In part 3, I mentioned there was a difference between the standard local energy conditions which were originally proposed in classical General Relativity and the "averaged" conditions. But I went off on a tangent about quantum inequalities and quantum interest, and never got around to connecting this back with the averaged conditions or defining ( Read more... )

So what is this thing called negative energy (also called "exotic matter", and could it exist somewhere, or if it doesn't exist naturally, is there a way we could somehow generate it ( Read more... )

I started my review of wormholes by reading Kip Thorne's famous paper on them from 1989. Thorne is the T in "MTW" a book by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler called Gravitation, written in 1973 and still one of the most widely used textbooks on general relativity ( Read more... )