Subluminally Transported Wormhole Infrastructure Networks (STWIN): A Conceptual Framework for Persistent Interstellar Communication and Transport
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: STWIN (Subluminally Transported Wormhole Infrastructure Network) is a conceptual framework for interstellar communication and transport based on the hypothetical deployment of stable, traversable wormhole endpoints by subluminal spacecraft. Rather than proposing faster-than-light propulsion, the framework treats wormhole connectivity as deployable infrastructure: an initial mission incurs the full causal cost of conventional interstellar travel, while subsequent communication or transport may exploit a persistent low-latency spacetime connection. The paper develops the concepts of causal installation cost, distance amortization, chronology-safe deployment, multi-node network topology, recursive expansion, information capacity, and failure resilience, while distinguishing established relativistic and quantum results from speculative assumptions. The framework is intended as a conditional systems architecture and research agenda, not as a claim that macroscopic traversable wormholes are currently physically realizable.
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7212032564
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