Questions tagged [wormhole]
A popular science fiction trope. A wormhole is a topological feature of spacetime that would be, fundamentally, a "shortcut" through spacetime.
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Woman looking for a sperm donor gets stuck on planet with induced multiple pregnancies
It's been years, but was trying to find this book.
Main character was female, she was from an upper class society that did life prolonging treatments, she was a space ship pilot (much to the chagrin ...
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Book about a wormhole found inside the Moon
Back in the '80's, I read a book that begins with astronauts exploring caves in the Moon and finding one tunnel that has no end. They discover that it is a tunnel through space and time, maybe even ...
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Wormhole for lost socks and dryer lint
I am looking for the title of a story about a spaceship that crash-lands on a planet covered with dryer lint and socks. Dryers have opening small wormholes and sending lint and small articles of ...
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Identify movie/series involving space travel and supernatural entity
I vaguely remember a show that I once watched but I do not have enough elements to identify it and until now all my attempts have been unsuccessful.
I was probably drunk or high or both when I watched ...
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Book about portals and pyramids
I believe I got this from the library about 10 years ago. The novel had two men, possibly brothers or professor and student, and one woman who becomes romantically involved with the younger one. I ...
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Is Stargate the first example of a one-way wormhole in fiction?
Wormholes are a common element in science fiction, but I think most wormholes shown in fiction are bidirectional, that is, matter can move both ways through the wormhole.
Stargate really dialed the ...
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What does the Bajoran wormhole look like from behind?
The Bajoran wormhole has been a staple of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine since the very first episode. We see it opening up in all its grandeur in the opening credits as well as in many of the episodes. ...
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Story involving man who enters a web of wormholes with only a spacesuit
I read this in the mid-to-late 1970s, I think, and it was from the 1960s or possibly earlier. I bought a lot of cheap SF paperbacks from my local second-hand book-exchange shop around that time.
It ...
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Movie about a worm hole that requires a lot of energy to open, but doesn't seem to work [duplicate]
I saw the ending of a movie with a lady about to sit in this massive machine in the shape of a loop/circle that looked to be discovered on earth. They had to draw massive amounts of energy to get it ...
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Movie with missing scientists father in another dimension, worm holes in buildings [closed]
I’m searching for a movie where there was a female character whose father or mother was a scientist who went missing. To get them back she had to get them the piece they invented, there were portals ...
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Hard sci-fi novel where the protagonist uses a wormhole portal and discovers a second version of themself
Hard sci-fi novel. Protagonist uses a wormhole portal and discovers a second version of herself (sister? clone?). May also feature tree-like alien life forms.
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Book series about using wormholes and time travel to reduce decades of space travel to days
This was a two-book series.
A ship would leave one destination with its crew and passengers in cryogenic sleep and cruise for, e.g. 80 years to the wormhole. They would pass through the wormhole to ...
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Book trilogy(?) about advanced civilisation, wormholes and portals, first mission to Mars [duplicate]
I'm trying to remember a good book, maybe divided by three volumes, about a future human society.
I remember that it starts with the first human mission to Mars, where the astronauts land just to ...
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How many dimensions are there in the 1980's TMNT cartoon?
A common plot device in the 1980's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon is the Dimensional Portal, which operates in a similar manner to a Stargate, except for the fact that it links parallel ...
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Why aren't wormholes used for energy generation?
The wormholes in the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton seem to be very variable/controllable in terms of size and positioning.
The books also devote a significant amount of time talking about ...
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