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An early example of scientific teleportation (as opposed to magical or spiritual teleportation) is found in the 1897 novel To Venus in Five Seconds by Fred T. Jane. Jane's protagonist is transported from a strange-machinery-containing gazebo on Earth to planet Venus. A common fictional device for teleportation is a "wormhole".
Bookworm is a general name for any insect that is said to bore through books. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The damage to books that is commonly attributed to "bookworms" is often caused by the larvae of various types of insects, including beetles , moths , and cockroaches , which may bore or chew through books seeking food.
In the 2014 film Interstellar, scientists at NASA discover a wormhole orbiting the planet of Saturn, and send a team to travel through it to a distant galaxy in order to find a new home for the human race before Earth is unfit for life. The wormhole takes them halfway across the observable universe to another star system, containing a huge ...
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An unforeseen change in the past necessitates the use of psychic abilities to reset the present and future. 2014 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August: Catherine Webb: A man lives his life again and again from the beginning each time he dies. He finds more people like him in the Cronus club. 2014 Time And Time Again: Ben Elton
Teleportation is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. It is a common subject in science fiction and fantasy literature.
The media corporation that develops this advance can spy on anyone, anywhere it chooses. A logical development from the laws of space-time allows light waves to be detected from the past. This enhances the wormhole technology into a "time viewer" where anyone opening a wormhole can view people and events from any point throughout time and space.
More positive interpretations, based on the concept of the friendly 'bookworm' or mutated forms of the common earthworm, are found in many recent books, especially those written for children. On Pink Floyd's album The Wall, worms were used as "symbols of negative forces within ourselves." [3]