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wormhole
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wormhole \Worm"hole`\, n. A burrow made by a worm.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a hole burrowed by a worm 2 (context relativity English) A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.
WordNet
n. hole made by a burrowing worm
Wikipedia
A wormhole or Einstein–Rosen bridge is a hypothetical topological feature that would fundamentally be a shortcut connecting two separate points in spacetime. A wormhole may connect extremely long distances such as a billion light years or more, short distances such as a few feet, different universes, and different points in time. A wormhole is much like a tunnel with two ends, each at separate points in spacetime.
For a simplified notion of a wormhole, space can be visualized as a two-dimensional (2D) surface. In this case, a wormhole would appear as a hole in that surface, lead into a 3D tube (the inside surface of a cylinder), then re-emerge at another location on the 2D surface with a hole similar to the entrance. An actual wormhole would be analogous to this, but with the spatial dimensions raised by one. For example, instead of circular holes on a 2D plane, the entry and exit points could be visualized as spheres in 3D space.
A wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime.
Wormhole may also refer to:
- Bajoran wormhole, a wormhole located near the planet Bajor in the fictional Star Trek universe
- Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings, a book containing writings from four decades by the English author John Fowles
- Wormhole switching, a technique in computer science
- " Wormhole X-Treme!", an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
- Wormhole (video game)
Usage examples of "wormhole".
Back then, people were still justifiably worried about encountering hostile aliens as CST wormholes were continually opened on new planets farther and farther away from Earth.
Alessandra wanted to know if the residents had renounced their antihuman stance now the wormhole detector station had been forcibly installed in the Regent mountains above the town.
The ensuing war destroyed the wormhole through which all arrived, as well as technological civilization, and in the centuries since the Teotl have cultivated Azteca bloodlust and prowess.
For the next several months Barbas would be convenient for a slingshot maneuver, by which traffic outbound from Magaria would pick up speed by slinging themselves around it en route to the wormhole.
It was possible that the cruiser could swing around the near side of Barbas and hurl itself for Wormhole 1.
It was equally possible, and a good deal more probable, thatJudge Kybiq could make a slight, last-minute alteration of course, then slingshot itself around thefar side of Barbas and head for Wormhole 4 and an interception ofCorona.
He had in effect framed Koffield for the destruction of the Circum Central wormhole.
All the history files at school mentioned him as one of the programmers who had helped Sheldon and Isaac write the governing software for their original wormhole.
But this time the Furies had come through the wormhole with five ships.
Therefore, in addition to finding ways to prevent the Furies from attacking us, we must find a way to close the wormhole.
If the timing was somehow off, if the wormhole was growing geometrically instead of arithmetically, then the Furies would arrive before the reinforcements.
The icosahedral exotic-matter frame that threaded the wormhole mouth exploded, a mirror image of the destruction witnessed by Miriam Berg fifteen centuries earlier.
More portals and wormholes disappeared during the War of the New Quick and the Machine War, and only the establishment of the Mercatoria - at least by the estimation of those who controlled it - brought about a lasting peace and the beginning of the Fourth Complex.
But aside from the vast cost and the point - assuming a portal would be heading in the other direction before too long - that it would be a waste of time and effort which would bring reconnection no quicker, there was one clinching argument that would apply until either no signal arrived from Zenerre or word came of an utter breakdown in civil society: in the Mercatoria only Engineers were allowed to make and emplace wormholes.
Dwellers, Fassin had gained the distinct impression that Dwellers both despised and felt sorry for the Quick - the species, like humans, like all the others in the Mercatoria, which felt the need to use wormholes.