The Birth of Wormholes
Ref: http://focus.aps.org/story/v15/st11
Phys. Rev. 48, 73 (ssue of 1 July 1935) 25 March 2005
In honor of the World Year of Physics, which commemorates Einstein's
"miraculous year" in 1905, we're presenting papers from the Physical
Review archive related to Einstein's accomplishments.
In the last decades of his life, Albert Einstein tried endlessly to
unify electromagnetism with his own theory of gravity, general
relativity. These efforts are mostly now regarded as quixotic, but a
short proposal written in 1935 with a colleague has survived in
unlikely fashion as the source of science-fiction ideas for speeding
across the universe by means of "wormholes" through spacetime. From the
modern perspective, the paper also illustrates how general relativity
posed mathematical and conceptual difficulties that foxed even its
creator.
See: Ref: http://focus.aps.org/story/v15/st11
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