That's the idea behind a wormhole. A wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that cuts the travel time from one point to the other. Instead of traveling for many ...

But using wormholes for time travel won't be straightforward. Artwork: A wormhole can be thought of as a kind of tunnel creating a shortcut between separate points in space-time The nearest ones ...

Carl Sagan, the astronomer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and legendary popularizer of science, gave this interview during the making of "Time Travel." True to form, he discusses arcane aspects ...

Some scientists are exploring other ideas that could theoretically allow time travel. One concept involves wormholes, or ...

Wormholes have been popularized in science fiction, from the film 'Interstellar' to the series 'Stargate' and 'Star Trek'. These mysterious portals could be the key to traveling vast ...

but it was shown – theoretically – by Kip Thorne that spacetime can be warped to make a stable wormhole that you can travel through (traversable). 2. Time travel is easy as long as you follow ...

What is the deepest level of reality? In this Quanta explainer, Vijay Balasubramanian, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, takes us on a journey through space-time to investigate what it’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby did it over and over. Sometimes, though, the travel isn’t across the globe, or even across space. They are across time. Time travel has been an oft-used trope of science ...

Churning nano-wormholes could explain the clash in our ... They build in as many variables or ideas as they have at the time, leaving spaces where something is not yet known.