Subject: Wormholes NOT(?) WARNING longish science BS!
Metlay:
Probably this isn't the place to discuss this, but maybe someone wants to
hear something other than the (very legitimate) Trav: TNG concerns.
Let's assume we have a 400 ton Free trader like the one in the Traveller
Book. It has a radius (wingspan) of about 50 m. Let's also assume that
the wormhole must be a created singularity with a Schwarzschild radius
just sufficient to swallow the ship (50m.) Don't ask about the details.
>From R = 2GM/c^2 we get that it's mass must be 3.37 x 10^28 kg, or 1/60
of a solar mass. We can get a very rough (order of magnitude) estimate
on how far any orbit will be deviated (assume the distance travel equals
0.5at^2, remember this is a very crude approximation.) Then we find that
the (maximal) distance from its original orbit is x = Gmt^2/2r^2.
Where t is the amount of time the wormhole is in existance. This formula
won't be too absurd as long as t is "small." For a radius of 1 A.U.
for the above singularity lasting for, say, 10 minutes the deviation
would be 45 cm. Not a big deal. At a radius of 100 planetary radii,
the calculated distance would be about 8 x 10^5 meters (I suspect the
formula wouldn't be valid here, but you could calculate the total energy
change of the orbit.) This would be very measureable.
Now, a lot of large ships jumping from nearby would cause a big
problem to a system. A naval station would have real problems and
jumping with a fleet in formation would be impossible. Is this
what you found? Are there other complications I'm overlooking?
(I'm choosing to ignore the creation of 1/60 of a solar mass worth
of energy to create the wormhole:-)
I thought others may be interested in this but maybe private communication
would be more appropriate.
Nick Christenson
[email removed]
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