Apparating and the Theory of Relativity

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 185888

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> This guy also talks about apparating as creating sort of 
> wormholes tunnels through time and space, if we imagine 
> space as some sort of elastic rubber. He says 
> that Theory of relativity does not prevent the possibility of those 
> tunnels in real life?



I know even less than you about theory of relativity (I only know that
it exists and that Einstein came up with it, LOL), but, according to
some sources, this theory does not contradict the existence of
wormholes (which doesn't mean that they exist in RL though :-)). Of
course, I'm not sure how reliable Internet sources are, but they
(Wikipedia in particular) give a lot of reference to science books, so
I really don't know what to believe. 

According to these sources, even if wormholes existed, it would be
impossible to pass through them (traversable wormholes), because they
are extremely unstable. If I understand it correctly, wormholes are
something theoretical, something that is used as a solution to some
equations in general relativity, not something that really exists.
OTOH, maybe I understand it all wrong, because I was never good at
physics (or whatever it is :-)).


zanooda, who thinks that Alla's question is very interesting, but
definitely OT ... :-).