Wormhole

A Wormhole (...or Einstein–Rosen bridge) is a rare astronomical structure linking disparate points in spacetime.

• Many regard a wormhole as a sort of naturally occurring portal.
• It is widely believed to be an extremely rare Anomaly.

Description (Specifications)

Wormholes are rare, not well understood structures, that can be used to link points in spacetime enabling FTL traverse.

A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends, each at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations or different points of time). More precisely it is a transcendental bijection of the spacetime continuum, an asymptotic projection of the Calabi–Yau manifold manifesting itself in Anti-de Sitter space.

Alternate Terminology

• "Casimir-Lorentzian traversable wormhole"
• "Deutschian interuniversal wormhole"
• "Einstein–Rosen bridge"
• "One-dimensional tubes"
• "Schwarzschild wormhole"
• "Topological intra-universe wormhole"
• "Transcendental bijection of the spacetime continuum"
• "World tube via world line"

Faster-than-light Travel

The impossibility of faster-than-light relative speed only applies locally. Wormholes can allow effective superluminal (faster-than-light) travel by ensuring that the speed of light is not exceeded locally at any time. While traveling through a wormhole, subluminal (slower-than-light) speeds are used. If two points are connected by a wormhole whose length is shorter than the distance between them outside the wormhole, the time taken to traverse it can be less than the time it would take a light beam to make the journey if it took a path through the space outside the wormhole. However, a light beam traveling through the same wormhole would beat the Traveller.

History & Background (Dossier)

Since traversable wormholes are widely believed to exist within Charted Space, they might one day allow chronotaxis or time travel.

• Time dilation effects are already known to occur with misjumps.

Wormholes in Charted Space

Some sophontologists hypothesize that TL:31-33 Ascendant societies might one day master this astrographic phenomenon with an advanced transportation technology.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Wormhole. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Wormholes_in_fiction. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen. Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), TBD.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), TBD.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science