Wormholes

I love science fiction. Love it.  The thing that I love most is the way in which people dream up technology which then becomes a reality.  It still amazes me to this day how much of the technology that we see around us started in a Science fiction story.  Why bring this up here?  Well I decided that i would check in again on the things that the Universities in Wales are doing regarding Wormholes.  Wormholes are points in space which allow travel of vast distances in seconds.  In some respects some people may say that this is “Faster Than Light” (FTL).

So I decided that I would ask all Welsh Universities the same question, which was:

1) Have you made allocated any money into the topographical phenomenon known as wormholes

2) If the answer to Question 1 is yes, how many studies have you done and how much was allocated

Look at me with big words spelt right!  WHOO HOO!!!  Anyway, The reasons for this is because, if they had looked into it, then they would be able to tell me how much money was being spent which would then show how much of a priority it was for them.

So here are the answers

Name	Investigated	Amount
UK Space Agency	No	NA
University of South Wales	No	NA
Swansea University	No	NA
Aberystwyth University	No	NA
Bangor University	No	NA
Cardiff University	See Below	£548111

Now a special mention goes to Cardiff who stated:

A search was undertaken by the University’s Research and Innovation

Services Department using the following terms:

Wormhole(s)

Einstein-Rosen bridge, Lorentzian wormholes, Schwarzschild wormholes, Black holes, Event Horizon, Singularity, Time travel

The search did not find anything specifically targeting wormhole theory. The closest that the search identified was a project from the School of Physics on “Black-hole binary simulations for gravitational-wave astronomy” which ran from 1/10/2010 until 30/9/2015. The award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council was £448,489 and Cardiff University’s contribution was £99,622.