What is a Wormhole? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains...

How do wormholes work? On this explainer, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore the science of wormholes and how we would use them in this universe and others. Can you manipulate space-time?
Rick and Morty? Dr. Strange? Monsters Inc.? We discover what a wormhole is and what depictions in science fiction seem most accurate. How would wormholes change our lives? We talk about wormholes versus transporters from Star Trek. What if your refrigerator was a wormhole? We imagine a world with wormholes and what we would be able to accomplish with them…
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0:00 - Introduction
1:47 - What Is A Wormhole?
6:21 - Monster’s Inc.
7:31 - Star Trek
8:49 - Replicators
9:48 - Groceries
10:16 - Grub Hub
10:27 - Elevator
11:40 - Transportation Sector
12:06 - Neil’s Wormhole Tweet
14:19 - Wormholes In The Home
16:29 - Closing Notes

[@StarTalk]

What Would You Use A Wormhole For?

[@scottiejohnson2639]

Visit the Space station

[@mespiderman]

Traveling to other planets, moons and galaxies. You could bring amazing telescopes and travel light years away and peer back in time at the earth at any point. Fictional book idea: “Into the Past, a Human Study using Wormholes and Quantum Telescopes.”

[@mespiderman]

Qq: If we created a wormhole portal to say Mars, and it opened, would it start a massive vacuum and blast air from earth to mars, equalizing the pressure? Would we have to know the atm’s of the place we were portal-ing to? I suppose relative temperature would also play a role. Imagine opening a portal to Venus and instantly getting death blasted by lava and gas. Maybe that’s how we terraform a planet. We open portals to other high-atm planets with the necessary ingredients and spaceballs-style steal the goods. Calm Venus down and cloud Mars up.

[@scottiejohnson2639]

@@mespiderman that’s actually a decent idea 💡 we’d of course have to do that in a monitored and safe way but nonetheless good idea.

[@mayaVr_TeluguSimilSimulTunes]

I would use it, to escape in to the next closest and safest Exo planet. hahaha. :).

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

Just when I'm needing another StarTalk, the boys deliver. Life is GOOOD.

[@wahnyoon612]

100%. I was way below my weekly dose of good science content, and now I feel so much better.

[@markschafsnitz7114]

@@wahnyoon612 please recommend content

[@sarfrazshah6604]

I love the way you explain science in such a funny imaginative ways ❤️ thanks

[@Nilguiri]

Neil is a funny, charming guy, but Chuck Nice is an invaluable part of the duo as far as the comedy goes!

[@sarfrazshah6604]

@@Nilguiri no doubt

[@malachialston480]

@@sarfrazshah6604 I 😊

[@greeeenhorn]

That's very interesting, however you have missed a few things that featured in Star Trek: 1. There are wormholes like you described, the Iconian portals (mainly featured in one TNG episode) work just like this. 2. The transporter in Star Trek has a nice component, that is sometimes mentioned: the Heisenberg compensator. I think this is a nice little acknowledgement of the difficulties such a transporter would face due to the laws of physics.

[@mykeljmoney]

Thank you for mentioning this info! Yes, ST has artificial wormholes created by the prophets, first appearing is _DS9: Emissary_) and naturally occurring ones, though they’re unstable (_TNG: The Price_ and _VOY: Eye of the Needle_). The Iconian transporters are the closest existing phenomenon to the wormholes Dr. Tyson described. As for the transporters, the Heisenberg compensators allowed the transporter to accurately read both the momentum and position of particles meaning the person/info could be sent without any data lost. The transporter buffer is where the transport pattern was stored after being dematerialized but before being transmitted.

[@morbidmanmusic]

You have too much fan time on your hands...

[@manOmanyTrades]

@@morbidmanmusic we all do! ^_^

[@richerdson3652]

I appreciate you for your knowledge

[@slake9727]

Let's not forget the Guardian at the Edge of Forever. An intelligent wormhole that transcended both space and time

[@lawyeroutlaw]

Star Talk is the most optimistic podcast because it keeps reminding me in these hard times to "keep looking up". Also Chuck is hilarious! 😂

[@8PMFORMULA]

Don't look up!. Signed Right wing Maga.

[@mikemay3557]

Definitely loving the Star Trek in StarTalk keep it coming guys

[@georgecharalambous8665]

The elevator / wormhole thing was done by the Muppets as well and it is one the things that stuck with me through the years. It was with Uncle Travelling Mat from Outer Space. He was watching an elevator and was describing tho Gobo that this magical box was changing people (eg. Two men walked in and were changed to one man and two women that came out of the elevator). So he decided to go in and get changed himself, but found out that he did not change but thew whole room changed instead. Fun memories... PS: Thank you for the great content Prof Tyson and Chuck. Greetings from Cyprus

[@KMarie0819]

I was just watching Contact yesterday and thought about StarTalk!! Thanks for the upload✨️

[@BunnyKins1970]

I like the idea of an elevator being an analogue wormhole. Having all of the wormholes would have been great 45 years ago - I would **never** have lost at hide and seek! 💚🐇🐴💚

[@AtomcsiKK]

I'm quite sad Stargate didn't get a mention in a talk about wormholes. Or that creating and maintaining a stable wormhole large enough for a human to go through would require more energy than what's in our galaxy. Stargate's fictional solution to this is that the wormhole is on a molecular level, and the gates are there to deconstruct you on one end, send your particles through the wormhole and then reconstruct you on the other side.

[@milosstojanovic4623]

True, exactly what i thought. Incidentally this video came just when i was rewatching stargate :D

[@metalzonemt-2]

Indeed.

[@DJDamnSelf]

They mentioned Star Trek minus the wormhole but I see what you're saying.

[@richerdson3652]

The problem is they did mention the stargate kind of warm hole they just said that's not the kind of wormhole that you would deal with

[@AtomcsiKK]

@@richerdson3652 All Neil said that the experience of traveling through a wormhole is not like a water slide ride. Which is true, but if you think about it, if a stargate takes you apart and you're traveling as particles, obviously you won't see anything, let alone a water slide effect. It's only there to look cool, Hollywood style (not really, the show was shot in Vancouver).

[@billintulsa]

"Things you can do with a wormhole." This is NOT something you would EVER want to hear from your proctologist.🙃🙃

[@hooper365]

Let me not enter this state of mind

[@seppelescur]

"Thats some low hanging fruit" - @W.B. Ward's urologist

[@joemiller8482]

😒😒😒😒

[@fathertime2020]

Lol

[@SavageDarknessGames]

Depends on your kink, and everyone has a kink!

[@Kingjaffeyjojo2900]

I love this topic 💯imagine actually defying the laws of physics and you go back in time and meet yourself in another time and place its uncomprehending 💯 love it when these 2 talk about stuff

[@allenmitchell09]

I’ve never seen Doctor Tyson in a finer form here with his explanations.

[@Frog_Man_]

Great content and subjects guys, I have had Neil as my childhood hero, it's great that I get to watch him so often

[@Nilguiri]

Neil* It's a Scottish name! It's my name, too, but I forgive you!

[@Frog_Man_]

@@Nilguiri sorry, misspelt it

[@Nilguiri]

@@Frog_Man_ Aye, no problem!

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

Same. Michio kaku and Neil are some of my favorite people on the planet.

[@fyeyes1]

You two are the best. Love watching you both. The energy, knowledge, and comedy is spot on. Keep up the good work.

[@StarTalk]

Keep Looking Up!

[@MegaSpacemanSpliff]

So much fun! You guys are so great! Thanks

[@waltciii3]

Larry Niven (Known Space) wrote about "Displacement Booths" and "Stepping Disks" which could be local worm holes. But there was a cost differentiator where only the wealthy had them to their homes. So other local transit still existed. For longer distances there was "hyperspace", a true worm hole variant for long distances away from gravity wells.

[@jeffreysherman8224]

This is very interesting. There was a book called "A Wrinkle in Time" that I had to read as a kid for school. I don't remember much of it, but in it there was the concept of the bending of space to join one area to another. These warps were called a tesseract. From Wikipedia: A tesseract is the literal “wrinkle in time” from the title, which is also a wrinkle in space. While “A Wrinkle in Time” keeps its tessering fairly simple, the idea is that you use your mind to fold the fabric of space together to bridge two faraway points. As Mrs. Whatsit explains in the movie's trailer, “The fifth dimension’s a tesseract. You add that to the other four dimensions and you can travel through space without having to go the long way around. In other words, to put into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” A tesseract is an interstellar shortcut, more or less.

[@MrMancreatedgod]

I recall this book fondly as well. I find it amusing you quoted the movie trailer instead of any text though.....

[@jeffreysherman8224]

@@MrMancreatedgod Lol. I just Googled it. Like I said, I don't remember much other than what was a mind altering concept to me at the time. And also the creatures that could "see" without eyes and had no thought to it being dark. That was cool too. I didn't know there was a movie until I saw that search result. I assume the movie and the book are at their core very similar. I haven't thought about that book in a long time. I read it probably 21 years ago.

[@MrMancreatedgod]

@@jeffreysherman8224 idk why you'd ever assume a movie is anything like a book....just saying. Worst one I've ever experienced is catch-22. Anyway I wasn't trying to bust your balls. I just found your comment interesting primarily because of how you phrased it. A Wrinkle in time by Madeleine l'engle is a classic no doubt. Idgaf about a movie though and never knew they made one.

[@dizzle7558]

That's a great book..

[@juliahaynie764]

The movie wasn’t bad, and I loved that it gave us a black girl who is a math genius as the protagonist! Take a middle schooler you love to watch the movie with you!

[@primrosepath9253]

In monsters inc, what might occur if the monsters were to carry one door through another?

[@alexiachimciuc3199]

👀...... all reality implodes?........😱

[@Masterfocus365]

Thank you so much for posting!!! ❤️🤗🙏🏽

[@zerocodercool]

In the movie The Dark Tower, they teleported to a different Earth from another universe, it's close to the concept you guys discussed, except they don't elaborate on how it works and how they're accounting for earth displacement in space.

[@CoastalFilmsKenyaTv]

The Elevator is Replicator of death, when you die you just move to the next floor, either a higher dimension or a lower dimension. If you don't push a button, the door opens on the same floor and this is what is referred to reincarnation 😅

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

Much love and respect to you and your channel. I hope that all is well for you and your family and friends.

[@StarTalk]

Same to you!

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

@@StarTalk thank you for the kind words.

[@gbusterstargate]

Neil you talk about wormholes and leave out stargates witch in my opinion is the best interpretation of a wormhole I've seen and it trys to explain with science you should do an explaner on the science behind the stargate I would be intreasted in what you say about it love your videos by the way you teach me so much

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

I hope that everyone is having a great Summer so far this year.

[@Bike_Knight]

I got a question about wormholes... How would "work = force x distance" work in that situation? U could take millennium going the speed of light to get to the other side of the universe, or you could use a wormhole and shorten the distance, but the work done is equal right?

[@megalodon1726]

The work done would be in creating the wormhole and holding it open, which takes huge amounts of energy.

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

Thank you for what you do and everything you have done and your contribution to science and KZbin and your discoveries and the literature that you have written.

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

@Shaka Zulu ?

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

@Shaka Zulu knowledge is its own reward.

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

You seem very bored

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

@Shaka Zulu what is your issue with me? You don't even know me and I'm not debating anything with you. You seem like your going out of your way to be standoffish and it just makes you seem like you are confused yourself.

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

@Shaka Zulu also it's quite obvious this is not your main account and it's simply just an account you made to feel like your free balling and to try to troll people. Only thing is that I'm not really amused and I don't have to dispute anything.

[@lecavalier32]

I love you two and this podcast! I tell everyone about it =)

[@thejames6461]

Excellent choice of Co-Hosts!

[@h7opolo]

5:15 i'm not so sure, NDT. how can you be so sure there is no depth dimensionality to the wormhole? possibly the wormhole was created by some particle accelerator that causes a superliminal loop warping spacetime thus opening access to a path to natural or chosen spacetime coordinates which would allow for branching and/or redirection of wormholes.

[@StarTalk]

No one is so sure about wormholes... yet!

[@theshimario253]

Could a powerful enough particle accelerator make a wormhole? If so could you turn that particle accelerator into a stargate?

[@h7opolo]

read my mind. or my comment. idk haha

[@joemiller8482]

You are correct.........

[@kaseyboles30]

Not by itself. Stable wormholes require negative energy and matter. Unstable wormholes collapse in very tiny fractions of a second, faster if something tries to enter them.

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

If it reaches Planck energy levels

[@jesselamont]

Rbbbbbbbbn

[@oliviadelsazortega5606]

Great video as always!

[@Unlockingparadoxes]

You are a very beautiful speaker and a gift to humanity. Thank you for this. I love all of your speeches that I have heard.

[@405adam]

I love the freaking universe

[@carguybikeguy]

I love these guys! Todays talk made me wonder about replicating them & having a sort of dynamic duo team, each assigned to a tackling a major world problem.

[@StarTalk]

What a thought!

[@nevil3076]

I just saw a notification for this explainer and honestly I'm shocked that its just over 6hours Old. A wormhole explainer by our personal astrophysicists should have happened years ago tbh😂😂

[@allanc_me763]

Up next: NDgT explains the science behind Dr Stone :) I wish to see that on Startalk :)

[@thechosenone8523]

I got kicked out of a Flat Earth Facebook group for asking if the social distancing rule pushed anyone over the edge yet

[@robertmiller9735]

Larry Niven covered this in a series in which teleportation was invented in the 80's, including the problem Chuck noted of not being able to get away from people, which results in a wave of impulse murders. Though I'm not sure about every problem: do conservation of momentum and potential energy apply across wormholes? Oh, and I think wormholes would be excellent substitutes for foley catheters, colostomies and g-tubes. Just my background speaking...

[@YoBetsYoBets]

I wish I could just one conversation with him. Think he would be pretty intrigued by my theories of the universe.

[@lillytekie3295]

Great video

[@tuhalu4123]

They have systems a lot like you describe in Larry Niven's "Known Space" series. Basically teleporters to everywhere and anywhere on earth that you access through the appropriate address number and they can be locked for privacy. Part of the fun of thinking about that is the logistics. Imagine you have a teleporter to a popular place. How do you ensure that people don't wind up on top of each other when they go to the same place at the same time? Obviously additional protocols are required to ensure a messy thing like that cannot happen.

[@joliewaller6481]

Fascinating

[@texasrickg]

Short story.. by Isaac Asimov.. "It's Such a Beautiful Day". BTW, I've been a big fan for many years.. I love how are able to present complex material in a way that is easily digestible by (almost) all of us.

[@NGC0Music]

So let's say we have finally learned how to use wormholes in our daily lives, like in the fridge example, how would we implement safety mechanisms in order to avoid REALLY BAD accidents from happening? haha

[@Marco-qo8jq]

I agree with you. Not just accidents. If someone invented the tech to create wormholes that would be a massive security implication. What stops a bad actor from just opening a wormhole into any place they want? How would you ensure that only "approved" entities go through the wormhole in your refrigerator?

[@TheSilverShadow17]

@@Marco-qo8jq Plus the fact that in order for a wormhole to be stable, matter has to travel through it all the time to prevent the wormhole from collapsing on itself.

[@Steveh817]

Wormhole telemarketers 🤬

[@perperikis5501]

Well, even with wormholes the teleporter - as presented in Star Trek - would still be useful, as they can be controlled centrally and pick you up from anywhere in case of emergency, when opening a wormhole back to ship would not be possible. Besides, by opening a wormhole you cannot restrict who/what will pass through it.

[@neosmagus]

Stargate managed to restrict things just fine, I loved the iris they installed :D

[@dragoonseye76]

Just point foward, accelerate, and hope for the best

[@autumnsah3282]

Great Talk! Thank you Dr. Tyson 😊

[@jakekisiel7399]

Dr. Tyson, would it still take time to go through the worm hole? The doors would have to be separated by some distance, and nothing travels faster than light. Also, how would you prevent other particles from passing through once the door was opened?

[@Dominikmj]

The light speed limit is not a factor, because you basically go from one point of space time to another. It would be basically (theoretically) going from one room into another (the door being the wormhole). The problem is, that space time doesn’t like to be folded and punched. Probably you need incredible amount of energy to create a wormhole - and probably you would be smashed by gravity before you could create a stable wormhole. They just “casually” fantasized about the uses of a wormhole without pointing out, what probably would be needed to create a wormhole…

[@dunderwood4444]

I was literally watching "The Time Traveler " and Lost in space (the original) 3 am smoking copious amounts of Marijuana deconstructing these movies 🎥 Due to StarTalk, Science fiction is indeed tong and cheek, ridiculous from a scientific prospective funny if you don't take it to serious. Solid EDUCATUONAL episode as anticipated, Brooklyn NY loves StarTalk

[@jstretch]

New to the channel. Thought on the lunch example.. How many planes of existence could occupy that space theoretically.. Thinking a range from micro biological to "spirit realm" as an example.

[@tonyschacher]

Just wanted to say that I love both of your decor! The art istoo cool! Is there a story behind the penguin?

[@johnliljeborg5363]

Yes! Give me the good stuff! ❤️

[@pjg6019]

Great one

[@smokestackstudiosgem]

Now that you’ve opened up the Rick & Morty theory… My 13 year old niece just learnt about wormholes in science and the brain in human biology recently and said to me… if we are all part of the universe and are infinitely connected to it, do you think humans take on certain traits of space and time too? I say… why? Possibly. She says.. what if the gaps/spaces between the firing synapses in our brains are the equivalent of wormholes within space which might be the gaps between dimensions just scaled down? Mind blown. I’m sending a link to your channel to her now.

[@hooper365]

Monsters Inc paved a few of my steps I dare say

[@avisjohnson35]

I'm so glad that you all have such a great sense of humor he's hilarious.

[@johnnyondespot1107]

They did this in an episode of Stargate SG1. The replacing airports thing.

[@jasonyoung7705]

My favouite workhole use was in Farscape. Crichten demonstrates a couple of times how dangerously they can be used. First time. he places one end of a wormhole on a sun, and the other half in the middle of an enemy Scarran ship. Guess how toasty it got.

[@CMDR_John_Crichton]

Someone say my name?

[@cosmogirl8713]

You two are great!

[@jeffcooke4213]

The Internet is a type of wormhole that lets us be a fly on the wall to great discussions like this one. Thank you

[@JulieDodgshon]

I live in Marin County home of the great writer Jack Finley who wrote my favorite book: Time And Again where the Dakota building in NYC is a portal back to NYC in the 1800’s! The guy is an artist so he gets a job working for an Illustrated Newspaper.

[@ravi87patidar]

Pardon me if I got it misunderstood, but if the idea of wormhole involve bending the fabric of space, wouldnt banding involve the very earth we live on which is on the same fabric? And if so would it be possible to bend the earth in a way where I can be transported to different place on earth? Also the closet in the movie Narnia is best example I thought they would discuss😀

[@JulieDodgshon]

Chuck quote: “Buggy Whips, They’re not just for Buggy’s anymore!” LOL! I love the show!

[@OZtwo]

LOVE your SHOW!

[@nathanieljackson5554]

There's a sci-fi novel by Dan Simmons called Hyperion where a type of wormhole exists. One character has a home where each doorway is a portal to a different place. So his balcony is on one planet, his bedroom on another, etc..

[@W1ngSMC]

Don't forget the toilet in the middle of the ocean.

[@SteveC38]

Another Awesome Show!

[@jeremydiaz5172]

I love you guys! Science is awesome

[@okaberintorouwithagun]

Wormholes as well as black holes are so interesting to learn about purely because there is little we know about them so they can have infinite possibilities as they almost straight up defy the laws of our universe. I hope that I live long enough to see what they are truly all about

[@mdmazing183]

Well worm holes dont physically exist. Its just a math seneario that could b possible

[@BenziAlex]

Is Energy/ Mass a necessary 5th dimension to more precisely describe/ quantify what is contained in 3 dimensional Space at a particular Time - and hence is a more useful composite metric in the case of Wormholes/ Space-Time travel? Would it be possible in the context of multiverse that the Space-Time coordinate can remain the same but the Energy/ Mass element is the only difference in two hypothetical multiverses?

[@protreo]

reminded me about elevator in movie inception, but he also transports you to the past

[@atehrani]

Aren't there a few practical challenges? 1. Need massive amounts of energy to create a wormhole. At least a type 2 on the Kardashev scale. 2. Wormholes are inherently unstable, so we would have to have stable ones and also somehow control the entry/destination?

[@IceMontgomery]

12:29 Woot woot!! S/o to the hometown- Charlotte, NC 💪🏾💪🏾💯

[@WildernessGirl21]

On Star Trek: Voyager, Capt. Janeway hid people in the transporter system from bad guys. She could only do it for so long or the people would not be retrievable.

[@TitanothereDave]

I believe wormholes were a major plot point in "Hyperion" and "The Fall Of Hyperion." Example: a house with rooms on different planets, connected by wormholes.

[@sukekiyo6]

Fun episode 😊

[@ardisbarnes122]

I'm going to be 80 years old in six months. I've always hoped I would know what I'm getting i to and out of before my "stste of none exsitance". I feel no fear of dying. If it were possible to miss something afrer passing on, it would be Startalk. Love you Neil and Chuck.

[@ernestdavis]

Amazing!

[@christianlaurent3022]

Quick question tho, from this video’s point of view and pretty much every movies or shows about wormholes make it seems like wormholes are always temporary. What guarantee do we have that after ripping through space and time the rupture will just close back up? I am guessing that in other to make a wormhole that would require an immense amount of energy to ripped through space time and end up in a different location at the same or different time. And once that damage is done I would assume that damage to be permanent. Right ?

[@StarTalk]

That's a good question. Is Spacetime self-healing?

[@megalodon1726]

Wormholes collapse very quickly unless lots of energy is injected in the right way to keep them open.

[@christianlaurent3022]

@@megalodon1726 Do we have a reason to believe that, or is that just a theory?

[@christianlaurent3022]

@@StarTalk Exactly. But now that I think about it maybe it will sort of like heal itself... If you think about it in the way when you create a disturbance in water or air. When you drop a rock in still water, which will cause a disturbance and wave is formed. But at the same time, you can witness a hole where the rock landed, and the water also instantly refill that hole and reclaimed the space it occupied. the same can be said with air when a car drive by you can feel the disturbance in the air, and the air trying to reclaim the space it occupied. And so, if space time act in a similar way I am guessing we can expect a similar result. If and when we are able to generate enough energy to create a disturbance in space time itself and ripped open a wormhole.

[@dianarinehart1031]

What would happen if we put malten aluminum in the vacuum of space to cool and expand? Can we trap the vacuum of space in it as it expands? How would it effect the weight and density of the metal once it's cooled? Would the temperature make it brittle? How would different metals react? Example, gold/silver vs iron/steal

[@Goldengirl48]

Great show guys! There also would not be any smog or green house gas. The air would be cleaner and less noisy. BTW you missed Stargate.

[@TheLastScrapeto]

Explainer idea (or full episode), consciousness, unless you already did it, in which case id love to know what episode!

[@godseed7984]

Great 👍 ideas 💡

[@nichiniker]

Not all of the transport sector will be eliminated. There will still be the need for certified fork lift drivers to lift heavy things through the worm holes.

[@kenlemarchand]

As you're talking about the door concept, an epiphany occurred to me. What if the "pill" UFO was using short-range wormholes to travel? Because realistically we wouldn't be able to physically tell the difference with the human eye even if we were observing it right in front of us. 🤯

[@venetiazaharias9164]

Dr Tyson is absolutely correct. I've seen Monsters, Inc. quite a few times. It is about wormholes. Remember the doors?

[@ShawnRitch]

I can only imagine the power consumption of creating a stable wormhole and maintaining it for reliable transportation of any kind; Moreover, just conceptualizing such a thing to even make a hypothesis of such a thing is not even in our abilities yet, as we, as far as we know, do not have the ability to alter time.

[@bullettube9863]

I remember in Star Trek that Doctor McCoy never trusted the transporter and hated using it.

[@Halo3Matalix]

"First of all, we have monsters scaring children" thats one to add to the sound board

[@HamydAnsari]

I can just listen for hours.

[@jmr]

Thank you Chuck for saying what I was thinking! "They still make buggy whips".

[@darthsideous1968]

On the topic of Wormholes and Star Trek TNG, I recall an episode where The Enterprise and crew had a tussle with their old friends the Romulans, and in the course of the episode they happened to discover a planet that was once of the home, or the actual home planet of, of the ancient and legendary civilization of the Iconians, and at the climax of that episode, Picard and Data discovered the technology used by the Iconians that opened instantaneous doorways, "wormholes" to other places, and planets throughout the galaxy and beyond, and before the control room they were in was destroyed, Picard and Data used the doorway to escape to safety before the room they were in was destroyed. Now THAT was a civilization that definitely knew how to use spacetime to their advantage!

[@davidbryden7904]

Talk about farm to table! I love idea of the wormhole in my 'frig! Lol 💚

[@adeshinajohn3988]

Hi Neil and Chuck. Can you talk on the pros and cons of changing a child's dominant hand use from left to right? Thanks.

[@Wilkins_Micawber]

Issac Asimov eat your heart out. Two of the best SiFi story tellers today. When you find a worm hole let me know, in the mean time I'm reading superman comics

[@ddudley26]

Chuck was hilarious at the beggining with the party statement... And the accidental expletive was funny too.

[@ElCubanator]

I want a Star Talk dedicated to the possibility of replicators.

[@johnglielmi6428]

In Star Trek: TNG when they went to Star Fleet Headquarters in San Francisco, they had shown people in the back ground using transporters to travel.

[@DFloyd84]

I'm writing a book where wormholes have been made practical and I came to the same conclusion about "wormhole-ports." I determined that long-distance commercial air travel had been made obsolete, so airports were refitted with wormhole stations but still run like normal: you'd buy a ticket, show up hours early to deal with customs and baggage, and then you and two hundred other people would walk though the portal to your destination. What was once an eight-hour flight has become a three-minute walk.

[@douglasiles2024]

The way he explained bending space/time is the same as how Sam Neil did in Event Horizon

[@neosmagus]

One of the great horror movies of all time.