What you experienced. the ship seeming to blink in and out of existence, actually happened. Every time the ship was destroyed in transit, the universe hit the reset button and restored us to existence. Because it had to." I shook my head in stunned disbelief. "Wait, we died? Except we didn't?" "Correct. Because we hadn't died on the far end of the wormhole, we couldn't die on the near end, or in transit." "Whoa." "Whoa indeed. Joe, this is a tiny, tiny glimpse into how the universe truly works." "Awesome!