Humanly traversable wormholes

2020/08/15 by Juan Maldacena, Alexey Milekhin · 2 voices · 114 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Computer science #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Theoretical physics #Wormhole #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1103/physrevd.103.066007

published in Physical review. D/Physical review. D. 103(6) (American Physical Society) · 15+3 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2020/11/03 · openalex publication_date 2021/03/09 · arxiv updated 2021/03/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We point out that there can be humanly traversable wormhole solutions in some previously considered theories for physics beyond the Standard Model, namely the Randall-Sundrum model.

Cited by

• Echoes of Traversable Wormhole
• Catenoid Inspired Hyperbolic Wormhole Geometry
• Free energy landscape and kinetics of phase transition in two coupled SYK models
• A Traversable Wormhole Teleportation Protocol in the SYK Model
• Local Expansion Mechanisms for Quantum-Scale Wormholes
• Circular Orbits and Photon Orbits at Wormhole Throats
• Traversable Wormholes induced by polytropic n=1 energy density
• Dynamic wormhole geometries in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
• Astrophysical hints for magnetic black holes

Discussions

• Humanly Traversable Wormholes [hn, 149 points, 129 comments]
• Humanly traversable wormholes (2020) [hn, 92 points, 81 comments]

Related

• Brans-Dicke Wormhole Revisited
• Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity
• Toward a Traversable Wormhole
• Traversable Wormholes in General Relativity
• Traversable Wormholes and Yukawa Potentials