I’ve been reading the Wikipedia page for wormholes to kill some time.
The theatrics of a wormhole I understand somewhat through the diagrams and visualisation, but how do math equations represent the theory itself? To me it comes across as… well, just maths.
**Please do actually ELI5, I hardcore sucked at physics and maths in school.**
Link for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole
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With physics, they attempt to use math to explain what is happening in the world. Like say mass in relation to gravity comes out as some mathematical equation.
And once you have that equation, you can take the math to extremes and ponder what might happen when say signs flip.
It’s how you end up with the concept of a black hole before we were able to ever observe them in nature. The math equation when you take mass to an extreme implied even light wouldn’t be able to escape from an object so massive were they to exist.
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