wormhole
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- noun
- /ˈwɜrmˌhoʊl/
- Specialized
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agujero de gusano
- In principle, these wormholes would allow two-way travel in a short amount of time.
- wormholes in space
- wormholes in space-time
Tyson, if we have wormholes, you don't need airports.
- Tyson, if we have wormholes, you don't need airports.
- And in Star Trek, I think we will have wormholes before we'll have transporters.
- But this week we have a real wormhole discovery.
- It's associated with geometries of space-time, maybe wormholes, maybe those kind of things.
- So it's, it's really just a wormhole which we're going to go down together.
- You could say that quantum computers are for problem solving what wormholes are for space travel.
- You know, we we can understand certain things about wormholes, but here's a limitation to wormholes.
- That's called the forking of space and time, and that gives us wormholes.
- Do you think Area X transverses interstellar space wormholes?
- So general relativity allows for wormholes.
- OK right, so the colourful space thing at the end was actually a wormhole.
Examples
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"One thing you could do would be to find a wormhole and go there."
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But this week we have a real wormhole discovery.
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So it's, it's really just a wormhole which we're going to go down together.
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In order to travel through a wormhole, you had to make one to travel through.
Fiction book (1991) -
So the way was open for anyone to go through a wormhole and come out in another universe.
Fiction book (1991) -
"What do you think will happen to us if you get out of this wormhole?" the spokesman asked.
Fiction book (2001) -
Another universe might, however, be connected with ours via a "wormhole" -- a passage between two black holes.
Academic text (2002) -
What happens if there's an open system, an open system where you can have a wormhole and escape to another universe which is warmer?
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We've barely managed to make one very rudimentary wormhole.
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In her latest science fiction novel, the protagonist discovers a wormhole that transports her to another galaxy.
Synonyms
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An imagined dimension that lets spaceships travel faster than light
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A device in stories that opens a doorway for instant travel between far places
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Instantly move a person or thing to another place without going through the space between
A machine in science fiction that lets ships travel instantly between distant stars
How Fast
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Surface Forms
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Etymology
Wormhole is a picture word: imagine a worm eating straight through an apple to make a tunnel that joins two distant spots, and scientists and writers use that image to describe a 'tunnel' in space that could be a fast 'shortcut' across the universe. So a wormhole means a space shortcut connecting far places.