Science writer debunks Hollywood's flat, circular wormhole visuals as physically wrong

An essay dissects the common sci-fi trope of depicting wormholes as flat, circular portals with tunnel-like interiors resembling a hole dug by a worm. The author explains that this image stems from misreading two-dimensional diagrams of Einstein-Rosen bridges, which were never meant to represent how a real three-dimensional wormhole would actually appear to an observer.