Wormhole let down

I enjoyed Robert Matthews’s feature in the June issue (p38). Through popular sci-fi films and shows such as Stargate, Farscape and 2001: A Space Odyssey, wormholes gave someone like me hope that we could spread out across the Galaxy, and perhaps the Universe, through these rips in space-time. So you can imagine my disappointment when I discovered, towards the end of the article, that even if we were able to find a stable wormhole, it’d take us longer to travel through it than if we’d just travelled to where it would spit us out by conventional means! Talk about an anticlimax.

Frank Wilson, Dulwich