Many science enthusiasts have probably seen the film, Interstellar. One of the biggest questions this hit movie brings-up is if wormholes really do exist somewhere out in deep space.

In Interstellar, a team of astronauts journeys through space to find habitable planets in a distant galaxy using a wormhole, which is scientifically known as an "Einstein-Rosen Bridge."

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Renowned physicist Albert Einstein and his assistant, Nathan Rosen, formulated a single model that integrated all the forces of nature in 1935.

They described space as two pairs of sheets connected by bridges in the form of particles. Their hypothesis, called the "Theory of Everything," was reported in a paper in. The "Theory of Everything" was rejected by the scientific community since particle behavior in the model didn't correspond exactly to the behavior of particles in reality.

It was also thought that black holes, which are collapsed remnants of massive stars so dense not even light can escape it, are actually the portal entrances of wormholes described by Einstein and Rosen.

Interstellar has been regarded by scientists as a relatively accurate depiction of black holes and wormholes. Astrophysicist Kip Thorne worked closely with the film makers to simulate an accurate wormhole. He also worked on Carl Sagan's novel turned film, Contact, featuring Jodi Foster.

He said making Interstellar as accurate as possible was challenging yet rewarding. Thorne was unable to tell fellow physicists about his work on Interstellar since the film was kept secret.

Surviving a wormhole is almost impossible for real life astronauts, however.

General relativity makes it possible for wormholes to exist but black holes don't cause wormholes. An astronaut approaching a black hole will be ripped apart by extreme gravitational forces. This process of destruction is called "spaghettification" or the stretching of objects into long thin shapes.

Princeton University physicist John Wheeler coined the term wormhole in the 1960s. He observed a similar process when a worm eats its way inside an apple instead of crawling around the fruit.

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