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  • Опубліковано 17 лис 2022
  • Unfortunately, the universe isn't made of sugarcoated fried dough. However, here are a few ways donuts are still managing to find their way into the physical world.
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    Sources:
    What If the Universe Was Shaped Like a Donut?
    • What If the Universe W...
    Life On A Donut Planet
    • Life on a Donut Planet
    Knitting To the Moon
    • Knitting to the Moon!

КОМЕНТАРІ • 146

  • @ErasmusSumsare
    @ErasmusSumsare Рік тому +44

    "Your theory of a donut-shaped universe is intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it."
    - Prof Stephen Hawking

  • @jonathanbyrdmusic
    @jonathanbyrdmusic Рік тому +103

    I’ve heard that space is barren and lifeless, like a dessert.

  • @thulean.uruk-hai
    @thulean.uruk-hai Рік тому +7

    "something less delicious, like a globe" - two words: donut holes 🙃😎

  • @baystated
    @baystated Рік тому +5

    Caitlin: "Me neither!" made me snort-laugh!

  • @popelgruner595
    @popelgruner595 Рік тому +15

    Donuts... must be a childhood trauma of sorts...🍩 D'oh!

  • @KeithBarnett
    @KeithBarnett Рік тому +15

    I think there’s a hole in this theory. Not all donuts have holes.

  • @waverod9275
    @waverod9275 Рік тому +5

    So, the donut rings on core rope memory act as transformers. This suggests that the programs were more than meets the eye.

  • @CaptainFSU
    @CaptainFSU Рік тому +7

    "A doughnut hole in the doughnuts hole. But we must look a little closer. And when we do, we see the doughnut hole has a hole in its center - it is not a doughnut hole at all but a smaller doughnut with its own hole. And our doughnut is not a hole at all!"

  • @madamsloth
    @madamsloth Рік тому +4

    I now want a scarf with that computer code as the pattern ❤

    • @DerZocker2000000
      @DerZocker2000000 Рік тому

      i mean, that would be heavy as a scarf but i like the idea

  • @ACatherine66
    @ACatherine66 Рік тому +21

    My Dad was a programmer, and I remember him dealing with punch cards and Reel to Reel tape storage, when I was little. He was one of those who were top in their field.. I miss him.

    • @ImTHECarlos98
      @ImTHECarlos98 Рік тому +2

      I’m a programmer. But in 2022. Your dads an OG computer scientist, probably when it was still considered electrical engineering. Back then, to do this as a career had little immediate commercial value, so people did it for the challenge, to improve their understanding and technological capabilities. Allowing us to be where we are today, on UA-cam, thousands of miles away from each other, but engaging with each other nonetheless.

    • @eatshitlarrypage.3319
      @eatshitlarrypage.3319 Рік тому +1

      @@ImTHECarlos98 Another programmer here, I gotta second Carlos' statement. Dude was a pioneer. They had barely anything to work with, but were still able to make some incredible programs.

    • @SoManyRandomRamblings
      @SoManyRandomRamblings Рік тому +1

      My dad still has some of those old punch cards in a storage box.

  • @Kregelbagel
    @Kregelbagel Рік тому +5

    Hmmm bagels :3
    Sucked.... Into.... A bageell.
    #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

  • @Raziel1984
    @Raziel1984 Рік тому +2

    "and the nobel prize in physics goes to the team that found the sprinkles of the universe right there on the glaze"

  • @eatshitlarrypage.3319
    @eatshitlarrypage.3319 Рік тому +1

    In computer graphics, a model that's more or less ubiquitous is called the "Utah Teapot". Martin Newell, who first used the teapot, chose it because it was easily recognizable as an every day object and had a number of features that made it useful for testing various rendering features. One of those features was that it has a genus of 1, making it a torus. When you mentioned the mug, that immediately came to mind.
    For those curious, the other useful things about it are that it's rounded and it has multiple saddle points, which were useful for testing smoothing algorithms, it wasn't entirely convex and thus could cast shadows on itself, and was easily recognizable even without any applied materials.

  • @justayoutuber1906
    @justayoutuber1906 Рік тому +1

    "The Zen philosopher, Basho, once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish." - Ty Webb

  • @collinscody57
    @collinscody57 Рік тому +4

    Pretty sure Homer Simpson came up with the donut shape universe

  • @the496elcamino3
    @the496elcamino3 Рік тому +1

    The distant light will reveal it’s actually a nacho platter.

  • @dianagibbs3550
    @dianagibbs3550 Рік тому +1

    Torus - the shape a Civilization map takes on if you let it loop top to bottom AND left to right.

  • @Ally-Oop
    @Ally-Oop Рік тому +2

    Would this imply that a donut universe won’t have a heat death? Since it might all…be going back around? Would parts of the background radiation be..reheating as it loops? So crazy. I’m kinda bummed this stuff was part of my curriculum way back when.

  • @lakshmimohan6467
    @lakshmimohan6467 Рік тому

    Universe is just amazing!! 🤩

  • @gonzalomorenoandonaegui2052
    @gonzalomorenoandonaegui2052 Рік тому +1

    Magnetic fields also tend to have toroid shapes

  • @templarw20
    @templarw20 Рік тому

    As Adams wrote: "[the] whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, it is in fact totally bent. "

  • @josephvanname3377
    @josephvanname3377 Рік тому

    I heard that Dunkin Donuts kicked people out of their shops if they refuse to acknowledge that the Earth is shaped like a donut.

  • @Reggie757
    @Reggie757 Рік тому +2

    "I hate the universe!!"
    -Yngwie Malmsteen

  • @45hr52
    @45hr52 Рік тому

    *Laws* of physics?
    Donuts?
    I see a connection

  • @agenthambo
    @agenthambo Рік тому

    And the multiverse is an "Everything Bagel"

  • @Philfluffer
    @Philfluffer Рік тому

    Doughnuts versus Doughnut holes!!

  • @airplayn
    @airplayn Рік тому

    Larry Niven wrote a SF called "The Integral Trees" that takes place in a toroidal ring of atmosphere around a neutron star that is inhabitable. For a planet to be toroidal I would wonder what kind of tidal effects would be there. I would assume that it could never coalesce as tidal effects would overcome any gravitational collapse and adhesion of rocks into a planet. Even Larry Niven's Gas toroid would not be stable in any time stellar frame.

  • @jimsmind3894
    @jimsmind3894 Рік тому

    Donut Earth! The flat-earthers will love it! Nom nom! 🍩

  • @zlpatriot11
    @zlpatriot11 Рік тому +2

    Physics likes sprinkles more than cream/jelly filled, glazed, or chocolate.

  • @kendrickmcelfish2805
    @kendrickmcelfish2805 Рік тому +3

    Shoot, why not just add another dimension to get a klein bottle shaped universe?

  • @skpjoecoursegold366
    @skpjoecoursegold366 Рік тому +2

    my universe is a maple bacon donut.

  • @andrewsomerville5772
    @andrewsomerville5772 Рік тому

    Tearing it a new one... 😂

  • @herbertkeithmiller
    @herbertkeithmiller Рік тому +1

    Mmm space donuts

  • @annab3818
    @annab3818 Рік тому +4

    The thought of the universe being a donut makes me feel strangely claustrophobic, and space in general gives me agoraphobia. I should probably just accept the fact that I'm an earthling who's not meant to know anything about what's going on outside of earth.

  • @4jonah
    @4jonah Рік тому +3

    so science fiction idea.
    we develop faster than light space travel. we learn the universe is a 3Torus. We find another planet with life...but it's us. we just don't know it. We attack it, thus destroy ourselves while simultaneously attacking and defending

    • @pinakypaliwal7622
      @pinakypaliwal7622 Рік тому +1

      Sounds very interesting.. would love to read/watch something like that.

    • @rainbowlack
      @rainbowlack 2 місяці тому

      dude what i need that now omg

  • @EnriqueRegisPascalinRomo
    @EnriqueRegisPascalinRomo Рік тому +2

    The donut shape universe can explain Dark Energy with pure gravity

    • @WestOfEarth
      @WestOfEarth Рік тому +1

      Elaborate?

    • @addajjalsonofallah6217
      @addajjalsonofallah6217 Рік тому +1

      Lol

    • @EnriqueRegisPascalinRomo
      @EnriqueRegisPascalinRomo Рік тому

      @@WestOfEarth I'm not a cosmological topology expert, but imagine the center of mass of a donut (AKA torus). The center of mass is exactly at the hole. Now imagine everything (on the surface) moving towards the center. Any galaxy at such surface will "see" all galaxies getting away from it (at least at the outer surface). AKA Dark Energy explained with gravity due to the Torus topology.
      Now, since Lambda (dark energy) measurements have not yet being conclusive and cosmologists believe we live in a flat universe we can rule the donut out. However, if we find a negative curvature, I believe that Dark Energy won't be any more a problem.

  • @linusschill3353
    @linusschill3353 Рік тому

    Everything Everywhere All at Once !

  • @zurgmuckerberg
    @zurgmuckerberg Рік тому

    8:59 if the moon were elongated it would even be funnier and more interesting

  • @bobbyvee9950
    @bobbyvee9950 Рік тому +1

    Homer- MMMMM Donuts.

  • @themontu7066
    @themontu7066 Рік тому +1

    Bagel. An everything bagel.
    #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

  • @saice5503
    @saice5503 Рік тому +4

    you know who else likes donuts?

  • @Rorschach1024
    @Rorschach1024 Рік тому

    No mention of Larry Niven's Ringworld?

  • @Avigorus
    @Avigorus Рік тому

    My tl;dr "Sigil might actually exist somewhere out there."

  • @ricardoabh3242
    @ricardoabh3242 Рік тому +1

    Same reason the like sphere

  • @darkangelprincess101
    @darkangelprincess101 Рік тому +1

    I made a joke last year that the earth was a donut shape in response to a flat Earth comment and your telling me a donut shaped planet could really exist?

  • @arzosahsothy
    @arzosahsothy Рік тому +1

    The universe is clearly an everything donut.

  • @crovax1375
    @crovax1375 Рік тому +5

    So is a person a donut?

  • @puckyMaXxx
    @puckyMaXxx Рік тому

    Woah~ this video is thought provoking! Take that FLAT EARTHERS~ we now had new theory😂TORUS EARTH🤣

  • @fuckyou_youtube
    @fuckyou_youtube Рік тому +1

    I like donuts

  • @davidlazarus67
    @davidlazarus67 Рік тому +2

    Hmmm donuts.

  • @JaxxVs
    @JaxxVs Рік тому +1

    Where is Andrew Price? He need to see this here

  • @Mitsuraga
    @Mitsuraga Рік тому +1

    Homer Simpson (give or take a crayon in the brain) would approve.

  • @Rabcup
    @Rabcup Рік тому +1

    Donuts
    Doznuts
    Deznuts
    Deeznuts
    Deez nuts

  • @rorajoey
    @rorajoey Рік тому +3

    Because the universe is sentient, and its name is Homer Simpson. 🤓

  • @JP-wp1vi
    @JP-wp1vi Рік тому +1

    mmmmmm donuts!

  • @wilsonli5642
    @wilsonli5642 Рік тому

    Regarding the asterisk at 3:38: I generally see "curvature in space-time" as indicating warping by gravitational fields. But in the laser example, the lasers should eventually diverge because of dark energy. Is that also "curvature in space-time" or is that just somehow discounted in the "flatness" assessment?

  • @dave900575
    @dave900575 Рік тому

    Mmm, cosmic doughnut. 😋

  • @stephenmadl5609
    @stephenmadl5609 Рік тому

    If the universe is expanding wouldn't that mean that the laser beams would have to get farther apart? Of course the sources would be getting farther apart as well keeping them parallel. I think I just broke my brain.

  • @evelynlamoy8483
    @evelynlamoy8483 Рік тому +1

    ..... wait we're playing pacman?

  • @BigMobe
    @BigMobe Рік тому

    Anyone else going shopping for an infinite light box?

  • @cinemaipswich4636
    @cinemaipswich4636 Рік тому

    Donut shapes are a torus are rather unique. They are a single circle with volume. If they are as big as the Universe then they are not a ball, they have lines of travel that are more easily captured and defined. Measurement is prime when we measure space and time. Is the 5th dimension not a pop music group? 3 + time = 4. The next dimension is needed to explain the Universe.

  • @roobscoob47
    @roobscoob47 Рік тому +1

    Spank the Hank~

  • @blazebluebass
    @blazebluebass Рік тому +1

    LOL memory. Just like my brain. pure of lulz, bunch of holes.

  • @damanybrown5036
    @damanybrown5036 Рік тому

    Could it be that gravitational lensing explains the three torus law?

  • @susanbellman3093
    @susanbellman3093 Рік тому +1

    Toroids, Sweetie.

  • @Bludgeoned2DEATH2
    @Bludgeoned2DEATH2 Рік тому +2

    Bruh I’m sitting here hitting my weed pen and the dude who turned the 3d universe we see into a donut blew me away!!!

  • @DouchMonkey431
    @DouchMonkey431 Рік тому

    I donut understand why there are so many donuts

  • @XOPOIIIO
    @XOPOIIIO Рік тому +1

    I don't believe a cup and a donut is the same thing. Obviously you can't eat it and drink from it in the same time.

    • @SoManyRandomRamblings
      @SoManyRandomRamblings Рік тому +1

      It can if you drink it faster than you eat it..... proof of concept done on multiple bread bowls at Panera. Lol.

  • @Shanghaimartin
    @Shanghaimartin Рік тому +7

    Once again, a compilation just reminds me how much better this channel used to look.

  • @yellowflowerorangeflower5706

    Note to self: watch again sometime.

  • @rubixloverful
    @rubixloverful Рік тому +1

    Flat Earthers couldn't be more glad for this video

  • @johnmckown1267
    @johnmckown1267 Рік тому

    Ringworld

  • @medv4380
    @medv4380 Рік тому +1

    The people pushing for a donut univers sound like desperate finitists. You were forced to compromise in the "smallest" unit and put in "meaningful" because use use a contimum for everything for measurements. Sure a plank is the smallest "meaningful" unit but that doesn't mean there isn't instances distances smaller than a plank just that all the forces are larger than those measures. The problem if you don't permit smaller measures is that physics would break down with the conservation of momentum. For example, a video game that failed to measure diagonal distance correctly using a 2d array ends up slowing down or speeding up because of the square root of 2. You solve this by using smaller numbers to imitate real numbers, or you create a hidden variable that tracks the miscalculation to fix it when the error becomes large enough to matter. Both solutions have Infinite precision and mess with finitists deranged ideal. You can't put an actual continuum on a 2d grid. It only works if the 3D grid is finite with no distances between distances. Its like the difference between the number of Integers and the number of Real Numbers.

  • @sugarfrosted2005
    @sugarfrosted2005 Рік тому +1

    Really not a fan of preassuming embeddings of manifolds into higher spacial dimensions. You don't really need 4D space to have a 3D manifold. That's just us putting our naive expectations based on only perceiving surfaces that are embedded into our space.

  • @Jackiee_Chann
    @Jackiee_Chann Рік тому

    LOL memory

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Рік тому +1

    But.. dude.. ok, just.. hear me out. What if, right... what if.. it's, like..
    ...A bagel!
    Riiiight?
    * bubbling bong sounds *
    Right?

  • @jacobwilson6296
    @jacobwilson6296 Рік тому

    We can't say if it's flat. It might just be big AND curved. Flat-Earthers and all that, don't be a Flat-Universer

  • @porkyvonchop6458
    @porkyvonchop6458 Рік тому

    life start inside a donut the moment after a big bang HEHEHEHEHEHHEEHEHE

  • @cameronbalfe241
    @cameronbalfe241 Рік тому

    Because god is Homer Simpson.

  • @beaker_guy
    @beaker_guy Рік тому +1

    Did you know that it takes 7 colors to color any map on a torus so that no two adjacent regions have the same color? Did you know that on a sphere it only takes 4 colors? Did you care? Did you care that you didn't care? .... :)

  • @1969kodiakbear
    @1969kodiakbear Рік тому

    Physics. Broca's area, or the Broca area is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, of the brain with functions linked to speech production.

  • @_andrewvia
    @_andrewvia Рік тому +1

    Savannah is a better host than Hank! She speaks as clearly, uses inflection wonderfully, and talks faster than Hank does. Yay Savannah!

  • @brandonvasser5902
    @brandonvasser5902 Рік тому

    The expression of all these fundamental forces in whatever way they ultimately form in our 3D world would be the most stable shape, a circle. Here and probably every other multiverse. Are circles the most predictable thing in all of space time? Including every other universe.

  • @barkfish6853
    @barkfish6853 Рік тому +1

    I think the more important question is... "Why donuts?"
    Why is that shape found in multiple places.
    I of course KNOW why... Because I have a big brain IQ.
    I want to know of YOU know!
    😀😂

  • @GameOverAus
    @GameOverAus Рік тому +1

    a coffee cup has 2 holes.

    • @AndrewTBP
      @AndrewTBP Рік тому +2

      Nope. That’s not how topology works.

  • @alfiemom8892
    @alfiemom8892 Рік тому

    ᴘʀᴏᴍᴏsᴍ

  • @Iamrightyouarewrong
    @Iamrightyouarewrong Рік тому +3

    How does this not boarder on theology? Maybe our perception of the universe is limited by our ability to comprehend as humans.

  • @dangerousdays2052
    @dangerousdays2052 Рік тому

    I don't beelive in the univers

  • @vturiserra
    @vturiserra Рік тому

    Physics doen't love donuts. It's donuts who love physics. Physics was prior to donuts.

  • @davidyoung8105
    @davidyoung8105 Рік тому

    Infinity has no boundaries, therefore it has no shape. It's just my hypothesis thinking in terms beyond mammal brains. Everything in a mammal's experience is limited by limits and scarcity. Try not thinking like a mammal.

  • @jondilinger8639
    @jondilinger8639 Рік тому +1

    Under the most resent defined definition of a planet is it must be spherical under it's own gravity and it's orbital path must be cleared. So, THERE ARE NO DOUNUT SHAPED PLANETS. And it is spelled Dou - nut not Do - nut.

    • @Jerekul
      @Jerekul Рік тому

      It's not "dounut" it's technically "doughnut" but the more colloquial spelling, "donut" is widely accepted and used. Also, since we're on the topic of spelling and grammar, you used the wrong word in your first sentence. You put "resent" instead of "recent."

    • @jondilinger8639
      @jondilinger8639 Рік тому

      @@Jerekul or is that Jerek*** Blame spelll chek eye wasn't watching and your widely accepted Dooo - nut can take a moldy leap

    • @Jerekul
      @Jerekul Рік тому

      @@jondilinger8639 You're obviously not using spell check since you didn't even spell that correctly either 😂 "spelll chek"

    • @jondilinger8639
      @jondilinger8639 Рік тому

      @@Jerekul I guess some people just don't get it. It was done on purpose. You don't get satire, do you?

    • @Jerekul
      @Jerekul Рік тому

      @@jondilinger8639 lol, I do get satire, it's just that it can become difficult distinguishing it, especially when it just appears as further ignorance within the context of the previous comments. But now that you point it out, yes, that one sentence does appear satirical specifically with your spelling of "eye."