wormhole
Americannoun
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wormholes
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a hole made by a burrowing or gnawing worm, as in timber, nuts, etc.
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a theoretical passageway in space between a black hole and a white hole.
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a hole made by a worm in timber, plants, etc
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physics a tunnel in the geometry of space–time postulated to connect different parts of the universe
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A hole made by a burrowing worm.
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A theoretical distortion of space-time that would link points in space through a second set of paths, some of which could be shorter than the shortest path without the wormhole. It is not known whether workholes are possible.
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See more at space-time
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In her waking hours, Elle is the movie star of a “Barbarella”–like space adventure about an all-female crew who zips through a wormhole and crash lands on a crystalline planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Nevertheless, the wormhole metaphor flourished in popular culture and speculative theoretical physics.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
And I fell into a deep Instagram wormhole after I was exposed, via my Explore page, to some truly mesmerizing Anne Geddes–knockoff A.I. baby fashion shows.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2024
From cats and cucumbers to pimple popping and unboxings, the internet is awash with a vast array of videos to send people into a social media wormhole.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024
I’d been in the middle of dreaming that I’d won the title of All-Time Greatest Scientist after discovering the first wormhole.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Yet there is no observational evidence for macroscopic wormholes, nor any compelling theoretical reason to expect them within Einstein’s theory.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
Furthermore, these angels can be ensorcelled into opening wormholes that transport humans through time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Ross: Other dimensions, everyone was fine with the wormholes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
A keen outdoor runner, he switched to a treadmill during lockdown; and now spends hours on a Peloton, using the time to watch Tarantino boxsets and fall down YouTube wormholes.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023
Just as wormholes can, in theory, send you halfway across the universe in the blink of an eye, they can send you backward and forward in time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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