Magnetic wormhole created for first time

Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by wonkaWonka on Thursday September 03, 2015 @11:37AM (#10165515)

  Scientists in the Department of Physics at the 
  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have designed 
  and created in the laboratory the first experimental 
  wormhole that can connect two regions of space 
  magnetically.

  > magnetically

Come on.

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Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:25PM (#10166246)

I don't understand what you're objecting to.

Perhaps you're implying that they're leading you on with implications of something really impressive and then the last word lets you down? But 'magnetic' is the first word in the title, so that doesn't make any sense.

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Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by wonkaWonka on Thursday September 03, 2015 @05:49PM (#10167731)

The transfer of unseen magnetic force, across space, in this manner, does not constitute a "worm hole", and is clearly a "force field" instead, which is slightly less exciting.

If we were reading an X-men comic book, and Magneto's abilities were conflated as "worm holes", everyone would cry foul.

I object to the misuse of a well-known science fiction term as click-bate.

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