wormhole

Computing the odds that information could go through a wormhole is like computing the odds that God exists.

A wormhole is just one theoretical method of jumping those distances via a shortcut.

The scientific name for a wormhole is an Einstein-Rosen Bridge - named after Nathan Rosen and, obviously, Albert Einstein who conceived the idea.

The contradiction only happens if you assume the ball goes straight into the wormhole and then calculate that it will glance itself and not go straight into the wormhole.

But even if those parameters allowed a wormhole, having a traversable wormhole requires exotic matter with negative mass, another thing that we have no tangible proof exists.

DS9 introduces the wormhole to the gamma quadrant, and Voyager is mostly about the trek back from the delta.

Kramer obviously disappeared into a wormhole as part of his research into faster than light communications.

But when you try, it emerges from the wormhole on an altered trajectory, and strikes itself only a glancing blow.

What’s more, the resulting collision always prevents the ball entering the wormhole in the first place.

This reminds me -- spoiler alert -- of the wormhole in Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns.

For magic-wormhole, you still have to read something to them, but it's really short and designed specifically to be transcribed aloud.

If you're making the backup to be sent through a wormhole to 1999, use MD5.

I wouldn't describe DF as "impenetrable", exactly, but rather as a wormhole that teleports you from Friday evening to Monday morning.

Yeah, the 16-bit "wormhole code" means that each active MitM attack has a 2^-16 chance of success, and a 1-(2^-16) chance of causing a broken connection.

Note that you can make it longer: "wormhole --code-length=4" uses 4 words (32 bits), etc.

Magic-wormhole requires the same "read something to the recipient" part, but removes the setup phase, and removes all the security-losing middlemen.