No matter how much Coop was "briefed" about the shape/look of a wormhole, he could still be surprised by the appearance considering nobody in history has ever actually seen one (other than the Lazarus folks).
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The dialogue specifically suggested Cooper was surprised by the fact that it was spherical (with Romilly having to explain this to him, and with Cooper commenting on "illustrations" which presumably referred to the lower-dimensional diagrams like the ones on this page that are commonly used to explain wormholes), not any more specific aspects of its appearance. Quoting from the script:rhonkt wrote:No matter how much Coop was "briefed" about the shape/look of a wormhole, he could still be surprised by the appearance considering nobody in history has ever actually seen one (other than the Lazarus folks).
COOPER: It's a sphere.
ROMILLY: Of course it is. You thought it would just be a hole?
COOPER: No ... well, in all the illustrations-
(Romilly grabs a piece of paper, draws two points, far apart - )
ROMILLY: In the illustrations they're trying to show you how it works - (he pokes a hole in one point with his pen...) So they say 'You wanna go from here to there but it's too far? A wormhole bends space like this ...' (He folds the paper over and jams the pen through the second point, connecting them.) 'So you can take a shortcut across a higher dimension.' But to show that, they've turned three-dimensional space into two dimensions. Which turns the wormhole into two dimensions ... a circle. But what's a circle in three dimensions?
COOPER: A sphere.
Right before Cooper detaches, you can hear CASE in the background giving an awkwardly slow countdown in which he says "one" twice.
Nice try Nolen, but you dun goof'd!
Nice try Nolen, but you dun goof'd!
