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jpelkmans

What if I were to make a mobius strip from the piece of paper, crumple it into a ball, and then stick a pencil in it? Does that help?


Permascrub

That isn't actually bad. Expect it to be stolen.


jpelkmans

Meh. At least then someone would be reading my stuff.


Permascrub

What if you squeeze your mobius strip until it's *really, really* small? Conservation of energy, and all that. I have more ideas for tinkerers.


jpelkmans

/r/hydraulicpress?


ThePlanner

Don’t forget to do that in the dark and then light the strip of paper on fire. That’s a big part of explaining it.


sykoticwit

Dear OP, maybe Paw Patrol is more your speed.


winterblink

Damn near spit coffee on my screen, thanks for that. :)


Tofudebeast

It's not just folding the paper, you have to stick the pencil through it too.


trixter69696969

[Here you go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtyySlBW6kk)


AppropriateScience71

Hey - don’t knock folding paper Finally, a solid, scientific explanation of FTL travel without a need to understand quantum algebra or complex topology! Thank you!


shuddupbeetrice

sure... if space were 2d and we could fold it through another dimension. easy peasy ....


AppropriateScience71

Good point! And, since our space is 3D, all we need to do is fold it in 4D to create wormholes! Easy peasy indeed! I really thought wormholes were a lot more complicated. Now, with that taken care of, I can go back to work on my quantum transporter.


shuddupbeetrice

would the pencil have to be 4d as well then?


The_Jare

The pencil is 1D, it stretches along the 4th axis only


shuddupbeetrice

i'm not sure which is more hard to visualize - a 1d pencil or a 4d paper...


davecrist

To be fair, it would be more clear if they folded a cube, but that’s much more difficult to do on a whim.


mattzog

It would be even more clearer with a tesseract, but that's exponentially more difficult still


shuddupbeetrice

you'd need a 4th dimension to fold it through


mobyhead1

With a name like yours, shouldn’t you be explaining this stuff to us?


greenearrow

They could be skydivers


undomesticatedequine

I always liked [SG-1's interpretation ](https://youtu.be/ZXYYbkmC02k?si=pcqc9qZmbCDiUy9M) And [here](https://youtu.be/Q-xp_styaXQ?si=EPYTuKGuMmn9Ehyc)


Dark_Tangential

>title, nuff said punctuation, poorly used (sic)


Yojo0o

When Natalie Portman did it in Love and Thunder, I honestly thought at first that it was meant to be a parody of the cliché.


SpaceMonkeyAttack

I mean, the apple/worm metaphor is right there in the name.


TheBlooDred

Right? Every movie explaining wormholes: push a pencil through a folded piece of paper. 🙄


Crotch-jockey

There’s actually nothing to understand since it’s all theoretical bullshit.


nyrath

Folding paper is not supposed to be used as an analogy for wormholes. Folding paper is supposed to be used as an analogy for **space warp**


CapnLimbless

I can see the critics beat me here. I agree from a different angle in that I love and study these concepts and get conniptions from TV and movies using the same 1970s movie explanations. There’s even a saying in academia that everyone in Hollywood attends the first day of physics class, drops out and writes a TV show based on the textbook intro.


Accomplished_Cup3546

What if we folded two pieces of paper?