Do Micro-Wormholes Exist? (Einstein-Rosen Bridges)

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Wormholes offer the possibility of time-travel.  Do micro-wormholes offer the possibility of a different kind of time-travel, in the form of premonition? 

There are respectable speculations in physics, and one of them concerns the possibility of tunnels through space and time.  Such tunnels (or bridges, or wormholes) are consistent with Einstein’s theory of General Relativity (GR).  GR has been supported by every experimental test performed to verify or disprove it, so when we speculate about tunnels through space, we are not making completely wild guesses.  While we do not know for sure whether they exist, they must be considered possible according to the best science to date.

Not so respectable, but worth speculating about, is the possibility of micro-wormholes.  These differ from the more respectable notions in that while wormholes are proposed to be huge, massive cosmic structures, the micro version consists of structures on the atomic scale, perhaps subatomic.  Also, while the supposed large wormholes are in the ream of General Relativity, micro-wormholes might be in the realm of quantum physics.

While macro-wormholes inspire the speculation about micro-wormholes, the similarities between the two might be minimal, perhaps even less than minimal, but the inspiration might suggest a relationship between them. 

Why bother to speculate?  Can any good come of it?

Speculations in physics can be respectable only if they offer some practical possibilities, only if they offer some needed explanation for something already known to exist.  For example, curved space in GR offers a much-needed explanation for gravity.  Can micro-wormholes suggest an explanation for phenomena which cry out for explanation?  What phenomena might those be?

Perhaps the greatest mystery in physics is the existence of consciousness.  The mystery is multi-layered and so profound that physics does not even have an adequate definition of consciousness, much less an explanation.  Indeed, some physicists have even denied that consciousness exists at all, as an actual thing.

For the purposes here, we will define consciousness as the inward (emphasis on the word, inward) experience of self, of perception, of thought.  That definition of course is by no means the final word, but it will give us a basis for the topic being presented here, that of micro-wormholes in space-time.

The known existence of consciousness is not only the premier unsolved mystery of physics, but it opens the door to numerous further mysteries of science.  Some of these involve subjects considered entirely unscientific, such as matters of psychic anomalies, familiar to most of us, but forbidden by purely physicalist theories. 

The existence of consciousness forces us to consider whether consciousness arises from physical matter, or whether it might be something independent of physical matter.  Consciousness, for example, is the strongest verifiable evidence supporting the concept of a soul, of spirit.  Were consciousness not to exist at all, were the universe studied only by computers alone, the idea of a soul would probably never arise.

Consciousness seems, to us conscious beings, to be either entirely independent of material existence, or at most, only loosely connected to it, much as music is connected to musical instruments.

Anecdotal evidence is abundant for such psychic phenomena as premonition, the perceived ability to know in advance of some future event.  It is a form of psychic time-travel, from the future to the present.  We all (presumably) have had feelings of expectation, but oftentimes these are written off as imaginary.  If the expected event occurs, we dismiss it as coincidence.

Likewise, anecdotal evidence provides us with many stories of psychic communication, for example, the sudden feeling that a loved one is in imminent danger, or has died.  Again, when it is later discovered that the event was real, we may dismiss it as coincidence.

The unreliability of these feelings is considered by many to be proof that premonitions and psychic communication are entirely imaginary.

A final unresolved fact of consciousness is that we perceive continuity across both space and time.  Musical melody, for example, is not a happenstance sequence of random notes.  We perceive them as connected, continuous, a flow of intentional creativity.

In nature, continuity is explained as the flow of cause and effect, the mathematical relationships between what otherwise would be independent events.  Our conscious minds detect this flow of causation, and that is why we have science.

This is where micro-wormholes, in some form or other, enter into the picture.  Whether in the continuity of specific physical events at the Planck scale, or in the anomalies associated with psychic phenomena, each instant of space-time is interconnected with adjacent or subsequent distinct loci. 

The extreme version of this in physics involves quantum entanglement (instantaneous reactions) across vast distances, defying the speed of light.  In consciousness, some unknown (and therefore speculated upon) principle of connectivity might explain matters of the spirit.

This is not to say that consciousness arises from matter, nor to say that our souls do.  It simply speculates that our consciousness is real, that we have souls, and that the interaction between mind and matter cries out for explanation.

Micro-wormholes might offer a much-needed explanation for what we perceive as spiritual experiences, including premonitions and so-called mind-reading.  Whether they are miniature versions of Einstein-Rosen Bridges or something entirely different, the possibility of the first suggests the second, at least in terms of speculation, hopefully useful speculation.

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