The Shape of Space

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Video about spaces that are finite but have no boundary, bringing advanced topology to a broad audience with computer animation. Produced by The Geometry Center in 1995, directed by Delle Maxwell and Tamara Munzner.
Free interactive software also available at www.geometrygames.org
Companion video to the book The Shape of Space: How to Visualize Surfaces and Three-Dimensional Manifolds by MacArthur Fellow Jeff Weeks.
www.amazon.com/Shape-Space-Te...
For more about this video and other Geometry Center videos, see www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/gc/

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@kelkero9062 Жыл бұрын

I really love sound effects from 90s. So mysterious.

@julesbailey6770 Жыл бұрын

They’re far-out 70s sound fx for sure

@smartalex995 Жыл бұрын

What's the name of that lil soundtrack anybody know?

@philcollinslover56705 Жыл бұрын

@@smartalex995itd be pretty hard, maybe someone extracts it from the vhs or smth

@robertenglish3921 Жыл бұрын

don't like kreatures didn't watch 😽 hm

@creepinforthe666 Жыл бұрын

@@robertenglish3921not likely.

@Spoooce Жыл бұрын

I can't tell if it's more terrifying to think of space as infinite or finite

@hornox4life Жыл бұрын

Thinking about that gave me a fever dream feeling.

@steamyninja8881 Жыл бұрын

If it’s finite, what lays beyond it? If it’s infinite, that means there are infinite versions of you out there, a good amount of them doing exactly what you are doing right now and what you will be doing for almost your whole life. Which one are you? Just as you’re thinking of them as you read this comment, they’re thinking of you. You’ve just connected with a copy of yourself by reading this comment, or maybe they’re connecting with the copy which is you.. or maybe you’re just both copies. Well, technically not copies, but identical naturally created entities.

@Shiva-mh6td Жыл бұрын

@@steamyninja8881 yoooooooooo hahahahhahaa this shit is crazzzzyy

@prophetzarquon1922 Жыл бұрын

Finite is more terrifying because then we could potentially exhaust its potential states.

@steamyninja8881 Жыл бұрын

@@Shiva-mh6td What's crazy is that the other version of yourself you thought about was just as high as you when you wrote that comment lool

@thex2thaz Жыл бұрын

1995: Staring at the clock waiting for science class to end and sleeping through the video. 2023: This is the coolest thing ever. I can’t look away.

@aortaplatinum Жыл бұрын

Space not being infinite, but instead just looping, is much more terrifying

@yamz1156 Жыл бұрын

How do comets happen to come back to earth after years?

@aortaplatinum Жыл бұрын

@@yamz1156 Orbit

@Millie-Million Жыл бұрын

@yamz1156 Comets also orbit around our star, just like any other planet in the Solar System

@tylerwilliams33 11 ай бұрын

If you think about it is a big ass planet it is easier on the mind, we to will run into the same things if we go in the straight line for long enough.

@murphyjulian7393 11 ай бұрын

@@yamz1156alignments between Saturn and Jupiter could pull the comets toward the inner solar system

@michelleh.5225 7 жыл бұрын

"let’s ride this spaceship inside the 3-torus." me: oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh

@moneyeurope1059 7 жыл бұрын

waaaaaaoh braaaaaaaaaah!

@giantlips1462 3 жыл бұрын

We have witnessed true oblivion, we are all one with the void now

@jason256-8 3 жыл бұрын

Does space have magic portals that make a spaceship return to its original position after travelling?

@zacrobyte 2 жыл бұрын

Ikr, I was super excited

@vehicleboi5598 2 жыл бұрын

@@moneyeurope1059 wooooooooah whhaaat is this stuuuufff maaaan?

@BenjaminKatz 7 жыл бұрын

This is made by the same people who did how to turn a sphere inside out

@anselmschueler 6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@FigureFarter 2 жыл бұрын

And a bunch of knots

@shanaynay333 Жыл бұрын

The Geometry Center. Which I wish was still an active organization- but sadly it's not ☹️.

@just_a_dude75 Жыл бұрын

Not knot

@austinx7149 Жыл бұрын

Yassss ICONIC

@NukTap Жыл бұрын

5:40 is a super cool moment. The nature of a 3D universe is suddenly clear, thanks to the very trippy yet logical visuals. The atmospheric synth pad is just icing on the cake

@S3aCa1mRa1n 11 ай бұрын

No this DMT trip

@216kingDavid1 7 ай бұрын

Definitely 🍄

@oberonpanopticon Жыл бұрын

This is a damn good demonstration of how the real universe could actually be smaller than the observable universe, especially near the end there where they literally explain it

@arjanpatel4895 Жыл бұрын

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@charlesmerfeld2988 Жыл бұрын

Like mirrors in a restaurant

@fred5107 11 ай бұрын

@@charlesmerfeld2988does that mean that reality itself is small?

@Miss_Darko 11 ай бұрын

@@fred5107 Well the distribution of galaxies in the observable universe doesn't have the sort of uniformity we might expect if it had that recursive nature on a scale we can observe. This is complicated somewhat by the fact that, due to the speed of light, we do not see distant galaxies as they are in the present, but in their past states and positions, further into the past the further out they are from us. So far, though, we don't have reason to think that we can see our own local group repeated or mirrored somewhere out there. It's considered likely that the universe is finite in size though, and thus may have this sort of seemingly recursive topography on a large scale. However I think the usual consensus is that the total size of the universe is much larger than our "bubble" of the observable universe. This video does demonstrate how a universe that is actually much smaller could appear to be infinite, but the sort of scales it uses to demonstrate this are purely for the sake of demonstration and not representative of reality as far as we can tell.

@fred5107 11 ай бұрын

@@Miss_Darko thank you good sir

@Invad3r 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like I need to watch this about 10 more times to really grasp what's going on, but I'm glad no flatlanders were harmed

@prophetzarquon1922 Жыл бұрын

No theoretical flatlanders were harmed in the making of this video.* *However, a theoretically infinite number of quantum flatlanders were mutually eliminated in the subsequent testing of the statements made in this video.

@trppstar Жыл бұрын

Maybe cus it doesn't make sense lol

@br0wning Жыл бұрын

@@trppstar it makes sense but the three dimensional connections are impossible to fully understand

@trppstar Жыл бұрын

@@br0wning how can you say there are other dimensions when there is literally no proof and it's all heresay? Like give me actual data that another dimension exists, instead of explaining how it works

@ottdeon Жыл бұрын

@@trppstar that’s a weird way to say “I can’t comprehend “

@Mgaak 7 жыл бұрын

This is very interesting movie (rest of the series as well). Too bad there isnt more, as a physicist I value imaginative explanations.

@nolan412 Жыл бұрын

Demystifying Science has a couple channels.

@zacharyzoellner6526 Жыл бұрын

Physics student here, love to find more videos like this

@mujtabaalam5907 Жыл бұрын

@@zacharyzoellner6526 Try scienceclic and eugene khutoryansky

@noobpro9759 Жыл бұрын

Does this mean that when we look deep enough into the sky that we can see ourselves? Nevermind. I should’ve finished watching the video

@Mgaak Жыл бұрын

@@noobpro9759 I got 3 different people answering my comment from 6 years ago. Was this video featured somewhere or got viral on TikTok ? How did you find it ?

@onlyvaluknow 3 жыл бұрын

0:30 *”what’s going on?”* The narrator says in shock, in the most monotone voice possible.

@TheWandererOfDreams Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of Airy from the HIT Object Show: One.

@PhokingLegend Жыл бұрын

Why are these more comforting and more educational than ones nowadays

@kristapskalinkasttttirrr Жыл бұрын

maybe pure logic?

@HAHA_Holocaust Жыл бұрын

@Its me or whatever you sound like you'd be real fun at parties

@DoctorDictator Жыл бұрын

They aren’t, at all

@puppytree6343 Жыл бұрын

@Its me or whatever youre not wrong, people do prefer things from their time whether biased or not. but for what its worth i like this video's 90's esque feel its pretty simple and plain weird at times (see 6:00)

@s0nn1 Жыл бұрын

@Its me or whatever maybe it's that? I imagine it also comes to personal preference because I have no nostalgia for 90s stuff since I'm a teen. And this is comforting nonetheless

@NoriMori1992 4 жыл бұрын

I got up for a bowl of cereal during the beginning, and I started laughing as he said, "Haven't we been here before…? …What's going on…?"

@MiniMinotaur675 3 жыл бұрын

It scares me that some 4th dimensional being could be watching at any time and no one would know

@ButtersLStotch Жыл бұрын

But we don’t really see a conscious 2d universe so

@user-wd6bu9ky3o Жыл бұрын

Because 2d's are not really possible but 4d is more possible 😢

@Phantarayne Жыл бұрын

@@ButtersLStotchcells volvox, amoeba etc they’re 2d beings

@deejay7339 Жыл бұрын

@@Phantaraynenot true

@Phantarayne Жыл бұрын

@@deejay7339 they’re functional entities that definitely can never experience our plane and are confined to a 2d environment so how not true?

@Yarach 11 ай бұрын

5:55 is what I saw on my LSD trip when i started focussing on where my sight begins and ends. Infinite space and infinite copyes of the universe in intself. Truly astonishing. Finitie and infinite ant the same time.

@omenoid 10 жыл бұрын

Great! I watched this in a Finnish science center in the 90's and still remember almost every second :)

@Frosmad 3 жыл бұрын

Was it Heureka?

@omenoid 3 жыл бұрын

@@Frosmad Yeah it was. Did you watch it, too?

@tingsteph 2 жыл бұрын

Did you also see outside in there?

@NuisanceMan Жыл бұрын

@@tingsteph More importantly, did they also see themselves watching it, an infinite number of times?

@Mertiven Жыл бұрын

Woah 9 years ago

@sofiaaaaaaa-sorvetina5356 Жыл бұрын

I thought "haha, I won't spend my time watching this, I'm not even interested"; then I caught myself with my eyes wide open, holding my breath for being so involved by this video.

@Dansilveira Жыл бұрын

I got the same, I was watching music theory videos, this one auto played. I was like "I'm not watching yet another flatland video... 10min? Pfff... No way". And then I got hooked by Idk what

@clayunderearth1884 Жыл бұрын

Lol me too

@midloran Жыл бұрын

This is why you need to educate yourself, so you won't feel shocked. Joke.

@shybound7571 6 жыл бұрын

no flatlanders were harmed

@jtgd 3 жыл бұрын

Thank God

@austinleland8394 3 жыл бұрын

This is giving me heavy “how to turn a sphere inside out” video vibes

@TamaraMunzner 3 жыл бұрын

As it should, it's done by many of the same people and created at the same place - The Geometry Center...

@naysay02 Жыл бұрын

it’s the music for sure. also shows the creators knew exactly who was going to be watching 😅

@miragegem Жыл бұрын

However, unlike that one this explanation actually makes sense

@xuan-productions Жыл бұрын

Watching this at early hours of the morning hits different.

@xavinoticias4971 5 ай бұрын

Dude fr, im watching thia at 5 am

@xuan-productions 5 ай бұрын

@@xavinoticias4971 ahah - exactly when I was watching it - it’s an ethereal experience

@hiphyro Жыл бұрын

idk why this video feels so comforting yet fascinating. i loved when the 3-torus opened up to the view of all the repetition (not to mention the sound of the 3-torus unfurling sounded like it was gonna be a song for a sec). this video feels like its from a different universe

@arjanpatel4895 Жыл бұрын

@realpapayahours3232 Жыл бұрын

Triangulating missles

@SCIFIguy64 Жыл бұрын

See I always thought there was like a bubble or outer layer to the universe, but being finite and boundless makes sense now

@ButtSnorkler9000 Жыл бұрын

If it makes sense you don’t fully understand it yet lol

@serotoninsyndrome Жыл бұрын

@@ButtSnorkler9000 Respectfully, came here to say this. You can intellectualize it, repeat it as fact, "understand" it; but never really FATHOM it. The more you know, the more you don't know...

@owldude9581 Жыл бұрын

Even if the universe is a shape it still has to be contained somewhere. Therefore, an outer layer is still inevitable.

@SCIFIguy64 Жыл бұрын

@@ButtSnorkler9000 I’m not saying I know it or anything, but like I get it. I can visualize a pretty simple view of a crazy concept and it makes sense. It’s like seeing someone murder their wife in an argument. I don’t know why they would do that, but I get it.

@Scufflegrit Жыл бұрын

⁠@@owldude9581 “embedded in a higher dimension” is a better way to word it.

@vinayk7 Жыл бұрын

I love these 90s retro science documentaries, thanks for bringing

@Ethan2Tone 8 ай бұрын

I was once anxious with fear and curiosity thinking of the infinite expanses of the universe. Now I feel boxed in and clostrophobic. There is still something beyond our current perception.

@LayZKimochi420BlazeIt Жыл бұрын

How did I just get the clearest more easy to understand explanation I've ever heard for the fourth dimension from a 1995 tape

@SilverSpoon_ Жыл бұрын

there's also a lot of old books about physics or philosophy waiting to be discovered somewhere in libraries, one day they will be found and loved as they should. it's not because everyone have google/wikipedia on their pockets that we have absolute knowledge, only the recent, popular stuff.

@vinsanity3510 9 ай бұрын

They cared to educate you

@SilverSpoon_ 9 ай бұрын

@@vinsanity3510 unlike videos like Kuntzergast which is now new age cult and pseudoscience BS, or Veritasium who pretend things in electricity without understanding it. And every "aliens are watching us" crap. That vid is pure math, logic, questioning a possible universe. At least we are not in a simulation.

@XxxXxx-yh5gz 2 жыл бұрын

this is strikingly similar to what we've seen in one of the blackhole scene in Interstellar

@bigbubba811 Жыл бұрын

I was going to say the same thing. This video is definitely much older than Interstellar, so maybe Christopher Nolan got inspiration from this for the final blackhole scene.

@nothereforthefame1588 Жыл бұрын

It is its the tesseract only in intersteller its 5 dimensional shown in 4 dimensions so we can get our heads round it.

@Tomatocheese Жыл бұрын

@@bigbubba811 inspiration from this specific video? Because it's more likely he read about it.. Or had researchers that know about this theory

@bigbubba811 Жыл бұрын

@@Tomatocheese True this is more likely, I just assumed this video was very old given its animation style and editing. Ive never seen anything that looked so close to the interstellar scene to be honest.

@erinthepigeon904 8 ай бұрын

the visuals and sounds of this give it such an intriguing aura; it´s kinda hard to describe

@MisterVish 5 ай бұрын

Feels like we're reaching the singularity and the end of time before the big bounce and the secrets of the cosmos/existence are being revealed to us just beforehand like a bond villain outlining his plan knowing there is no longer any way to prevent it. Feels like forbidden knowledge. A cosmic secret

@MisterVish 5 ай бұрын

@Deltexterity Жыл бұрын

5:45 that beat goes hard ngl

@zee252525 Жыл бұрын

The part with the Möbius universe blew my socks off. Great video!

@dethw1sh 11 ай бұрын

favorite part was when he was like "It's Möbian time!"

@bv83x 10 ай бұрын

@@dethw1shthen he möbius everywhere

@nic.m.7380 Жыл бұрын

This is an extremely interesting thought experiment. The visuals used make it easier to understand. Thank the KZfaq algorithm for recommending this to my

@vehicleboi5598 2 жыл бұрын

1:12 “Just as us Spacelanders live on the 2-dimensional surface…” Woah take it easy there

@kateorman 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this! I love the style of CGI from this time. And it's still a very good explanation of topology.

@88SJoe88 Жыл бұрын

Made me think if deja vus are the intuitive perception of coming back to an "emotional coordinate". Only in one dimension the story might repeat, tho, considering feelings as ways to perceive and transform reality

@melissamartinez3593 Жыл бұрын

Que ?

@samwalker8200 3 жыл бұрын

I love watching mathematics and physics videos on lsd (so perfect)

@eliannevdlinden6047 Жыл бұрын

Same hahaha idk why but this video is having me dead laughing it’s just humorous

@sh4rkss Жыл бұрын

me but shrooms

@Felipe2009cvb Жыл бұрын

@@sh4rkss Can you actually reason while on shrooms?

@commonsense9008 Жыл бұрын

Me rn

@sh4rkss Жыл бұрын

@@Felipe2009cvb i was so lost but i think i got it around the end

@Tipsy_Turby Жыл бұрын

That is so ominous and cool at the same time.

@soundacresstudio Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. The colors and music and VHS feel are so comforting to my soul.

@CloveCoast Жыл бұрын

W A R M T A P E

@pelerflyp5398 5 жыл бұрын

This is some impressive graphics for 1995

@user-ld9kr2ok9b Жыл бұрын

very cool animation, love the 90s 3d style, wish all educational videos looked like this, easy to grasp and mindblowing at the same time

@AexisRai Жыл бұрын

6:40 "a meebius strip"

@pomni_tadc_real Жыл бұрын

Why

@drenz1523 8 ай бұрын

Not a lot knows this, but that's the british pronunciation. it's always the british!

@chuffmunky 7 ай бұрын

this is not only wonderful 90s style trippiness but the most intuitive explanation ive seen so far

@jackiemoffitt6780 Жыл бұрын

"The universe is shaped exactly like the earth, if you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were" - Modest Mouse

@T3KKI1X_5.56 11 ай бұрын

6:00 The plug gave me a piece of paper and now I can see infinity

@Complete_Stranger7050 Жыл бұрын

There's something nostalgic about these animations

@Samuelisakson 9 ай бұрын

Anyone else watching this while high?

@Niko-bb4bg Жыл бұрын

Wow I can't believe I have never heard of these. Absolutely terrifyingly wonderful!

@73roken Жыл бұрын

I don’t know what it is about this video but it picked my brain in a way that I haven’t felt from anything in awhile and it felt AMAZING. I need more of this! I loved every second and learned something important. Kinda shocking to think of our universe possibly being like this for the first time in my life.

@RIGGYRPA854 4 ай бұрын

1:38 "They head straight off into space, and are surprised to come across their own sun!"

@K-Effect Жыл бұрын

I really like the music and sound effects

@Bismuth83X 8 жыл бұрын

ATTEND TO YOUR CONFIGURATION!

@calcuquack1206 3 жыл бұрын

Attend to your configuration.

@danechegoyen3550 9 жыл бұрын

Excellent stuff. Well done.

@SaveSoilSaveSoil 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! Beautiful graphics and animation!

@MamaMielke Жыл бұрын

5:50 I’m sure this point has already been made but this looks identical to how the inside of the Tessaract (4th dimensional cube) looks in interstellar

@ASGSeven Жыл бұрын

What a awesome video and concept explanation!

@reallygoodname 9 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Thanks for the upload!

@Pensive_Scarlet Жыл бұрын

Thank you for helping to make this and for sharing it here.

@That1GuyInMinnesota Жыл бұрын

This feels like analog horror

@MrItch1 2 жыл бұрын

This is existentially horrifying

@picodellamirandol4418 Жыл бұрын

This video is a piece of art I'm amazed. Please more!!!!!

@akiyamach Жыл бұрын

I need to watch an entire collection of these videos. I love the 90s style!

@LouisNothing Жыл бұрын

Wow that was a really well thought out and made video.

@BallietBran Жыл бұрын

Love this. So mind melting in a good way. Feels like an acid trip

@7JeTeL7 11 ай бұрын

simply wow; that was best presentation of finite, yet boundless universe i have ever seen, hats off!

@nightmind919 Жыл бұрын

Best and most interesting documentary I’ve seen explaining this!

@Cenabull 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks for uploading

@lordsesshomaru8960 Жыл бұрын

The authenticity and simplicity of this is marvelous. ❤

@x4disaster Жыл бұрын

6:07 This is just like my DMT trip

@uncannydeduction Жыл бұрын

Amazing, great video presentation!

@Meewee466 Жыл бұрын

How would this ACTUALLY behave with physical photons?? Would the reverse spaceships combine together?? That’s wild

@edwinalanis5546 Жыл бұрын

Excelente video, deja pensando. La base de la realidad está cimentada en las matemáticas 💪🏼

@GroovyDominoes 6 жыл бұрын

would be cool to see more

@xavinoticias4971 5 ай бұрын

5:44 , this is such an icredible video, the sound effect and seeing that this could be how the universe looks is crazy

@chinossynthesizer705 Жыл бұрын

8:05 did they use a fm synth because it sounds like it

@angel-tp3ik Жыл бұрын

is there any recommendations for more content like this?? it oddly comforts me and i want more of it lol

@FloGroX Жыл бұрын

Bravo! Vielen Dank für die Vorführung / Thank you for the show 😌

@laceyrainbolt5432 Ай бұрын

a finite universe sounds so cozy! it makes me feel comfy and safe.

@Jaggerbush Жыл бұрын

Trippy I love this. I wish this were hours long.

@Assault_Butter_Knife Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I love higher dimensional manifolds! My favorite crackpot theory is that space is a manifold homeomorphic to a klein-bottle in hyperspace and that if you travel far enough, you will return back to earth but in a mirrored form

@claytonkloch5810 Жыл бұрын

Nothing calms the 3 AM panic attacks quite like geometry KZfaq

@j.r7872 Жыл бұрын

Amazing! Thank you for sharing!!!

@-karter-4556 Жыл бұрын

Why are there no present day videos like this?

@haydenarias Жыл бұрын

We're living in the dark ages of knowledge, or want of it

@moneymakerhbd4710 Жыл бұрын

Are there anymore videos like this? Going into the further dimensions?

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 9 ай бұрын

The Geomview software they created still exists, and packages are available for current versions of major Linux distros like Debian.

@jestnutz 9 ай бұрын

The patterns of this universe blows my mind. From the sequence & precession of numbers to the geometry & matter of our perceived space.

@Alex-Defatte 9 ай бұрын

My favorite theory is the Möbius shaped universe. For some reason I can really imagine the universe on a weird wobble. Although, I can't find any examples of the shape in nature which leads me to believe it's less likely, it's still a very cool theory of space in the universe.

@zephyrdreamer 8 ай бұрын

What about something like a Klein Bottle? It’s a möbius strip but in 3D space

@jacksonhodge4638 Жыл бұрын

Infinite = infinite resources Finite = finite resources Infinite = infinite potential for competitive life Finite = finite resources for life to fight over Damn if ya do, damn if ya don’t.

@user-vv1do1wg1j Жыл бұрын

only thing is; there isnt life outside of earth. life doesnt spontaneously just pop into existence in primordial ooze. it hasnt even been achieved in a lab.

@samgoodwin89 Жыл бұрын

This brings me back to the golden era of KZfaq. Oh how things have changed

@MrwnAm 11 ай бұрын

One of the most surreal yet beautiful videos I've ever seen,

@DigitalBard1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you cosmos, for suggesting such videos, at a time when I'm questioning everything. The idea of the universe being a 3D self repeating torus is fascinating. Somebody better tell NASA that when they search into space with telescopes, that what they are seeing is mostly reflection, and the universe is infinitely expanding, but not in the manner they think it is.

@lunarkomet Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm sure NASA would appreciate this crucial input lol