Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan

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  • Опубліковано 16 лип 2013
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    Imagine a two-dimensional world -- you, your friends, everything is 2D. In his 1884 novella, Edwin Abbott invented this world and called it Flatland. Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan take the premise of Flatland one dimension further, imploring us to consider how we would see dimensions different from our own and why the exploration just may be worth it.
    Lesson by Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan, animation by Cale Oglesby.

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  • @maxihax2187
    @maxihax2187 6 років тому +15720

    Dont we just love explaining 4D on a 3D Universe in a 2D Screen

    • @sohamha
      @sohamha 5 років тому +1058

      by your 1D brain(not original btw)

    • @mrjam7038
      @mrjam7038 5 років тому +82

      Excuse me what?

    • @saniru5064
      @saniru5064 5 років тому +93

      Soham Halder I was gonna comment that 😂

    • @saniru5064
      @saniru5064 5 років тому +32

      레리오 wooooooooooosssshhhhhhhhh

    • @hadroncollider1155
      @hadroncollider1155 5 років тому +131

      On a flat earth

  • @firenationfiles2063
    @firenationfiles2063 6 років тому +4075

    Can we just stop for a moment and admire the animation?

    • @user-kh6bu7dg6d
      @user-kh6bu7dg6d 5 років тому +16

      Yes we can

    • @fivesix3868
      @fivesix3868 5 років тому +10

      Fire Nation Files Cute animation faces!!

    • @sauceaddict9569
      @sauceaddict9569 5 років тому +4

      Fire Nation Files FR🙌🏾🙌🏾👏🏿👏🏿👌🏿👌🏿

    • @raahimhadi4905
      @raahimhadi4905 4 роки тому +3

      👏👏👏

    • @Zandigo
      @Zandigo 4 роки тому +2

      Way ahead of you

  • @j_lanelee
    @j_lanelee 3 роки тому +3424

    I literally almost cried at the end. "Dosnt that blow your little spherical mind?" Yes. Yes it does sir

    • @CasperSoulET
      @CasperSoulET 3 роки тому +92

      I had tears in my eyes thinking how little and insignificant we are

    • @ericporter831
      @ericporter831 3 роки тому +6

      @@CasperSoulET what

    • @j_lanelee
      @j_lanelee 3 роки тому +10

      @@CasperSoulET God is Good and great

    • @maxstatue4506
      @maxstatue4506 2 роки тому +6

      it sounds so great

    • @eriksantos418
      @eriksantos418 2 роки тому +7

      You're cringe

  • @nicknice7839
    @nicknice7839 3 роки тому +386

    Here is TED-Ed explaining four dimensions, And I still can't BELIEVE that people say ThE EaRtH iS fLaT

    • @Ayush.Sharma
      @Ayush.Sharma 2 роки тому +29

      Maybe they are people from a 2-D world who don't know about 3D lol

    • @nicknice7839
      @nicknice7839 2 роки тому +11

      @@Ayush.Sharma true

    • @zanisenghor8982
      @zanisenghor8982 2 роки тому +4

      Very true Sharma ji ka beta

    • @riaveronica1610
      @riaveronica1610 2 роки тому

      @@zanisenghor8982 😂😂😂

    • @senabondara1992
      @senabondara1992 2 роки тому

      They definitely two dimension beeing

  • @cbuddy5970
    @cbuddy5970 5 років тому +3284

    We just gonna ignore how square homie just got murdered?
    0:36

  • @soondae3
    @soondae3 5 років тому +2235

    You really do not understand how much I love this video
    The music, the imagery, the explanations, the hook in the beginning of the video, the speaker’s voice, the little story about the 2D square, and the little part at the end where the speaker says, “Doesn’t that blow your little spherical mind?”
    I LOVE THIS VIDEO

  • @bentheartist7784
    @bentheartist7784 3 роки тому +254

    a quote from bill cipher
    "you think those chains are tight? imagine living in the second dimension, flattened minds in a flat world with flat dreams. i liberated my dimension stanford, and i`m here to liberate yours,"
    thats him. bill cipher.

  • @harinijayasankar8884
    @harinijayasankar8884 3 роки тому +442

    So basically, when a 3D sphere passes through the Flatland (2D plane), a 2D being such as the mentioned square will only see a 1D line changing sizes. But as we 3D beings can see from the top, they are actually 2D circular cross-sections.
    ..
    Similarly, if a 4D sphere passes through a 3D world, we 3D beings can only see a 2D circle growing and shrinking, while in actuality it would be 3D cross-sections.

    • @alephnull6785
      @alephnull6785 2 роки тому +7

      Nice this is the best summary

    • @jeslinanista2907
      @jeslinanista2907 2 роки тому +47

      Ok I saw a video on this and it says
      2 dimension species can only see thorough 1 dimension
      3 dimension species can only see thorough 2 dimension
      Implying 4th dimension species can see thorough our 3d world
      This leads to an infinite series
      (This also implies that we really are seeing the 3d world through 2d but with the help of light and it's perceptions we could figure out what 3d looks like, that sounds crazy)

    • @serpentmaster1323
      @serpentmaster1323 2 роки тому +37

      Yes. But remember, that while the visual plane of the flatlanders is 1d, they still perceive and understand space as 2d, because they can perceive depth as brightness. Similarly, we can also only see in a 2d plane, but we to can easily perceive depth because of our two eyes and our brains.

    • @danivanon
      @danivanon 2 роки тому +6

      @@serpentmaster1323 so how would a 1d world see? In 0 dimensions?

    • @anthonydraco7958
      @anthonydraco7958 2 роки тому +19

      This summary is incorrect. 3D object visiting 2D plane, you see 2D object changing size. 4D object visiting 3D plane, you see 3D object changing size. So if you see 4D hypersphere in our dimensions, you’ll see a sphere changing size.

  • @spikezkid022
    @spikezkid022 8 років тому +1229

    That sphere is making me feel happy about everything in life :)

  • @cyclingcycles7953
    @cyclingcycles7953 5 років тому +937

    "Doesn't that blow your little spherical mind?"
    Flat eathers: What spherical mind?

    • @bigbrother7952
      @bigbrother7952 3 роки тому +27

      Flat circular mind..! 👻😅

    • @vedantsridhar8378
      @vedantsridhar8378 3 роки тому +5

      Say to Flat-Earthers Doesn't that blow your circular mind

    • @hwgoblin
      @hwgoblin 3 роки тому +3

      TED-Ed: Doesn’t that blow ur little spherical mind?
      Me: It blows my mind, yes, but my mind is not a sphere.

    • @pikachu-jf2oh
      @pikachu-jf2oh 3 роки тому

      They don't have brains lol

    • @shauryanrana3906
      @shauryanrana3906 2 роки тому +1

      *Flat Earthers: What's a mind?

  • @lakhansaha2068
    @lakhansaha2068 3 роки тому +83

    "Also called the Tesseract"
    My spherical mind: LOKIIIIIII

  • @matthuck378
    @matthuck378 2 роки тому +297

    I've often wondered if many (or all) of the supernatural things people have been claiming to see over the millennia (everything from demons/angels to ghosts, UFOs and even cryptids) are actually higher dimensional things passing through our 3D world like the sphere passing through a plane.

    • @PoopoopeepeeMan2
      @PoopoopeepeeMan2 2 роки тому +22

      that actually sounds cool

    • @radd.q6117
      @radd.q6117 2 роки тому +17

      GOD is almighty and he decide that for humans 3 dimension is a perfect
      living place so if GOD send an angel to you he will make sure that the angel is 3 dimensional. But GOD is above every infinte dimension and every thing that exists.
      In fact he is the one who created every single thing that exists in the Universe!

    • @matthuck378
      @matthuck378 2 роки тому +55

      @@radd.q6117 OK, then.
      Question: If "GOD" is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent...Why do most of his followers either ignore or bicker over HIS teachings?
      Also, no one intelligent and compassionate blindly follows any one religion.
      Also, nothing you said is "fact" it's just your beliefs. That's fine, but keep them to yourself. Your evangelizing is so exhausting for the people around you, I bet.

    • @PoopoopeepeeMan2
      @PoopoopeepeeMan2 2 роки тому +40

      @@radd.q6117 Top ten ways to start a fight.

    • @binbows2258
      @binbows2258 2 роки тому +26

      @@radd.q6117 God isn't real, and talk like this doesn't belong in the comment section of a scientific video based on actual math, science, and reasonable theory. God is nothing but pure speculation and "trust me I heard his voice" type stories. You have no proof and no reason to be acting this way here.

  • @thalespro9995
    @thalespro9995 5 років тому +546

    1:30 the hexagon is bullying the square

    • @TiberianFiend
      @TiberianFiend 4 роки тому +60

      In the story, polygons with more sides had higher rank in society.

    • @pnute6331
      @pnute6331 4 роки тому +23

      It booped it him, pushed him and then said "bprr" which in flat land language, is quite rude.

    • @sosopwsi829Jjw9
      @sosopwsi829Jjw9 4 роки тому +1

      @@pnute6331 translation plz

    • @asher-360
      @asher-360 4 роки тому

      Tiberian Fiend
      Circle: 😔

    • @PhantomAyz
      @PhantomAyz 3 роки тому +1

      I guess it's not hip to be square

  • @carlroberproductions4006
    @carlroberproductions4006 8 років тому +202

    If a 1 dimension line doesn't make a shadow, a 2 dimension square makes a 1 dimension shadow, a 3 dimension cube makes a 2 dimension shadow, de 4 dimension hypercube must make a 3 dimension shadow

    • @carlroberproductions4006
      @carlroberproductions4006 8 років тому +1

      Sorry for bad english

    • @hannibustoogfyrre6074
      @hannibustoogfyrre6074 8 років тому +17

      yep

    • @awesomeerk1197
      @awesomeerk1197 8 років тому +16

      Hmmmmmmm true I wonder what it would look like with my 3D mind.

    • @hannibustoogfyrre6074
      @hannibustoogfyrre6074 8 років тому +1

      AwesomeErik a cube would be my guess

    • @lathencoon6305
      @lathencoon6305 8 років тому +2

      That is not true a 4th dimensional being or shape would be just a 3D shape but it has time in its dimension, so it would just have a 2D shadow.

  • @skitsnsongs8100
    @skitsnsongs8100 4 роки тому +558

    Fun fact: paper or anything drawn on paper is still 3D it’s just that the hight is less

    • @Mark-Wilson
      @Mark-Wilson 3 роки тому +36

      @@GumballWaterson1990 yes did you actually think it was 2d the atoms and molecules are three-d and still have height and it isn't that small

    • @Mark-Wilson
      @Mark-Wilson 3 роки тому +2

      @@GumballWaterson1990 yes did you actually think it was 2d the atoms and molecules are three-d and still have height and it isn't that small

    • @anthonydowney9675
      @anthonydowney9675 3 роки тому +7

      Images within a screen are 2D no?

    • @Mark-Wilson
      @Mark-Wilson 3 роки тому +18

      @@anthonydowney9675 yeah but the screen itself is 3d just is very thin but the image is 2d yes

    • @anthonydowney9675
      @anthonydowney9675 3 роки тому +6

      @@Mark-Wilson so AI could communicate in many different dimensions since they are not directly constrained by form. Although they are not autonomous as of yet.

  • @yingo4098
    @yingo4098 3 роки тому +13

    for some reason, this made me cry

  • @nessybomber1581
    @nessybomber1581 8 років тому +5880

    why do I learn more on UA-cam than at school?

  • @mr_niceman
    @mr_niceman 6 років тому +2005

    Brain.exe has stopped working.

    • @pinhe1350
      @pinhe1350 5 років тому +17

      sphericalbrain.exe !!

    • @Idiotic4454
      @Idiotic4454 5 років тому +25

      404 brain not found

    • @justinoxy
      @justinoxy 5 років тому +1

      brain.exe started working:)

    • @humanatee6639
      @humanatee6639 5 років тому +1

      Brain.exe is not existent.

    • @speenta4879
      @speenta4879 5 років тому

      666 likes

  • @hrishi6352
    @hrishi6352 3 роки тому +232

    You are understanding 4D
    In a 3D world
    On a 2D screen
    With your 1D brain
    And 0D of understanding

    • @guy6074
      @guy6074 3 роки тому +2

      1D brain… what? What are you talking about how is our brain 1 dimensional lol

    • @Star-st2nr
      @Star-st2nr 2 роки тому

      I see so u are man of culture

    • @bodhisattva9762
      @bodhisattva9762 2 роки тому

      Speak for yourself. Replace 'You are' with 'I am'.

    • @wokk9543
      @wokk9543 2 роки тому +1

      @@bodhisattva9762 lol

    • @reuelcelestial9567
      @reuelcelestial9567 2 роки тому +1

      The brain is 8D

  • @rohansahni9701
    @rohansahni9701 2 роки тому +26

    I always cry when I watch this video. The music and the animation really set the mood.

  • @Itsallgoodtogo
    @Itsallgoodtogo 8 років тому +3212

    NO it doesnt blow my mind... it makes me sad that I'm limited to 3 dimensions :(

    • @guzmus1196
      @guzmus1196 8 років тому +401

      Actually, u can only see 2 dimensions. Just like a 2D shape can only see a 1D shape and a 1 D shape sees nothing. Only 4 dimensions can see 3D. Just imagine if u could see everything around u at every angle. U cant. But that's how actual 3D is viewed

    • @haqeimhafeiz5804
      @haqeimhafeiz5804 8 років тому +6

      +Merlin Gerlosa lol best comment ^^^

    • @LectureCat
      @LectureCat 8 років тому +19

      +Jerry Man We could be limited to infinite dimensions for all we know!

    • @ruadd4592
      @ruadd4592 8 років тому +27

      +Guzmus
      We have 2 eyes, we perceive 3 dimensions.

    • @UnframedAnimation
      @UnframedAnimation 8 років тому +3

      +Jerry Man :(

  • @tammyxu3700
    @tammyxu3700 5 років тому +2426

    My 3D mind feels unable to imagine a tesseract. 😂

    • @want-diversecontent3887
      @want-diversecontent3887 4 роки тому +107

      Tammy Xu
      We cannot imagine something beyond our limitations.

    • @neutralpie420
      @neutralpie420 4 роки тому +64

      *Loki has joined the chat*

    • @francinequinn4690
      @francinequinn4690 4 роки тому +4

      Tammy Xu My mind can pictures lots of Tesseracts

    • @ishworshrestha3559
      @ishworshrestha3559 4 роки тому +1

      Yes

    • @Amazingthings0
      @Amazingthings0 4 роки тому +5

      It's just bulshit brother he said extend 3 more lines perpendicular to the 3 existing lines, so basically each of the new line will be in the other 2 existing planes

  • @moyeenm.bhuiyan6249
    @moyeenm.bhuiyan6249 2 роки тому +16

    I have been watching Ted-Ed videos for the past few years and so far this one it's the greatest one I've watched. So awe-inspiring and moving.

  • @zondor8123
    @zondor8123 3 роки тому +60

    Imagine some aliens take you and enhance your eyes / body to be able to perceive 4d world. When you came back, you literally a walking deity

    • @atrophos4104
      @atrophos4104 2 роки тому +1

      “BRING ME THE GODS I’M DESTINED TO DESTROY!!!”

    • @user-ib1dx4dh3n
      @user-ib1dx4dh3n 2 роки тому +3

      @Dat Boi you still could
      Since perceiving two dimensional lines is still possible In a three dimensional world

    • @alephnull6785
      @alephnull6785 2 роки тому +3

      This plot is good for anime or for movies

  • @pratik8792
    @pratik8792 5 років тому +201

    When the 3D cube extended into 4D cube. My brain went on a long vacation.

    • @radhikamalviya5196
      @radhikamalviya5196 3 роки тому +7

      Try imagining it. Like, a cube on a cube, but a little distant from all the lines of the previous cube, say 1 cm. You get anything? And that's a tesseract!

    • @myyou7335
      @myyou7335 3 роки тому

      A smol cube inside a big cube then u connect their the corners with a lign.

  • @thirdperson438
    @thirdperson438 8 років тому +1804

    Imagine you’re 4 dimension and your shadow is 3D. Doesn’t that blow your mind?

    • @ILik3PH0T0
      @ILik3PH0T0 8 років тому +16

      +Cardin Bui well for all we know so far, theres only 11 but I get what you mean.

    • @Jkjoannaki
      @Jkjoannaki 8 років тому +132

      +Cardin Bui a 3D shadow would look like a ghost

    • @3evibez817
      @3evibez817 8 років тому +12

      +Cardin Bui ADVENTURE TIME

    • @TheRightWay11
      @TheRightWay11 8 років тому +50

      Everyone thinks of shadows as something special. Quite frankly its not even there, its 'existence' we have given it is just an illusion. They are just an absence of light, like how cold doesn't exist either, just an absence of heat. That is why we have absolute zero and maximum darkness because they all depend of the absence of something. E.g. you cannot add more 'cold' to make an object go beyond absolute zero.

    • @philipmalan4967
      @philipmalan4967 8 років тому +32

      +QuantumBeing That is not the point -_-, imagine replacing every 3D object in the world with a 4D object and replace every 2D picture of an object with a 3D picture of an object O.O

  • @grantic5413
    @grantic5413 3 роки тому +13

    0:12 that looks like amogus

  • @wazaDev
    @wazaDev 3 роки тому +17

    I watched this video a few months ago and now I'm basically making a game about a square fighting to get to the 3rd dimension... thanks for the great video

    • @programmer4047
      @programmer4047 2 роки тому +2

      Is your game ready now?

    • @wazaDev
      @wazaDev 2 роки тому

      @@programmer4047 yes it is 😅

    • @programmer4047
      @programmer4047 2 роки тому +2

      @@wazaDev Is it for Android, iOS or Windows?
      Btw, what's the name of your game?
      Can you provide me the link?

    • @danielavanilla4331
      @danielavanilla4331 2 роки тому

      @@programmer4047 hopefully they’re not lying for attention haha

  • @a_yan6581
    @a_yan6581 4 роки тому +2486

    " Also called the Tesseract "
    *HOL' ON...*

    • @hello23241
      @hello23241 4 роки тому +33

      Uhh sowat?

    • @artofvale_1122
      @artofvale_1122 4 роки тому +287

      Me as an Avengers fan: *_surprised pikachu face_*

    • @xail1182
      @xail1182 4 роки тому +100

      *AVENGERS, ASSEMBLE*

    • @artofvale_1122
      @artofvale_1122 4 роки тому +21

      @@xail1182 *assemble but ok

    • @xail1182
      @xail1182 4 роки тому +13

      @@artofvale_1122 thank u

  • @bhonepyae9978
    @bhonepyae9978 5 років тому +3267

    Flat earthers live in flatland XD

    • @rumahhafidzahbekasi1354
      @rumahhafidzahbekasi1354 5 років тому +41

      and then they get killed when itroduced to the 3d space becouse its like you can go trough concreat

    • @trikster22
      @trikster22 5 років тому +32

      yes! and their 1 dimensional brain

    • @Azure_Gust931
      @Azure_Gust931 4 роки тому +7

      But earth is flat in special view,doesn't that mean all of us are flat?

    • @meep.472
      @meep.472 4 роки тому +5

      We have an intellectual in the house

    • @derickalli2166
      @derickalli2166 4 роки тому +3

      Lol yeah right

  • @zimianxcience4665
    @zimianxcience4665 3 роки тому +1

    Great animation & explanation with a story to tell. Love the music. Thanks!

  • @jeffthewolf4589
    @jeffthewolf4589 11 місяців тому +1

    I’m fascinated, that’s all so incredible, a little gout dropped from my eyes at the end.

  • @IndustryOfMagic
    @IndustryOfMagic 8 років тому +1650

    4:30 "Doesn't that blow your little spherical mind?" **BA DUM CHSSSS**

  • @FacesDeluxe
    @FacesDeluxe 7 років тому +404

    So if I were 4D I could see inside my friends.

    • @hellothing
      @hellothing 6 років тому +11

      Faces Deluxe 9000+ yea, like a mri scanner

    • @jamrose6322
      @jamrose6322 6 років тому +36

      Faces Deluxe 9000+ no but you could see his future, past and present.

    • @jamrose6322
      @jamrose6322 6 років тому +17

      Faces Deluxe 9000+ basically, you could his life.

    • @hirokokueh3541
      @hirokokueh3541 6 років тому +42

      but time is not a dimension

    • @bentucky4324
      @bentucky4324 6 років тому +6

      Yes. But it won't be like x-ray vision. It'll be like the inside out of your friend. For example, turning a tennis ball inside out.

  • @TotallyAHuman
    @TotallyAHuman 2 роки тому +11

    This video is a masterpiece. It's so much fun!

  • @HeduAI
    @HeduAI 2 роки тому +1

    My little spherical mind is filled with wonder, thanks to this awesome animation!!

  • @yangkong7935
    @yangkong7935 4 роки тому +2131

    What if flat earther aren’t crazy and they can only visualize in two dimensions?

    • @lightningcreates1271
      @lightningcreates1271 4 роки тому +92

      That would be strange...

    • @aryazeref
      @aryazeref 4 роки тому +109

      That's possibly the case, probably there's a 2d complex or something some sort of dyselexia thingy

    • @4pf_gabru
      @4pf_gabru 3 роки тому +59

      We can only see in two dimensions. Our brain jus puts the images together to give us depth

    • @henloworld514
      @henloworld514 3 роки тому +51

      Well all humans actually see the world in two dimensions. It’s just that lighting and things getting smaller/bigger let us know about depth. It’s like how the 2d shapes could only see in 1 dimension.

    • @ishworshrestha3559
      @ishworshrestha3559 3 роки тому +1

      Ok

  • @isunlloaoll
    @isunlloaoll 7 років тому +1396

    This is so cute i almost cried...

    • @DS-Pakaemon
      @DS-Pakaemon 7 років тому +15

      same here

    • @daniyalshah1503
      @daniyalshah1503 7 років тому +10

      i know right!

    • @therudestofclouds2007
      @therudestofclouds2007 7 років тому +24

      Tomas, was alone.
      huh, what a weird first thought to have.

    • @lucaslayton3974
      @lucaslayton3974 7 років тому +5

      the rudest of clouds omg i had that in my mind too! the geometrical objects and music really remind me of that game :)

    • @theindiediary5950
      @theindiediary5950 6 років тому +8

      This 4 minute vid was better than 99% of Summer blockbusters......

  • @Sadik-568
    @Sadik-568 2 роки тому +1

    The animation, the narration and the music are all excellent.

  • @Manas__Gharat
    @Manas__Gharat 3 роки тому +1

    This was simplest explanation of all that I can find on the UA-cam. Thank You 😊

  • @itskelvinn
    @itskelvinn 8 років тому +139

    What if paranormal activity, things appearing and reappearing (ufos, supernatural phenomena) is something 4d accessing and exiting our 3d plane?

    • @barronrisling5354
      @barronrisling5354 8 років тому +28

      I watched a "scary" movie about a poltergeist, during witch the experts on the matter were talking of the ghosts being lost in another dimension, where there are no straight lines, ect. And then I thought the exact same thing. I think I have a new personal belief. Just think, in higher dimensions, time can actually be represented as a physical space. Knowing that, could our 4d (3 spacial dimensions and time )universe be inside a 5d space, where every moment in time is a physical area? so people who in our 4d universe who have been dead for a long time could still exist in a 5d world, hence why when they pass through our dimension, they look strange? IDK, but I know this rant is what I'll repeat when somebody asks if me if I believe in ghosts.

    • @horrorandgames
      @horrorandgames 8 років тому +1

      This idea is also a main idea in the movie 'Interstellar'

    • @itskelvinn
      @itskelvinn 8 років тому

      Wout Kops kind of. the 4th dimmension in that case is time. and the tesseract allowed cooper to access the bookshelf

    • @1234macro
      @1234macro 8 років тому

      +Barron Risling Well everything they do will happen at the same time. He will be both dead and alive.

    • @philipmalan4967
      @philipmalan4967 8 років тому +11

      It is impossible because it would break all the rules of physics and math(any 4D object has infinite mass and any 2D object has 0 mass). In a 4D world, a 3D "world" would only be a slice of the 4D world and 3D objects wouldn't exist

  • @annadoesroblox6205
    @annadoesroblox6205 4 роки тому +319

    “Wondering what all the fuss is about” ok then you try imagining a fifth dimension.

    • @Ambersworstenemy
      @Ambersworstenemy 3 роки тому +9

      same with the fifth dimension try imaging a sixth dimension

    • @Ambersworstenemy
      @Ambersworstenemy 3 роки тому +5

      and the cycle goes on and on and on

    • @Yoyozlitt20
      @Yoyozlitt20 3 роки тому +5

      @gg could you please explain how does that even work? I thirst for your knowledge

    • @user-tl6lo9fl7w
      @user-tl6lo9fl7w 3 роки тому +1

      LOL

    • @paul2019.
      @paul2019. 2 роки тому

      Which direction is the fifth dimension?

  • @hridaydesai7751
    @hridaydesai7751 2 роки тому +1

    this is the 9th video i’ve seen in a row
    these videos are too addictive to not binge :)

  • @claramelb7476
    @claramelb7476 2 роки тому +1

    Best thing I’ve watched this year so far. Thank you!

  • @AnthonyChannel13
    @AnthonyChannel13 7 років тому +1010

    Excuse me while I go have an existential crisis.

  • @randomhooman6685
    @randomhooman6685 4 роки тому +146

    Why do I feel bad for the sphere when he can’t help square boi go to higher dimensions

  • @_AN203
    @_AN203 Рік тому +6

    "Doesn't that blow your little spherical mind ?"
    Words I won't forget....
    This is what I like about learning !!!
    Curiosty!!!!!!

  • @adrianesmerio449
    @adrianesmerio449 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you for this in every way possible in understanding the third to fourth dimension

  • @maxinedudgeon8246
    @maxinedudgeon8246 7 років тому +338

    Wait so if 3D objects have a 2D shadow would a 4D object have a 3D shadow?

    • @SuperBabyMario0C
      @SuperBabyMario0C 5 років тому +51

      Assuming light and darkness function the same in the 4 dimension. Shadows are basically just spots of no light bro. Shadows are everywhere all the time there's just light coving them

    • @asteroidkatfacts1036
      @asteroidkatfacts1036 5 років тому +2

      yes

    • @zed8762
      @zed8762 5 років тому +15

      If 4d has 3d shadows it's like your clone now

    • @Mr.Sozzled
      @Mr.Sozzled 5 років тому +2

      @@SuperBabyMario0C actually he is right. In the fourth dimension they would have 3d shadows. Look it up

    • @arnavanand8037
      @arnavanand8037 5 років тому +3

      The wall on which your shadow would be printed is 3D but the surface is 2D no matter what.
      Thats why the wall also needs to be 4D and you can't have 3D shadows in this world.

  • @krassilverfang5504
    @krassilverfang5504 4 роки тому +1381

    What if Dark matter is just 4D matter interacting with our "3D slice"?

  • @KK-jp5fu
    @KK-jp5fu 4 роки тому +21

    “These shapes are all scurrying around a flat world living their flat lives.” I got offended

  • @mageshgopi3594
    @mageshgopi3594 3 роки тому +1

    Kudos to the Animation team for this wonderful eye-candy

  • @nermalmovement
    @nermalmovement 4 роки тому +85

    I love this story because first it’s told to us with dimensions that we can understand, and then makes us think about the fourth dimension. Whenever I try to just explain the fourth dimension to my friends, they always get confused, but now I know to first talk about the third dimension compared to the second.

  • @fkyouronion
    @fkyouronion 4 роки тому +764

    3:46
    *showing point and extending 1 inches each*
    Hhh, that makes sense.
    *showing tesseract*
    (brain explodes)

    • @jaydenchaney4081
      @jaydenchaney4081 4 роки тому +2

      Draw 2 cubes one higher and to the right or left of the first and connect the corresponding vertices

    • @untruelie2640
      @untruelie2640 4 роки тому +33

      That wasn't a Tesseract. A Tesseract can't be imagined or pictured in a 3D world. What appeared in the video was just the PROJECTION of a Tesseract in 3 dimensions - like we can project a cube on a two-dimensional plane.

    • @reinatr4848
      @reinatr4848 3 роки тому +6

      @@untruelie2640 well it was actually projected at 2 dimensions, because the screen is 2-dimensional.

    • @untruelie2640
      @untruelie2640 3 роки тому +11

      @@reinatr4848 No, it was projected in 3 dimensions. The screen replicates a 3-dimensional image on a 2-dimensional surface; yet it still appears 3-dimensional. The third dimension is width (or depth), which one can still perceive when looking on a screen.

    • @reinatr4848
      @reinatr4848 3 роки тому +2

      @@untruelie2640 So the 3 dimensional image is projected on 2 dimensions?

  • @canadianrocketman3475
    @canadianrocketman3475 2 роки тому +10

    ive always thought of writing a book about a 1 dimensional world where the social hierarchy is based on how far up you are and since there is no way to go around others you are stuck in your section from birth to death. the story would then follow a dots journey of entering the second and third dimension to advance his species understanding and abolishing the 1d social hierarchy. but then i would always remember that i cant write.

  • @kabbo_mtr
    @kabbo_mtr 2 роки тому +2

    Best ted ed video by far. The ending was beautiful

  • @laki74
    @laki74 6 років тому +809

    Does one still have to pay taxes and the mortgage in the 4th dimension?

    • @mrbisshie
      @mrbisshie 5 років тому +33

      Yes, there are Jews even in the 4th dimension. Their reach is limitless.

    • @jojojlc7070
      @jojojlc7070 5 років тому +6

      Sure, except they're a whole dimension higher

    • @danielberglund6611
      @danielberglund6611 5 років тому +1

      Yes

    • @Leonardo-G
      @Leonardo-G 5 років тому +5

      No, but 4D eliminates tangled headphones and waiting at traffic lights (lines in 4D can’t be tied in a knot.

    • @drofindorb9728
      @drofindorb9728 5 років тому +2

      Leonardo Gil Rojo why not?

  • @evelinastankeviciute2678
    @evelinastankeviciute2678 8 років тому +478

    It's like more intelligent creatures can't understand even more intelligent creatures, but can understand less intelligent creatures than them.

    • @evelinastankeviciute2678
      @evelinastankeviciute2678 8 років тому +49

      But can't understand how the less intelligent can't understand them and how to explain it to them.

    • @evelinastankeviciute2678
      @evelinastankeviciute2678 8 років тому +5

      Lol, idk

    • @damiangudina
      @damiangudina 7 років тому +7

      +Evelina Stankevičiūtė yes!!! you are absolutely right. good way of thinking

    • @RealLifeKyurem
      @RealLifeKyurem 7 років тому +21

      Yeah, like how people cannot describe or explain what "green" is to a person who is color blind to green... Colors and other sensory perceptions are molded by the the "data" the brain processed from the inputs the sensors received from the outside world, I wonder how we, humans, a three dimensional species, can somehow perceive higher dimensions with our three dimensional mind. I am not talking about the hypercubes, or 4-spheres (4 dimensional spheres) that mathematicians (geometrists? Like how "geologists" are from "geology + -ist + -s") have come up with. I think those are more of "approximations" of the 4-D figure, like how we approximate a 3-D figure on a paper...

    • @tennicktenstyl
      @tennicktenstyl 7 років тому +4

      you are getting too philosophical here, calm down.

  • @kazzakhs
    @kazzakhs 3 роки тому +12

    Love watching TED Ed videos, been watching them for a long time, but this is the first time I've commented on one as this is definitely the best, most moving and beautiful ones I've ever seen. It just leaves you feeling great ... :)
    In the era we live in now, it's important not to lose the gift of 'imagination', the thought of possibilities and magical ideas which our ancestors had but we now feel to be completely crazy...

  • @danielhaqim5284
    @danielhaqim5284 2 роки тому +1

    the animation is mind blowing, knowing that this video is 8 years old even blow our mind once again

  • @jonni2734
    @jonni2734 6 років тому +526

    Just WOOOOW, I really love the thought that 4D creatures could occasionally enter our 3D world!!
    Awesome video!!!!

    • @stampzplayz6767
      @stampzplayz6767 5 років тому

      John Brighton dafuq

    • @talkingcontroller9396
      @talkingcontroller9396 5 років тому +11

      jonni2 like angels and demons in movies boi!!! What if they are really creatures from another dimension O.O

    • @ArmyRangerSJ
      @ArmyRangerSJ 5 років тому +6

      @John Brighton God. Think about it......

    • @UltraEgoMc
      @UltraEgoMc 5 років тому

      But 4d isn't even real though.

    • @icompletelyandwholehearted9551
      @icompletelyandwholehearted9551 5 років тому +19

      SBP Saga_ ErubPub
      Thats what the other 2 dimensional shapes said too

  • @jupiterstevens-hill7331
    @jupiterstevens-hill7331 7 років тому +957

    Wait, if two dimensional objects are flat, and everything has height, even at a molecular level, does that mean nothing is truly two dimensional?

    • @tennicktenstyl
      @tennicktenstyl 7 років тому +193

      yeah.

    • @tennicktenstyl
      @tennicktenstyl 7 років тому +456

      next time your teacher says to draw a two dimensional figure slap him in tbe face. with a chair or something.

    • @robw6954
      @robw6954 7 років тому +217

      Well in our dimension 2-D is impossible, but maybe 2 dimension really exists

    • @LK-fq8qq
      @LK-fq8qq 7 років тому +63

      +Bartosz Olszewski Does your dimension not have diversity in math teachers because mine does and now I don't know who to slap with my chair :( *Insert social justice warrior attacking people who don't use nutral terms*

    • @tennicktenstyl
      @tennicktenstyl 7 років тому +3

      Leif Knox your racist

  • @SHAFIulBARI
    @SHAFIulBARI 2 роки тому +1

    Ted-ed's video quality is on a different dimension ❤️. Absolutely mind blowing

  • @arisu1311
    @arisu1311 2 роки тому

    the sphere 's smile at the end , made my day , made me so happy , wow

  • @helpme7704
    @helpme7704 4 роки тому +64

    The music is like I think it was called “Thomas was alone” really good game.

    • @MarauderYT
      @MarauderYT 4 роки тому +1

      Severely underrated, too. It’s been 3 years since I last touched that game and this is the first reference I’ve seen to it since then.

    • @helpme7704
      @helpme7704 4 роки тому +1

      Marauder G Realy? Dang.... Did you play the eleventh chapter?

    • @MarauderYT
      @MarauderYT 4 роки тому +1

      @@helpme7704 I completed EVERY chapter. From the very first all the way to the final level of the Benjamin's Journey DLC

    • @helpme7704
      @helpme7704 4 роки тому +1

      Marauder G cool!

    • @ishworshrestha3559
      @ishworshrestha3559 3 роки тому

      Ok

  • @jaapheslenfeld7365
    @jaapheslenfeld7365 5 років тому +351

    The only reason why hyperspace is important to us, is because physics gets easier in higher dimensions. The famous mathematician Riemann tried to explain all nature’s fundamental forces by adding more dimensions to our current dimension. He said that a force like gravity is just a ripple in 3 dimensional space and is caused by gravity in a higher dimensional world/universe. With his number theory he could describe every object in higher dimensions (unlike Euclidean theory which could only describe objects in a 2 dimensional world, with things like the number pi. However Euclidean theory was incorrect for the real world, because our universe has 3 dimensions. This is why there had to come a new theory about geometry which ultimately led to Riemann’s number theory). Centuries later Riemann’s number theory is now used in string theory, because according to this theory a force is just an consequence from the bending of a dimension. Now string theory tries to explain all the fundamental forces of nature (the nuclear forces, the electromagnetic force and gravity) in higher dimensions (10 dimensions to be precisely). So string theory is based on Riemann’s number theory, because the physics gets easier to understand in higher dimensions and maybe we can find the ultimate grand unified theory of nature with it. When we know what it’s final mathematics then are, we can calculate how much energy it will costs to create and open a wormhole (which we could use to escape our universes, when our own universe dies in the far future). That’s why you could say that such a grand unified theory really is a theory of Creation, because such high temperatures were only reached in our universes when the big bang took place and our own universe formed. When we have reached the temperatures needed to open a wormhole, a new universe is born and we could escape our own universe trough that same wormhole. If we want to survive than we have to escape in hyperspace in the end.

    • @VillegasCar
      @VillegasCar 5 років тому +34

      But probably we will never see a higher dimension than our 3D universe. It will only stay as math on paper

    • @Tiago_C
      @Tiago_C 5 років тому +19

      I say you are watching too many science fiction movies

    • @DieTryingK
      @DieTryingK 5 років тому +30

      Ok you started off great but turned a bit OTT towards the end. I highly doubt it would ever be possible for humans to travel using a "wormhole" if it were even possible for us to manually create one, we would die. This is nature remember, to say we can create wormholes would say we are god

    • @srend5510
      @srend5510 5 років тому +3

      u forgot hermann grassman

    • @kurotrash4940
      @kurotrash4940 5 років тому +2

      Stop being r/iamsmart

  • @ASOT666
    @ASOT666 9 місяців тому +2

    This is going to sound dramatic, but I'm about to cry from joy. I've wanted to know for months how we would hypothetically visually experience reality if we were shifted to a 2-d universe. I can't believe I'm alive in a time where I have the access to this answer in an "explain like i'm a 10 year old" at my finger tips, on such an incredibly animated video.

  • @teshunhao5131
    @teshunhao5131 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing animation, truly amazing

  • @toadstar1004
    @toadstar1004 8 років тому +78

    A line is made of 2 points.
    A square is made of 4 lines.
    A cube is made of 6 squares.
    So a hypercube is made of 8 cubes?

    • @naimbensaed
      @naimbensaed 8 років тому +12

      +ToadStar100 No cause, the hypercube it still got just lenght, height and direction, three values so it's still being a 3 dimension object, it's impossible for our mind to think about a 4 dimension object unless we see it.

    • @DweebsUnited
      @DweebsUnited 8 років тому +21

      +Naim Bensaed Zian Thats not true, no. As per the demo in the video, you have to stretch the cube in a 4th dimension, giving it more than just length, height, and width. You are correct though that it is extremely hard to comprehend without seeing it, which is impossible with our senses.

    • @toadstar1004
      @toadstar1004 8 років тому +3

      Eric "Ozzy" Osburn Well, yeah, I haven't got a clue of what the 4th dimension would look like.

    • @KrazyPlonk
      @KrazyPlonk 8 років тому +3

      +ToadStar100 I saw a video (I think it was Matt Parker's Royal Institution talk) which showed the 3D net of a 4D hypercube. It was 8 cubes. I think there were 4 on top of each other and then 4 around a single cube.

    • @TheDungeonMasterz
      @TheDungeonMasterz 8 років тому +11

      +ToadStar100 Nobody does, thats the nature of it. It is mentally and physically impossible to know what it looks like. Its super annoying I know. I have been interested in 4 dimension theory for several years now and I have read a number of books looking for an explanation. The unfortunate fact is we can only understand the 4th dimension through mathematics. We cannot visualize it. It sucks.

  • @popkrull9905
    @popkrull9905 8 років тому +111

    I wish a hypersphere would pick me up and show me their world ;(.

    • @enderstar5017
      @enderstar5017 8 років тому +4

      Then maybe President Sphere would try and kill you for trying to preach the gospel of 4 dimensions.
      (Only people who have actually watched Flatland the movie will get this)

    • @Multibe150
      @Multibe150 8 років тому

      +// Popkrull // You are a square.

    • @nUrnxvmhTEuU
      @nUrnxvmhTEuU 8 років тому +5

      I haven't met a 4-sphere yet but at least you can play with a little tesseract wishing to reach the fifth dimension :)
      michal.grno.cz/4d/

    • @Stickycomix
      @Stickycomix 8 років тому

      +Michal Grňo I like this. Thank you.

    • @jamrose6322
      @jamrose6322 6 років тому

      // Popkrull // then you realised it's nothing special.

  • @ss-qv6ch
    @ss-qv6ch 2 роки тому +6

    thing is we can't even comprehend the second dimension because we always perceive 2D things to be extremely thin, but not without height

  • @cybr69lol
    @cybr69lol 2 роки тому

    theres just something beautiful and adorable about this video that makes me want to watch it from time to time

  • @cheeseburgermonkey7104
    @cheeseburgermonkey7104 5 років тому +76

    *minding my own business*
    *a hypersphere grows*
    me: is that... A 4 DIMENSIONAL SHAPE?!
    *now it shrinks and disappears*
    me: wow

    • @ultim8yeetr708
      @ultim8yeetr708 4 роки тому +1

      Me, as a octahedron: boi have u seen dat 4d games video?

  • @motivationandinnovationpro7788
    @motivationandinnovationpro7788 5 років тому +310

    We can't see a 4th dimension substance same with that a 2D can't see a 3d object. So, we can't say that we are the only living beings in this whole universe.

    • @aqua8584
      @aqua8584 5 років тому +23

      Of course. There's animals and bugs and plants and the whole shebang

    • @UltraEgoMc
      @UltraEgoMc 5 років тому +5

      You are acting as if this is real. LMAO

    • @Pepino8A
      @Pepino8A 5 років тому +14

      There are bugs?
      *Starts the Debugger*

    • @GewelReal
      @GewelReal 5 років тому +1

      But those dimensions don't really exist

    • @Marco-zt2jj
      @Marco-zt2jj 5 років тому +15

      @@Tom-id7zr just if it passes through their world. The fact that we just see 3 dimensions means that we can just see a tiny fraction of our universe. The past and the future are an example of this, we can't see them no matter what because we can't move through the 4th dimension

  • @WakeUpCall93
    @WakeUpCall93 3 роки тому

    Great Animation..
    Love How They Explain Great.

  • @mrdude4638
    @mrdude4638 2 роки тому +2

    Damn... That was wholesome.

  • @AmNeSiAPvP
    @AmNeSiAPvP 8 років тому +15

    Everything that's ever happened in your life up to this point has lead to you reading these comments and stopping on mine in particular, you can do great things with your life, that's why it was given to you as an experience. Be kind, save a life . Pay it forward!

  • @otabekbadritdinov6895
    @otabekbadritdinov6895 4 роки тому +17

    I love Ted-ed. It is the best channel on UA-cam. Thank you Ted-ed for your lessons. I know it's difficult to create such animations and find information and tell about it in a nutshell. Great job!

  • @christianmarroquin4613
    @christianmarroquin4613 3 роки тому +2

    I love the background music. Is it available anywhere?

  • @anthonyv8634
    @anthonyv8634 Рік тому

    This is by far my favorite ted Ed video

  • @Jaylio
    @Jaylio 5 років тому +195

    All we have to do is observe flat earthers to see what it feels like living in another dimension

  • @tachyontech
    @tachyontech 10 років тому +13

    Seriously the best presentation I have seen over the ascending dimensions. Well done.

  • @adm2267
    @adm2267 3 роки тому +1

    This is so insanely intresting....it really blew off my little spherical mind...

  • @pavankharche7014
    @pavankharche7014 3 роки тому

    Literally gives me goosebumps.

  • @marvink.9369
    @marvink.9369 8 років тому +181

    So, where can I find a 2 dimensional being?

    • @Leotique
      @Leotique 8 років тому +44

      +Marvin K. cartoons...

    • @marvink.9369
      @marvink.9369 8 років тому +17

      In reality?

    • @Leotique
      @Leotique 8 років тому +24

      Marvin K. pictures :)

    • @marvink.9369
      @marvink.9369 8 років тому +15

      living 2D creatures?

    • @Leotique
      @Leotique 8 років тому +11

      life forms ? :) i don't know..sorry :)

  • @SkepticalChris
    @SkepticalChris 10 років тому +24

    This video is not just about dimensions and mathematics, its about a bigger question, in that what is out there?
    We are very comfortable in our relatively limited way of thinking but if we open our mind to more possibilities, and that the unknown could be known if we are able to look outwards a bit more.
    Curiosity is not a crime, its the first step to knowledge.

  • @bhargavimadineni7479
    @bhargavimadineni7479 3 роки тому

    This is what im looking for. Wow its simple and beautifully understandable

  • @kidtoucher_4469
    @kidtoucher_4469 2 роки тому +2

    The music made me happy and sad at the sane time :)

  • @ultra_ultra
    @ultra_ultra 9 років тому +106

    Music from 'Thomas was alone' ?

    • @TruthfulOctopus
      @TruthfulOctopus 9 років тому +5

      Yeahhh, I recognised it straight away

    • @Xavi1437
      @Xavi1437 9 років тому +10

      Bummer that the authors didn't acknowledge it, specially if we consider that T.W.A. is about a 2D world.
      (edited spelling)

    • @Xhiblic
      @Xhiblic 9 років тому +1

      Sounds a lot like Terraria too.

    • @WestonBMusic
      @WestonBMusic 9 років тому

      Xavi _ What about the game Fez? That game's about a 2d world turning into a 3d world.

    • @HerigLeBarbu
      @HerigLeBarbu 9 років тому

      Ha ha, exactly!

  • @Azoth86730
    @Azoth86730 6 років тому +35

    "Carbon stars with ancient satellites colonized by sentient fungi. Gas giants inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences. Worlds stretched thin across the membranes where [the] dimensions intersect... Impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary!" -Dr. Breen

  • @lovely-yj6zy
    @lovely-yj6zy 2 роки тому +1

    I like the music! Because of this, I am seeing this video a dozen times.

  • @sayanmazumder1914
    @sayanmazumder1914 4 роки тому

    The one and only best explanation about dimensions for me.

  • @lunavenus7082
    @lunavenus7082 8 років тому +27

    This made me cry....

    • @alinasovane4341
      @alinasovane4341 8 років тому +1

      +Luna Venus I am glad I am not the only one :)

  • @DonnaBrooks
    @DonnaBrooks 4 роки тому +15

    The ending of this was surprisingly lovely, even touching.

  • @twangerrrrrr
    @twangerrrrrr Рік тому +9

    when the sphere said "its 3D-ing time" to the square and 3D'd over the second dimension. Truly one of the 3D moments of all time.

  • @Sbeve_Boner4966
    @Sbeve_Boner4966 3 роки тому +1

    Man, the music in the end made it sad that we may never see 4d life but gave hope that we might not be alone

  • @neon3.641
    @neon3.641 5 років тому +75

    This explained interstellar to me

  • @lukescalone3678
    @lukescalone3678 5 років тому +5

    This is beautifully done-- from the music to the animation to the narration. I've read Flatland and enjoyed it, but I think any reader can skip the book and watch this instead because it makes much more sense. Thank you!!!

    • @eifbkcn
      @eifbkcn 2 роки тому +1

      Honestly this is such a massive distortion of the book though. Flatland is actually quite horrifying, but got some reason the educational folk don't want to talk about the oppression, the genocide, the indoctrination, etc. that the book focused so heavily on, and so you only get a fraction of the books content.

  • @aedenthegreatyt
    @aedenthegreatyt 3 роки тому

    One of the best Ted-Ed videos

  • @Peanutjoepap24
    @Peanutjoepap24 3 роки тому

    This is the best explanation of flatland I’ve ever seen.