Time Travel Explained : How Wormholes Work?

When you search the word wormhole on the internet, you get to see many diagrams. Basically, the same thing we did with the paper, two points were connected through a hole. Here, it is imagined that we have a space-time mesh, on which there is an object with an extremely strong gravitational force. So strong that the curvature of space-time has bent so much that it has pierced through the other side. The space-time mesh has folded on itself. Just like we folded that paper. And this wormhole has become a shortcut to travel from one galaxy to another.

But in all these visualizations, the problem is with the dimensions. We try to represent a wormhole in two dimensions. But as we said, wormhole works in 3D to 4D. So in reality, if a wormhole exists, it will look like a spherical ball.

The wormhole shown in the Interstellar film is depicted in a very realistic way. Here, it is important to mention that the concept of wormholes for now, as of 2023, is just a theoretical concept. It has been theoretically derived as a solution to Einstein’s field equations. In movies, scientists have tried to visualize it. Many theories have been formed about it, but practically no one has seen a wormhole yet. Scientists don’t know whether wormholes really exist or not.