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		beamatronic on Aug 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Humanly Traversable Wormholes Would the entry and exit points be orbiting another body somewhere?

T-A on Aug 19, 2020 [–]

They could be. Absent other forces acting on them, they would move along geodesics, like everything else. Near an ordinary massive body, geodesics are orbits.

Popular example: the wormhole in "Interstellar" was orbiting Jupiter.

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