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WEBORIZE: To place information on the WWW.

WETWARE: Similar to hardware, but denotes a biological system, most commonly the human nervous system (see also dryware). [According to the Hacker's Dictionary its origin is probably the novels by Rudy Rucker].

WORMHOLE: A postulated topological structure in general relativity, where a space-time "tunnel" links two distant points with a shortcut. Whether they can be physically realized is not known, and they seem to require exotic matter to be stable. If they can exist, and can be built, they could provide a possible way to travel faster than light (in a global sense, since locally the travellers would move slower than light). For more information, see Traversable Wormholes by Michael Clive Price.


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Anders Sandberg / asa@nada.kth.se
2000-03-11