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"I'm a fairly visual thinker. In doing science, I think in terms of pictures of things happening, and then do the mathematics."
- Gregory Benford
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| Neotopological Metaeuclidean Adjacency | ||
| A portal through space-time. |
Wilson Wu is one of those rare polymath individuals who seems to know a lot about a lot of different things. And you never know what you're going to find when looking for Volvo parts.
| Wu said "I suspect we're dealing with one of the rarest occurrences in the Universe. A neotopological metaeuclidean adjacency... In fact, I think this might be the only one."
"You're sure about this?" "... Look at the figures, Irv! Numbers don't lie. That equation shows how space-time can be folded so that two parts are adjacent that are also, at the same time, separated by millions of miles...." "So we're talking about a sort of back door to ..." "Exactly." |
| Technovelgy from The Hole in the Hole,
by Terry Bisson. Published by Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1994 Additional resources -
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This is a great story; read it and have fun with it.
Frank Herbert's Whipping Star provides a scarier look at shortcuts through the space-time continuum; see the entry for vortal tubes.
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