wormhole in milky way. wat

Azumarill · January 21, 2015, 10:56:10 PM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11360840/Wormhole-to-another-galaxy-may-exist-in-Milky-Way.html

idk what to say

but how spooky would it be to be the first dude or dudette to go through a wormhole

nͫiͤcͫeͤ · January 21, 2015, 10:58:45 PM

it would be like having sex with someone and right when you pull out its suddenly someone else and you're in a stranger's house

Turkey · January 21, 2015, 11:02:40 PM

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"Wildly watered-down and unproven thing about popular science stuff", say scientists

Dark matter and wormholes are theoretically possible, but are nowhere near proven nor is there anything that can give a scientist a reasonable excuse to say something like this.

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"If we combine the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe and we hypothesise the existence of space-time tunnels, what we get is that our galaxy could really contain one of these tunnels, and that the tunnel could even be the size of the galaxy itself," said Professor Paulo Salucci.

^^This is literally some of the most irresponsible buzzword bullshit pop-science I've seen in a very long time.

January 21, 2015, 11:04:38 PM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 21, 2015, 11:02:40 PM

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"Wildly watered-down and unproven thing about popular science stuff", say scientists

Dark matter and wormholes are theoretically possible, but are nowhere near proven nor is there anything that can give a scientist a reasonable excuse to say something like this.

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"If we combine the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe and we hypothesise the existence of space-time tunnels, what we get is that our galaxy could really contain one of these tunnels, and that the tunnel could even be the size of the galaxy itself," said Professor Paulo Salucci.
^^This is literally some of the most irresponsible buzzword bullshit pop-science I've seen in a very long time.

Because I'm sure you know more about the universe than people whose jobs are to know about the universe.

Ásgeirr · January 21, 2015, 11:04:39 PM

Ill worm my way in your milky hole

Azumarill · January 21, 2015, 11:05:09 PM

Quote from: Osstru on January 21, 2015, 11:04:39 PM

Ill worm my way in your milky hole

thats hot

tell me more

Turkey · January 21, 2015, 11:08:38 PM

Quote from: SecondClass on January 21, 2015, 11:04:38 PM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 21, 2015, 11:02:40 PM
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"Wildly watered-down and unproven thing about popular science stuff", say scientists

Dark matter and wormholes are theoretically possible, but are nowhere near proven nor is there anything that can give a scientist a reasonable excuse to say something like this.

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"If we combine the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe and we hypothesise the existence of space-time tunnels, what we get is that our galaxy could really contain one of these tunnels, and that the tunnel could even be the size of the galaxy itself," said Professor Paulo Salucci.
^^This is literally some of the most irresponsible buzzword bullshit pop-science I've seen in a very long time.
Because I'm sure you know more about the universe than people whose jobs are to know about the universe.

None of what they said is untrue. Wormholes may exist (though of the scale of a whole galaxy is pretty absurd), and dark matter may exist, but to report it as "our galaxy may be a wormhole and we might be able to travel through it someday because of dark matter" is complete nonsense. Scientists use these tactics in journals all the time to get more attention on their paper, and it apparently worked.

g💚jira · January 21, 2015, 11:09:01 PM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 21, 2015, 11:02:40 PM

^^This is literally some of the most irresponsible buzzword bullshit pop-science I've seen in a very long time.

Be glad it's not a paleontology article though

Wizard · January 21, 2015, 11:11:19 PM

INTERSTELLAR FOR REAL

Naru · January 21, 2015, 11:16:35 PM

'THEY' DID IT!

Aether · January 21, 2015, 11:51:49 PM

Even if it was true, you'd have to travel by wormhole just to traverse the vase distance between us and the center of the galaxy to get there in any decent amount of time.