Abstract
The fundamental properties of the Morris-Thorne wormholes are reviewed, together with the energy conditions (NEC, WEC, SEC, DEC) for the same. A new exponential solution for the equations derived by Morris and Thorne is introduced and, finally, we have calculated the total time to traverse a wormhole with exponential shape function.
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