Last summer, a condemned house in Houston, Texas was sucked into a small wormhole, its wooden facade slowly slurped though another dimension and spit out into an alley behind the backyard. This bizarre mashup of real estate and theoretical physics was created by local artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, who saw in the abandoned house an opportunity to remind people how fragile the fabric of spacetime really is.

Follow the link above to see where the wormhole comes out.

I’m not sure which is more remarkable, the fact that a project such as this would be carried out in the middle of some nondescript neighborhood, or the subject matter that the artists chose to depict. It’s not a slam-dunk for the latter — in my neighborhood, you get a nasty-gram from the HOA if one of your bushes dies or if paint starts to chip in some corner of your house’s exterior that you didn’t even know was visible from the street or anyone else’s house.

I can’t imagine what they would do if something like this were to appear on one of our streets. Of course, it would have to happen fast. (As in, overnight.)

Lots more here. Via Rand Simberg.