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.
I have been in the room where seasoned doctors are talking to junior doctors like this, I think its normal. Sometimes people that are really smart can dumb down their subject of expertise in a way that an outsider might seem like they are talking down to someone
i think it’s partly because it’s often very easy for experts to overestimate what non-experts know, even people with some knowledge in the field (relevant xkcd as usual), so it’s probably easier to just dumb it down as much as you possibly can. That way you’re sure most people can actually understand.
There’s probably an explaining shit to the expert TV Tropes page.
I’d look for it, but I wouldn’t be able to escape the gravitational pull of that site for several days…
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.
I knew it!
I am the Boltzmann brain!
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.
“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?
