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The wormhole paper mentioned in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15331 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15331
by cygx 6y ago
The wormhole paper mentioned in the article:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15331 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15331
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoAs a layperson I don’t want to be bamboozled by /woo/. Can any resident astrophysicists here on HN vouch for the quackery, or lack-of, in the linked paper?
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI am by no means qualified to judge physics papers of any kind so take this with a grain of salt, but the invocation of Maxwell's Demon (a thought-experiment method of violating the 2nd law of thermodynamics) suggests it's presenting a pretty fringe idea I think. However, this supposedly happened prior to recombination and, if you can imagine it, I'm even less qualified to guess at the veracity of claims about that epoch.
- goodcanadian 6y agoWell, this is outside my area of expertise (more of an amateur astrophysicist), but I think it is a serious examination of a somewhat fringe idea. Basically, it is a theory paper asking the question of whether wormholes can explain the phenomenon, and if they were the cause, what would it look like? I wouldn't take the idea too seriously (and the paper's conclusion seems more like a "no" than a "yes" to me), but it does appear to be a sound examination of the question (though, I would appreciate comments from someone with more knowledge of relativity).