Worm Holes

time travel will always be a hot topic for discussion.  maybe not so much in the future once costco gets their hands on the technology to make them for the average joe but for the time being, time travel is a wildly exciting speculative subject for conversation, research and film.  science is even making it an accepted and plausible possibility.  it used to be that time travel required the use of (and i'll put these in order of ascending plausability) a delorean, a silver flying walnut or a 1x4x9 black monolith.

but ever since we were sold on the theory of wormholes, we just nod our heads whenever someone in a film is expelled from a bent-light-sometimes-liquidy portal half a metre from the ground, lands awkwardly, stand ups, brushes themself off and exclaims, "we must have traveled through a wormhole!".  must have... so i'd say that a bunch of chalk-fingered astrophysicists with doctorates have got us hook, line and sinker with wormholes.
and naturally, 'hook, line and sinker' brings me smoothly to my next discussion point:

worm holes.

have you stopped to think that there are two radically different doctorate research programmes out there with basically the same name?  one involves the concept of transdimensional travel by bending space-time to create a wormhole. the other involves studying worms in holes. 

the worm-propulsion subject (in particular marine worms) was brought to my attention years ago when a friend's girlfriend, kelly, began her research that has now culminated in a ph.d (and tons of awards) on the subject.  i think at the time she wanted to know about strain guages in jell-o.  kelly has been passionate about the worm holes for practicaly forever and not too long ago was listed in pop sci as one of their 'brilliant 10' for her research with polychaetes.

but i'm not here to lecture on astrophysics or even sediment crack propogation mechanics.  as always, i want to stress the importance of grammar and proper spelling.

if every august you find yourself in a grassy field lying on your back staring at the heavens for the leonids showers, on your college application under "major" put "wormholes".  however, if you're facing the opposite direction during these meteor showers, be sure to write the underscore clearly.  "worm_holes".