In 1935, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen were not thinking about wormholes or cosmic highways ... Decades later, physicists rebranded this idea as a wormhole, imagining it as a tunnel between distant regions of space ... Wormholes are not tunnels.
Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe ... Only later did Einstein–Rosen bridges become associated with wormholes, despite having little to do with the original idea ... Wormholes aren’t necessary.
We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 7,110,381-part monthly series, WikiWormhole. This week’s entry. Quick hits. What it’s about ... So, instead of one long topic, we’re once again running down several short ones ... Further down the Wormhole.
Wormholes are one of science fiction’s favourite cheats ... Up to Episode 8, it reframes the Upside Down not as a spooky parallel world but as something closer to a wormhole or bridge through spacetime ... No wormhole has ever been observed.
This initiative will see RLUSD integrated into Layer-2 (L2) solutions on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, facilitated by a partnership with Wormhole, one of the largest protocols for cross-chain interoperability.
Ripple said it's testing its U.S. dollar stablecoin on Optimism, Base, Ink and Unichain with more blockchains to be added next year pending regulatory review ... .