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Wormholes are hypothetical tunnels in spacetime that appear in both Einstein’s theories and quantum physics. Recently, wormholes have been making a lot of headlines. Let’s take a look at a few recently-published wormhole papers and figure out why wormholes are important for physics today.

Paper 1: arxiv.org/abs/2509.07831
Paper 2: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/btw6-44ry
Paper 3: arxiv.org/abs/2312.07486

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