Physicists have recently put out a roadmap that would allow humans to create traversable wormholes capable of faster-than-light interstellar travel.
As a hypothetical structure, wormholes can connect two points in spacetime, which makes them especially popular in science fiction stories that revolve around faster-than-light travel.
Although scientists have recently made progress in creating simulated(or holographic) wormholes, but no one has ever successfully created a real wormhole in a laboratory setting or identified a real one out in space.
Physicist Hatim Salih, an honorary research fellow at the University of Bristol's Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, has proposed a possible roadmap toward achieving this long-term goal.
Salih hopes that by using current technology, they can achieve their goal of creating a wormhole within the next three to five years.
His goal is to create a quantum computer capable of sending information between two points without the need of any signals or wires. Unlike science fiction though, this exchange would not be instantaneous. It would in fact be much slower than current methods of information transport. But it would theoretically require less hardware if successful.
From there, the goal will then turn to transport objects and humans.