Definitions
A hypothetical tunnel connecting distant points in spacetime.
Word origin
First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.
Used in a sentence
“To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.”
“But he had no sooner got through the worm-hole, than the lad put a small peg in the hole.”
“[…]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".”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Spacetime tunnel”8 letters
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