Traversable Wormholes

An Information-Controlled Scalar-Electromagnetic Precursor and Constraints

The Information-Controlled Scalar–Electromagnetic Precursor and Traversable-Wormhole Constraints paper develops a falsifiable staged research program that separates a laboratory-scale new-interaction hypothesis from the much stronger claim of traversable-wormhole physics.

The manuscript does not claim that information directly sources a force, that a scalar field has been detected, that spacetime curvature has been modified, or that a wormhole has been created. Instead, it defines a sequence of evidence levels beginning with a controlled electromagnetic apparatus, progressing through a possible scalar precursor and any independently established gravitational response, and only then reaching the theoretical conditions required for a traversable wormhole.

The laboratory model introduces a real scalar field $\chi$ coupled to the electromagnetic kinetic term through$$B_F(\chi)=1+g_\gamma\chi+\mathcal O(\chi^2),$$

leading, in the weak static regime, to a compact-source Yukawa-type profile proportional to$$\frac{e^{-m_\chi r}}{r}.$$

The electromagnetic source is characterized through the Lorentz invariant $F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}$, integrated over the source region. Information enters only as a controller that selects the physical electromagnetic configuration; once the local electric, magnetic, thermal, mechanical, and electronic states are fixed, the scalar prediction is independent of whether the control command originated from entanglement, classical correlation, random selection, or manual input.

A precision clock or spectroscopic detector provides the proposed measurement channel through sensitivity to effective variation in the fine-structure constant. The core empirical signatures are deliberately high leverage: a Yukawa distance law, sign reversal between electric-dominated and magnetic-dominated source configurations, strong suppression when the integrated electromagnetic invariant approaches zero, and invariance to controller provenance when the physical source state is unchanged.

The paper corrects the distance-ratio expression used in earlier formulations. For a signal$$y(r)\propto \frac{e^{-m_\chi r}}{r},$$

the proper far-to-near ratio is$$\frac{y(r_2)}{y(r_1)} = \frac{r_1}{r_2} e^{-m_\chi(r_2-r_1)}.$$

For $r_2=2r_1$ and $m_\chi r_1<0.05$, the expected magnitude ratio lies between approximately 0.4756 and 0.5000.

The gravitational extension is analyzed separately using a scalar-tensor action with positive effective gravitational coupling and non-ghost kinetic structure. Under the stated assumptions, established scalar-tensor no-go results exclude the simplest healthy branch from supporting a realistic static traversable wormhole. This negative result is retained explicitly: experimental confirmation of the scalar precursor would constitute evidence for a new interaction, not evidence that a traversable wormhole exists.

The manuscript also incorporates null-energy-condition requirements, quantum negative-energy constraints, external scalar-photon and fifth-force limits, parameter-identifiability analysis, M0–M3 comparator models, a ten-part falsification matrix, and a full preregistration record.

A reproducibility package accompanies the paper. It includes executable Yukawa predictions, corrected ratio calculations, synthetic sign-reversal and null-source controls, model-comparison scaffolding, parameter-fitting routines, empirical result templates, unit tests, and SHA-256 integrity manifests. Synthetic outputs are included only to verify the computational pipeline and are not presented as evidence for new physics.

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