Could Flatland Be CURVED?!

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Measuring the curvature of a space takes parallel transport and the Riemann curvature tensor (General Relativity). Let's explore this using Flatland and Lineland, an old tool involving lower-dimensional spaces. Brilliant for 20% off: brilliant.org/ScienceAsylum
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@Uncle-Mike
@Uncle-Mike 4 жыл бұрын
I haven't heard anyone recommend Edwin Abbott's "Flatland" in a while. So I'm recommending it. It's a book. It's flat.
@aniksamiurrahman6365
@aniksamiurrahman6365 4 жыл бұрын
Great suggestion. I enforce it.
@phamminhduc0609
@phamminhduc0609 4 жыл бұрын
yeah I heard it in a TED-ED video
@alexandertownsend3291
@alexandertownsend3291 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah great recommendation.
@raghu45
@raghu45 4 жыл бұрын
How many pages? Is it hard bound or paperback? Are each lines to be read left to right or right to left or top to bottom? Is it also in Kindle & PDF version ?
@donwald3436
@donwald3436 4 жыл бұрын
Aren't most books flat?
@crouchingtigerhiddenadam1352
@crouchingtigerhiddenadam1352 4 жыл бұрын
Paralax is very noticable after too many beers. Great video Nick, I'll be sharing this with the family.
@bierrollerful
@bierrollerful 4 жыл бұрын
I'm not getting drunk. I am just measuring the distance between my eyes.
@wesshepard
@wesshepard 4 жыл бұрын
I bet they’re excited about that
@Samu2010lolcats
@Samu2010lolcats 4 жыл бұрын
It's also very noticeable when you're seeing something very close to your face.
@dans6127
@dans6127 4 жыл бұрын
Easy to notice if you focus on a distant object and then touch your fingers together in front of your face. The old floating finger trick
@mitseraffej5812
@mitseraffej5812 4 жыл бұрын
The other thing I notice when I drink beer is how doing a stupid thing seems like a really good idea.
@anti-troll-software6151
@anti-troll-software6151 4 жыл бұрын
Everyone: Flatten the Curve! ScienceAsylum: Could Flatland Be CURVED?!
@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369
@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 4 жыл бұрын
Anti-Troll-Software Can the Curve be flattened ? Can the Flat be curved ?
@uwose
@uwose 4 жыл бұрын
I see, I am way too late to ask if the pun was intended ... you already got a heart...
@TheExoplanetsChannel
@TheExoplanetsChannel 4 жыл бұрын
Haha
@dhayes5143
@dhayes5143 2 жыл бұрын
Mathematicians: So here's a flat curve.
@the4spaceconstantstetraqua886
@the4spaceconstantstetraqua886 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheExoplanetsChannel The translator translated Haha to lol, the weirdest translation, it's correct though.
@skmaurya19
@skmaurya19 4 жыл бұрын
So we are basically THREE dimensional beings living in a FOUR dimensional world where our eyes makes TWO dimensional images. And the only way to transcend is MATHEMATICS.
@adamqazsedc
@adamqazsedc 4 жыл бұрын
MIND BLOWN
@ruthlessadmin
@ruthlessadmin 4 жыл бұрын
And technological adapters/interfaces
@ffggddss
@ffggddss 4 жыл бұрын
Well, not exactly. We are (3+1)-dimensional beings living in a (3+1)-dimensional spacetime that is locally Minkowskian, not Euclidean, in which mass-energy and stress impose Gaussian curvature on that spacetime, in a way dictated by Einstein's Field Equations. Our eyes make (2+1)-dimensional images that our brains turn into (3+1)-dimensional perceptions. And our only hope of understanding how that all works, is MATHEMATICS. Fred
@skmaurya19
@skmaurya19 4 жыл бұрын
@@ffggddss That makes more sense Fred.
@Graeme_Lastname
@Graeme_Lastname 4 жыл бұрын
I don't know if it's the only way. Have you heard of LSD? 😱
@GraveUypo
@GraveUypo 4 жыл бұрын
i love how you poke them without mentioning them a single time.
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
😈
@yomumma7803
@yomumma7803 3 жыл бұрын
poke what?
@lauranceberiya1314
@lauranceberiya1314 3 жыл бұрын
@@yomumma7803 proponents of alternative astral geometry
@frankquinn7061
@frankquinn7061 3 жыл бұрын
Taurus 😈 What about half a taurus 🙀
@mattdowds8505
@mattdowds8505 2 жыл бұрын
@@yomumma7803 Give me an F, Give me an L, Give me an E, Give me an R, Give me an F!
@tom_something
@tom_something 4 жыл бұрын
So, on a sphere, two paths that seem like parallel lines to the surface-dwellers will converge. In our universe, if you have two objects with mass floating in space with zero relative velocity between them, those objects' path through 4D spacetime would be projected as two parallel lines. Their paths will converge, which Newton would explain with the force of gravity. But those who see a little further by standing on his shoulders say that gravity manipulates the relationship of the three spacial and one temporal dimension, effectively curving the universe. Is the curvature that we describe as gravity the same as the intrinsic curvature of the universe itself?
@nibblrrr7124
@nibblrrr7124 4 жыл бұрын
Afaiu spacetime is always curved in the presence of masses, but space itself seems to be very flat (based on those CMB triangle measurements),
@thedeemon
@thedeemon 4 жыл бұрын
@@nibblrrr7124 These are two different things: how space looks locally near a star or a black hole, and how it looks globally on intergalactic scale. It looks pretty flat globally but locally near massive objects it seems as curved as GR predicts. Of course numerically time rate change is the biggest factor, space parts of the metric tensor don't change that much, but still change.
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that all sounds good Tom.
@tom_something
@tom_something 4 жыл бұрын
@@ScienceAsylum oh, neat! And something with zero relative velocity to us is observed to travel through time at the speed of light, and we know what the speed of light is, so that's how we derive the _extent_ of the universe's curvature, right? It's geometry... though a little more complicated than I could handle (stopped after AP calc).
@tom_something
@tom_something 4 жыл бұрын
@@nibblrrr7124 We travel through space at some speed that we're constantly monitoring, like how fast we're running, or how fast Earth is going around the Sun. But we're also traveling through time. We're aging. And based on the relationship between space and time, we're essentially going through time at very close to the speed of light. So I think that's where the challenge comes from in reconciling the curvature. The speed at which we watch stuff travel through space is many, many orders of magnitude slower than we watch them travel through time. Physical distances between human-made devices are also very, very small by comparison for the same reason. Remember that mass isn't the only thing that causes gravity and is affected by gravity. Energy is also in the club. So when you get into "mass and/or energy", in practice that's similar to "existance". Things that exist cause gravity and are subject to it. And if you look at gravity as a force, two falling objects of different mass fall at the same rate, meaning gravity happens to scale up with inertia, the very thing that resists it. It's too convenient.
@manuelcheta
@manuelcheta 4 жыл бұрын
I've seen another explanation: triangles on the surface of a sphere can have 90 degrees in each of the three angles.
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
That is mathematically equivalent to this 🤓
@harrygenderson6847
@harrygenderson6847 2 жыл бұрын
Another related point: The ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle on the surface of a sphere will be less than pi. The expected value for this ratio if the surface were flat (pi itself) can be calculated independently of measured values using infinite series or other methods. I had to derive one of these for an engineering exam last year :).
@gardenhead92
@gardenhead92 4 жыл бұрын
That was a great explanation of Rayman curvature
@jskratnyarlathotep8411
@jskratnyarlathotep8411 4 жыл бұрын
Roman curvature!
@alancrabb
@alancrabb 4 жыл бұрын
Wo-man curvature!
@ConnorMcCormick
@ConnorMcCormick 4 жыл бұрын
It's Rayman culture. You clearly wouldn't understand Rick and Morty
@ShiftyMcGoggles
@ShiftyMcGoggles 4 жыл бұрын
I know, roymain curvature is pretty neat!
@nou4898
@nou4898 3 жыл бұрын
ps2
@thedeemon
@thedeemon 4 жыл бұрын
Some time ago I made a program where you can see how it looks when you're inside such curved space. I took a curved 2D surface like the surface of a sphere or a torus or a wormhole and added one more orthogonal dimension to make it a curved 3D space where you can walk around and where light follows the geodesics. Video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZCzf4ycadaJgcU
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
What did you make this in?!
@thedeemon
@thedeemon 4 жыл бұрын
@@ScienceAsylum github.com/thedeemon/curved Coded it from scratch.
@realcygnus
@realcygnus 4 жыл бұрын
cool ...... would make a hell of a shadertoy
@GraveUypo
@GraveUypo 4 жыл бұрын
your video is way cooler than this one.
@nicolascalandruccio
@nicolascalandruccio 4 жыл бұрын
The "trip" is really cool
@power2go3
@power2go3 4 жыл бұрын
I just like to say that as a physics student I appreciate the way you simplify things so that everyone understands, really shows a solid and deep grasp of physics which I'd like to have
@kylebowles9820
@kylebowles9820 4 жыл бұрын
This was the longer video you were talking about on the live stream! Next level "flatland" animations better than others I've seen; unique that you touched on the Plato's cave element when they get back to flatland haha!
@shempincognito4401
@shempincognito4401 2 жыл бұрын
While I'm not sure about the gimmicks (amusing clones and stuff aren't my thing, but to each their own...), the PEDAGOGICAL skill and DEPTH of this channel are very impressive! Even if I've watched countless videos on a topic, and even taken classes or read about it, I often find this channel adding a point or clarifying something important. And in doing so succeeding where other educational creators fail. One should never judge a book by its cover (or a channel by its gimmicks); This channel, along with PBS Spacetime and a few others, are among the best KZbin has to offer! Update: Ok, I did laugh about some gags in this video.
@AxionSmurf
@AxionSmurf 3 жыл бұрын
Love this guy. He's the good kind of mad scientist.
@MrPink-cn5rr
@MrPink-cn5rr Жыл бұрын
Yehh haha
@grimwatcher
@grimwatcher 4 жыл бұрын
You know KZbin algorithm is doing something right when you discover a new science channel and it talks about flatland. You got a new subscriber sir!
@dronillon2578
@dronillon2578 4 жыл бұрын
Love your content. I find these topics hard, but I'm happily chewing through it. Thanks for cuting it into easily manageable bits.
@mixpick138
@mixpick138 4 жыл бұрын
Yet another marvelous video! One of the best/most approachable explanations for conceptualizing space dimensions I've seen in a long time. Thanks!
@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 жыл бұрын
I learn so many things from your channel, please keep these uploads up
@kornsuwin
@kornsuwin 3 жыл бұрын
Just Some Guy without a Mustache ok daddy
@eden4292
@eden4292 4 жыл бұрын
Love your content, help in learning and in explaining what has been learnt to others.
@asymptoticspatula
@asymptoticspatula 4 жыл бұрын
This channel is seriously amazing. It just gets better and better!
@saubhagyasharma9933
@saubhagyasharma9933 3 жыл бұрын
I love you bro... Never stop uploading videos on such curious topics... I am inspired by you.
@antonnym214
@antonnym214 4 жыл бұрын
Hyper-interesting and well-presented! I liked and subscribed.
@averagemilffan
@averagemilffan 4 жыл бұрын
Nice video. U deserve so many more subscribers. Btw can u do a video on optical tweezers?
@Wetefah
@Wetefah 4 жыл бұрын
You have a great talent making complicated stuff digestible. Awesome video, thank you so much.
@jasoncollins1011
@jasoncollins1011 3 жыл бұрын
I was so hoping you were going to do a “rainman curvature “ joke!! Great work sir, you make science funny and interesting. I absolutely love your work. 😊
@WillToWinvlog
@WillToWinvlog 4 жыл бұрын
One thing I've always wondered is how do you know you are keeping the angle steady as you travel? There is no universal grid for reality...
@jskratnyarlathotep8411
@jskratnyarlathotep8411 4 жыл бұрын
gyro
@FlyingOctopus0
@FlyingOctopus0 4 жыл бұрын
@@jskratnyarlathotep8411 gyros don't work in flatland.
@WillToWinvlog
@WillToWinvlog 4 жыл бұрын
@@jskratnyarlathotep8411 My issue with the gyro is that it would follow the curvature of space time rather than remain neutral to some universal grid lines. There has to be some clever solution to this, I'm curious what Nick would say.
@nithyadavuluri7287
@nithyadavuluri7287 3 жыл бұрын
Do the grids need to be universal though? Can't we map it relative to the initial vector? Just asking..
@MatheMagiX
@MatheMagiX 4 жыл бұрын
Zach Star had a video on that today too, 1 hour earlier. Well done to both of you. I repeat my idea for an episode: please explain (liquid) paint on molecular level - colors, mixing colors, how come green mixed with yellow is always the same and what happens to the surface of a paint after mixing so that the bounced light is always the same, not yellow, nor green etc.
@andysmith1996
@andysmith1996 4 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't that just be that your eyes can't resolve that level of detail? Just like colour printing or TV screens are made up of dots of separate colours but to us they appear blended.
@MatheMagiX
@MatheMagiX 4 жыл бұрын
@@andysmith1996 So there is like a mix of red-reflecting and green-reflecting atoms separately, but our eyes see it blended as brown?
@nokanol45
@nokanol45 4 жыл бұрын
paint color is subtractive, meaning they absorb some color of light and reflect some color of light. Red paint, for example, reflects red light and absorbs other colors of light. So when you mix 2 colors of paint together, say red and green, the resulting paint in theory will absorb every color of light, since green paint absorbs red light, and red paint absorbs green light, thus it would be black. however, in practice paints aren't perfect and thus in reality mixing red and green paint gives brown.
@flannn6
@flannn6 4 жыл бұрын
Another video from my favorito channel! Thank you so much for making my monday better :D
@nokian9005
@nokian9005 3 жыл бұрын
I get excited every time I stumble upon a video of yours I haven't seen yet. Keep up the good work. We're always thirsty for more knowledge.
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 3 жыл бұрын
This video didn't perform as well as I thought it would. I'm glad you found it 🙂
@akankshagautam7740
@akankshagautam7740 4 жыл бұрын
It warms my heart to see that we apes can even understand the cosmos this much. It gives me hope for the future of humanity. I hope human ingenuity overcomes all the sociopolitical mess that stands against us.
@galaxy_apollo13
@galaxy_apollo13 4 жыл бұрын
Your videos are awesome
@onradioactivewaves
@onradioactivewaves 4 жыл бұрын
Nick, you're videos are top notch for taking these advanced topics and breaking them down into laymen perceptions.
@sunrazor2622
@sunrazor2622 2 жыл бұрын
Nice and challenging presentation. I like how you start with the simple and work towards the complex.
@RevoLee
@RevoLee 4 жыл бұрын
I love your videos so much. I wish everyone had the passion and time to watch videos like these instead of chasing clout on tik tok.
@krishnagupta2777
@krishnagupta2777 4 жыл бұрын
Totally agreed.
@inuka6969
@inuka6969 4 жыл бұрын
5:21 See, they also have two balls.
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
That's a brain.
@narfwhals7843
@narfwhals7843 4 жыл бұрын
@@ScienceAsylum there's a metaphor here somewhere.
@kitflash97
@kitflash97 4 жыл бұрын
Oh my god I had been thinking about this for so long! Thanks for the video! I've got new questions now!
@bhavyananda3193
@bhavyananda3193 4 жыл бұрын
WAS EAGERLY WAITING FOR YOUR NEW VIDEO
@conoroneill8067
@conoroneill8067 4 жыл бұрын
Great video! I do have one question, though - How does parallel transport work in our 4d universe if you can't create a sub-light speed path to get back to the same point in space-time where the parallel transport started from?
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
Right, so parallel transport (with one vector) will work for our 3 dimensions of space... but it isn't going to work for _time._ That's another video (which I'm already working on).
@materiasacra
@materiasacra 4 жыл бұрын
Instead of going around, you follow two timelike (or lightlike) halves of the itinerary, starting with the same vector. When arriving at the same endpoint via two different paths, you compare the resulting transported vectors looking for any mismatch. In fact, this idea of comparing two paths, mathematically leads to a very nice way to express the Riemann tensor as the commutator of two derivatives-that-take-into-account-parrallel-transport (called 'covariant derivatives'), which is often useful. It's a good way to think.
@conoroneill8067
@conoroneill8067 4 жыл бұрын
@@materiasacra Thanks! I think that makes sense.
@JorgenewtonB
@JorgenewtonB 4 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry about my ignorance, but has anyone tried to measure this?
@andrewpatton5114
@andrewpatton5114 3 жыл бұрын
@@JorgenewtonB Yes, and the conclusion is that the universe's global curvature is zero to within one part in 10^62. Significant curvature is, however, present near massive bodies.
@danfg7215
@danfg7215 4 жыл бұрын
If we parallel transport while orbiting the Earth, will we measure the spacetime curvature of Earth's gravity?
@kylefillingim9658
@kylefillingim9658 4 жыл бұрын
What should we use as reference points? If points on earth are used we are likely to get a false positive. All stars in the sky seem to be moving relative to each other, eaven the galaxy's seem to be moving around, although they are slower. We have no fixed points therefore we cannot draw any conclusions.
@EternalSilverDragon
@EternalSilverDragon 4 жыл бұрын
@@kylefillingim9658 Your reference point is always the last vector. The idea is that when you return to your starting position, your final vector will either be the same or different from your first vector. If you used outside things as references, the test would be meaningless, like travelling around the Earth's surface using a compass arrow for the vectors; the final vector would always be the same as the first vector even if all the other vectors aren't parallel.
@rarra
@rarra 4 жыл бұрын
Your videos are well worth the wait. Some of it went over my head though
@chrisz6860
@chrisz6860 4 жыл бұрын
Great channel Nick! Have been sharing your videos with my kids
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
That's wonderful! 🤓
@chrisz6860
@chrisz6860 4 жыл бұрын
Can you do more videos on Lagrangian Mechanics with examples? Thanks!
@mojocore
@mojocore 4 жыл бұрын
Does this mean there are a bunch of 4-dimensional shapes we might be living in but we would have absolutely no way of measuring it?
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
Yep!
@eswing2153
@eswing2153 3 жыл бұрын
I’m not so sure we would have no way of knowing it.
@shrikant8446
@shrikant8446 4 жыл бұрын
3:57 "om Nom Nom Nom! 👌
@scienceandknowledgearchive8197
@scienceandknowledgearchive8197 4 жыл бұрын
Thats so great and informative. Thanks The Science Asylum
@michaelgrinter448
@michaelgrinter448 3 жыл бұрын
you got the best and most interesting science videos on youtube hands down.
@chalecoflash
@chalecoflash 4 жыл бұрын
alert. brain overheating. take a nap.
@James42_
@James42_ 4 жыл бұрын
1:00 ohhhhh!! So that’s why the do that in theater to make 3D movie?
@s3cr3tpassword
@s3cr3tpassword 4 жыл бұрын
Bach-James they used to. It’s a little different now. That why 3D glasses are different.
@SpacyNG
@SpacyNG 4 жыл бұрын
as s3cr3tpassword mentions, this is oldschool. The downside is, you loose a bit of color because of the colored lenses. The upside still is, it is ridiculously cheap. Nowadays there's two different kind of techniques: 1. Let the TV/Projecter emit double the framerate so 2x the pictures per second and then let the glasses basically alternate visibility. It's like like holding a hand in front of one eye, looking at a picture, then you hold the hand in front of the other eye, while someone changed the picture. Was mostly used in home TV sets but is on the decline. Usually called "active glasses" 2. Actually put two pictures on the screen simultaneously. With different light polarization. And then the glasses are polarization filters to only let one of the two pictures through to your eyes. This makes for nearly disposable, very cheap glasses. Which is why the theaters mostly use it. Usually called "passive glasses"
@dragonfly3402
@dragonfly3402 4 жыл бұрын
Very entertaining and informative. Thanks! 👍😊
@rc5989
@rc5989 4 жыл бұрын
Love it! Another very high quality video.
@feynstein1004
@feynstein1004 4 жыл бұрын
I find it absolutely incredible that math, in this case algebra, has ways to describe things that our brains are fundamentally unable to comprehend. Hmm could we build a machine that could "see" 4 dimensions and thus could appreciate spacetime in all of its glory?
@jamestheotherone742
@jamestheotherone742 4 жыл бұрын
It'll be on the post-singularity AI's short list.
@feynstein1004
@feynstein1004 4 жыл бұрын
@James the Other One Fair enough 😂
@eliyasne9695
@eliyasne9695 4 жыл бұрын
2:58 For the average person no, but for me, the fact that we can literally constrain the unimaginable using math is one of the happiest phenomena in the universe.
@kapilellawadi
@kapilellawadi 4 жыл бұрын
Mind blown everytime! Thankyou for putting the music back though.
@jimivey6462
@jimivey6462 4 жыл бұрын
I read Abbott’s “Flatland” 50 years ago. He would have enjoyed your presentation, as I did. Nicely done!
@johnfarris6152
@johnfarris6152 4 жыл бұрын
You should write a book, Oh yeah you did. I wish I read it.
@DigGil3
@DigGil3 4 жыл бұрын
Now here's the kicker: the curvature in the time dimension is what causes gravity.
@dankestofmemers
@dankestofmemers 5 ай бұрын
Great video! I did want to point out a subtlety regarding parallel transport that's often elided in GR videos for understandable reasons. The change in a vector after it's parallel transported around a loop is called holonomy. Holonomy doesn't necessarily imply curvature! For example, consider a cone with the vertex removed. This is a flat surface, but parallel transport around the missing vertex will rotate a vector by an amount based on the cone angle. The holonomy comes from the nontrivial topology (a loop around the missing vertex can't be shrunk to a point) as opposed to curvature. Another example is the flat Möbius strip: parallel transport around around the center circle multiplies vectors by -1. However, holonomy around loops that can be shrunk to a point (the fancy term is "restricted holonomy") does imply curvature. Any loop will do in a simply connected universe, such as a sphere. If we're worried about the global topology of the universe, then we should build our curvature detection laboratory in a region small enough to ensure that it's simply connected. As @ffggddss points out, a contractible loop on a curved manifold may not have holonomy. This can happen on a surface, for example, if the loop encloses equal amounts of positive and negative curvature. In higher dimensions, we may get unlucky and have the loop traveling in "flat directions" only. However, if the Riemann curvature tensor is nonzero at a point, then there will be a rectangle based at that point which is small enough and oriented in the correct directions so as to have holonomy. Going back to the case of surfaces, if the Gaussian curvature is, say, positive at a point, then a small enough loop based at that point will only enclose positive curvature. In a precise sense, the RCT measures infinitesimal holonomy.
@dolphintech1249
@dolphintech1249 4 жыл бұрын
7.34, Love how Pacman is put into its natural habitat
@Nulley0
@Nulley0 4 жыл бұрын
3:58 eat each other lol
@byronvega8298
@byronvega8298 4 жыл бұрын
Him: that's a bit dark Me: that's kinda hot
@olmostgudinaf8100
@olmostgudinaf8100 4 жыл бұрын
Me: that's inevitable.
@DJ_Force
@DJ_Force 4 жыл бұрын
Nerd clone wanted me to mention you can't have crossed neurons between the eyes and brain of flatlanders. Left eye must route to the left hemisphere.
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
..........dang it! You're right 🤦‍♂️
@gamerrfm9478
@gamerrfm9478 2 жыл бұрын
You also probably couldn’t have human level brain complexity without a huge area, due to the amount and geometries of neuron connections being limited.
@jlpsinde
@jlpsinde 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Nick, great as always!
@martingamauf4725
@martingamauf4725 4 жыл бұрын
This is so interesting, please do more videos on this topic :)
@luudest
@luudest 4 жыл бұрын
Maybe I too stupid for this: But the fact things fall onto earth doesn‘t this mean that space is curved? Or is this video refering to a different curving?
@cosmicwakes6443
@cosmicwakes6443 4 жыл бұрын
Change Gamer He is talking about manifolds, ambient space is excluded, it's an intrinsic geometry.
@chriskirk3670
@chriskirk3670 4 жыл бұрын
Things falling to earth is almost entirely caused by curvature in the time dimension not space curvature.
@nibblrrr7124
@nibblrrr7124 4 жыл бұрын
Well, if you assume objects in freefall take the shortest path, and the path they take doesn't turn out to be a straight line, then yes. General relativity does that. But classical mechanics can explain this just as well by saying there is a gravitational force that pulls objects away from a straight line path - no spacetime curvature needed. It just turns out that the relativistic theory can also explain other things which Newton's classical gravity can't. (Also, afaiu it's usually spacetime that's curved, not so much just the space part itself.)
@TNaizel
@TNaizel 4 жыл бұрын
He's talking about the overall shape of the universe. The Earth causes a bump on the fabric of spacetime, but we don't know if it is an infinite flat sheet or a sphere with an extremely small curvature
@ronenshtein7083
@ronenshtein7083 4 жыл бұрын
Well, two things - first, you say that because it's already "well known" that mass curves spacetime and that this curvature is felt by mass as gravity... Before Einstein no one played around with the connection between gravity and curvature, so the idea isn't too obvious. Once you understand what causes a certain force, only then it becomes "fictitious". Prior to that, the understanding was that gravity is just "is". Second, I think he's referring to the curvature of the entire universe regardless of small local masses and curvatures (at universal scales the earth is "local"). So the question would be whether the universe is an infinite (hyper)plane with curvature 0, or forms a finite size (hyper)sphere, or an infinite hyperbolic (hyper)surface, or some other weird curvature. This is what we are trying to figure out by measuring giant triangles in space, and so far it seems that the curvature is very very close to, or is exactly, 0. To produce this measurement, the lower bound on the size of the universe last I checked was something like 1000 times the size of the observable universe. So if the universe is a (hyper)sphere it's at least very very big...
@marlin_rtbt3114
@marlin_rtbt3114 2 жыл бұрын
thought ur going to talk about my mom
@Roberto-REME
@Roberto-REME 4 жыл бұрын
Great video Nick!
@navneet1464
@navneet1464 4 жыл бұрын
Since when did we start objectifying space too!
@materiasacra
@materiasacra 4 жыл бұрын
1915
@OmniGuy
@OmniGuy 4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love your videos, Nick
@rkn8109
@rkn8109 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Nick for making video on this, I always wished the same.
@RocketLR
@RocketLR 4 жыл бұрын
AAAAH THANK YOU! I've been obsessing over this for such a long time!
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help 😊
@ManojSubramani84
@ManojSubramani84 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Nick! Brilliant video!
@2x1e2
@2x1e2 4 жыл бұрын
Loved it. In fact i was brainstorming this same thing after watching pbs studio video few days back. One more thing. It would have been nice to explain "why" the vector deviates after it's parallel transport in a curved space. I tried many simulations in my head and it does, and i understand that. But would have been better if someone showed the difference between parallel transporting step by step in a flat vs a curved space side by side. Maybe pointing out how a square on flat grid is different from one on curved grid
@philochristos
@philochristos 4 жыл бұрын
This is a very good explanation of something I've wondered about for a while--how we can measure the curvature of space since any instrument we used would curve WITH space.
@hhlavacs
@hhlavacs 3 жыл бұрын
I got your book today, Nick. Looks great, cant wait to read it!
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 3 жыл бұрын
Enjoy! 🤓
@BlackFiredDragon
@BlackFiredDragon 4 жыл бұрын
Beautifully made illustration and explanation of that illustration. I just wish you brought it home by applying what we learned from the illustration to our 4D world, and explained what vectors we have used to measure our curvature
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
The problem is that the 4th dimension is _time._ That makes it complicated enough that it requires an entire other video to explain... which is coming.
@illogicmath
@illogicmath 4 жыл бұрын
Excellent video as always. Thanks
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
You're welcome 😊
@fontainenick
@fontainenick 4 жыл бұрын
If you really wanna go crazy with dimensions, Cixin Liu's 'Three body' problem series (especially Baoshu's fourth book) is pretty amazing stuff.
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
You're not the first to recommend it. People have recommended that series to me several times over the years.
@lazaraza
@lazaraza 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the entertaining and informative video. Do you have one where you explain curvature?
@gvibanhez1
@gvibanhez1 4 жыл бұрын
Awesome as always!
@michaelfarrell6448
@michaelfarrell6448 4 жыл бұрын
I'm sure I'm not the first : You are better at teaching (quality science ) than any I've seen so far on my sons homewrork thanks
@daverei1211
@daverei1211 3 жыл бұрын
Well done Nick, well done. Thank you.
@idan37
@idan37 4 жыл бұрын
I admire your videos!! Can you do a video on E8 theory?
@ChrisWalshZX
@ChrisWalshZX 4 жыл бұрын
Yay! My fix for the week! Thanks Nick
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
You're welcome 😊
@HouseClubber75
@HouseClubber75 3 жыл бұрын
Very clear explanation thankyou
@ARBB1
@ARBB1 4 жыл бұрын
Good examples and presentation as always. In tensor calculus, I remember a example where the Riemann curvature and scalar where associated as generalizations of Gaussian curvature in regular shapes, I think that'd be worth mentioning too.
@taw3e8
@taw3e8 4 жыл бұрын
At first i thought that tensors are scary, then spinors but now i know they're both
@0cgw
@0cgw 4 жыл бұрын
It sounds like you are referring to the Gauss-Codazzi equations.
@saumitrachakravarty
@saumitrachakravarty 4 жыл бұрын
Wow! I didn't know what parallel transport is. Now I love it.
@viers7040
@viers7040 4 жыл бұрын
good work man a great video i like it
@byamboy
@byamboy 2 жыл бұрын
Another amazing video! Such much fun! But one minor observation: in a one and two dimensional world, those lines have to be so thin we would never be able to see them. I would love to know how thin a dimension has to be to be considered a dimension. What if the size of an atom would already violate that? Then this beings might be made of photons or electrons.
@alexandrebatalha7253
@alexandrebatalha7253 4 жыл бұрын
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! It's the general relativity class I wish I had taken in college.
@johnclark8359
@johnclark8359 3 жыл бұрын
I think this just might be your very best video, and that's saying a lot because they're all great!
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 3 жыл бұрын
Really? It didn't do very well at first. I'm hoping it's what I like to call a "slow burn."
@johnclark8359
@johnclark8359 3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see you do a video on the difference between curved space and curved space-time@@ScienceAsylum
@Tokhaar
@Tokhaar Жыл бұрын
You are simply amazing no matter what you're explaining, everything becomes so extremely fascinating and exciting to learn 😁
@robertlin7333
@robertlin7333 4 жыл бұрын
I almost feel like you read my mind regarding Flatland analogies to our dimensions. Thanks for confirming that we can't make a standard coordinates in 4-D, first physicist, I've heard, with a platform to call out Time as a spatial dimension!
@mithsaradasanayake3211
@mithsaradasanayake3211 4 жыл бұрын
Nice work
@CarolynFahm
@CarolynFahm 3 жыл бұрын
Edwin Abbott - Flatland! You are a superb teacher.
@ailblentyn
@ailblentyn 4 жыл бұрын
I love the idea of Lineland! I am breaking my brain trying to imagine the sorts of mechanics that could exist in Lineland (longitudinal waves in linear fields that could pass theough or modify each other? Other stuff?), and whether any information processing would be possible in Lineland. I think it could be? But I wouldn't want to live there.
@DFPercush
@DFPercush 4 жыл бұрын
Depends on the kinds of particles you could have, I reckon. There would have to be some way for information to pass through "solid" objects for anything meaningful to happen. It might be possible to invent a simulation that involves particle decay and transmutation that would do something interesting, maybe using pixel colors to denote different quantum fields. But you definitely couldn't have the same kinds of particles as we do because there's no such thing as cross products or angles. It might be possible for things to have "vision" based on sending information back and forth and perceiving based on the time it takes round trip, but I don't know how it would store any memory of what it saw. Interesting to think about though.
@Qrexx1
@Qrexx1 3 жыл бұрын
You're certainly among the most entertaining online educators.
@user-uu7sk8bz5l
@user-uu7sk8bz5l 3 жыл бұрын
Sir eventhough I dont understand any of this your teachings and knowledge is massively attractive and wonderful
@KazmirRunik
@KazmirRunik 4 жыл бұрын
You could represent a 4th dimension through color hues, textures, a time progression of the diagram, topological separation boundaries, differently sized dots at different time values, brightness values, and a whole lot more. Anything that allows you to assign some value to a point, really.
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
Sure. I'm just not sure how useful that would be for _time._
@sarwattaqi2053
@sarwattaqi2053 4 жыл бұрын
I find your videos extremely helpful and give very useful insights, however I was thinking about you creating some examples so that we can use the concept of video to solve the problem and solidify the concept.
@kalevprayah3148
@kalevprayah3148 3 жыл бұрын
I love these videos so much. The math is way over my head but everything else is too much fun!
@balajisriram6363
@balajisriram6363 4 жыл бұрын
Didn't understand much maybe because i only have an electrical background , but I truly appreciate the efforts for this video. Love them as i have always
@ScienceAsylum
@ScienceAsylum 4 жыл бұрын
One of these days, I'll get back to electronics. I have half of a script written about Kirchhoff's rules that I can't ever seem to finish.
@lucidzfl
@lucidzfl 4 жыл бұрын
So find the flattest part of space and project three lasers at each other. If the angle exists there is a tensor. It’s really neat. Cool vid
@RussellMWebb
@RussellMWebb 4 жыл бұрын
It's easier to have two panels for superimposing with cross eye view. Great stuff!
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