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| We know perpetual motion is impossible. So, consider this thought experiment: at the top of a very big (1 mile say) mountain, we have a wormhole and the other opening is at the bottom of the mountain. Now a bowling ball is released at the top of the mountain and rolls down the mountain. At the bottom, it turns a turbine or otherwise generates electricity, then we add a little energy to it to push it through the wormhole. At the top of the mountain it rolls out and we complete the cycle. What does this tell us? It tells us that it must take WORK to push the bowling ball through the wormhole, for it rises in gravitational potential energy when we do that. So, air is sucked down through the top wormhole and blows out of the bottom wormhole due to the propagation of gravitational field lines through the wormhole! Cool, huh? So if you have a pair of wormholes, you can do two things: first, you can put a windmill at the bottom wormhole and air or water will be sucked through the top wormhole and spit out of the bottom one, turning the turbine (windmill) and generating electricity! This lowers the gravitational potential energy of the fluid. If it's a gas, gravitational potential energy is proportional to temperature so the fluid will effectively cool, yielding energy. This is not impossible - it gets its energy from the same place a balloon does - the Sun - although gravity tells the balloon what way to go. Now the Earth is receiving enormous amounts of energy from the Sun, and some of it is reflected back into space. But a lot is not! This is "free" energy - available for our taking. If we could somehow control the weather, if we knew chaos theory well enough a flock of butterflies might flap their wings just so and we could produce a gust of wind to turn our windmill. But we do not know how to do that. But if you have two wormholes and a mountain, we CAN control the weather, even going so far as to make a macroscopic gust of wind. The wind (weather we made) gets its energy from the Sun by somewhat indirect means. The second law of thermodynamics applies to CLOSED systems. The Earth is receiving massive amounts of energy from the Sun and is not closed, hence plants can grow and order can emerge from disorder). Second, you can send information through a wormhole by placing an electrically charged plate at one end and measuring the field strength at the other end. We know field lines must propagate through wormholes (else one could build a perpetual motion machine with bowling balls as described above). It is not necessary to traverse a wormhole in order to send information (maybe virtual particles traverse it however). Does anyone know if it takes energy to sustain a wormhole? And what are we to make of "exotic matter"? I don't have any to work with. Is it necessary to make a wormhole? I want to understand "wormhole theory". If you have a mountain and two wormholes, a bowling ball placed just below the top wormhole will fall "up" through the wormhole and then come shooting out - at terrific speed - the bottom wormhole. It will be as fast as if the bowling ball had rolled down the mountain, without friction! Thus wormholes can be used to create artificial gravity. Now does wormhole theory speculate that there is no gravitational field outside the wormhole? We know from energy conservation that field lines propagate through wormholes. I read that it takes only a little energy to make a Planck-sized "point" arbitrarily roomy on the inside. Reportedly this makes it possible to make a tiny wormhole, which needs only a little energy, and you can then pass through it, in principle. How can I model space-time distortion? I have books on general relativity but they say blah blah blah tensor blah blah blah and do not go into too much detail about what a tensor is or why I need it. I understand 2 dimensional matrices. Tensors have superscript and subscripts. Einstein notation is tough for the beginner, like me. Willow |
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| Dear Willow: "Willow" <[Only registered users see links. ]> wrote in message news:[Only registered users see links. ]... The mountain collapses into one of the black holes that form the wormhole, end of experiment. The mountain collapses into one of the black holes that form the wormhole, end of experiment. The two points are necessarily equipotential, the ball will not roll. End of experiment. David A. Smith |
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