In the lobby is a beautiful yellow terrazzo floor along with extremely unusual wormhole marble covering the lobby walls.
It uses wormhole switching with two virtual channels per physical link, source-based routing and adaptive routing.
Gravity would crush the throat of the wormhole, destroying any travelers trying to reach the other side.
British Dictionary definitions for wormhole
wormhole
/ˈwɜːmˌhəʊl/
noun
1.
a hole made by a worm in timber, plants, etc
2.
(physics) a tunnel in the geometry of space–time postulated to connect different parts of the universe
Derived Forms
wormholed, adjective
Word Origin and History for wormhole
n.
1590s, "hole made by a burrowing insect" (in fruit, etc.), from worm (n.) + hole (n.). Astrophysics sense is attested from 1957.
wormhole in Science
wormhole
(wûrm'hōl')
A hole made by a burrowing worm.
A theoretical distortion of space-time that would link points in space through a second set of paths, some of which could be shorter than the shortest path without the wormhole. It is not known whether workholes are possible. See more at space-time.
Slang definitions & phrases for wormhole
wormhole
noun phrase
An unauthorized way into a computer system: an unknown hacker burrowed electronically through a ''worm hole'' of the World Wide Web(late 1980s+ Computer)