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Visual appearance of a Morris–Thorne-wormhole

American Journal of Physics -- August 2004 -- Volume 72, Issue 8, pp. 1045-1050

Issue Date: August 2004
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 01.50.-i
    Educational aids
  • 04.20.Gz
    Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure in general relativity
  • 98.80.Jk
    Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology
  • YEAR: 2004

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Thomas Müller
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Abteilung Theoretische Astrophysik, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Following the paper of Morris and Thorne on wormholes as a tool for teaching general relativity, we present the visual appearance of this simple spacetime using an embedding diagram and a raytracing program. Even if such a wormhole is not physically reasonable, we take the risk and take a short trip to an unreasonable parallel universe. ©2004 American Association of Physics Teachers.
History: Received 6 November 2003; accepted 2 April 2004
Permalink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1758220

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