• @lawrence
    link
    English
    493 months ago

    In Interstellar movie I almost had a syncope when Dr. Romilly explains how a wormhole works to Cooper as if he were a 5-year-old child and not a former NASA astronaut.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      273 months ago

      I have been in the room where seasoned doctors are talking to junior doctors like this, I think its normal. Sometimes people that are really smart can dumb down their subject of expertise in a way that an outsider might seem like they are talking down to someone

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        263 months ago

        i think it’s partly because it’s often very easy for experts to overestimate what non-experts know, even people with some knowledge in the field (relevant xkcd as usual), so it’s probably easier to just dumb it down as much as you possibly can. That way you’re sure most people can actually understand.

    • Björn Tantau
      link
      fedilink
      English
      223 months ago

      There’s probably an explaining shit to the expert TV Tropes page.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      173 months ago

      She was actually explaining it to the movie going audience, in a break of the fourth wall indirectly, but y’know

      ;)

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
      link
      English
      123 months ago

      syncope

      You’re not going to believe the name of Christopher Nolan’s production company.

      Syncopy.

    • 2deck
      link
      English
      53 months ago

      Do NASA astronauts have a course on wormholes? You know… just in case.