Talk:Wormholes in fiction

Star Trek
In the "Star Trek" section of this page, it is noted that a black hole is not a wormhole. The prevailing view of an Einsein-Rosen bridge, that is, a black hole within a wormhole, is that it is unlikely. Though that may be, the Thorne-Miller wormhole is still quite possible according to physics, and similarly involves a wormhole whose entrance is a black hole.

And why is there no mention of Star Trek: Voyager, who, after being stranded in the remotest part of the delta quadrant, made it back to the alpha quadrant through an entire network of wormholes controlled by the Borg? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.36.169.80 (talk) 10:52, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Natural v. Artificial
Any opinions on organizing the entries into two sections: one for naturally occurring wormholes and one for artificially created ones? Prome theus  -X303-  22:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Re-organized
I reorganized the page: originally fiction in the form of written fiction (i.e., novels and stories), film, and television were jumbled together. This seemed quite disorganized to me, so I separated them into separate headings. (It might be worth ordering them chronologically within the sections, but that will take a bit more time, since I need to look up dates). Geoffrey.landis 21:49, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Conquest:frontier wars
Conquest frontier wars (Game) is a notable absence from the wormholes in fiction section. I'll add it when I get a moment, unless someone else is interested. Mystery Correction (talk) 17:56, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:56, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

White holes in fiction
The article linked above seems to be too small to stand on its own. I suggest that 'white holes' are better viewed as a special class of wormhole, and that the relevant information from that article should be moved here. RandomCritic (talk) 13:22, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Creating Sections For White Holes In Fiction
I may disagree with User:RandomCritic's comment and action above, but that aside, I think White Holes are different enough to deserve their own sections (for written fiction and TV/Film). I will create same. Hopefully this is not stepping on anyone's toes. Tacticus (talk) 20:19, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Doctor Who Time-Space Vortex
Is it said in any of the cannon sources that the Time-Space Vortex in Doctor Who is a wormhole, I don't think so, personally think it would be somewhat unlightly, it just looks like one on the surface? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.248.231 (talk) 05:23, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Starman Jones
This interesting discussion is in Robert Heinlein's 1953 novel Starman Jones. A discussion between Max and Ellie.

"The math of it is simple, but it's hard to talk about because you can't see it. Space our space may be crumpled up small enough to stuff into a coffee cup, all hundreds of thousands of light-years of it. A four-dimensional coffee cup, of course. . . . They used to think that nothing could go faster than light. Well, that was both right and wrong. It . . ."

"How can it be both?"

"That's one of the Horst anomalies. You can't go faster than light, not in our space. If you do, you burst out of it. But if you do it where space is folded back and congruent, you pop right back into our space again but it's a long way off. How far off depends on how it's folded. And that depends on the mass in the space, in a complicated fashion that can't be described in words but can be calculated."

"But suppose you can do it just anywhere?"

"That's what happened to the first ones who tried it. They didn't come back. And that's why surveys are dangerous; survey ships go poking through anomalies that have been calculated but never tried. That's also why astrogators get paid so much. They have to head the ship for a place you can't see and they have to put the ship there just under the speed of light and they have to give it the gun at just the right world point. . . ." Starman Jones, pp. 79-80

It's seems an echo of the multiply connected topology of an Einstein-Rose bridge, how Heinlein knew about this is probably not known.aajacksoniv (talk) 13:29, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Donnie Darko
Nothing on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.81.18.187 (talk) 04:25, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * That's why I came here too. Also there are many other entries in Category:Wormholes in fiction that still need to be added in here. --Fixuture (talk) 20:17, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Literature list is not valuable
I am disappointed to see this page converted into a table for the literature section with no text describing what wormholes were doing in the story.

The remainder of the article is multiple paragraphs about Star Trek and the Thor movies. Plus some other franchises all with excessive detail.

While I assume in the long term because of the deletion discussion this could be reduced to a list table as well - reducing it to star trek 1979 seems too far also. It would be nice to know for example the wormhole in star trek was how V'ger ended up on the other side if the galaxy.

I'd like to see the literature list undone. Wi-kiry-lan (talk) 16:38, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Merge / split / shuffle with Portable hole
I've been looking at Portable hole, trying to clean it up. Then I found this page. There's a lot of overlap, so possibly the two should be merged?

Alternatively, as suggested by, above, maybe a better strategy would be to keep both pages, but make a clear distinction between what goes on which page. This page could talk about Star Trek style wormholes, which have a quasi-scientific explanation, at least in-universe. Portable hole would be more for things like Yellow Submarine and Portal, where the holes are used just as a comic plot device, with no attempt at scientific rationalization.

What we've got now is a nebulous middle ground, where both articles have become dumping grounds for unsourced WP:OR. I'm kind of leaning towards keeping both pages with a clean division between them, but I'm not committed to that. Would like additional input before going forward.

you all participated in Articles for deletion/Wormholes in fiction. Hope I didn't miss anybody.

-- RoySmith (talk) 16:36, 12 June 2018 (UTC)


 * I am inclined to agree that these are separate topics. Fictional wormholes tend to have a pseuoscientific basis that places constraints on them; rarely are they portable or encountered anywhere but space. Wormholes have an exit, but portable holes may have none, etc. --Mark viking (talk) 16:54, 12 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes, these are two entirely different concepts. Wormholes have some basis in theoretical physics; portable holes don't. It's an example of the difference between science fiction and fantasy. That's all Folks! Clarityfiend (talk) 01:11, 13 June 2018 (UTC)


 * OK, I'm going with the two-article split. I'm going to be working mostly on Portable hole.  Hopefully somebody else can take on this article.  -- RoySmith (talk) 19:43, 13 June 2018 (UTC)


 * PS, where should Stepping Disks go? -- RoySmith (talk) 19:50, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Teleportation in fiction? --Mark viking (talk) 19:59, 13 June 2018 (UTC)


 * I have tidied up the page a bit. This included splitting white holes into a seperate draft. Adding tables, and removing some irrelevant entries. I think portable holes will have to stay seperate, the layout of the page won't cope with related topics being introduced. I removed the merge proposal tag. &mdash; Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 23:22, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon
Why did you remove it I was helping? 88.107.228.180 (talk) 10:01, 19 June 2021 (UTC) FoxGalah