h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't wormholes come from a theory that if you looked at the fabric of the universe it would look all foamy and frothy, and every so often there would be a hole, and every once in a while 2 holes would link for an umbelievably short space of time, effectively making a short cut between the 2 points? And that you would need a vast amount of negative matter which we can only barely create a minute amount of, to open a hole wide enough to pass through? Is that right or am I hopelessly out of date?

An interesting note: Wormholes are terribly gravatious (lots of gravity).
You can work out some of the calculations, and a mile wide wormhole (one bloody big wormhole) would allow matter to travel through an area about the diameter of a pencil without being submited to spaghettiification (an effect caused by short distances from a gravitational body: Gravity's force slopes off so quickly that the closest part of an object is pulled much harder than the farther parts, causing it to rip to shreads down to atomic sizes).
Alternate theories: Matter uses wormholes to move throughout space, using gravatons to keep the holes from colapsing (currently lacking hard evidence)

Spaghettification...I know I'm just being a smartarse, but it sounds like something describing the making of noodles.

So correct me if I'm wrong, basically at present, if you theoretically created a wormhole, it would create a link between 2 seperated points, but if a part of an object crossed the event horizon the rest of the body outside the event horizon would anchor it, so the body would be ripped to shreds like a rubber band linked between 2 tractors going in opposite directions at equal velocity. Just trying to frame it, but is it near correct?

There is a problem with Wormholes, specifically, creating one large enough for travel. Wormholes require an immense amount of energy, all of the energy that would be released by blowing up Jupiter and then some. And all of that would just create a wormhole that is three feet wide. Never mind the fact that the energy would have to be negitive. So there isn't much hope in trying to control wormholes, but rather finding one that was created in the Big Bang and that didn't instantly snap shut due to the fact that it was propped open by a funny thing called a cosmic string (Basically an ultradense slab of compacted space). A much more likely source of a wormhole would be in the middle of a black hole that was spinning rapidly enough to strech the singularity into a ring, and a wormhole would be nestled in the middle of the black hole, much like a finger goes through a ring. Unfortunately, to reach the wormhole you would be required to pass through the black hole's event horizon. Thus, you would be able to pass through the wormhole, but unable to move away from it. Another chance at a wormhole via a black hole is a black hole that is electrically charged rather than spinning. If the the black hole had enough charge, the wormhole could extend past the black hole's event horizon thus enableing a ship to pass through it and continue on.

Please note that all of this stuff is VERY theoretical, and as such I am not responsible if you go flying towards a black hole and get sucked in.

Revelation, would you please activate your homepage, so that I may greet you officially? Thanks, GB.

Ok, I activated it.