What Would Travelling Through A Wormhole Look Like? (VR/360)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite it as an accessible, accurate visualization of what wormhole transit and the throat would look like, often alongside its sequel and the Interstellar paper.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2021 to 2026.
What it is
Scott Manley presents 360/VR renders made with his own relativistic raytracer showing a camera flying through wormholes, using both the Ellis (Morris-Thorne) geometry and the DNEG wormhole from Interstellar. He explains the geometry and how he adapted David Madore's rendering code to avoid coordinate singularities.
What people said
Recommends smcameron · 2026-09 · Hacker News · on “The Wormhole Hall of Shame”
Scott Manley has a couple of nice videos about wormholes: [this video] [LINK] The second video is about how the first video was made.
Cites ben_w · 2021-01 · Hacker News · on ““Odd Radio Circles” have astronomers excited”
If you plop a sphere around one end of the wormhole then shrink it until you can’t shrink it any more, that surface is the throat. [this video]
Cites ben_w · 2024-04 · Hacker News · on “NASA spacecraft films crazy vortex while flying through sun's atmosphere”
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. [LINK] vs. [this video]
Cites LegionMammal978 · 2024-05 · Hacker News · on “New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink”
In a similar vein is Scott Manley's 2020 panoramic video "What Would Travelling Through A Wormhole Look Like?" [0] (and its sequel "Wormholes Get Weirder" [1]), in which he simulates a camera flying through a particular model of a wormhole [2]. Though for reasons noted in the paper, the wormhole as presented is likely non-physical. [0] [this video] [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK]