Wormholes were first theorized by an Austrian Physicist in 1916 by using Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. He described a white hole which is a theoretical reversal of the black hole and said that entrances to Black and White Holes would be connected by a space time conduit.
In 1935 Einstein along with another scientist named Rosen
elaborated on the idea and proposed the existence of bridges through space time.
These bridges connect two different points in space time, theoretically
creating a shortcut in the Universe that could reduce travel time and distance
by an enormous amount. These shortcuts are known as Wormholes.
Lot of speculation has gone into travel through Wormholes.
However, so far except for theoretical proof we have not discovered any such
Wormhole. In fact as per theory the Wormholes collapse very quickly and
therefore travel through them is impossible. Moreover, theoretical Wormholes
are microscopic in size, of the order of 10-33 centimetres, so there
is no question of humans traveling through them. But it may be possible that
with the expanding Universe they may have grown bigger in size, but how big we
can again only speculate.
However, as long as we do not find the existence of a
Wormhole in the Universe, all this becomes pure speculation and romantic imagination
without any basis. The scientific equations simply give out the existence of
Wormholes on a microscopic scale, but those too collapse very quickly. More
than this the theory does not talk of the possibility of humans traveling
through Wormholes, which in turn is impossible with the theoretical set of properties
given to Wormholes. The physics in the Wormholes is utterly different from our
own, and it is postulated that they contain exotic types of matter.
Therefore, so far this remains a fanciful theory and we have
not found any Wormholes, let alone travel through them. These wormholes, if
they do exist may be spotted by the way their gravity affects other bodies located
near to them.
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