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🌀 Wormhole Spacetime Lab

An interactive 3D embedding diagram of a wormhole throat connecting two distant sheets of space, with a test probe travelling the curved shortcut.

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An interactive embedding diagram of a traversable wormhole: two flat sheets of space, each standing in for a distant region, joined by a curved throat. A glowing probe crosses the shortcut while the numbers compare the throat's proper length to the distance separating the two mouths in ordinary space.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Embedding diagrams let relativists visualise curved spacetime by bending a flat surface through an extra dimension. The throat radius and flare steepness reshape the curvature exactly as the parameters of the Morris–Thorne wormhole metric would.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust the throat radius and flare to reshape the wormhole, set how far apart the mouths sit in normal space, then send a probe through and watch the shortcut factor update live.

💡 Did You Know?

Kip Thorne and Michael Morris first worked out the physics of a traversable wormhole in 1988 — at the request of Carl Sagan, who needed a scientifically defensible shortcut for his novel Contact.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D warped spacetime grid where adjusting a simulated wormhole throat's radius connects two distant regions of space through a curved shortcut, with a test object passing through.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install