How Contact Got Wormholes Wrong #science #shorts

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]For so many years, people were imagining wormholes as some kind of a ride in a water park.

[00:00:06]>> Exactly.

[00:00:06]>> You know, even in the movie Contact >> Right. Jodie Foster is going through.

[00:00:10]>> And so, but no, you just step through.

[00:00:12]>> No, you step through. I think it depends on the nature of the wormhole, but yeah, there can be versions where it's effectively stepping from one place to another.

[00:00:19]>> did it right, though.

[00:00:20]They had a portal where it looked like a doorway threshold.

[00:00:24]>> City on the Edge of Forever.

[00:00:25]>> Edge of Forever. And that's a wormhole.

[00:00:27]You step through it and you're already there.

[00:00:28]>> Yeah. There's no ride, there's no nothing. You just step through it and you're already there.

[00:00:32]>> another way to get in.