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How To Use Rips In The Space-Time Continuum

So you have socks missing? And other objects vanish without a trace never to be found again?

Recognize what is happening!

You have a rip in the space-time continuum in your home.

There is a theory that there are an endless number of alternative universes. And sometimes the boundaries between these universes rip allowing things to flow from one universe to another.

A variation on this physics fantasy are called "worm holes". There are places where one can "jump' through space-time to another location instantly.

All those missing socks might be sitting in someone else's washing machine or clothes dryer in another universe. Or they might just be ending up somewhere else in this universe.

I started paying attention to the sock loss. Was there an exact moment when the wormhole opened and you could deliberately send something away? Other things did vanish. Underwear. Shirts. A pair of jeans.

Someone in another universe (or maybe in New Jersey) has a clothes dryer functioning like a slot machine, giving back more clothes than that person puts in their dryer.

Are you one of those people who gets more back from your laundry than you put in?

Maybe we need to establish a network of people losing socks and see if we could match them up with people gaining socks. A kind of Craig's List for lost and gained socks.

If a connection could be established at both the send and receiving ends, do you realize the possibilities?

Think about sending packages through the wormhole. A network of sender and receivers could put FedEx out of business. Think of the fuel savings!

Here's the first step. Put your name and phone number on all your socks and a message to call you if your sock turns up in someone else's dryer.

If enough people do this, we might be able to identify where all the socks are going, if they are staying in this universe.

And if it turns out the socks are in fact going to a different universe, that also has interesting commercial opportunities.

Imagine a new kind of trash disposal system that just sends unwanted stuff (like junk mail) to another universe. No pollution or environmental problems here.

Another interesting question comes to mind. If these wormholes exist and small things like socks can jump through them, are there bigger wormholes around that you could send bigger stuff through? Even people?

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