Wormhole Engineering in Orion's Arm: An Overview

Wormhole travel through a Morris-Thorne-Kuhfittig metric is described. Kuhfittig’s description of a traversable wormhole is revisited, and the Morris-Thorne engineering requirements for traversable wormholes are discussed at length, giving useful parameters for physical size, mass, interior geometry, travel times, constraints upon velocity, tidal forces, and stability regimes. Wormhole construction, stabilization, and the consequences of destabilization are discussed, with their attendant effects upon wormhole placement. Wormhole networks and the issues of chronology protection are covered. Nontraversable wormholes, used in communication and computation are discussed. These will be seen to form a separate phylum of wormhole, and the methods for their construction and stabilization are examined. Finally, more exotic wormhole phyla are briefly mentioned. In this context, although the background has been written for the fictional shared universe of Orion’s arm, the theory and results described are detailed and supported by scientific literature on wormholes as recent as August 2005. Naturally, speculative matters such as wormholes can be said to have critics (to put it mildly), but as of the date of this paper no theorems explicitly denying the possibility of traversable wormholes have been published in the literature. As in many instances, the “what-if” scenario described herein provides powerful incentive to exercise the theoretical bounds of wormhole engineering.

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