{"id":329,"title":"Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime","description":"This Kurzgesagt animation explores the science and theory behind wormholes. It begins by visualizing what a wormhole might look like and explains how Einstein's theory of relativity, which describes spacetime as a flexible fabric, makes them theoretically possible. The video discusses different types of wormholes, including non-traversable Einstein-Rosen bridges and traversable wormholes that might have formed in the early universe. It highlights the major challenges, such as the need for exotic matter with negative mass to keep a wormhole stable, and the potential for time-travel paradoxes, concluding that for now, wormholes remain a fascinating concept confined to mathematics.","slug":"wormholes-explained-breaking-spacetime","creator":"kurzgesagt","duration":488.942585,"tags":["wormholes","space","physics","Kurzgesagt","general relativity","Einstein","spacetime","black holes","exotic matter","science animation","cosmology"],"transcription":"If you saw a wormhole in reality, it would appear round, spherical, a bit like a black hole. Light from the other side passes through and gives you a window to a faraway place. Once crossed, the other side comes fully into view with your old home now receding into that shimmering spherical window. But are wormholes real, or are they just magic disguised as physics and maths? If they are real, how do they work, and where can we find them? For most of human history, we thought space was pretty simple. A big flat stage where the events of the universe unfold. Even if you take down the set of planets and stars, there's still something left. That empty stage is space, and it exists, unchanging and eternal. Einstein's theory of relativity changed that. It says that space and time make up that stage together, and they aren't the same everywhere. The things on the stage can affect the stage itself, stretching and warping it. If the old stage was like unmoving hardwood, Einstein's stage is more like a waterbed. This kind of elastic space can be bent and maybe even torn and patched together, which could make wormholes possible. Let's see what that would look like in 2D. Our universe is like a big flat sheet. Bent in just the right way, wormholes could connect two very, very distant spots with a short bridge that you could cross almost instantaneously, enabling you to travel the universe even faster than the speed of light. So, where can we find a wormhole? Presently, only on paper. General relativity says they might be possible, but that doesn't mean they have to exist. General relativity is a mathematical theory. It's a set of equations that have many possible answers, but not all maths describes reality. But they are theoretically possible, and there are different kinds. The first kind of wormholes to be theorized were Einstein-Rosen bridges. They describe every black hole as a sort of portal to an infinite parallel universe. Let's try to picture them in 2D again. Empty spacetime is flat, but curved by objects on it. If we compress that object, spacetime gets more curved around it. Eventually, spacetime becomes so warped that it has no choice but to collapse into a black hole. A one-way barrier forms, the event horizon, which anything can enter, but nothing can escape, trapped forever at the singularity at its core. But maybe there is no singularity here. One possibility is that the other side of the event horizon looks a bit like our universe again, but mirrored upside down, where time runs backwards. In our universe, things fall into the black hole. In the parallel universe with backwards time, the mirrored black hole is spewing things out, a bit like a big bang. This is called a white hole. Unfortunately, Einstein-Rosen bridges can't actually be crossed. It takes an infinite amount of time to cross over to the opposite universe, and they crimp shut in the middle. If you go into a black hole, you won't become the stuff coming out of the white hole, you'll only become dead. So, to travel the cosmos in the blink of an eye, humans need a different kind of wormhole, a traversable wormhole. If string theory or one of its variations is the correct description of our universe, then we could be lucky, and our universe might even have a tangled web of countless wormholes already. Shortly after the Big Bang, quantum fluctuations in the universe at the smallest scales, far, far smaller than an atom, may have created many, many traversable wormholes. Threaded through them are strings called cosmic strings. In the first billionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, the ends of these tiny, tiny wormholes were pulled light years apart, scattering them through the universe. If wormholes were made in the early universe, whether with cosmic strings or some other way, they could be all over, just waiting to be discovered. One might even be closer than we realize. From the outside, black holes and wormholes can look very similar, leading some physicists to suggest the supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies are actually wormholes. It will be very hard to go all the way to the center of the Milky Way to find out though, but that's okay. There might be an equally extremely hard way to get our hands on a wormhole. We could try to make one. To be traversable and useful, there are a few properties we want a wormhole to have. First, it must obviously connect two distant parts of spacetime, like your bedroom and the bathroom, or Earth and Jupiter. Second, it should not contain any event horizons, which would block two-way travel. Third, it should be sufficiently sized so that the gravitational forces don't kill human travelers. The biggest problem we have to solve is keeping our wormholes open. No matter how we make wormholes, gravity tries to close them. Gravity wants to pinch it closed and cut the bridge, leaving only black holes at the ends. Whether it's a traversable wormhole with both ends in ours, or a wormhole to another universe, it will try to close unless we have something propping it open. For very old string theory wormholes, that's the cosmic string's job. For man-made wormholes, we need a new ingredient: exotic matter. This isn't anything like we find on Earth or even antimatter. It's something totally new and different and exciting with crazy properties like nothing that's ever been seen before. Exotic matter is stuff that has negative mass. Positive mass, like people and planets and everything else in the universe, is attractive because of gravity. But negative mass would be repulsive. It would push you away. This makes a kind of anti-gravity that props open our wormholes. And exotic matter must exert enormous pressure to push spacetime open, greater even than the pressure at the centers of neutron stars. With exotic matter, we could weave spacetime however we see fit. We may even have a candidate for this exotic matter: the vacuum of space itself. Quantum fluctuations in empty space are constantly creating pairs of particles and antiparticles, only for them to be annihilated an instant later. The vacuum of space is boiling with them, and we can already manipulate them to produce an effect similar to the negative mass we're looking for. We could use this to stabilize our wormholes. Once we're keeping it open, the ends would start together, so we'd have to move them around to interesting places. We could start by wiring the solar system, leaving one end of each wormhole in orbit around the Earth. We could fling others into deep space. The Earth could be a wormhole hub for a vast interstellar human civilization, spread over light-years, but only a wormhole away. However, wormholes have a dark side. Even opening a single wormhole kind of breaks the universe in fundamental ways, potentially creating time travel paradoxes and violating the causal structure of the universe. Many scientists think that this not only means they should be impossible to make, but that it's impossible for them to exist at all. So for now, we only know that wormholes exist in our hearts and on paper in the form of equations.","timeline":[{"t":2,"speech":"If you saw a wormhole in reality, it would appear round, spherical, a bit like a black hole.","visual":{"action":"An animated character in a purple and white astronaut suit stands in a yellow room. 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The hands reach out and open the green curtains, revealing the swirling wormhole. 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Colorful mathematical symbols and equations appear and float around them.","colors":{"dominant":"purple","palette":["dark purple","magenta","yellow","cyan","orange"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the astronaut","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"inquisitive","objects":[{"color":"multi-colored","name":"mathematical symbols","position":"all around the astronaut","state":"floating"}],"people":[{"age_range":"child","clothing":{"accessories":"white helmet, colorful backpack straps","bottom":"purple pants","footwear":"purple and white sneakers","top":"purple spacesuit"},"face":"neutral, a reflection of a wormhole is visible in the visor","hair":"not visible","hands":"gesturing outwards with thumbs up","pose":"floating, legs slightly bent","position":"center"}],"setting":{"architecture":"abstract grid","background":"a spherical grid pattern against a purple space background with galaxies","lighting":"neon, ambient glow from symbols and background","location":"abstract mathematical space"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":35,"speech":"","visual":{"action":"The Kurzgesagt intro sequence plays, showing the Earth with the moon orbiting it. 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A big flat stage where the events of the universe unfold.","visual":{"action":"A colorful parrot-like bird with a party hat walks onto an isometric stage with a purple chevron floor and red curtains. Three pedestals display a sun, Earth, and moon. Other birds appear.","colors":{"dominant":"purple","palette":["purple","red","yellow","green","blue"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle isometric","focus":"the entire stage","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"playful","objects":[{"color":"white","name":"pedestals","position":"on stage","state":"static"},{"color":"yellow","name":"sun model","position":"left pedestal","state":"static"},{"color":"green and blue","name":"Earth model","position":"center pedestal","state":"static"},{"color":"grey","name":"moon model","position":"right pedestal","state":"static"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"proscenium stage","background":"starry night sky behind the stage","lighting":"stage lighting from above","location":"theatrical stage"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"UNIVERSE","location":"top left corner","style":"white text on a magenta banner"}]}},{"t":53,"speech":"That empty stage is space, and it exists, unchanging and eternal.","visual":{"action":"The birds and celestial bodies disappear from the stage. The curtains are pulled away, and the pedestals vanish one by one, leaving only the empty purple chevron-patterned floor against a magenta background.","colors":{"dominant":"magenta","palette":["magenta","purple","dark blue","white"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle isometric","focus":"the empty stage floor","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"contemplative","objects":[{"color":"purple","name":"stage floor","position":"center","state":"static, empty"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"magenta gradient","lighting":"soft, ambient","location":"abstract space"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"SPACE","location":"top left corner","style":"white text on a blue banner"}]}},{"t":101,"speech":"Einstein's theory of relativity changed that.","visual":{"action":"The chevron pattern on the stage floor dissolves and re-forms into a 3D grid structure with a pink floor grid and blue wall grids.","colors":{"dominant":"magenta","palette":["magenta","pink","blue","dark purple"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle isometric","focus":"the grid structure","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"transformative","objects":[{"color":"pink and blue","name":"spacetime grid","position":"center","state":"forming"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"abstract grid","background":"magenta gradient","lighting":"neon glow","location":"abstract representation of spacetime"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"SPACE","location":"top left corner","style":"white text on a blue banner"}]}},{"t":109,"speech":"The things on the stage can affect the stage itself, stretching and warping it.","visual":{"action":"A yellow sphere (sun) and smaller spheres (planets) appear on the pink grid, causing it to bend and warp downwards around them. 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On the right, a similar object sits on a flexible, water-like blue stage labeled \"New Stage\", causing it to indent.","colors":{"dominant":"purple","palette":["purple","yellow","cyan","pink","green"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle isometric","focus":"the two stages","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"comparative","objects":[{"color":"yellow","name":"wooden stage","position":"left","state":"static"},{"color":"cyan","name":"waterbed stage","position":"right","state":"flexible"},{"color":"grey","name":"CRT computer","position":"on left stage","state":"static"},{"color":"grey","name":"object","position":"on right stage","state":"indenting the stage"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"split purple and magenta gradient","lighting":"bright, clean","location":"abstract comparison space"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"Old Stage","location":"bottom left","style":"white text on a pink banner"},{"content":"New Stage","location":"bottom right","style":"white text on a green banner"}]}},{"t":126,"speech":"This kind of elastic space can be bent and maybe even torn and patched together, which could make wormholes possible.","visual":{"action":"The object on the right \"waterbed\" stage sinks deeper, causing water to splash up dramatically, illustrating the tearing and patching of spacetime.","colors":{"dominant":"purple","palette":["purple","cyan","blue","white","magenta"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle isometric","focus":"the splashing waterbed stage","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"dynamic","objects":[{"color":"cyan","name":"waterbed stage","position":"right","state":"splashing"},{"color":"grey","name":"object","position":"sinking into the stage","state":"moving"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"split purple and magenta gradient","lighting":"bright, clean","location":"abstract comparison space"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"New Stage","location":"bottom right","style":"white text on a green banner"}]}},{"t":135,"speech":"Let's see what that would look like in 2D. Our universe is like a big flat sheet.","visual":{"action":"A 2D grid representing spacetime is shown. It then bends into a U-shape.","colors":{"dominant":"magenta","palette":["magenta","purple","blue","cyan"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the bending grid","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"educational","objects":[{"color":"blue/cyan","name":"2D spacetime grid","position":"center","state":"bending"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"magenta/purple gradient","lighting":"neon glow","location":"abstract space"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":141,"speech":"Bent in just the right way, wormholes could connect two very, very distant spots with a short bridge that you could cross almost instantaneously,","visual":{"action":"The U-shaped grid morphs to form a tunnel, or wormhole, connecting the top and bottom layers of the grid.","colors":{"dominant":"magenta","palette":["magenta","purple","blue","cyan"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the wormhole formation","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"illustrative","objects":[{"color":"blue/cyan","name":"spacetime grid","position":"center","state":"forming a wormhole"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"magenta/purple gradient","lighting":"neon glow","location":"abstract space"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":147,"speech":"enabling you to travel the universe even faster than the speed of light.","visual":{"action":"A white particle with a yellow wave trail travels along the top layer of the grid, enters the wormhole, and instantly appears on the bottom layer, demonstrating a shortcut.","colors":{"dominant":"magenta","palette":["magenta","purple","blue","cyan","yellow"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the particle's path","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"exciting","objects":[{"color":"blue/cyan","name":"spacetime grid with wormhole","position":"center","state":"static"},{"color":"white","name":"particle","position":"traveling along the grid","state":"moving through the wormhole"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"magenta/purple gradient","lighting":"neon glow","location":"abstract space"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":152,"speech":"So, where can we find a wormhole? Presently, only on paper.","visual":{"action":"Two animated birds are in a dark room. One is on a telescope looking out a window at a starry night. The other bird flies in holding a piece of paper with a drawing of a wormhole.","colors":{"dominant":"dark blue","palette":["dark blue","purple","cyan","magenta","yellow"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the two birds","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"whimsical","objects":[{"color":"blue","name":"telescope","position":"center left","state":"static"},{"color":"white","name":"paper with drawing","position":"held by bird on right","state":"being shown"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"simple room","background":"starry night sky visible through window","lighting":"dark, with neon blue and purple highlights","location":"observatory room"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":157,"speech":"General relativity says they might be possible, but that doesn't mean they have to exist.","visual":{"action":"The scene pans right to show a third, red bird typing on a vintage computer keyboard. The computer screen displays the equation E=mc².","colors":{"dominant":"dark blue","palette":["dark blue","purple","magenta","red","cyan"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the computer and red bird","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"educational","objects":[{"color":"white","name":"vintage computer","position":"right","state":"displaying equation"},{"color":"blue","name":"lava lamp","position":"on shelf in background","state":"active"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"simple room","background":"starry night sky visible through window","lighting":"dark, with neon blue and purple highlights","location":"study/office"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"E=mc²","location":"on computer screen","style":"glowing cyan and magenta text"}]}},{"t":202,"speech":"General relativity is a mathematical theory. It's a set of equations that have many possible answers, but not all maths describes reality.","visual":{"action":"Three complex mathematical equations are displayed side-by-side against a dark blue striped background. The numbers and symbols within them morph into abstract shapes and icons.","colors":{"dominant":"dark blue","palette":["dark blue","red","yellow","cyan","magenta"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the equations","framing":"medium shot"},"mood":"complex","objects":[],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"dark blue vertical stripes","lighting":"glowing text","location":"abstract background"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"Various complex physics equations","location":"center","style":"glowing, colorful, 3D text"}]}},{"t":213,"speech":"But they are theoretically possible, and there are different kinds.","visual":{"action":"A title card with a retro, 80s-inspired design appears. The text reads \"EINSTEIN ROSEN Bridges\".","colors":{"dominant":"purple","palette":["purple","magenta","yellow","cyan","blue"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the text","framing":"full screen"},"mood":"retro","objects":[{"color":"multi-colored","name":"bridge illustration","position":"framing the text","state":"static"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"purple gradient with a grid floor and palm tree silhouettes","lighting":"neon glow","location":"abstract 80s landscape"},"text_on_screen":[{"content":"EINSTEIN ROSEN Bridges","location":"center","style":"colorful, stylized, neon text"}]}},{"t":220,"speech":"The first kind of wormholes to be theorized were Einstein-Rosen bridges. They describe every black hole as a sort of portal to an infinite parallel universe.","visual":{"action":"An animation of a black hole with a colorful accretion disk appears against a starry magenta background. The view zooms into the center of the black hole, which transitions into a tunnel of light rays.","colors":{"dominant":"magenta","palette":["magenta","purple","black","yellow","white"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the black hole","framing":"medium shot, zooming in"},"mood":"awe-inspiring","objects":[{"color":"black","name":"black hole","position":"center","state":"static with a glowing ring"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"starry space","lighting":"light emanating from the accretion disk and the portal","location":"deep space"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":230,"speech":"Let's try to picture them in 2D again. Empty spacetime is flat, but curved by objects on it.","visual":{"action":"A flat blue 2D grid appears. A glowing yellow sphere drops onto it, causing the grid to curve downwards.","colors":{"dominant":"purple","palette":["purple","magenta","blue","cyan","yellow"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle isometric","focus":"the grid and sphere","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"illustrative","objects":[{"color":"blue","name":"spacetime grid","position":"center","state":"being warped"},{"color":"yellow","name":"sphere/object","position":"center","state":"warping the grid"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"purple/magenta gradient","lighting":"glow from the object and grid","location":"abstract space"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":239,"speech":"Eventually, spacetime becomes so warped that it has no choice but to collapse into a black hole.","visual":{"action":"The sphere on the grid shrinks and becomes denser, causing the warp in the grid to become an infinitely deep funnel. The view zooms down the funnel, which becomes a black hole.","colors":{"dominant":"purple","palette":["purple","blue","cyan","black"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle isometric, then top-down","focus":"the collapsing grid","framing":"wide shot, zooming in"},"mood":"dramatic","objects":[{"color":"blue","name":"spacetime grid","position":"center","state":"collapsing into a singularity"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"purple/magenta gradient","lighting":"glow from the grid","location":"abstract space"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":248,"speech":"A one-way barrier forms, the event horizon, which anything can enter, but nothing can escape,","visual":{"action":"Various animated objects, including a pineapple, a computer, a dolphin, and a crying statue, are shown falling into the black hole's event horizon.","colors":{"dominant":"cyan","palette":["cyan","purple","magenta","yellow","black"]},"composition":{"angle":"high-angle","focus":"the objects falling into the black hole","framing":"close-up on the event horizon"},"mood":"inevitable","objects":[{"color":"black","name":"black hole","position":"right","state":"attracting objects"},{"color":"multi-colored","name":"various objects","position":"left","state":"falling into the black hole"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"a gridded, curved spacetime surface","lighting":"bright, colorful","location":"near a black hole"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":257,"speech":"But maybe there is no singularity here.","visual":{"action":"The view zooms out from the black hole to reveal it's the center of a wormhole structure, a blue, bell-shaped funnel connected to something off-screen.","colors":{"dominant":"purple","palette":["purple","magenta","black","blue","cyan"]},"composition":{"angle":"eye-level","focus":"the wormhole structure","framing":"wide shot"},"mood":"speculative","objects":[{"color":"blue/cyan","name":"wormhole funnel","position":"center","state":"static"}],"people":[],"setting":{"architecture":"","background":"starry space","lighting":"ambient glow","location":"deep space"},"text_on_screen":[]}},{"t":300,"speech":"One possibility is that the other side of the event horizon looks a bit like our universe again, but mirrored upside down, where time runs backwards.","visual":{"action":"A split-screen shows two mirrored wormhole funnels connected at their narrowest point. 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