In the 2018 film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, there is a scene where Dr Alexander Murry (henceforth *Dr Murry* even if his wife is also Dr Murry),played by Chris Pine, gives a presentation where he seems to be laughed at. Part of the scene can be found in the 1st 50 seconds [here][1], but the laughing is excluded.

Why is Dr Murry laughed at, if he is? I think that whether or not the audience is laughing at Dr Murry is actually either not so clear at first or intentionally a blend of laughter and scepticism, but in the end, the audience is unambiguously or unanimously laughing.

Guesses:

1. Dr Murry is not laughed at. He is laughed with. He intended laughs because while he makes a correct claim, the claim's assumptions are too unrealistic.

2. Dr Murry is not laughed at or laughed with.

3. Dr Murry makes a claim

> *If* you can tap into the right frequency of something, then you can travel 91 billion light years

and that is what is being laughed at.

4. Dr Murry makes a claim

> You *can* tap into the right frequency of something

and that is what is being laughed at.

5. Dr Murry makes a claim

> *If* you can tap into the right frequency of something, then you can travel 91 billion light years

However, the audience is *misinterpreting* Dr Murry by their thinking that Dr Murry is making the claim

> You *can* tap into the right frequency of something

and the latter claim is what is being laughed at.

6. Other




  [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljl4sqNUJ7w