Wormholes in Space

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by lwcamp

There really are no walls. Not in space-time, anyway. The local wormhole traffic authority might put some up. Or maybe the engineers need to put up walls in order to make the wormhole work.

There is one direction where, if you move with a component of your velocity in that direction, you go through the wormhole and end up on the other side. The other two directions are periodic - if you move in the plane defined by those two directions you will eventually circle back around to end up where you started again. If your velocity has components along both the perpendicular and parallel directions to the throat, you will spiral around. This means that if you look in the direction perpendicular to the throat, you will see wildly distorted ring-images of yourself from the light that you emit which comes back around into your eye.

Luke

So if I don't align properly before exiting the wormhole, I'll get split in half by the mouth?