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

Visual appearance of a Morris–Thorne-wormhole

Thomas Müller

Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Abteilung Theoretische Astrophysik, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

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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.

© 2004 American Association of Physics Teachers

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Keywords

teaching, space-time configurations, general relativity, cosmology

PACS

  • 01.50.-i

    Educational aids

  • 04.20.Gz

    Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure

  • 98.80.Jk

    Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology

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History
Received Nov 2003
Accepted Apr 2004
Online Jul 2004

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0002-9505 (print)  

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1758220

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