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Diving into a charged (Reissner-Nordstrom) Black hole

Apparently there are two event horizons in this type of black hole, where the second one is known as the Cauchy horizon. According to Carroll, if you go into the first one, you will fall until you ...
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Going through a ring of black holes

Mathematician here with a speculative physical question -- feel free to boot me if the level isn't right. Suppose one finds, or builds, a constellation of several black holes arranged in a circle. ...
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Do spacelike junctions in the Thin-Shell Formalism imply energy nonconservation and counterintuitive wormholes?

The Thin Shell Formalism (MTW 1973 p.551ff) is used to properly paste together different vacuum solutions to the Einstein equations. At the junction of the two solutions is a hypersurface of matter – ...
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Are we going to be able to travel trough space deforming the space-time?

I'm not talking about the speed of the spaceship. If we can deform space-time we needn't any type of propulsion. And how can the travel affect to it's pilots? Can they survive?
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A simple thought experiment about traversable wormholes

Let's say I have a tube, of large radius (about 5 - 7 meters in diameter), with traversable wormholes at the ends. The wormholes are arranged as such that if something falls inside one hole from ...
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Can you use a wormhole to travel through space not time?

I want to know if you could theoretically travel from your house to work via a wormhole but stay in the present day...without changing time. Kind of like teleportation but harnessing the energy of a ...
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How long would it take to travel through a wormhole?

Assuming wormholes exist and you put some matter into one, how long would it take to reach the other end versus how far apart the two ends are? Basically, by how much does a wormhole stretch ...
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Why can't Schwarzschild wormholes exist?

So, I've recently been reading up on Schwarzschild wormholes and I've learned that they cannot exist becuase they violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. What I'm asking is: Why do they violate the ...
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Math and Wormholes

Hopefully this is the correct forum for this. I felt that Physics Overflow may not be the correct place. I had a student approach me ask me what kinds of mathematics goes into the study of wormholes. ...
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Wormholes & Time Machines - for *experts* in GR/maths

EDIT: Further clarification in the context of answers/comments received to 20 Jan has been appended EDIT: 21 Jan - Response to the Lubos Expansion appended [in progress, not yet complete] EDIT: 23 ...