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Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by fsiefken on Thursday September 03, 2015 @09:53AM (#10164935)
could you get a faster then light signal through this magnetic wormhole?
Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by irremediable on Thursday September 03, 2015 @10:24AM (#10165100)
Disclaimer: I am not a physicist.

I really doubt it. People are fairly convinced that faster-than-light communication can't happen -- and if it can, it's going to take a bigger change than this.

Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by fsiefken on Thursday September 03, 2015 @11:04AM (#10165312)
If wormholes are theoretically possible and allow for some sort of FTL communication by joining two points in space, then I thought perhaps the same goes for magnetic wormholes.
Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by kenbellows on Thursday September 03, 2015 @11:12AM (#10165374)
problem is it's not really a wormhole, so no FTL yet
Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by malka on Thursday September 03, 2015 @10:24AM (#10165099)
> faster then light signal

afaik, causality is still a strong axiom, so no.

Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by nnq on Thursday September 03, 2015 @11:36AM (#10165507)
> causality is still a strong axiom

The "causality axiom" is a nice (or trivial) statement in philosophy. But as far as we know, there's no such axiom in any mathematical theory proved to match physical reality, and nothing so clear cut in modern theoretical physics at all afaik...

Also, physics isn't that much built on axioms, in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUlqXRPMmY (Summarizing Feynman: you still get from time to time cases where you can prove something from "axioms", but then you also find it to still hold in contexts where the axioms don't apply, or even to not work in others where they do apply... and the latter is the case where you have to remake your theory to match reality)

But my main point is that considering something impossible simply because our puny ape brains can't fathom them is preposterous!

Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by malka on Thursday September 03, 2015 @12:03PM (#10165684)
Causality is needed as an axiom because if it does not hold, then it means that the result of an experiment could be depend of something happening in the future. That means that we could not have reproducible experiment anymore for instance.
Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by NoGravitas on Thursday September 03, 2015 @12:30PM (#10165862)
And that would be extremely _surprising_, but there's nothing preventing the universe from being surprising to us.

(We'd still have reproducible experiments and so forth in every context that didn't involve whatever extremely weird circumstances would produce causality violations -- and the circumstances would certainly have to be extremely weird.)

Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:22PM (#10166227)
Real world experiments aren't 100% perfectly reproducible already, and this would be a very marginal worsening.