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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry L" data-source="post: 18993255" data-attributes="member: 260809">A magnetic 'wormhole' that connects two regions of space has been created <img src="http://i.imgur.com/rI46Bob.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Researchers in Spain have c<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150903081506.htm" target="_blank">reated a tiny magnetic wormhole</a>  for the first time ever, and they've used it to connect two regions of  space so that a magnetic field can travel 'invisibly' between them. Before you get too excited, this isn't the same as the gravitational wormholes that allows humans to travel rapidly across space in science fiction TV shows and films such as Stargate, Star Trek, and Interstellar,  and it's not able to transport matter. But the physicists managed to  create a tunnel that allows a magnetic field to disappear at one point,  and then reappear at another, which is still a pretty huge deal. A wormhole is effectively just a tunnel that connects two places in the Universe. So far scientists have simulated the process,  but are nowhere near creating a gravitational wormhole, as it would  require us to create huge amounts of gravitational energy - something we  don't yet know how to do. But what physicists are good at is  generating and manipulating electromagnetic energy, and so the team from  the Autonomous University of Barcelona decided to see if they could build a magnetic wormhole in the lab instead. Last  year they managed to create tunnels that directed magnetic fields from  one place to another, but these weren't true wormholes because they  didn't keep the magnetic field undetectable or magnetically 'invisible'  while it was travelling inside the tunnel. This is something  they've now finally managed to overcome, by using metamaterial and  metasurfaces to build their tunnel. That meant that they could make the  magnetic field from a source, such as a magnet or an electromagnet,  appear at the other end of the wormhole with no trace of it in between. This  created the illusion that the magnetic field must be travelling through  some kind of extra dimension. Oddly enough, it also meant that an  isolated magnetic monopole - a magnet with only one pole, North or South  - appeared randomly at the end of the tunnel. "This result is strange enough in itself, as magnetic monopoles do not exist in nature,"<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150903081506.htm" target="_blank">a press release explains</a>.  "The overall effect is that of a magnetic field that appears to travel  from one point to another through a dimension that lies outside the  conventional three dimensions." To be clear, the wormhole in this experiment isn't really invisible  to the human eye - it's a sphere made up of an outer ferromagnetic  surface, an inner superconducting layer, and then a ferromagnetic sheet  rolled into a cylinder internally - but the way that it's been designed  means that it, and its contents, is totally undetectable magnetically.  In other words, it's magnetically invisible from the outside, but to us  it looks more like this: <img src="http://i.imgur.com/YBx6s5y.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> And while the tunnel isn't anywhere near to the kind of wormhole that  would take us across space, it does have a lot of features in common.  "[It] changes the topology of space, as if the inner region has been magnetically erased from space," lead researcher Àlvar Sánchez <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150903081506.htm" target="_blank">explains.</a> The  research will have practical applications in areas that use magnetic  fields - for example, it could lead to the creation of MRI machines that  don't require people to lie inside the claustrophobic machine, or more  targeted MRI scans. But importantly, it also teaches us more  about ways we can tunnel our way through space - an endeavour that holds  countless exciting possibilities. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/cool.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:" data-shortname=":cool:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/cool.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:" data-shortname=":cool:" /> ref : <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150903081506.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150903081506.htm</a> </blockquote>

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