“Exotic matter” is interesting stuff. It has negative mass, and goes in the opposite direction that you push it. Line a wormhole with it, and things falling in can escape “spaghettification.”
Actually the spleen is the only thing that survives the trip through the wormhole. There’s a society on the far side of the galaxy that believes they’re sending an invasion force to Earth through their end of the hole, but all they’re really doing is delivering a steady stream of replacement spleens to Dr. Mel.
I liked Madeline L’Engle’s term better: “Tesseract”. Although I guess the concept was a little different: moving through another dimension to travel between folds of spacetime.
TR just wanted to play with his new modeling software, I bet. If the curvature of space is a Moebius strip instead of a simple curve, wouldn’t the wormhole lead you into a different universe instead of somewhere in this one?
TheDOCTOR over 14 years ago
Trapped in the Wormhole are the words: ”MY SPLEEEN!”
ARF2 over 14 years ago
“Exotic matter” is interesting stuff. It has negative mass, and goes in the opposite direction that you push it. Line a wormhole with it, and things falling in can escape “spaghettification.”
It’s still probably hard on the spleen, though.
ksoskins over 14 years ago
That sandworm that’s next to Dr. Mel might be named Winky’s Revenge. All praise to Muad’Dib.
wetidlerjr over 14 years ago
“Shake Your Booty said, That sandworm that’s next to Dr. Mel might be named Winky’s Revenge. All praise to Muad’Dib.”
Ha, ha, ha,ha… He, he, he, he…
puddleglum1066 over 14 years ago
Actually the spleen is the only thing that survives the trip through the wormhole. There’s a society on the far side of the galaxy that believes they’re sending an invasion force to Earth through their end of the hole, but all they’re really doing is delivering a steady stream of replacement spleens to Dr. Mel.
mrsullenbeauty over 14 years ago
I’ll buy that, Puddleglum.
Trebor39 over 14 years ago
And Winky falls prey to Dr. Mel once again. Spleen away Winky, spleen away!
benbrilling over 14 years ago
Too late, the wormhole’s filled with spam already.
Sherlock Watson over 14 years ago
I thought this phenomenon was called “rush hour traffic.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hammered the spammer.
starguy over 14 years ago
Instead of Winky, let’s toss the spammer down the wormhole…WITHOUT the protection of exotic matter, of course!
captainedd over 14 years ago
No exotic matter for the spammer, just cheap imitation matter
stuart over 14 years ago
I liked Madeline L’Engle’s term better: “Tesseract”. Although I guess the concept was a little different: moving through another dimension to travel between folds of spacetime.
jpozenel over 14 years ago
I actually feel as though I learned something here today.
Thanks Dr. Mel!
margueritem over 14 years ago
Dr. Mel likes to throw out little factoids about space on Sundays, and I enjoy reading them.
ChiehHsia over 14 years ago
TR just wanted to play with his new modeling software, I bet. If the curvature of space is a Moebius strip instead of a simple curve, wouldn’t the wormhole lead you into a different universe instead of somewhere in this one?
real_poncho almost 7 years ago
Oh, stick it up your wormhole.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 5 years ago
Shut your hole, worm.
(If you’re going to be a worm, OWN it, don’t deny it.)