Try to Relax — and Other Things That Prevent Themselves

“Try to relax” can recruit the monitoring that keeps tension salient. Traversable wormholes face a very different constraint: sustaining their geometry requires stress-energy that violates classical energy conditions. The comparison is an analogy about constraints, not one mechanism shared by psychology and spacetime.

15 January 2026 · 7 min · Sebastian Spicker

What Black Hole Images Actually Show (and Why a Wormhole Would Look Different)

The EHT images of M87* and Sgr A* are remarkable not because they surprised us, but because they confirmed a century-old prediction at microarcsecond precision. The more interesting question: what would a wormhole look like? Completely different — and we have never seen that.

17 October 2022 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker