Interesting stuff and right up my street
I'm not sure if time distortion is similar to wormholes or quantum tunneling in some way? Not looked into it.
No, it isn't. Worm homes are based upon the observation by Einstein that space is bent or curved. The reasoning is that, if it is curved, and the curve can be dramatically increased, it may be possible to take a short cut in the way that the distance of a circumference is greater than the distance of the diameter. It became popular because it was used quite extensively in Star Trek.
I don't know of any main stream research into the notion. Interesting, but lacking any basis to form a theory I'm afraid.
I'm going to have to chicken out with Quantum Mechanics I'm afraid as my knowledge doesn't go that far. Someone I know and who certainly does understand Quantum Mechanics told me that quantum mechanics describes possibilities, not likelihood. I did a quick search and found this interesting video which seems to bear things out quite well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTodS8hkSDg
I'd put money on faster than light travel (or crossing it) actually being possible, but accept that within the current understanding of physics it isn't as you say (or rather, we can't *cross* the FTL barrier because FTL is technically possible if already travelling FTL I believe).
To continue with the open mindedness
I'd question the standard notion that energy cannot be created too, within this universe. After all the big bang came from nothing, and thus came out of nothing. Unless we evoke some other dimension or bubbling sea of somethingness from whence it came... in which case yes energy can only change form, but we then have to expand our definition of universe to include a much deeper reality. If we don't and we limit it to spacetime in this material reality we call the universe we have to concede that it can be created. ! I'm losing myself in mindless rambling.
I wish I could have a chat with a life form several million years more advance than me, one who'd regard us as backwards as cavemen!
I'm sorry but that is incorrect. The big bang started at a point of infinite singularity. I believe it was Cark Sagan who started that notion that it came out of nothing. He reasoned that a point of singularity must have come from something and the only reasonable explanation, according to him was that it must have come out of nothing.
There is another explanation as to its origins. The pulsating universe, that eventually matter will simply collapse back in on itself in a big crunch. Unfortunately, no matter how the sums are done, there is simply not enough matter in the universe to bring on the big crunch. So the universe will continue to expand, essentially, for ever. (Actually, about 10trillion
between 90 and 140 years. The higher figure seems to be more popular on this side of the pond. Americans seeming prefer the lower. Either way, the universe is only about 14 billion years old now, so it's a long long way to go.)
The simple fact is, there is no way of knowing what came before the big bang. What created the singularity. I will put one point to you to add to the confusion. The universe and everything in it is just too perfect. In a system based upon chance, there should be many many more errors. But everywhere, there is too much perfection. Form the mechanics of gravity, to the invariable assembly and reassembly of atoms. Life is equally perfect. Humans are some of the most complex organisms ever created, yet they are replicated, over and over, with near perfection, each time. Errors happen. Deformities, mutations. But these are a very tiny proportion of the total of successful births.
It's impossible to say why that perfection exists. At this time in human intellectual evolution, we seem to be caught between tow equally dogmatic and pig headed groups, one claiming some sort of supernatural being who we can't see and only they are aware of, the other claiming it is all just too complicated and only they are qualified to hold an opinion. It's actually very very funny. But does caution mortals such as you and I away from the weirdos who sell science or religion. Since they are both opposite side of the same worthless coin.
There is one more aspect though which might be worth considering. The nature of matter is governed by the density, the velocity and the spin. At this stage, the so called Stelariferous age, the universe is still accelerating and spinning. That acceleration and spin is affecting the four forces in debatable ways. Now, as the acceleration continue to increase, the nature of how matter acts may alter, while the expansion reduces the mean density of the universe. As the universe slows, it will almost certain go through a period when its acceleration returns, for a time to something similar to what is occurring now. The density of the universe will be a small proportion of what we have now. the Spin is anyone's guess We might speculate on the nature of matter at that future point. Could it once again create the sort of conscious notions that currently exist on the earth? Some intelligence in the long distant future, being aware of us, perhaps managing to even capture and observe images by means which we cannot conceive of. Could it be that when existence as we know it finally ceases,, possibly, around 40% of the total life of the universe, all the stored knowledge accumulated may survive in a material sense and be adopted by future conscious existance, gibing it an enormous head start?
