Karina Calhoun and Brendan Fay photographed in a lab at the College of the Holy Cross on July 28, 2022 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The students worked under Professor Ben Kain simulating wormholes as part of a summer research project. (Photo by Michael Ivins/Holy Cross)
To the untrained eye, the code, which Brendan Fay ’23 and Karina Calhoun ’24 spend hours typing into a computer, appears to be gibberish. But to Ben Kain, professor of physics and the pair’s advisor for their work in the Charles S. Weiss Summer Research Program, the data depicts a theoretical wormhole.