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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What "edge" of a perfectly smooth sphere can you hold onto to pull it larger?

Wait... What? Have you never held a ball? Spheres aren't some nebulous thing we can only imagine lol

Not just that but, you don't have to physically grab a thing to expand it. Think about filling a balloon up. But with energy instead of a mass. Would it be more or less energy needed to create the wormhole? I concede it would likely still be much more than the human body itself could create, so it wouldn't be a realistic superpower but perhaps it wouldn't be an unrealistic piece of tech.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You've never held a perfectly smooth sphere. The earth is a much smoother surface than a billiard ball. There's no edge conceptually, in the same way that vacuum is not missing air, it's nothing. It warps spacetime in a way that you can't discern an edge. Likewise there is no "inside" a wormhole. It's a hole in three dimensional space that leads to another point in three dimensional space. There's no "inside" because that implies a point that exists outside our universe which based off our current understanding of physics, is impossible

We literally don't have the language to describe these phenomenons because humans are three dimensional creatures. We can't imagine these concepts because it involves a reality we can't perceive. It's like asking someone to imagine a color they've never seen. We can't do it