Wormhole’s Shadow Might Be Detectable, Fascinating and Confusing #poem #poetry #physics #wormhole #space

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Wormhole travel, though maybe only for a microscopic ship

Wormholes are hypothetical,

So hypothetically,

They may leave traces in the sky

That telescopes could see.

Where space-time is so warped,

Photons

might trace a ring,

While others falling through the pipe,

Leave dark where light had been.

Not my own reflector

To search for wormhole tubes,

But radio astronomy

Linked across the globe.

Confirming wormholes would confuse

What we know of gravity,

But since that force still puzzles us

They’d mesh abstractedly.

Kate Rauner

Thanks to livescience for pointing out this possibility. For some reason my poetic creativity has been on vacation for a few weeks – hope it’s back now.