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Bridge Geometry Connects Two Spacetime Sheets

The Einstein-Rosen construction joined two copies of a spacetime solution through a geometric bridge, creating an early mathematical example of what later literature called a wormhole.

Albert Einstein in a 1912 portrait
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Year 1935PrincetonPhysics

Bridge Geometry Connects Two Spacetime Sheets

1935 · Princeton · United States of America · Physics

The Einstein-Rosen construction joined two copies of a spacetime solution through a geometric bridge, creating an early mathematical example of what later literature called a wormhole.