The Spontaneous Creation Of Virtual Microscopic Wormholes Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Davies & Gribbin (1992: 272-3):

Just as quantum fluctuations in the vacuum create temporary photons, so, on an even smaller scale, they should spontaneously create temporary (virtual) wormholes. The size of these wormholes is typically twenty powers often smaller (10⁻²⁰) than an atomic nucleus. Thus, on an ultramicroscopic scale, space would be a labyrinth of such structures, endowing it with the complicated topology that has been dubbed spacetime foam. With masterly understatement, such tiny tunnels through spacetime are simply referred to by relativists as "microscopic" wormholes.

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In terms of the General Theory of Relativity, wormholes involve the gravitational curvature of space-time. From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, it is not space-time that is curved, but geodesic trajectories of bodies through space. In this view, the geometry of wormholes is not the geometry of space, but the geometry of geodesic trajectories through space.

From the same perspective, the creation of temporary photons is the instantiation of quantum potential as particles, in space, for a brief time. On this model, the creation of temporary wormholes is the instantiation of potential trajectories through space, in space, for a brief time.