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Wormholes Generate New Kind of Quantum Anticentrifugal Force
Quantum particles entering a wormhole may experience an entirely new class of force.
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If space is stretched so that the uncertainty in position is greater than it would otherwise be in a flat space, then the uncertainty in momentum must be less. And that means the energy of the particle must be lower too.
So, a highly curved region of space must act like a potential well, pulling quantum particles toward it (since they'll naturally move to the region with the lowest energy).
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Wormholes Generate New Kind of Quantum Anticentrifugal Force
Quantum particles entering a wormhole may experience an entirely new class of force.
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If space is stretched so that the uncertainty in position is greater than it would otherwise be in a flat space, then the uncertainty in momentum must be less. And that means the energy of the particle must be lower too.
So, a highly curved region of space must act like a potential well, pulling quantum particles toward it (since they'll naturally move to the region with the lowest energy).
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Re: Quantum particles entering a wormhole may experience an entirely new class of force.
Thu, June 25, 2009 - 10:23 AMNice post, Jon. Thanks.
I am re-reading the book of Michio Kaku, "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension", ( books.google.com/books ). It is old, (1994), but I find it a very nice summary of all the developments in physics since Einstein to nowadays - Yang-Mills, Klein-Kaluza, Supergravity, String Theory - every single step; (like it very much). He describes them all in a very plain language, without this "ego wrestling" "titan of thought" way, as you know most university professors do. He touches up every single development that has occurred in physics in the last 100 years, and he does it in a very organized and methodical way, so the reader, actually, has a clear, ordered, step-by-step picture of how things have been developing, (and what is it that they actually are, of course).
I am very much recommending it to anyone who wants to have a clear, orderly picture of what is all that quantum, multidimensional, supergravity and string buzz is all about.
In fact, I am going to post this my reply in your tribe. Some folks might want to read the book - it is a fantastic summer read.
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