Quantum tunnelling and wormholes are usually treated as separate phenomena.
They aren’t.
Both are: • access to classically forbidden regions
• permitted briefly, not permanently
• exponentially suppressed by scale
• locally causal, globally surprising
Same geometric process.
Different size of deformation.
Physics didn’t forbid them.
It just made them expensive.
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🐘 When Algebra Took the Floor — and Geometry Was Asked to Sit Quietly

Why an imbalance in mathematical language may have slowed progress.

We may not have lacked mathematics in fundamental physics — we may have over-privileged algebra at the expense of geometry.

Algebra is superb at conservation and symmetry.

Geometry tells us what is possible.

When geometry was demoted to “intuition,” we: • over-valued static solutions
• flattened scale dependence
• fragmented processes that were actually unified

Tunnelling, horizons, negative energy, spacetime shortcuts — same process, different geometric cost.

This isn’t anti-maths.

It’s a course correction.

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