So, space isn't a 4D Pringle... Maybe a donut?

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  • Space might be infinite, it might wrap around, and it might even spit you out as your own mirror image. Now that we know the curvature of the Universe, let's try to figure out it's topology.
    This video is Part Two of my shape of the universe duology. Watch Part One here: • We (could) live on a 4...
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    0:00 Human Topology
    2:13 Cosmological Principle
    4:50 2D Surfaces
    7:15 Flatness and Topology
    10:01 Circles in the Sky
    Liddle, An Introduction to Modern Cosmology
    Kostyuk, Flat Life: pi.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Winte...
    Weeks, The Shape of Space
    Planck 2018 parameters: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ful...
    Dini's Surface: www.geogebra.org/m/e2HYR9DF
    Flat Torus: hevea-project.fr/ENIndexTore.html, www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/...
    Cosmic Topology Overview: www.scholarpedia.org/article/C...
    Planck 2015 topology: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ful...
    Image Credit: NASA / WMAP Science Team.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 319

  • @dingalong14
    @dingalong14 Рік тому +499

    I recently discovered your channel and am a big fan of your explanation style. The structured, succinct paths from one point to the next manage to be simultaneously engaging and easily digestible. The sources you put in the description also definitely don't go unappreciated. Thanks for the videos!

    • @physicsforthebirds
      @physicsforthebirds  Рік тому +43

      I'm glad you're getting some use out of the sources! Always better to hear it from the original than from me 😄

    • @WilhalmBrion
      @WilhalmBrion Рік тому +6

      100% this. The ease at which idea are expressed blows me away. Keep it up.

    • @verica4b
      @verica4b Рік тому

      Agreed! Reminds me of my former cryptography prof ☺️

  • @mephisto_ow
    @mephisto_ow Рік тому +570

    Didn't vsauce say that we are actually an object with 7 topological holes?

    • @physicsforthebirds
      @physicsforthebirds  Рік тому +448

      Thanks for bringing that to my attention! I just watched the video, and YES! I forgot about the tear ducts!

    • @victorqwilleran3331
      @victorqwilleran3331 Рік тому +29

      ​@@physicsforthebirds and the ears. Everything drains into your stomach. :0

    • @tlocto
      @tlocto Рік тому +33

      @@victorqwilleran3331 aren't ears closed by eardrum? There's just a hole inside

    • @victorqwilleran3331
      @victorqwilleran3331 Рік тому +41

      @@tlocto so I was under the impression that the Eustachian tube was fully connected to the ear hole but you are correct, ear drums break the connection in a topological sense.

    • @spcyndles
      @spcyndles Рік тому +3

      @@physicsforthebirds cool

  • @physicsforthebirds
    @physicsforthebirds  Рік тому +235

    Thanks for watching! The topology of the universe is an active topic of research, and still there are unanswered questions that cosmologists are looking into. Recent studies have even suggested that a 3-torus or a slab universe might explain some anomalies in CMB data. I was considering including the results, but they didn't seem necessary for the video. In addition to the sources in the description, take a look at these if you want to learn more:
    arxiv.org/abs/2106.13205
    arxiv.org/abs/1809.05924
    Also, @Mephisto brought up this video by Vsauce: ua-cam.com/video/egEraZP9yXQ/v-deo.html It turns out I was wrong! Because the lacrimal puncta are connected to the nasal cavity through the tear ducts, we are actually homeomorphic to a surface with 7 holes!

    • @Nulono
      @Nulono Рік тому +8

      The radius of the observable universe is way longer than 14 billion years due to the expansion of the universe.

    • @physicsforthebirds
      @physicsforthebirds  Рік тому +14

      @@Nulono That's absolutely right, I should have said proper distance

    • @shebahammy
      @shebahammy Рік тому

      L opinion

    • @coreyrachar9694
      @coreyrachar9694 Рік тому

      Oh man, I tried to check out those research papers and it's like they aren't even speaking English. Like why do they say things like "as a signature for a multiply
      connected nature of the Universe"... what does that even mean? That two things are connect by some form of multiplication?
      Later: "Universe models with spatially multiply connected topology contain typically a discrete
      spectrum of the Laplacian with a specific wave-length..." Laplacian what? Obviously this stuff requires arbitrary knowledge to be understood like what these terms mean, because they obviously aren't using the standard definitions of words.
      I get that i'm not the target audience but geeze, it seems so arbitrary. Like if you're going going to change words and grammar around to accommodate these terms then why not just create a new term for it? Seems like it would be way less confusing. I'm likely wrong, but to me, it seems more accurate to say something like "as a signature for a multiplicatively
      connected nature of the Universe" or at least it's better english.

    • @joemaselli9873
      @joemaselli9873 Рік тому +1

      ​@Corey Rachar I am by no means a reliable source on this. I have no background in this field. however, i do not think "multiply" here is referring to multiplication. I think it means "multiple" but with -ly as the suffix. so in other words "connected in multiple locations" or something

  • @lexinwonderland5741
    @lexinwonderland5741 Рік тому +98

    How do you keep taking your viewer on journeys through so many bizarrely disjunct ideas, and leave us with a sense of not just knowledge but comforting wisdom? Your teaching style is incredible. Thank you for making these videos!!!

  • @megacarls9894
    @megacarls9894 Рік тому +146

    Yet another beautifully made video. This channel is a hidden gem on youtube.

  • @PhysicsLaure
    @PhysicsLaure Рік тому +77

    I had never heard of the idea that if tge universe has a border, then there's some places in space that are more special than others. Really cool idea! 🧡

    • @physicsforthebirds
      @physicsforthebirds  Рік тому +26

      Yeah, it's amazing how much of our understanding of cosmology is based on that one idea!

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 Рік тому +9

      @@physicsforthebirds Is there actually a reason for the cosmological principle, or is it more like, "If it isn't the case, then we can't ever know shit about the universe, and that would suck."?

    • @photonicpizza1466
      @photonicpizza1466 11 місяців тому +3

      @@lonestarr1490 It’s more that we just don’t have a good reason to assume some places are more special than others, the burden of proof there is pretty heavy. So, we just assume the opposite.

  • @reclude2059
    @reclude2059 Рік тому +16

    My first thought when you brought up the universe repeating was that "alternate dimension" thing in super mario 64 where if mario's coordinates exceed the size of the world the game subtracts the max coord value however many times necessary to treat it like he's still inside the boundaries. The exploits they use to get obscene amounts of speed are like too powerful or smthn like that so its easier to aim for a spot a few dimensions over rather than in the same dimension. I think there's some other weird behavior that makes them useful but i don't recall

    • @lucyferos205
      @lucyferos205 Рік тому

      This is actually how some multiverse theories work

    • @Superscout8
      @Superscout8 Рік тому +4

      "The exploits they use to get obscene amounts of speed are like too powerful or smthn like that so its easier to aim for a spot a few dimensions over rather than in the same dimension. I think there's some other weird behavior that makes them useful but i don't recall"
      "to answer that we need to talk about parallel universes"
      here is a great video by bismuth explaining the concept it is super interesting to hear the math behind the code: ua-cam.com/video/wjge1bVobN0/v-deo.html
      as for the usefulness in speed runs it allows TAS makers utilize the massive speeds possible with backwards long jumps, because without them you would clip into out of bounds too often and that would limit the places you could go with such massive speed. in particular the ABC crew is trying to remove all the a presses in the game and parallel universe movements allow them to remove quite a few of them
      if only we could jump up the stairs repeatedly to go around the universe and cut the work commute by 99%

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    @friendlyoldpieceofapoppedp711 Рік тому +32

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  • @ryryskywalker
    @ryryskywalker Рік тому +15

    Today I found your channel and I'm really enjoying it. This semester I got a small introduction in topology in Analysis 2 class, it's interesting to see a more "practical" approach to the topic.
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    @badguy562 Рік тому +3

    Like how you connect math topology and kind of geometry to the physical behavior of the universe. It shows that math is so much more than numbers. It is the fundamentel language of our universe.

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    @nicememe6533 Рік тому +1

    When you stare at the universe with boundaries at 4:21 and it switches to the one without boundaries you'll see a blue circle for the next few seconds whereever you look

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    @vixielune Рік тому +11

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    • @physicsforthebirds
      @physicsforthebirds  Рік тому +2

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    @zombathinlostleghackercat5233 11 місяців тому +1

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  • @musaran2
    @musaran2 8 місяців тому +1

    "Signs of looping universe?" had been bugging me for a long time.
    There was the weird rare annular galaxy behind an annular galaxy, but I never thought of using the CMB.
    Thank you.

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    @wbungbongdingdong Рік тому +2

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    @love_a_hater Рік тому

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    @corkscrewa Рік тому

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  • @neutrino1011
    @neutrino1011 Рік тому +1

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    @mkteku Рік тому

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    Inspiring stuff all around.

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    @dinken_ Рік тому

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  • @rebeccarivers4797
    @rebeccarivers4797 5 місяців тому +1

    Loved this video. I love being able to see a piece of math and know what you are referring to before you finish it. Kinda sad you didn’t give John Nash a shout out for the Nash Embeddings on a torus. He is so much more than just the Nash Equilibrium. In the movie A Beautiful Mind when he is being told he is being considered for the Nobel prize, he mentions his embedding theorems which he always cared more about than the Nash Equilibrium.
    Second thought, is referencing if the universe is larger than the observable universe. This theoretically could be determined by looking at the rate of expansion of the universe. Because while we can’t see past 13.7 Billion light years, gravity will still affect things that far away. As our universe expands, it gets closer to itself on the opposite of the initial expansion. Objects moving away from the big bang would at first slow down, but once they got close enough to the “other side” they would speed up again because they are being attracted the other way. By testing different mass/size combinations, you could maybe find a curve that matches what we are observing.

    • @rebeccarivers4797
      @rebeccarivers4797 5 місяців тому +1

      Just going on some basic envelope math, I think that means we can have an upper bound of the universe size at roughly 4 times the age of the earth times the speed of light because halfway to the edge of the unvierse we would start speeding up again(in a simplistiic model). So the size of the universe is < 55.2 Billion light years wide.

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    @kashu7691 Рік тому +1

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    @lucasferreira3054 Рік тому +1

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    @esssaaaa5417 Рік тому

    you made this video and topic so simple that this is the first time viewing and my mind is absolutely blown.

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    @jacopocio5541 Рік тому +3

    your videos are SO COOL, i just love this stuff. like. science, but at a scale so uncomprehensibly big it might as well be philosophy. also you have an incredible talent at explaining complex subjects!

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    @Spudcore Рік тому +1

    I love your videos. You have a really disarming presentation style.

  • @RoflWaffer
    @RoflWaffer 11 місяців тому

    1:11 this image and idea is absolutely hilarious to me.

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    @mordiemannogenost69 Рік тому +1

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    @nathanmaoah4906 Рік тому +1

    Love this, love thinking about space!

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    @stonedtodeath6550 Рік тому

    this channel is like so good for explaining space and like other concepts and how do you only have 10k subs???

  • @crustyhotcake8067
    @crustyhotcake8067 Рік тому +1

    I'm a bit late but I just wanted to say that as someone that does cosmology research, these videos are really pretty incredible. You do such a great job of boiling these topics down to something someone with little to no physics knowledge can understand. We need more people willing to engage with the public and get them excited about physics and astronomy so thank you for doing that so well.
    Also, just a small note: the observable universe has a radius of ~45 billion lyr thanks to the universe expanding.

  • @kabylfx
    @kabylfx Рік тому +1

    Great video man. Keep it up!

  • @xiphosura413
    @xiphosura413 Рік тому +4

    Have you looked into the recent developments surrounding the cosmological principle? What some call the crisis in cosmology. It is quite interesting to see how the further we can look, the more large scale structure we find, which challenges our idea of on what scale the universe begins to look homogeneous, and does it actually hold. Really ties into the ending of your video, and how the 'objective truth' such as it is may be forever hidden by the limits of what is even physically possible to perceive. I'm interested in seeing what JWST can provide. So far, it has only reinforced the difference in measurement of Hubble's constant. Perhaps the universe too had a dent which became a hole at some point :)

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    @el.blanco8961 Рік тому

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    @t3x731 Рік тому +1

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    @smorcrux426 Рік тому +1

    such a wonderfully amazing channel

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    @davidhoward2901 Рік тому

    Amazing thought provoking and whimsical

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    @Vinzmannn Рік тому

    I just discovered you a few days ago and now I get a new video. Hell yah :)

  • @spcyndles
    @spcyndles Рік тому +1

    this is the first time I've felt satisfied after seeing someone talk about the universe and say that we might never know

  • @iwanttwoscoops
    @iwanttwoscoops Рік тому +1

    you are a fantastic scientific communicator

  • @Deerd
    @Deerd Рік тому +1

    I really love these videos 😍

  • @envycollar
    @envycollar Рік тому

    this video was awe inspiring

  • @axelle0144
    @axelle0144 Рік тому

    The title reminded me of the movie "Everywhere Everything all at once" where there are millions of parallel dimensions or possibilities which are all connected to this void bagel

  • @shaunclare36
    @shaunclare36 Рік тому

    Hidden gem of a channel, all hail the mighty algorithm for bringing this channel upon me.

  • @sethreign8103
    @sethreign8103 9 місяців тому

    I've been sharing this theory with everyone for years I'm so glad someone made a video about it :)

  • @VuvuzelaTM
    @VuvuzelaTM Рік тому

    I liked the video just because your logo, and I'm commenting just because of the channel name! Hope the video keep the stream of creativity

  • @skyhighflying1525
    @skyhighflying1525 Рік тому

    Please oh please do a video series on physics. Everyone else is so confusing but you managed to flawlessly explain why our universe is both a Pringle and not a Pringle in a way I understood

  • @plootyluvsturtle9843
    @plootyluvsturtle9843 Рік тому +1

    knowing that the first recognizably human attributes that forms when your born is the butt makes me unreasonably happy for some reason

  • @dog-with-knife
    @dog-with-knife Рік тому +2

    thank you for making physics videos for birds, me and my pet seagull really appreciate it!

  • @shintsu01
    @shintsu01 Рік тому

    I am glad to found your channel so early on, I love the way you explain difficult to grasp subjects and make it exiting and giving me the Aha, Hmmm, Interesting kind of feeling :) not many are able to do that for me at least. I feel I better understand these topics now that I watched your video about it. please keep up the good work I am sure more birds will flock around your channel!

  • @3089io
    @3089io Рік тому

    "In this video we are going to develop an intuition for topology, then we are going to use it to find out what happens at the edge of the universe."
    Did you give yourself a high five after your wrote that line? Because you should have. Seriously. All time banger. You're really good at this.

  • @nyuh
    @nyuh Рік тому +1

    oh wow this video...
    i just realized the visuals reminds me of Things To Make And Do In The Fourth Dimension
    but the style of explanation itself...
    reminds me of vsauce. the way you go from one thing to another thing but to actually talk about one overarching thing. and the ending with the musicc. whoa. like you tie a bow on the vid. very satisfying.
    as a someone who wants to make more vids, its rly inspiring

  • @mnrvaprjct
    @mnrvaprjct Рік тому +2

    Please do a video on hyperspherical universes!

    • @paulfoss5385
      @paulfoss5385 Рік тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/gCqbljaFZ9k/v-deo.html

  • @floen
    @floen Рік тому

    I am equally impressed as all the commenters. You clearly are an amazing teacher and are quite brilliant. My one tidbit of feedback is that I found the opening music a bit too jarring. Perhaps it was the volume, or maybe it was the composition or instrumentation. In short, it was just a bit distracting. That being said, the rest of the video was a real pleasure to watch. Thank you for taking us on these amazing journeys!

  • @viktorgrezu7874
    @viktorgrezu7874 Рік тому

    Your content is amazing and beautiful

  • @3polw
    @3polw 10 місяців тому

    I don't know if you've ever read Daniel Pinkwater, but this reminds me of Uncle Borgels explanation of space and time; Space is like a bagel with *EVERYTHING* on it, and time is like a map of New Jersey

  • @robotboi763
    @robotboi763 Рік тому +7

    The quality on this channel is just crazy

  • @freekbird7570
    @freekbird7570 Рік тому +1

    I love this for reasons unknown

  • @mroberts225
    @mroberts225 Рік тому

    First time watcher. I've watched a ton of educational science youtube, and I really like the content and animations. Good level of detail without getting in the weeds. If you're looking for feedback, I think you need some sort of audio bed, the vocals sound solid but the silence between sentences is a bit jarring. Keep it up, and keep iterating on the format,. You've got a new sub. :)

  • @vorpal22
    @vorpal22 Рік тому

    This is a great video and you explain things very well. I'm a mathematician who works as a programmer in astronomy and this was still fascinating to me. I, too, prefer to just say, "We don't know," than to slap a silly answer on a question because uncertainty makes some people uncomfortable.

  • @pyrokinetikrlz
    @pyrokinetikrlz Рік тому

    crazily good for people that want to tip their toes into the waters of topology and cosmology!

  • @trstmeimadctr
    @trstmeimadctr Рік тому

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

  • @AlbertMartino17
    @AlbertMartino17 Рік тому

    Birds and physics. Couldn’t ask for more~ I hope you never get a new mic, haha. Love your work ❤

  • @djimiwreybigsby5263
    @djimiwreybigsby5263 4 місяці тому

    Bravo!!!!
    My mind is still unspooling😊

  • @ultrapea
    @ultrapea Рік тому

    SO UNDERRATED

  • @Mittzys
    @Mittzys Рік тому

    I loved this video

  • @DarkAngelEU
    @DarkAngelEU Рік тому

    I'm SO happy to have stumbled on a video that actually explains the shape of the universe, instead of just repeating that it's flat over and over. My friends like to act very smart by knowing scientific facts, but rarely can they answer questions like this nor do they have the imagination to think together, they just start saying that "reality is an illusion" and we're all living in Flatland lmao

  • @m1.r0_bot
    @m1.r0_bot Рік тому

    I'm just glad it's always in a shape of some food product

  • @neon_Nomad
    @neon_Nomad Рік тому

    Great video :)

  • @the-chipper7474
    @the-chipper7474 Рік тому

    I love this guy

  • @JaySmith91
    @JaySmith91 Рік тому

    12:15 The oldest light we can see is about 13.8 billion years ago in time or a little less, but it's something like 46.5 billion light years away in distance. This is because the universe has been expanding in that time.

  • @homiealladin7340
    @homiealladin7340 Рік тому

    The seeing yourself if you have a big enough telescope broke my mind. but obviously depending on topology.

  • @pafnutiytheartist
    @pafnutiytheartist Рік тому +2

    Importnt note: cosmological priciple is a big assumption itself.

  • @josuanygren
    @josuanygren Рік тому

    Amazing channel. New sub.

  • @Boardwoards
    @Boardwoards 11 місяців тому

    bold and i'm here for it thanks yo

  • @Arnau902202122
    @Arnau902202122 Рік тому

    loved it

  • @_Aarius_
    @_Aarius_ Рік тому

    Before watching, the title reminds me of the Simpson's episode where Steven hawking tells homer his idea of a donut shaped universe is interesting... Will see if there's a connection in this vid!

  • @tokiWren
    @tokiWren Рік тому

    "I got bored. So, I put everything on a bagel."

  • @ishashka
    @ishashka Рік тому +1

    One thing I don't understand is why we assume the cosmological principle to be true. It makes some intuitive sense, but it seems quite brave to just go "yup, that's probably true" and base other science on that.

    • @physicsforthebirds
      @physicsforthebirds  Рік тому

      I need to reask myself that all the time. In some ways you might say it's based on our history with cosmology: we started off thinking that our city-states were the center of the world, then that the world was the center of the universe, then the sun, then that each star is a sun... We just keep on learning that we're less special than we thought, so the natural extension is that everywhere is not special.
      But there's observational evidence. For one, there's a maximum size of things that we've seen. Nothing is so big that it breaks it (but recently there have been close calls: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%E2%80%93Corona_Borealis_Great_Wall). The most direct evidence is the CMB, which is remarkably similar everywhere even over very large scales.

    • @ishashka
      @ishashka Рік тому

      @@physicsforthebirds I'm no cosmologist, but it still seems possible to me that the universe is bounded, but the edges are so far away from us that we can't possibly notice their effect. Still, if the principle is true, then it has an interesting implication: true, we could say that the universe has no center, but we can just as well say that every point in space is the center of the universe. No idea if that means anything profound either in terms of science or philosophy, but it's cool to think about.

  • @colin3504
    @colin3504 Рік тому

    Awesome video! What's soundtrack you use?