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⎛ 1 1<br />

⎞<br />

0 0<br />

σ 0 0<br />

⎜ +<br />

ρ<br />

4 1<br />

ρ<br />

⎟<br />

⎛ ⎞<br />

2<br />

⎜ ⎟ c ⎜<br />

⎟<br />

0 ϑ1 0 =− ⎜ 0 1 ρ2<br />

0 ⎟<br />

⎜<br />

4π<br />

G<br />

0 0 ϑ ⎟ ⎜<br />

⎟<br />

⎝ 2⎠ 0 0 1 ρ1<br />

⎜<br />

⎟<br />

⎝<br />

⎠<br />

(2.9),<br />

which gives the final result<br />

4<br />

c ⎛ 1 1 ⎞<br />

σ =− ⎜ + ⎟<br />

4π G ⎝ ρ1 ρ2<br />

⎠<br />

(2.10a)<br />

4<br />

c 1<br />

ϑ1<br />

=−<br />

4π<br />

G ρ<br />

(2.10b)<br />

2<br />

4<br />

c 1<br />

ϑ =− 2<br />

4π<br />

G ρ<br />

(2.10c).<br />

1<br />

These are the Einstein equations. Equations (2.10a-c) imply that (for ∂Ω convex) we are dealing with<br />

negative surface energy density and negative surface tensions. This result is in fact the primary matterenergy<br />

requirement for traversable wormholes, as was proved by Morris and Thorne (1988), and later by<br />

Visser (1995), within the paradigm of classical Einstein general relativity. The negative surface tension<br />

(= positive outward pressure, a.k.a. gravitational repulsion or antigravity) is needed to keep the throat<br />

open and stable against collapse. The reader should not be alarmed at this result. Negative energies and<br />

negative stress-tensions are an acceptable result both mathematically and physically, and they manifest<br />

gravitational repulsion (antigravity!) in and around the wormhole throat. One only needs to understand<br />

what it means for stress-energy to be negative within the proper context. In general relativity the term<br />

“exotic” is used in place of “negative.” The effects of negative energy have been produced in the<br />

laboratory (the Casimir Effect is one example). In short, negative energy arises from Heisenberg’s<br />

quantum uncertainty principle, which requires that the energy density of any electromagnetic, magnetic,<br />

electric or other fields must fluctuate randomly. Even in a vacuum, where the average energy density is<br />

zero, the energy density fluctuates. This means that the quantum vacuum can never remain truly empty in<br />

the classical sense of the term. The quantum picture of the vacuum is that of a turbulent plenum of virtual<br />

(i.e., energy non-conserving) particle pairs that spontaneously pop in and out of existence. The notion of<br />

“zero energy” in quantum theory corresponds to the vacuum being filled with such fluctuations going on.<br />

This issue is further elaborated on and clarified in greater detail in Appendix A. We will also revisit this<br />

in Section 2.2. Finally, it should be noted that for the analysis in this section we assumed an ultrastatic<br />

wormhole [i.e., g 00 ≡ 1 ⇒ φ(r) = 0 in equation (2.1)] with the “exotic” matter-energy confined to a thin<br />

layer, and we dispensed with the assumption of spherical symmetry.<br />

We can now build a wormhole-stargate and affect vm-Teleportation such that a traveler stepping into<br />

the throat encounters no exotic matter-energy there. This will require that our wormhole be flat shaped.<br />

To make the wormhole flat requires that we choose the throat ∂Ω to have at least one flat face (picture the<br />

thin shell in Figure 3 becoming a flat shell). On that face the two principal radii of curvature become ρ 1 =<br />

ρ 2 = ∞ as required by standard geometry. Substituting this into equations (2.10a-c) gives<br />

σ = ϑ1 = ϑ2 = 0 (2.11),<br />

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