While I was growing up in the 1970s a new idea in Astrophysics had just come into vogue. The notion that the very fabric of our universe, the space-time continuum, can be ripped apart and be torn asunder to reveal portals that can take us to other parts of our universe or even other universes separate from our own. We were introduced to various new exotic celestial denizens that occupied this Cosmos along side planets, stars and galaxies the likes of which we had never heard of before – Black Holes, White Holes and Wormholes long before Michio Kaku became a household name. I still have fond memories of reading books in my early adolescence with such thought provoking and imagination stirring titles as “Black Holes and Warped Spacetime” by William J. Kaufmann, “The Iron Sun: Crossing the Universe Through Black Holes” and “The Next Ten Thousand Years” by Adrian Berry all of which introduced the notion that cosmic portals exist that can take us on far off trips to elsewhere and elsewhens in our cosmos and beyond. Today the notion of voyaging through such cosmic gateways that can zip you across vast distances in the twinkle of an eye or take you on voyages to parallel universes or on journeys across vast eons of time are the mainstays of twenty first century physics. It is almost as if the Physics of Star Trek has arrived a century earlier than expected.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:47:55 +0000
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