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Totally looks like a wormhole. Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability or Einstein-Rosen Bridge; could have fooled me.


Outside of sci-fi (as in: in physics based renderings) wormholes look like lenses, and a lens free-floating in space with only point-like stars behind it is hard to notice.

ERBs in particular are unstable in a universe containing literally anything else including a single photon, so you can't ever see one.


It did look like a lens in interstellar. A sci-fi movie.


Until they went through it.

Even though they had Kip Thorne as a scientific advisor and he made a scientifically accurate rendering of various environments, if they'd not made it a swooshy tunnel in the middle then the transit would have been somewhat boring (or sudden) cinema.

https://youtu.be/yTpbZ_Psbeo?si=S6RjCd7vFaWrqUQe

vs.

https://youtu.be/V7e-1bRpweo?si=ab1PjECyuICvl4In


I love the augmented visualization! Just tried it on my phone.




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