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goose756's avatar

Thoughts on the Bermuda Triangle wormhole theory.

Asked by goose756 (655points) April 6th, 2010

I watched a special on TV yesterday about there possibly being a wormhole through the Earth that connects the Bermuda Triangle with the Dragon’s Triangle near Japan. I’m curious what everyone thinks of the Bermuda Triangle.

I’ve done a lot of reading and some people say that the amount of “accidents” that occur there is proportionally not that much more than anywhere else. I don’t care about this, the point is that no wreckage is ever found. Why is this? What is so freaking weird about this area that this happens?

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ChaosCross's avatar

I don’t think there is really a wormhole.

If you asked my scientific side I would likely guess it is an area of high magnetic concentration due to the arrangement of plates in the Earth.

If you asked my awesome side however I might say it is where you find Atlantis.

Either one makes perfect sense of course.

filmfann's avatar

A wormhole? Pish posh!

CyanoticWasp's avatar

When you hear the sound of hoofbeats, do you think of unicorns, zebras or horses?

I’d be looking for horses instead of unicorns.

goose756's avatar

@CyanoticWasp now when you say this are you suggesting that we are looking for the wrong signs? Or do you think rather that it is unreasonable to consider such things?

ucme's avatar

They can all be found loitering up Barry Manilow’s nostrils.There’s your frigging wormhole right there.

CMaz's avatar

Bermuda Triangle = conspiracy theory

If you want to believe, knock yourself out.

josie's avatar

Everybody thinks that Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. This is wrong. He actually lives in the Bermuda triangle and he does not want to be discovered or bothered. He has a synergistic magnetic hypoflanger that disrupts magnetic wave fields in the area. There have been occasional victims….

davidbetterman's avatar

People knocking conspiracy theories merely because they are conspiracy theories = parrots blindly following those who don’t want you investigating to find the truth

Nullo's avatar

The Bermuda Triangle is merely a macro-scale version of the phenomenon that consumes single socks.

ragingloli's avatar

If that were the case, then should not sea water be transported as well, resulting in very measurable streams?

CyanoticWasp's avatar

@goose756 I’m not saying that unicorns don’t exist, and I’m not saying that wormholes don’t exist. It’s logically impossible to prove a negative; I can’t prove that you’re not a Martian, and I can’t even prove that I’m not, for example.

But if you hear hoofbeats, start looking for horses until you find actual evidence of unicorns.

njnyjobs's avatar

@ChaosCross Atlantis is in the Bahamas, part of the Bermuda Triangle . . . or Dubai

ragingloli's avatar

@njnyjobs
atlantis left earth many millennia ago and went into the pegasus galaxy. have you never watched the stargate atlantis documentary series?

Parrappa's avatar

Wormholes require incredible amounts of energy to sustain. If there was a wormhole in the Bermuda Triangle we would be able to detect the vast amount of energy coming from that area.

@ragingloli, I wish I could give you 1 million Great Answers for that. I’m a sucker for anything Stargate.

TexasDude's avatar

Statistically, the Bermuda Triangle is actually one of the safest parts of the ocean. Turn off the history channel and coast to coast am.

Nullo's avatar

@ragingloli There’s too much conflict. The original Stargate recounted the voyage to the Kalium Galaxy, “on the other side of the known universe”. The television programs make it so that all SG1 missions are in-galaxy, and that it requires force of a different magnitude to stretch to the Pegasus galaxy. Which is it?

lilikoi's avatar

This question made me LOL.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Yes definitely the coast to coast am! haha

grumpyfish's avatar

Bermuda triangle has three things going fo rit:

1. [edited] Weather changes quickly
2. Magnetic fields aren’t terribly strong in the area
3. Anything that happens in the area, generally gets associated with the Bermuda Triangle

Small plane disappears in the Sierra Nevada? Weird. Small plane disappears in the Bermuda Triangle, It’s teh vortex!

CMaz's avatar

I have been in the Bermuda triangle many times.

Only thing I have lost was my lunch.

goose756's avatar

@lilikoi whats so funny about something that is unknown? There are only theories.. we can’t determine what is reasonable and whats not without any proof.

grumpyfish's avatar

@goose756 It’s not unknown, there’s no mystery to the bermuda triangle.

goose756's avatar

@grumpyfish why can’t we find any debris?

CyanoticWasp's avatar

Personally, I’d be investigating @Nullo‘s single-sock theory. This does sound like a conspiracy coverup, now that I reflect on it some more. I think the Atlanteans are trying to deflect you from the truth. The truth is out there. In there. Around there. Somewhere.

Find the missing socks.

goose756's avatar

I know that the depths of the ocean in that area are great, however – how is it that some 70 crafts went missing in that area and not one piece of floating debris was found.. Can it possibly be coincidental that every little thing sunk?

grumpyfish's avatar

@goose756 I’d theorize that most searches were looking in the wrong place. It’s a big place the ocean.

davidbetterman's avatar

@goose756 You aren’t going to get a straight answer from this lot. they pretty much need to stick to accepted, status quo, stock answers on questions of this sort or risk being ridiculed by their putative friends.

goose756's avatar

@davidbetterman I’m not necessarily looking for a straight answer, I am only trying to investigate possibilities and other theories that people might have. I find this very interesting.

goose756's avatar

and I think i can trust my fellow jellies to contribute quite a bit :)

davidbetterman's avatar

@goose756 Me too. Especially since so many craft have been lost in the area over many many years with no trace of wreckage.

CyanoticWasp's avatar

Occam’s Razor. Google it.

grumpyfish's avatar

@davidbetterman Source? I’m only finding a few reliably sourced incidences, which is not a great sample for a few hundred thousand square miles.

A lot of the (found) wreckage seems to have gotten pushed north faster than anyone expected by the gulf stream.

davidbetterman's avatar

Occam’s razor: “Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate” From the medieval English philosopher and Franciscan monk William of Ockham (ca. 1285–1349).

So now you are quoting religious theorists?

So “the simpler the explanation, the better” is what counts?

CyanoticWasp's avatar

@davidbetterman it’s where to start the investigation, yes.

davidbetterman's avatar

http://www.mysterieszone.com/bermuda-triangle.htm

Scroll to the bottom for a list of planes and ships lost over the years in the triangle. (Not saying due to some mysterious vortex, merely that they were indeed lost somewhere out there.

grumpyfish's avatar

@davidbetterman thanks!

Found a nice article from a project that’s been finding & identifying stuff in the Bermuda Triangle: http://www.mysterious-america.net/bermudatriangle0.html

earthduzt's avatar

worm hole in theory sounds good but really it could be very dangerous. According to Einstein it is mathematically possible for them to exist…but…you don’t know whats on the other side. If it led to a different dimension and according to some theories there are 11 dimensions…what if in one of those other dimensions our laws of physics did not fit with theirs, and we just “poof” disappear” or worse our body comes out looking like spaghetti. Plus worm holes are one way only, so who’s going to be the first to experiment and how will we know it is safe if you can’t come back to tell us so.

davidbetterman's avatar

@grumpyfish Nice site.
So many of the missing ships are probably on the bottom, buried in the sand, just like you might expect them to be after being sunk in bad weather!

CyanoticWasp's avatar

@earthduzt perhaps you would be good enough to share some of your extensive knowledge of wormholes, such as your certain statement that they “are one way only”. I went to school for years and years and never learned about them. Should I demand my money back?

grumpyfish's avatar

@CyanoticWasp They’re only one-way for matter. EM radiation and Gravity can transfer through them bidirectionally, otherwise SG1 plots would be a lot clumsier.

davidbetterman's avatar

@CyanoticWaspShould I demand my money back?”

I am still laughing!!!

CyanoticWasp's avatar

@grumpyfish am I missing the tildes here, or what?

How do you (or anyone on Earth) know any such thing about a gravitational / matter anomaly that has never been discovered (at least outside of the National Enquirer)?

grumpyfish's avatar

@CyanoticWasp Some of them, yes. =) In the Stargate universe there are wormholes built using ancient alien technology. I’m pretty sure @earthduzt was serious, but several of the other folks are talking about Stargate…

CyanoticWasp's avatar

Arrrgggh. The Triangle claims another victim. I’m out of here.

Captain_Fantasy's avatar

A worm hole?
Please…

Do you understand that there are ships and planes that go through there and do indeed make it out?

XOIIO's avatar

That would be one big worm.

goose756's avatar

@Captain_Fantasy if you’ll re-read the description to my question you’ll notice that I mentioned the proportion of accidents to any other location – this includes how many ships and planes that “make it out”

I am looking for theories pertaining to which ones don’t and why minimal information on their demise is ever found

earthduzt's avatar

I’m talking about Einsteins wormhole theory, his were one way only.

grumpyfish's avatar

@earthduzt Good point, however an Einstien-Rosen bridge is a black hole at the “input” end, and was in 1962 shown to be unstable on very short timescales. I’m pretty sure we would have noticed an airplane/boat eating wormhole in the middle of the Atlantic…

earthduzt's avatar

@grumpyfish oh I know, I’m not saying that the Bermuda Triangle is a worm hole at all….there is no way….yeah Einstein’s wormholes are not even traversable, they would close just as soon as they would open.

Dr_Dredd's avatar

@ragingloli Stargate Atlantis documentary series! Ha, that made me laugh! I loved that show. (And I was really pissed when the writers started screwing around with something that worked.)

Parrappa's avatar

I could really talk Stargate all day.

Trillian's avatar

I guess I just don’t know as much about things as the rest of you. I saw something about this a couple weeks ago on Discovery or The History Channel. A man said that he flew through one. He saw the tunnel, flew about ten minutes in it and anded up over Florida which would otherwise taken him I don’t remember, half an hour or forty five minutes or something. I had no reason to disbelieve a pilot who knows his instruments and how to tell time. I thought “Hm, why not? Kinda cool!”
I know that there are weird places all over the planet, and a long time ago I heard that there were 8 places around the globe like the Bermuda Triangle, four in the northern and four in the southern hemispheres. That they were all equidistant from each other. I never investigated further, just filed it away. I also heard it theorized on this same show the other night that flight 19 went through this same “wormhole” and crashed into the okefenoke swamp, and tis is why the wreckages were never found. Who knows? I generally hesitate to say something is untrue just because it sounds fantastic. I wasn’t there when the universal laws were laid down and I’m not sure now that we know all of them.

syz's avatar

<Shakes head sadly and walks away.>

davidbetterman's avatar

Oceanic 815 was also brought down by a mini wormhole/EMP…

mattbrowne's avatar

Methane hydrates are more likely cause than a wormhole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle#Methane_hydrates

Dr_Dredd's avatar

@mattbrowne That sounds like another name for intestinal gas…

mattbrowne's avatar

@Dr_Dredd – When good old mother Earth suffers from flatulence, we could be in a lot of trouble when the pressure needs to be released.

Dr_Dredd's avatar

@mattbrowne A-ha! Maybe that’s the real explanation for earthquakes and volcanoes! ;-)

GtB1r's avatar

Methane Hydrate is totally a plausible explanation—-chemical reactions that occur are not always among the charted variety. Electromagnetic fields throughout the Earth and the universe coincide with the chemistry and sheer energy displayed in every instant. With an open mind, one cannot deny that science, while one daring noble experiment, is not the only lobe of ourselves that we cling to in order to explain and express our existence. Still, the scientific facts don’t sta
ck up to the mysterious unkown natural laws that seem to contradict one another, boo! What we might ask ourselves, is this : ” Am I doing any good in the world today, even chaos, but making a difference…and will I now radiate as the natural energy of the universe flows into me, and with an open mind and a deep breath, will the impossible become probable when approached with an open mind?”

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