Would you still love me if I was a wormhole?

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Would you still love me if I was a wormhole?

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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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