Wormholes, Stephen Hawking, and the Boundary Between Science and Speculation.
Wormholes, Stephen Hawking, and the Boundary Between Science and Speculation. Introduction Modern physics often fascinates the public with ideas that sound revolutionary: black holes evaporating, space folding onto itself, tunnels through the universe, and even time travel. Names like Stephen Hawking are frequently invoked to give these ideas authority. This raises an important intellectual question: What is the real difference between scientific theory and speculation? This article critically examines wormholes, the notion of “folding the universe,” and Stephen Hawking’s major ideas, asking a direct and honest question: Have any of these ideas been physically proven, or do they remain conceptual tools similar—at least in outcome—to ancient metaphysical beliefs? Wormholes: Science or Science Fiction? A wormhole is a hypothetical structure predicted by certain solutions of Einstein’s General Relativity. In simple terms, it is imagined as a shortcut connecting two distant re...