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spacetime offset wormholes
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Imagine we had opened a wormhole to a distant planet, 50 light years away. | |
From mapping the sky on both planets, we learn that we are visiting this planet | |
50 years in the future - or they are visiting an earth 50 years in the past. | |
This means: if we sent a signal at light speed to this planet by radio waves | |
through normal space, as well as simultaneously through the wormhole, then the | |
signals would arrive there at the same time. | |
Any signal they send us however, would be split: the wormhole signal could be | |
received immediately, but the intersolar signal would be received in 100 years. | |
You see that even though we see 50 years into their future, due to the nature | |
of spacetime it would be impossible to warn them of danger ahead: any signal we | |
could send them arrives too late. | |
Technically, they could alter the past throwing a bomb through the wormhole | |
and then immediately observe the effects in the sky. But none of this causes | |
a paradoxon or alternative timelines. | |
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