• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      That’s the absolute worst analogy of wormholes as well. They don’t fold space, so stop folding the piece of paper.

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          8 months ago

          Explaining wormholes by folding a piece of paper is a bit like explaining tunnels by folding a piece of paper. It’s totally not what’s going on.

          They don’t fold spacetime, they don’t need to, they are shortcutting through spacetime via higher dimensions. Rather like tunneling through a hill rather than going over the top.