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>Character explains wormholes
>Folds up a piece of paper and pokes a hole through it with a pen

>> No.8363028

>>8363027
But that's right anon

>> No.8363046

>>8363028
No it isn't

>> No.8363065

>character explains quantum mechanics
>brings up schrödinger's cat

>> No.8363069

>>8363046
Yesitis

>> No.8363102

>>8363046
yes it is. Although it is more like taking a piece of cloth and bunching it up so that two distant points become nearer.

The problem with wormholes and warp isn't getting from point A to point B. It's that the energy necessary to warp space time is on orders of thousands of solar masses for small transports and greater than the mass of the universe for large transports.

So in that regard the "punching a hole" through the warped space is inaccurate.

>> No.8363119

>>8363102
It would be more accurate if they folded up a sheet of concrete, and put their pencil through that

>> No.8363157

>Point A gets closer to point B

I don't understand, Anon.

>> No.8363164

>>8363027
Stranger Things is a decent show.
He was explaining high level physics at a low level. What do you expect.

>> No.8363248

>>8363027
But that's a valid 2D analogy

>> No.8363270

>>8363027
>Folds up a piece of paper and pokes a hole through it with a pen

That is technically right, however, spacetime is very hard to manipulate do it would require negative energy to keep open. So it's not like simply bending a sheet of paper.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03809.pdf

If you want to get more specific , there are formulations of the curvature of spacetime for einstein-rosen bridges with respect to spacetime metrics in the link.

>> No.8363278

>>8363065
this wrecks my suspension of disbelief every time because everyone and their mum have heard about schrödingers cat a thousand times now

>> No.8365875

>>8363065
>>8363278
Besides which it's a terrible example, because it was literally Schrodinger's reductio ad absurdum of the Copenhagen interpretation.

Also the probability of a system that large being in superposition works out as being closer to zero than almost any other calculable number in science.

>> No.8365876

>>8363270
> there are formulations of the curvature of spacetime for einstein-rosen bridges with respect to spacetime metrics in the link.
I know. I watched Thor, too

>> No.8365897

>>8363027
Interstellar was a fairly accurate movie, besides the time travel junk added at the end, and even that is plausible, mathematically.

>> No.8366173

>>8363164
>He was explaining high level physics at a low level. What do you expect.
I would expect a D&D playgroup who were in the middle of a campaign involving an encounter with Demogorgon, talking to a teacher who also makes D&D references with them, would not struggle with the concept of planes of existence and need a normie-level introduction.

>> No.8366185

>>8365897
It passingly referenced some fairly accurate ideas, while also going full retard on the interpretation and integration into the plot.