wormhole n.

This analysis forces one to consider situations…where there is a net flux of lines of force through what topologists would call a handle of the multiply-connected space and what physicists might perhaps be excused for more vividly terming a ‘wormhole’.

The human navigator only came into the picture if a miscalculation popped you into the wrong ‘wormhole,’ and you popped out in some random part of space.

What’s it like? A Mylar wormhole.

In Eon, an artificial worldlet called the Thistledown, which somehow arrives from the future, contains the machinery for generating ‘The Way’, a kind of tubular wormhole universe, fifty kilometers in diameter and more or less infinitely long, snaking, not only through space and time, but alternate universes too.

But no way of avoiding the speed limit set by Einstein had been discovered, and although ‘wormholes in space’ had been proved to exist, nothing even as large as an atomic nucleus could pass through them.

The space station is located near the mouth of a newly discovered wormhole, a phenomenon that provides a short cut to a distant unexplored quadrant of the galaxy.

The flitter tumbled from the shimmering throat of the wormhole transit route from Port Sol to Earthport. Louise Ye Armonk peered out of the cramped cabin, looking for Earth. Mark sat beside her, a bookslate on his lap.

Long-range sensors turned up something we were not prepared for—namely, a series of subspace wormholes.

Tanyata was very definitely a frontier planet; the last to be established in this sector of phase two space. It simply wasn’t commercially practical to build wormholes that reached any further.

Following the Third Diasporian Age (and much more besides—galactic history wasn’t really simple on any scale) another wormhole brought Ulubis back on-line to become part of the Third Complex.

Of more critical strategic interest, the four wormhole jump points that were its gateways to the greater galactic nexus.

‘Well, the shuttle has launched. Everything on schedule so far?’ ‘Yes, Princess Shuri—the wormhole looks stable. At least as stable as a wormhole can be.’