The Shape of Space
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Video about spaces that are finite but have no boundary, bringing advanced topology to a broad audience with computer animation. Produced by The Geometry Center in 1995, directed by Delle Maxwell and Tamara Munzner.
Free interactive software also available at www.geometrygames.org
Companion video to the book The Shape of Space: How to Visualize Surfaces and Three-Dimensional Manifolds by MacArthur Fellow Jeff Weeks.
www.amazon.com/Shape-Space-Te...
For more about this video and other Geometry Center videos, see www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/gc/ - Наука та технологія
I can't tell if it's more terrifying to think of space as infinite or finite
Thinking about that gave me a fever dream feeling.
If it’s finite, what lays beyond it? If it’s infinite, that means there are infinite versions of you out there, a good amount of them doing exactly what you are doing right now and what you will be doing for almost your whole life. Which one are you? Just as you’re thinking of them as you read this comment, they’re thinking of you. You’ve just connected with a copy of yourself by reading this comment, or maybe they’re connecting with the copy which is you.. or maybe you’re just both copies. Well, technically not copies, but identical naturally created entities.
@@steamyninja8881 yoooooooooo hahahahhahaa this shit is crazzzzyy
Finite is more terrifying because then we could potentially exhaust its potential states.
@@Shiva-mh6td What's crazy is that the other version of yourself you thought about was just as high as you when you wrote that comment lool
I really love sound effects from 90s. So mysterious.
They’re far-out 70s sound fx for sure
What's the name of that lil soundtrack anybody know?
@@smartalex995itd be pretty hard, maybe someone extracts it from the vhs or smth
don't like kreatures
didn't watch
😽
hm
@@robertenglish3921not likely.
This is made by the same people who did how to turn a sphere inside out
Yes
And a bunch of knots
The Geometry Center.
Which I wish was still an active organization- but sadly it's not ☹️.
Not knot
Yassss ICONIC
1995: Staring at the clock waiting for science class to end and sleeping through the video.
2023: This is the coolest thing ever. I can’t look away.
Space not being infinite, but instead just looping, is much more terrifying
How do comets happen to come back to earth after years?
@@yamz1156 Orbit
@yamz1156 Comets also orbit around our star, just like any other planet in the Solar System
If you think about it is a big ass planet it is easier on the mind, we to will run into the same things if we go in the straight line for long enough.
@@yamz1156alignments between Saturn and Jupiter could pull the comets toward the inner solar system
"let’s ride this spaceship inside the 3-torus."
me: oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh
waaaaaaoh braaaaaaaaaah!
We have witnessed true oblivion, we are all one with the void now
Does space have magic portals that make a spaceship return to its original position after travelling?
Ikr, I was super excited
@@moneyeurope1059 wooooooooah whhaaat is this stuuuufff maaaan?
5:40 is a super cool moment. The nature of a 3D universe is suddenly clear, thanks to the very trippy yet logical visuals. The atmospheric synth pad is just icing on the cake
No this DMT trip
Definitely 🍄
This is a damn good demonstration of how the real universe could actually be smaller than the observable universe, especially near the end there where they literally explain it
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Like mirrors in a restaurant
@@charlesmerfeld2988does that mean that reality itself is small?
@@fred5107 Well the distribution of galaxies in the observable universe doesn't have the sort of uniformity we might expect if it had that recursive nature on a scale we can observe. This is complicated somewhat by the fact that, due to the speed of light, we do not see distant galaxies as they are in the present, but in their past states and positions, further into the past the further out they are from us. So far, though, we don't have reason to think that we can see our own local group repeated or mirrored somewhere out there.
It's considered likely that the universe is finite in size though, and thus may have this sort of seemingly recursive topography on a large scale. However I think the usual consensus is that the total size of the universe is much larger than our "bubble" of the observable universe. This video does demonstrate how a universe that is actually much smaller could appear to be infinite, but the sort of scales it uses to demonstrate this are purely for the sake of demonstration and not representative of reality as far as we can tell.
@@Miss_Darko thank you good sir
Why are these more comforting and more educational than ones nowadays
maybe pure logic?
@Its me or whatever you sound like you'd be real fun at parties
They aren’t, at all
@Its me or whatever
youre not wrong, people do prefer things from their time whether biased or not.
but for what its worth i like this video's 90's esque feel its pretty simple and plain weird at times (see 6:00)
@Its me or whatever maybe it's that? I imagine it also comes to personal preference because I have no nostalgia for 90s stuff since I'm a teen. And this is comforting nonetheless
I feel like I need to watch this about 10 more times to really grasp what's going on, but I'm glad no flatlanders were harmed
No theoretical flatlanders were harmed in the making of this video.*
*However, a theoretically infinite number of quantum flatlanders were mutually eliminated in the subsequent testing of the statements made in this video.
Maybe cus it doesn't make sense lol
@@trppstar it makes sense but the three dimensional connections are impossible to fully understand
@@br0wning how can you say there are other dimensions when there is literally no proof and it's all heresay? Like give me actual data that another dimension exists, instead of explaining how it works
@@trppstar that’s a weird way to say “I can’t comprehend “
This is very interesting movie (rest of the series as well). Too bad there isnt more, as a physicist I value imaginative explanations.
Demystifying Science has a couple channels.
Physics student here, love to find more videos like this
@@zacharyzoellner6526 Try scienceclic and eugene khutoryansky
Does this mean that when we look deep enough into the sky that we can see ourselves?
Nevermind. I should’ve finished watching the video
@@noobpro9759 I got 3 different people answering my comment from 6 years ago. Was this video featured somewhere or got viral on TikTok ? How did you find it ?
0:30 *”what’s going on?”*
The narrator says in shock, in the most monotone voice possible.
It reminds me of Airy from the HIT Object Show: One.
5:55 is what I saw on my LSD trip when i started focussing on where my sight begins and ends. Infinite space and infinite copyes of the universe in intself. Truly astonishing. Finitie and infinite ant the same time.
I thought "haha, I won't spend my time watching this, I'm not even interested"; then I caught myself with my eyes wide open, holding my breath for being so involved by this video.
I got the same, I was watching music theory videos, this one auto played. I was like "I'm not watching yet another flatland video... 10min? Pfff... No way".
And then I got hooked by Idk what
Lol me too
This is why you need to educate yourself, so you won't feel shocked.
Joke.
Great! I watched this in a Finnish science center in the 90's and still remember almost every second :)
Was it Heureka?
@@Frosmad Yeah it was. Did you watch it, too?
Did you also see outside in there?
@@tingsteph More importantly, did they also see themselves watching it, an infinite number of times?
Woah 9 years ago
idk why this video feels so comforting yet fascinating. i loved when the 3-torus opened up to the view of all the repetition (not to mention the sound of the 3-torus unfurling sounded like it was gonna be a song for a sec). this video feels like its from a different universe
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Triangulating missles
I got up for a bowl of cereal during the beginning, and I started laughing as he said, "Haven't we been here before…? …What's going on…?"
It scares me that some 4th dimensional being could be watching at any time and no one would know
But we don’t really see a conscious 2d universe so
Because 2d's are not really possible but 4d is more possible 😢
@@ButtersLStotchcells volvox, amoeba etc they’re 2d beings
@@Phantaraynenot true
@@deejay7339 they’re functional entities that definitely can never experience our plane and are confined to a 2d environment so how not true?
no flatlanders were harmed
Thank God
This is giving me heavy “how to turn a sphere inside out” video vibes
As it should, it's done by many of the same people and created at the same place - The Geometry Center...
it’s the music for sure. also shows the creators knew exactly who was going to be watching 😅
However, unlike that one this explanation actually makes sense
See I always thought there was like a bubble or outer layer to the universe, but being finite and boundless makes sense now
If it makes sense you don’t fully understand it yet lol
@@ButtSnorkler9000
Respectfully, came here to say this. You can intellectualize it, repeat it as fact, "understand" it; but never really FATHOM it. The more you know, the more you don't know...
Even if the universe is a shape it still has to be contained somewhere. Therefore, an outer layer is still inevitable.
@@ButtSnorkler9000 I’m not saying I know it or anything, but like I get it. I can visualize a pretty simple view of a crazy concept and it makes sense. It’s like seeing someone murder their wife in an argument. I don’t know why they would do that, but I get it.
@@owldude9581 “embedded in a higher dimension” is a better way to word it.
How did I just get the clearest more easy to understand explanation I've ever heard for the fourth dimension from a 1995 tape
there's also a lot of old books about physics or philosophy waiting to be discovered somewhere in libraries, one day they will be found and loved as they should.
it's not because everyone have google/wikipedia on their pockets that we have absolute knowledge, only the recent, popular stuff.
They cared to educate you
@@vinsanity3510 unlike videos like Kuntzergast which is now new age cult and pseudoscience BS, or Veritasium who pretend things in electricity without understanding it. And every "aliens are watching us" crap. That vid is pure math, logic, questioning a possible universe.
At least we are not in a simulation.
I love watching mathematics and physics videos on lsd (so perfect)
Same hahaha idk why but this video is having me dead laughing it’s just humorous
me but shrooms
@@sh4rkss Can you actually reason while on shrooms?
Me rn
@@Felipe2009cvb i was so lost but i think i got it around the end
I love these 90s retro science documentaries, thanks for bringing
I was once anxious with fear and curiosity thinking of the infinite expanses of the universe. Now I feel boxed in and clostrophobic. There is still something beyond our current perception.
The part with the Möbius universe blew my socks off. Great video!
favorite part was when he was like "It's Möbian time!"
@@dethw1shthen he möbius everywhere
this is strikingly similar to what we've seen in one of the blackhole scene in Interstellar
I was going to say the same thing. This video is definitely much older than Interstellar, so maybe Christopher Nolan got inspiration from this for the final blackhole scene.
It is its the tesseract only in intersteller its 5 dimensional shown in 4 dimensions so we can get our heads round it.
@@bigbubba811 inspiration from this specific video? Because it's more likely he read about it.. Or had researchers that know about this theory
@@Tomatocheese True this is more likely, I just assumed this video was very old given its animation style and editing. Ive never seen anything that looked so close to the interstellar scene to be honest.
the visuals and sounds of this give it such an intriguing aura; it´s kinda hard to describe
Feels like we're reaching the singularity and the end of time before the big bounce and the secrets of the cosmos/existence are being revealed to us just beforehand like a bond villain outlining his plan knowing there is no longer any way to prevent it. Feels like forbidden knowledge. A cosmic secret
Feels like we're reaching the singularity and the end of time before the big bounce and the secrets of the cosmos/existence are being revealed to us just beforehand like a bond villain outlining his plan knowing there is no longer any way to prevent it. Feels like forbidden knowledge. A cosmic secret
This is an extremely interesting thought experiment. The visuals used make it easier to understand. Thank the UA-cam algorithm for recommending this to my
Thank you for sharing this! I love the style of CGI from this time. And it's still a very good explanation of topology.
Watching this at early hours of the morning hits different.
Dude fr, im watching thia at 5 am
@@xavinoticias4971 ahah - exactly when I was watching it - it’s an ethereal experience
Thank you for this. The colors and music and VHS feel are so comforting to my soul.
W A R M T A P E
I don’t know what it is about this video but it picked my brain in a way that I haven’t felt from anything in awhile and it felt AMAZING. I need more of this! I loved every second and learned something important. Kinda shocking to think of our universe possibly being like this for the first time in my life.
very cool animation, love the 90s 3d style, wish all educational videos looked like this, easy to grasp and mindblowing at the same time
this is not only wonderful 90s style trippiness but the most intuitive explanation ive seen so far
5:45 that beat goes hard ngl
1:12 “Just as us Spacelanders live on the 2-dimensional surface…”
Woah take it easy there
Made me think if deja vus are the intuitive perception of coming back to an "emotional coordinate". Only in one dimension the story might repeat, tho, considering feelings as ways to perceive and transform reality
Que ?
Wow I can't believe I have never heard of these. Absolutely terrifyingly wonderful!
6:40 "a meebius strip"
Why
Not a lot knows this, but that's the british pronunciation. it's always the british!
That is so ominous and cool at the same time.
This is some impressive graphics for 1995
5:44 , this is such an icredible video, the sound effect and seeing that this could be how the universe looks is crazy
Thanks for sharing! Beautiful graphics and animation!
This video is a piece of art I'm amazed. Please more!!!!!
I really like the music and sound effects
a finite universe sounds so cozy! it makes me feel comfy and safe.
The authenticity and simplicity of this is marvelous. ❤
simply wow; that was best presentation of finite, yet boundless universe i have ever seen, hats off!
"The universe is shaped exactly like the earth, if you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were" - Modest Mouse
I need to watch an entire collection of these videos. I love the 90s style!
Excellent stuff. Well done.
Very interesting. Thanks for the upload!
Best and most interesting documentary I’ve seen explaining this!
Love this. So mind melting in a good way.
Feels like an acid trip
ATTEND TO YOUR CONFIGURATION!
Attend to your configuration.
This is existentially horrifying
The patterns of this universe blows my mind. From the sequence & precession of numbers to the geometry & matter of our perceived space.
Thank you for helping to make this and for sharing it here.
What a awesome video and concept explanation!
This feels like analog horror
Wow that was a really well thought out and made video.
6:00 The plug gave me a piece of paper and now I can see infinity
5:50 I’m sure this point has already been made but this looks identical to how the inside of the Tessaract (4th dimensional cube) looks in interstellar
How would this ACTUALLY behave with physical photons?? Would the reverse spaceships combine together?? That’s wild
One of the most surreal yet beautiful videos I've ever seen,
This brings me back to the golden era of UA-cam. Oh how things have changed
is there any recommendations for more content like this?? it oddly comforts me and i want more of it lol
Oh yeah, I love higher dimensional manifolds!
My favorite crackpot theory is that space is a manifold homeomorphic to a klein-bottle in hyperspace and that if you travel far enough, you will return back to earth but in a mirrored form
The Geomview software they created still exists, and packages are available for current versions of major Linux distros like Debian.
There's something nostalgic about these animations
Infinite = infinite resources
Finite = finite resources
Infinite = infinite potential for competitive life
Finite = finite resources for life to fight over
Damn if ya do, damn if ya don’t.
only thing is; there isnt life outside of earth.
life doesnt spontaneously just pop into existence in primordial ooze.
it hasnt even been achieved in a lab.
Trippy I love this. I wish this were hours long.
This brought me from joy of watching this oldschool style to terrifying insight
I’m going mad
Amazing, great video presentation!
Excelente video, deja pensando.
La base de la realidad está cimentada en las matemáticas 💪🏼
Im so happy i found this video. I had a talk with my dad about this earlier this year and told him my own theories I came up with on the subject. This video is really just a visualizer to what I told him. Im actually really suprised because this is basically word for word what I discribed to him. I didn't get far enough to think about flipping the dimensions when connected but this is awesome.
Minion
@@bigfixdiyEdit- (although I do have a funny profile picture, it does not take away from the comment I made.)
Oc- Problem?
@@BluffImpala2 banana
Wow this is the coolest visualization for these concepts
I love that youtube can now bring us these very neat old videos on any subject that we might otherwise never see. 20 years ago, who would've thought??
My favorite theory is the Möbius shaped universe. For some reason I can really imagine the universe on a weird wobble. Although, I can't find any examples of the shape in nature which leads me to believe it's less likely, it's still a very cool theory of space in the universe.
What about something like a Klein Bottle? It’s a möbius strip but in 3D space
“When 2 flatlanders want to pass each other, they can’t go around one another, since they can’t leave the plain”
Well how do characters in Terraria pass by each other?
There's depth. For example, there's the backgrounds, the trees, etc
You're just seeing an orthographic projection of a "3d world".
Was this joke even an attempt at being funny?
@@shreddedbagelwabiwabo8342 bro someone from 4 years ago made a silly light hearted joke about a 2d game world and you took the time to poop on him
True words the world is flat and we cannot leave this plane .....oh my
I always see Terraria (and most other video games with the platformer or top down perspective) as a 3d world abstracted into a 2d one.
Bravo! Vielen Dank für die Vorführung / Thank you for the show 😌
would be cool to see more
Why are there no present day videos like this?
We're living in the dark ages of knowledge, or want of it
Caramba isso é mt relaxante, é bom pra treinar o inglês tbm
Let space in the video be content or experience. This video kind of explains: 1) the deja vu experience - been here doing exactly the same thing, 2) the new boss or the new girlfriend "feeling" like a manifestation of the older one experience (same star disguised in a different form), 3) some friend "feeling" like a different side of you experience (different views of the same spaceship). Let's call this the "kaleidescopic nature" of experience.
ANOTHER AMAZING VIDEO AHHHH
6:07 This is just like my DMT trip
Thank you cosmos, for suggesting such videos, at a time when I'm questioning everything.
The idea of the universe being a 3D self repeating torus is fascinating. Somebody better tell NASA that when they search into space with telescopes, that what they are seeing is mostly reflection, and the universe is infinitely expanding, but not in the manner they think it is.
Yeah, I'm sure NASA would appreciate this crucial input lol
I just get blown away by these people, lsd visuals and this videos have so much things in common is like tripping ... Ouroboros, bending time and space, like the inside out sphere.. Mandelbrot set everything have something in common.
This was awesome.
This makes me appreciate Yayoi kusama even more
Its from 1995.
I love it!
Thank You!
Are there anymore videos like this? Going into the further dimensions?
Great video, thanks for uploading
The most recent view of deep space shows a universe with distant objects, some estimated at 46 billion light years away. While an interesting theory, the data collected so far raises even more questions than answers.
I didn't understood what they trying to say ablut our universe until 9:40 "the light wr see could be our sun ending his trip" that was insane, and mind blowing.
And still interest why trying to figure out what 4 dimentsional things would see
After watching this, I am now convinced that M.C. Escher is indeed the Morgan Freeman of our shapey universe.
Amazing!
Thank you for sharing!!!
0:37 flat and 2D mean the same thing. Hexagon equally means flat and 2D.
Particles like atoms will most harmoniously stack in hexagonal formations.
This is why bees and rock structure their existence on this shape, as it is the foundation to the 3rd dimension, where we are.