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

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previous section. However, it is the opinion of the author that free-space negative
energy sources appear to be a more desirable option for building traversable
wormholes than stored negative energy.
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Constructing Traversable Wormholes in the Lab: Einstein's General Theory of
Relativity does not provide instructions on how to construct a traversable wormhole
in space or inside a laboratory vacuum vessel. The Einstein general relativistic field
equation only provides a prescription for designing a special, localized spacetime
geometry and calculating the physical characteristics of a source of matter that is
required to induce it. If one "zaps" a region of empty space with a beam of negative
energy, will a traversable wormhole appear? One doesn't know. Maybe one has to
poke a hole in space with an intense beam of negative energy, or maybe we have to
use the negative energy to inflate a quantum spacetime fluctuation (allegedly in the
form of a "geometric foam"). Theoretical studies need to be implemented to address
this question and the author believes that empirical studies will be necessary to find
the answer once we develop an intense source of negative energy.
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