Wormhole
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What is a wormhole?
No one really knows for sure what it is.  But to understand the theory of a wormhole you have to know what black holes and white holes are.
Black hole
A black hole is believed to be a dying star that collapses inward from its own weight causing a tremendous gravitational pull that increases as the diameter decreases in size hence forth becoming nonexistent. It has such a strong gravitational force that nothing, not even light, can escape from it and becomes invisible.
White hole
Think of a white hole as being the other end of a black hole. (It's end trails) If a black holes light and matter could become trapped inside of itself, then a white hole is where it would come hurling out.
Wormhole
If a black hole that formed somewhere in space were to somehow join up with a corresponding white hole (on the other side of the universe) in such a way that you could fall into the black hole and pop out of the other black hole creating a doorway or 'vortex'. That more or less is the theory of a wormhole. Say space time is a sheet of paper and you are the pencil. At one end (A) is one part of the universe and at the other end (B) is another far off part of the universe. If you are at the A side and want to get to the B side without traveling years and years to get there, you would take the paper and fold it in half. Next take the pencil (you) and poke a hole through the A & B pushing the pencil completely through side A and out of B. Then flatten the paper out again back into normal space time. If such, and even if, a wormhole were to happen it would defiantly be unstable, and no one would know how long it would last. Possibly a minute to as long as years.  Even if someone where to travel through a wormhole, by entering one it would possibly collapse it.
Wormhole beliefs
Some believe that wormholes are gateways into time and space itself or a faster way to get from one point in the universe to another point in the universe or another universe. (If in fact a wormhole would be stable enough or remain open) There is no telling when or where you would arrive.
The Slingshot Theory
It is believed that if a flying craft where to hurl toward the earth with such a great speed (using the earths gravity) that you could pull up at a certain point in the thermosphere, that the craft could shoot off into space and travel twice as fast around the world (that is if you had good control over the craft). Think of riding a bicycle down a huge hill and at the bottom of that hill started another hill that wasn t real steep but you didn t want walk your bicycle over it.  You think to yourself I want to get as far up that hill as I can! so you petal as fast as you can down the hill and as soon as you hit the bottom you jolt up and over the other hill at such a speed that you don t have to hardly petal.
  
An idea
What if during a solar flare (a spark of radiation from a star into space) you where to try one of these slingshot maneuvers?  What do you think would happen?

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Real-time calculated pattern of a wormhole.
This is a real-time calculated pattern of a Wormhole (if they where to exist)
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Related Research
Solar Flare (Definition from the Encyclopedia) Solar Flare (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
After a sunspot group has existed for a long time, the magnetic lines of force usually become jumbled. As a result of the jumbling, magnetic energy is stored in the corona.  The energy my be released in a spectacular discharge called a flare.  In a flare, the magnetic lines of force become reconnected into a simpler pattern.  The energy is released in the form of light, heat, and fast-moving, atomic, nuclei and electrons called solar cosmic rays.
A flare may be as small as a sunspot or as large as a sunspot group.  The temperature in a flare is about  twice as high as the temperature at the sun's surface.  Flares radiate much light into space, and small flares may last about 10 minutes.  The largest ones last about an hour. Large flare waves produce so many solar cosmic rays that important consequences occur on the earth.  For example, the rays can disrupt radio communications.  They can endanger astronauts in space, where the earth's magnetic field is not present to protect the men from such large amounts of radiation. After astronomers learn to predict the occurrence of large flares, they will be able to make space travel safer.

A flare is defined as a sudden, rapid, and intense variation in brightness. A solar flare occurs when magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly released. Radiation is emitted across virtually the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves at the long wavelength end, through optical emission to x-rays and gamma rays at the short wavelength end. The amount of energy released is the equivalent of millions of 100-megaton hydrogen bombs exploding at the same time!

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Shot through a wormhole!

References
http://www.mkaku.org
Note: I actually researched most of this information. :)


F a r S c a p e Wormhole video clips
Description Dimensions FPS Length Size Filename
Crichton's first wormhole 160x120 30 40sec 3.25mb wormholeinternetversion.mov
Crichton's first wormhole (edited) 'No Crichton' 160x120 30 22sec 3.27mb wormholeeditedinternetversion.mov
Crichton & Aeryn create a wormhole 160x120 15 1:31min 2.89mb createwormhole.mov
Crichton's first wormhole (edited) 'No Crichton' MPEG 320x240 30 40sec 2.98mb wormhole1.mpg

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