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Verbal·Expression of Ideas·Rhetorical Synthesis
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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
  • Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity allows for potential shortcuts through spacetime.
  • These hypothetical spacetime tunnels are known as wormholes.
  • For matter to travel through a wormhole, it would need to have negative energy density.
  • Negative energy density means that the matter would have less energy than empty space.
  • Such matter has not been shown to exist.
The student wants to acknowledge a complication affecting travel through wormholes. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A
The hypothetical tunnels known as wormholes would be potential shortcuts through spacetime were it not for one complication: they have less energy than empty space.
B
Einstein’s theory of general relativity allows for potential spacetime shortcuts called wormholes but does not explain how matter with negative energy density could travel through them.
C
For matter to travel through a wormhole, the matter would need to have less energy than empty space; such matter has not been shown to exist.
D
For wormholes to be possible, according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, they would have to allow for potential shortcuts through spacetime.