• lawrence@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

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        4 months ago

        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…

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          4 months ago

          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.

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            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.

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    4 months ago

    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.

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    4 months ago

    Pfft, I got it the first time.

    The “math” is repeated with horizontal symmetry too; these explanations are the same.