That's what I thought of too as a teen-ager and my brother who now teaches thermo was eight. I guess it is just the difference of generations. He was thinking of StarWars
StarWars.com | The Official Star Wars Website& WormHoles. I passed that by with BattleStar Galatica.
BattlestargalacticaHe however still thinks about intricate computer games and hikes in the Alps. I do not or can not. On reading Rene Thom about morphogenesis and singularities even the "thought" expts of Einstein remained somewhat fictional to me.
Worm holes etc were science fiction enough for me not to go further than a cursory interest in Penrose, etc. until I heard by how much a Romance Studies Professor at Cornell was intriqued and enamoured of Hawking's book on Time. I do need to catch up on some ideas in physics.