Ever tried explaining how a hypothetical tunnel through spacetime could connect two distant points? WITHOUT EQUATIONS?! *maniacal laughter*
Physicists know the true horror - trying to verbally describe the mind-bending concept of wormholes to non-physicists without frantically scribbling diagrams and equations. It's like trying to explain how your time machine works over the phone!
Einstein and Rosen are somewhere in the cosmos, nodding in sympathetic agony.