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  • FUTURES

Would you still love me if I was a wormhole?

Searching for certainty.
By
  1. Wendy Nikel

    1. Wendy Nikel is a speculative-fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips and a terrible habit of forgetting where she’s left her cup of tea. For more info, visit wendynikel.com.

Concentric circles formed of human faces float in space

Illustration by Jacey

Would you still love me if you knew that for the past few months, after we’ve said goodnight, I’ve been sneaking into the fourth-floor lab and working on a multiverse device? I know you said it was a bad idea, that there were some lines science shouldn’t cross, but there were things I needed to know.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02666-7

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