Space travel BOMBSHELL: Professor Brian Cox reveals wormholes are ‘safe for spaceships’

“So you can go all around the edge or you cool take the shortcut.

“So you can do that in Einstein’s theory – you can write down that geometry and there it is.”

There are, however, some big caveats to the theory. Namely, how do scientists create these wormholes in the first place?

Creating the wormhole in the most basic of terms would be the equivalent of drawing a dot on opposing ends of a sheet of paper, folding the sheet so the dots overlap, and punching a hole straight through them.

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