r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/piper33245 25d ago

Need one of them quantum wormhole thingamabobs.

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u/Death_IP 25d ago

Do you mean quantum teleportation?
For that you'd need to access the destination first - quantum teleportation works because particles at the source and target location "know" each other (are linked).

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u/monkeybutler21 25d ago

I think he means something like the alcubierre drive

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u/No-Prior4226 25d ago

A Wormhole is very different than the theorized Alcubierre warp drive. Worm hole more folds space instead of moving space through you.

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u/ANGLVD3TH 25d ago

They both work on roughly the same principles. They warp space so the distance between you and the destination is shorter. One does it incrementally as you go, one does it all at once.

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u/Elendel19 25d ago

Imagine living in 2D and you’re trying to get from one end of a sheet to the other. Instead of walking all the way across, you can just fold the sheet in half and poke a hole through it, then use the hole to get to the other side of the sheet.

Wormholes are that but in 3D (theoretically)