AAWSAP DIRD, Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy, April 2010

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

UNCLASSIFIED/fFOA OFFI&il.t..k Y&& 8Ptk\f
_a_,
Figure 3. Diagram of a Simultaneous View of Two Remote Compact Regions, Il1 and Il2, of Minkowski
Space Used to Create the Wormhole Throat an (time is suppressed in this diagram)
.n.,_
Figure 4. The Same Diagram as in Figure 3 Except as Viewed by an Observer Sitting in Region n1 Who
Looks Through the Wormhole Throat an and Sees Remote Region n2 (dotted area inside the circle) on
the Other Side
It is a standard result of the thin shell formalism that the Einstein field equation may be
cast in terms of the surface stress-energy tensor S ;i of a thin shell of matter (or mass­
energy) localized inside the wormhole throat an (Reference 8):
UNCLASSIFIEQ { {FOR OFFICIAL W&& 8HLY
5