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Is it possible to artificaly distort the space-time continum?


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There is been some theoretical work that suggests wormholes might exist near a rotating cylindrical black hole. Now if only we could figure out how to make a cylindrical black hole!

John Hawley

Well, every object distorts space-time a little bit: the distortion depends basically on the amount of mass you have concentrated in a small region. But major distortions require enormous masses in very small regions, and current technology is quite incapable of doing such a thing.

Arthur Smith


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