In Interstellar movie I almost had a syncope when Dr. Romilly explains how a wormhole works to Cooper as if he were a 5-year-old child and not a former NASA astronaut.
She was actually explaining it to the movie going audience, in a break of the fourth wall indirectly, but y’know
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syncope
You’re not going to believe the name of Christopher Nolan’s production company.
Syncopy.
Do NASA astronauts have a course on wormholes? You know… just in case.
I was a former 5-year-old child.
“Libera te tutemet ex inferis.”
where we’re going, we wont need eyes to meme
Will the mirrors be real?
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real?
Thanks, Stargate & Stranger Things!
Pretty sure this explanation came from Event Horizon first.
More like A Wrinkle in Time, the 1962 book
Alas, I have not read that book.
It is by no means an exhaustive list. Those are just the ones that sprang to mind.
I wonder if anyone has posted a supercut of this trope on YouTube…
I think remembering that, at least in movies, it originated with Event Horizon is critical because it is the only one that takes into account any downside to transdimensional travel…and what a downside it was.
I will always mourn the loss of any possible director’s cut of Event Horizon where the footage was so insanely over the top that the execs almost shit their pants.
I wonder if the movie still holds up. I haven’t seen it in 20 years, but it was the most terrifying movie I had seen up until that point, and for a long time afterwards too.
It’s cute how humans always think they are capable of explaining such things as these.
I 100% support theoretical investigation, and the pursuit of scientific examination… But we don’t KNOW a whole lot about wormholes. We can only GUESS based on visual evidence.
What visual evidence of wormholes? If I’m not mistaken, they’re purely theoretical objects at this point.
If we’re really being pedantic, that’s technically true about everything. For all you know you’re hallucinating me right now
No, it’s different. With you, there’s at least something that we observe that we might be hallucinating.
With worm holes, we’re taking mathematical equations that were modelled to reflect what we’ve observed of reality and then we’re pushing them to extreme cases where they’re likely to not anymore model reality correctly, and that is where we’re seeing the theoretical possibility of worm holes. No one has observed nor hallucinated worm holes.
Do the bottom one first. Then as next step, do the math of singularities with a paper cylinder and a paper cone, falling through curved spacetime. That’ll take a little more time and effort but you might just start blowing their minds a little deeper with the same pencil and paper folded in 3D.
Pfft, I got it the first time.
The “math” is repeated with horizontal symmetry too; these explanations are the same.
