• Question: How would you make the portal? What would it look like? How would it work? How is it possible? Would it be like a wormhole?

    Asked by Little Einsteins to Jarrod on 12 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by tjmagee, 587kgrf49.
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      Jarrod Hart answered on 12 Jun 2016:


      Well, um, the mentoring ‘portal’ I would love to see working is just a website on which prospective engineers could find engineers to mentor them – but I doubt that is the portal you’re interested in!

      I guess nowadays the word ‘portal’ has been hijacked by sci-fi to mean, as you say, a wormhole, rather than it’s original definition which is more-or-less just ‘gateway’…

      As for wormholes, I don’t actually believe in wormholes between places in the universe, but I do believe there can be wormholes into the distant future!

      All you need is a lot of mass – a heck of a lot – it will densify the gravitational field nearby and make time flow faster (than for an outside observer) potentially much faster -such that if you do a ‘fly-by’ a million years might pass in just a few hours – the trouble is, such big masses tend to suck everything in (they become black holes) so you need to be careful and not go too close!!

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