's book Parallel Worlds is all about convincing us of the existence of multiple universes and predicting our future.

So other worlds do exist and our world is dying...how to escape it? That's where wormholes come in- they are 'shortcuts' to other worlds, through which we can pass into other worlds in negligible times...sounds like science fiction?...i call it hope.

To talk about wormholes we first have to talk about...what else?..the most exotic(and infamous) members of the universe- the Black Holes(i know you are already crying out: "oh no..not again..I know black holes are dead giant stars and not even light can escape them and if something gets close enough to a black hole, its sucked in and crushed to death, hawking already told me all that"). I would tell you something else: that there are black holes that are not static but they spin- rotating black holes and if you happen to fall into them, there is a possibility that you are not crushed to death.

Wormholes are like shortcut tunnels that may enable us to reach otherwise distant regions of space very quickly.Some of these tunnels connect parallel worlds too and that's what gives us hope. There are theories suggesting that the tunnel or the wormhole, if it exists, will have to be very unstable.

I'm interested in the positive side of it. Imagine the excitement of seeing a new world altogether. Assume there is a evacuation drill(this one is for earth) and there is a flight from sriharikota every 30 minutes to another world and people are queued up(this is india dude!). Imagine santa singh arriving with his family and truckload of family stuff(you can't blame him) and calls out to the commander: "oye ye duji duniya ki flight kinne baje hai? uthe punjab to hoga na?"

Keep the hope!

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