If you were to gaze down one end of such a wormhole, sitting on a nearby table, you could find yourself gazing through a tube at your garden.
While nothing even close has yet made its way to the real world, a number of physicists have studied whether we really could hurtle ourselves through a hypothetical wormhole.
On a coral reef in the Bonin Islands, an abandoned wormhole is home to a hermit crab.
This powerful and unconventional peacekeeper discovered the wormhole information in Crichton's mind.