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A popular science fiction trope. A wormhole is a topological feature of spacetime that would be, fundamentally, a "shortcut" through spacetime.

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When was the term "Einstein–Rosen bridge" first used in a Sci-Fi work?

1983: "The Last Einstein–Rosen Bridge" is the title of a science fiction short story by Rudy Rucker which was first published in his 1983 collection The 57th Franz Kafka. The term Einstein–Rosen bridg …
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Old story about a professor who invents a metal hoop that generates a spacewarp

"The Hoop", a short story by Howard Fast; first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1972, available at the Internet Archive. One very athletic young man (possibly a footb …
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