io9: wormholes

Interdimensional Portals Drawn With Nothing But Light

Lauren Davis — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:30:00 PST

Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza are light graffiti artists, creating otherworldly photographs using various light sources. The eye-popping scenes they compose evoke wormholes, time-travel devices, and eerily lit portals to other worlds.

Wöllert and Miedza started Light Art Performance Photography, a studio that creates light paintings, meticulously moving multicolored lights during lengthy camera exposures. Light painters have been creating such photographs for years, drawing shapes, words, and abstract designs in the air. Wöllert and Miedza's works are particularly narrative, creating scenes like the ones below as well as light-fueled battles and colorful flying saucer invasions.

More images are available at the Daily Mail.

[via FFFFOUND!]

Texas House Sucked Into Wormhole

Annalee Newitz — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 PDT

Last summer, a condemned house in Houston, Texas was sucked into a small wormhole, its wooden facade slowly slurped though another dimension and spit out into an alley behind the backyard. This bizarre mashup of real estate and theoretical physics was created by local artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, who saw in the abandoned house an opportunity to remind people how fragile the fabric of spacetime really is. Below, you can look deep inside the wormhole and see where it comes out on the other end.

This is totally what conspiracy theorists are picturing when they say the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland will destroy the fabric of the universe. Sadly, this exhibit has been torn down but its weird science flair lives on.

House-sized art exhibit in Texas [via Gadling] Thanks, Marilyn Terrell!

Step into My Wormhole and Become Invisible

Annalee Newitz — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:23:41 PDT

Math geeks at University of Rochester say it's theoretically possible to create a wormhole between two locations. The beauty part is that you'd be invisible while you travel between them. The tech you'd use to do this sounds a little like Philip K. Dick's "scramble suit" from A Scanner Darkly. "Metamaterials" that bend electromagnetic fields would create a space from which light couldn't escape, thus making you effectively invisible as you "tunneled" to another spot. When are they going to start selling this at Radio Shack?Electomagnetic wormholes possible with invisibility technology [via University of Rochester]