In a universe where faster-than-light travel isn’t possible, wormholes—hypothetical shortcuts across spacetime that link one part of the universe with another —give hope to romantics who wish to jump millions of light years in a single bound. But are wormholes more than a sci-fi portal to zip us between galaxies? Recent research suggests that they actually describe microscopic channels between particles all around us.

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