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A trio of physicists with the Autonomous University of Barcelona has built what they claim is the first artificial magnetic wormhole. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, Jordi Prat-Camps, Carles Navau and Alvaro Sanchez describe how they built the device and why they believe it might prove useful in building a more user-friendly MRI machine.
People have grown familiar with the term wormhole as it applies to physics and science-fiction. It has been described as a portal in space-time, where an object, or perhaps a person, could be transported from one region of space to another, nearly instantaneously. And while the theory has stood the test of time, no one has ever been able to prove that they actually exist. In this new effort, the researchers built a much simpler version, one that applies only to a magnetic field. Their device essentially allows for a magnetic field to be conveyed from one point to another, while remaining magnetically invisible.
http://phys.org/news/2015-08-trio-artificial-magnetic-wormhole.html
[Abstract]: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep12488
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Saturday August 22 2015, @04:58AM
How do they know the field is conveyed, when it's invisible? Or was it only invisible in the room between entry and exit point? How much time did it take to be conveyed? If this is anything like a wormhole, it should be instantaneously, which would be the real news because it would provide a shortcut between two points to convey information faster than speed of light on a straight line. (Not faster than speed of light, but taking a shorter route than a straight line.)
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(Score: 3, Funny) by M. Baranczak on Sunday August 23 2015, @12:42AM