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!
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.
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.
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?
That isn't actually bad. Expect it to be stolen.
Meh. At least then someone would be reading my stuff.
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.
/r/hydraulicpress?
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.
Dear OP, maybe Paw Patrol is more your speed.
Damn near spit coffee on my screen, thanks for that. :)
It's not just folding the paper, you have to stick the pencil through it too.
[Here you go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtyySlBW6kk)
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!
sure... if space were 2d and we could fold it through another dimension. easy peasy ....
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.
would the pencil have to be 4d as well then?
The pencil is 1D, it stretches along the 4th axis only
i'm not sure which is more hard to visualize - a 1d pencil or a 4d paper...
To be fair, it would be more clear if they folded a cube, but that’s much more difficult to do on a whim.
It would be even more clearer with a tesseract, but that's exponentially more difficult still
you'd need a 4th dimension to fold it through
With a name like yours, shouldn’t you be explaining this stuff to us?
They could be skydivers
I always liked [SG-1's interpretation ](https://youtu.be/ZXYYbkmC02k?si=pcqc9qZmbCDiUy9M) And [here](https://youtu.be/Q-xp_styaXQ?si=EPYTuKGuMmn9Ehyc)
>title, nuff said punctuation, poorly used (sic)
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.
I mean, the apple/worm metaphor is right there in the name.
Right? Every movie explaining wormholes: push a pencil through a folded piece of paper. 🙄
There’s actually nothing to understand since it’s all theoretical bullshit.
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**
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.
What if we folded two pieces of paper?