The shortest distance between two points is always folding space so the points are touching. Since Jack Williamson imagined traversiblle wormholes in The Meteor Girl back in 1931, science has dreamt of making that concept a reality. Now here’s where Becky Ferreira gets into the nuts and bolts of this spooky action at a distance — an object is reconstituted across space without anything having passed. Things only get wilder from here, and it’s probably due to be a reality in three or four years. Speaking of holes, The Universe Might Be Shaped Like A Doughnut, Not A Pancake according to some new research found on Paul Sutter’s desk last Wednesday. Weird, unexpected echoes from the cosmic microwave background shows the universe is curved and flat and somehow the math works out to the shape of nature’s most perfect food. Best of all, cosmologists and astronomers can test the theory rather than merely model it. (CS)
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