How Does a Real-Life Escherian Staircase Work?

[@rrangwooo]

Infinite stairway is... In science: Escherian staircase In real life: escalator

[@hon1to]

Lol

[@tunkhine3987]

Walk downwards on an escalator that is going up

[@cloakey1036]

For you that dont know, an escalator revolves on a belt

[@Limbust_company]

@@cloakey1036 SPY!

[@sciencedoneright]

*UNDERRRATED*

[@redcharget5894]

“Infinite stairs are impossible” slopes: *are you sure about that*

[@muhammadriedhoramadhansyaf5086]

What a plot twist! :)

[@maheshrathod204]

Yes

[@skipegamerarsh2856]

🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@SonOfAFridge_]

I can hear the voice

[@vorox7658]

@@SonOfAFridge_ 3 years later

[@moonlightmando7163]

Am I the only one who saw the dropoff without the reveal? No wonder why I was confused of how it even was an illusion.

[@hamsterclamper]

I saw it too, right from the start

[@FunnyCODAssasin]

I saw it too. They tried covering it up by making it all black but it was the only possibility.

[@1vader]

Yeah, I thought it was pretty obvious. But I was surprised at how steep the dropoff actually was after seeing it from the other angle.

[@TNaizel]

@@1vader yeah I didn't realise that the drop off was so high, if it was lower the illusion could have worked from the start

[@84ambar]

@@FunnyCODAssasin yeh it was the darker than vantablack colour he made that sucks 99.23% of all light

[@lilbirdy5747]

1:56 ''it's not quite the shape you'd expect'' Exactly the shape I expected

[@Nattyzeenha]

This one didn't quite work. I could see the drop off from the beginning. It didn't look like you were going up on that corner, but down. I know the idea of the trick, but it didn't work for me this time.

[@leviathanqueen3780]

Agreed

[@PowerScissor]

I think if it was 3d printed, with nice crisp lines and angles, it would have looked better. Being handcrafted really didn't work for this one.

[@srividhya_07]

Yeah... For me also

[@thomasherzog86]

@@Bszewski the f*ck? everyone but you, including 90+ likes understood her.

[@DeviIsAdvocate]

@@Bszewski bro she's spitting fax. You could clearly see the steep drop off...are you partially blind ?

[@DaP84]

Slope was obvious to me, looked like a slope even from fixed angle. Didn't realize it was that steep though.

[@Hugh.G.Rectionx]

it was obvious to just about every single person with eyes

[@rhaib]

same

[@Dayayam]

same- LOL

[@StickyWaves]

It was very obvious but it's painted very black so you can't see depth very well.

[@DaP84]

@@Hugh.G.Rectionx I don't even have eyes, I listen to the rgb pixels frequencies. Kinda like echo location

[@neutronenstern.]

ok lets make a slide in a nil Geometry and have fun and free energy.

[@foxtrotgolf4957]

Wait till science bois criticize about perpetual motion being impossible

[@neutronenstern.]

@@foxtrotgolf4957 i am scince boi. But yea wont work of course (;

[@bengineer8]

@@foxtrotgolf4957 ZenoRogue does have a video on the matter.

[@muhammadriedhoramadhansyaf5086]

@ElectroBrocoli Felix ok BOOMers Jk

[@adriantheo7654]

I thought you say Geometry Dash lmfao

[@wranglerboi]

One of the best "real time" demonstrations of this Escher phenomenon was in the 1986 film The Name of the Rose, a Medieval mystery starring the great actor Sean Connery. In it he and his protege discover a hidden library in an old monastery that can be reached only by climbing stairs that cannot possibly exist since, at one point, they are facing each other on stairs on opposite sides of the tower--and they are each upside down to the other. Once they are in the library, they go down stairs from one room to another only to eventually end up in the original room! Quite a fascinating section of film that has never (to my knowledge) been duplicated since. If you've never seen the film, it is well worth finding and watching. The key is whether you can solve the mystery before they do!

[@dionnesoliloquies]

apparently it has also been adapted in animation. Watch Chainsaw man and the same concept has now been duplicated.

[@ks0ni]

Instructions unclear, head stuck in a microwave.

[@ilikelebronjames6426]

Wow, what an unoriginal, unfunny comment

[@crimbo6993]

@@ilikelebronjames6426 but it made me laugh ..

[@walterkolpons7361]

??

[@fundemort]

Instruction nuclear

[@hakrj12]

@@ilikelebronjames6426 If you can't laugh at the classics you are dead inside. Sorry for your failed life. Maybe some prayer and vitamin C will help.

[@pixlv6384]

1:47 "Its not a shape you'd expect" *Actually is what i expected*

[@researchers7998]

*Imagine the office staircase being like this one*

[@lyn7591]

Not only U won't need to arrive on time and u won't be going home either

[@spywalkz1]

The stairs would take you to Brazil

[@bloodthirst4315]

3:14 do you recognize this music

[@kbee225]

@@lyn7591 I see that as a win-win

[@lyn7591]

@@kbee225 plot twist: you are working from home

[@rgwbibwzuarwbraoubbweviuxg7526]

We should have a one hour version of him waking the LEGO person up the stairs

[@rgwbibwzuarwbraoubbweviuxg7526]

No way u hearted my comment out of all of them :D

[@cameronnesta7687]

@@rgwbibwzuarwbraoubbweviuxg7526 Congrats ^.^

[@OhYeah-GATHSY]

Yes I have rewatched the lego walking up like 200 times now

[@aksiljano8101]

Indeed,It's weird but for me it's quite interesting haha

[@bogdanostaficiuc6385]

Nah. I want 250 hours.

[@antreaskonstantinou8585]

Instructions unclear, I reached the moon and my oxygen supply is running out.

[@gklnth187]

Take lift from Saitama

[@mslevin8150]

@@gklnth187 😂

[@mslevin8150]

Use *Moon Breathing First Form* P.S : only *DEMON SLAYER* fans can understand

[@divyalokhande3586]

@@gklnth187 plant a tree 🌳 ASAP

[@theadissons1372]

@@divyalokhande3586 find water from the moon and shine sun on the tree QUICK

[@KielIsleta]

2:28 is it just me or that looks like a shoe Edit:wow guys this is prob my most popular comment thanks😊

[@JoitaDhar]

It’s just you

[@Wilhelmhehe]

You

[@The.throngler]

Lol

[@janinjajones]

I see it.

[@Bruh-vd1pp]

itsjustyou

[@tomclanys]

2:59 why is there Unus Annus music in the background? *confused screaming and crying about what's gone*

[@rebelli65]

That took me for a spin, I’m so sad it’s gone

[@supersolomob422]

Same, that music is obscure enough for him to only use it because he knew about it. It makes me happy, knowing how much it's missed, and how well it'll be remembered.

[@00WatName00]

That's because Unus Annus just made it popular. But it's a song called Turncoat by Michael Rothery and it already existed even before Unus Annus came to life. But yes they will be remembered so we shall continue crying..

[@GamingClubGermany]

memento mori

[@dallor714]

NOOOOO

[@RaivoltG]

You are the first person I've seen to show the actual shape of the srairs! I knew there was a trick to it but seeing it I can visualize exactly what is going on! Great video! This whole video is awesome!

[@robinbrowne5419]

It's just like when I tell my grandkids Time to go up to bed. No matter how long they take, they never get there :-)

[@karo3529]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BedrockGateBreaker]

"It's not the shape youd expecte" No that's exactly the shape I expected

[@HoradeFidges]

I got the general Idea, but didn't expect one side to lower so much, I thought it was going to be a little bit more subltle, but nope.

[@BedrockGateBreaker]

@@HoradeFidges I agree

[@TheoriesofEverything]

Now you just need a video on Gödel and Bach.

[@orb3796]

lmfao

[@otakuxgirl6]

Who is bach

[@duality1017]

The Action Lab: its real infinite stairs Me: hes just turning the lego guy

[@domomitsune5920]

I would love for someone to make a real-life staircase like this. I've climbed 30 flights of stairs one time, and felt just like this. None of the floors have the number from the stairwell, so it felt like it gone on for infinity. The real question is, would a person know they were on an infinite staircase? Or the brains eventually tell them, something isn't right here? Much like how people get lost and end up doubling back where they started.

[@leonsgameplays5804]

They already did it, a Filipino architect named Rafael Nelson Aboganda did it in a building

[@TheChronicsmoka]

Building #7

[@minaedwar]

90 degrees right angle is actually a feature of Euclidean flat geometry, a Line drawn on a sphere is actually a curve and the 90 degrees you measured is actually between the tangents to these curves, not the actual curves. There is a 3D angle measurement called the Steradian

[@zohayr3705]

The Unus Annus music in the back makes this so much more interesting

[@alyoooh]

Yeah. I was looking at the comments to see if someone else noticed it

[@theadissons1372]

Rip

[@dr.light64-]

@@alyoooh same lol

[@tomcats125]

@@alyoooh same

[@Gottaculat]

Grade school kid: "Ugh, geometry 101 is so hard!" * Nil Geometry has entered the chat... *

[@bonjourbonjour1008]

Pretty good but the dimensions weren't perfect.

[@hazza2247]

Underrated comment

[@mikat_2977]

Exactly

[@farhanshaikh9402]

Hey man you are my favorite KZbinr. I don't think that no one is making videos like you❤️❤️. You are going to hit 10 million soon. Keep it up🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@TimpBizkit]

If you had two really long corridors that sloped down so gently you didn't notice, you could have a flight of stairs going up on either end. They might need to be like 300 metres long though for a single 3 metre rise.

[@NoneTaken]

Escherian Staircase: Basically an infinite staircase but it's more "special" Escalator: **laughing in auto-moving infinite staircase**

[@sovietbot6708]

I figured these out the second I saw them.

[@donfraki4306]

It was pretty obvious, eh? The trick of connecting the two flights with a downward slope.

[@bluetime78]

@@donfraki4306 if presented better it would be harder to see, just check out Jabrils video

[@winproduction7585]

Hey I have a question? how can you make open box with only 3 right angles? it should be 4 right angles to make box right?

[@winproduction7585]

Oh, seems like i get it. he just did not connect the last line to the original angle

[@accountwith16chr]

oh my god turncoat started playing at 3:10 I'm gonna cry Unus Annus Memento Mori

[@dr.light64-]

F

[@Sammie-r7d]

I saw this on KZbin got confused, then I decided to consult an expert. This dude explains science wonders like a pro

[@infinityverse598]

I have used this stairs. I pinched myself it didn't hurt. Then I woke up. Good morning

[@frontrowdota4696]

So this is the kind of stairs they used in The big bang theory

[@RayMak]

My mind is blown

[@exari_]

HOLY

[@harsh3624]

Stop commenting on popular videos.

[@harsh3624]

And every video I watch.

[@harsh3624]

Are you keeping track of my browser history.

[@Yuri-ir8wy]

What if this guy is actually forgot to switch to justin y and accidentally revealed his real account

[@metalvideos1961]

always nice to see a dutch person mentioned in things like this. as a dutch person like that

[@thomasherzog86]

3:55 - flat earthers cover your ears.

[@andrewtodaro2874]

🤣🤣🤣

[@raulquindosmorales6819]

I think most people wrote a comment before the 2 min hit mark... love how we tend to judge something before fully analyzing it

[@thedorito5434]

I can't read that word so let's change it to Ed Sheeran. 😂

[@nick2electricboogaloo589]

Ah yes Ed Sheeran the infinite staircase

[@humanbeing1429]

Lmao. I wonder where you people get these wits from and what you actually eat to be this way 😂😂😂😂

[@nick2electricboogaloo589]

@@humanbeing1429 I get it from my dad and I eat dinner for breakfast and breakfast for lunch and lunch for dinner

[@Sesquipedalia]

@@humanbeing1429 the truth is... doritos. Look at the name of the person who commented this

[@kabkab8441]

MC Escher's "Hands" taught me how to draw myself. Really Cool !!!

[@8miceinabox]

Wait, if you keep walking up the stairs in a circle, that means you aren't really getting anywhere, or do the stairs still bring you up to the top floor?

[@donfraki4306]

Yes, but it also brings you back down to the bottom floor when you are supposedly walking up... The magic of Nil Geometry 🎆😃

[@bankrupt3am932]

I'm not an expert, but that was the best explanation of spherical gemetry that made me finnally understand it.

[@spicyclips552]

*"So you can see I'm continually climbing up but getting to where I'm starting from"* *well duh, at the end you're going down back to the start*

[@gulshan9637]

Anybody say anything this was amazing ❤️

[@gulshan9637]

Lov from India

[@supersolomob422]

3:00 WHY IS THERE UNUS ANNUS MUSIC, this the track Unus Annus basically used for it's theme. I can notice it so well because I just listened and listened when it went away.

[@00WatName00]

Well that's because it isn't unus annus' music to begin with. It's a song called Turncoat by Michael Rothery. 👍

[@bluetime78]

@@00WatName00 yeah, hate when people do that lol

[@shanusays]

Nil geometry. Free energy from never ending waterfalls! Fascinating!

[@69k_gold]

But I can literally see you climbing down in the top left part tho :/

[@neel.wonderscience]

1:34 I got it even before you explained it to us!

[@nodis]

I just realized what the 2nd song was, if anyone else notices it. Memento Mori

[@dr.light64-]

Thank god someone pointed it out lol Memento Mori

[@connie1wilson]

In the spherical geometry you showed us, the tri right-angled triangle angles are more than 90°, more 100° or so??? Maybe in a bigger triangle this woukd work better?

[@abdudayyanshaboodien9591]

This guys teaches me more in 5 minutes than me physics teach in a year 😄😂

[@X0verXDriveX]

Those stairs are like my career. I feel like I’m always going up but then I end up at the same place.

[@bru_music_official]

I love this dude, most wholesome guy ever

[@beactivebehappy9894]

3:06 When you miss the most important part of the tutorial

[@othmanalsomeet]

I don’t understand anything he says but I enjoy his videos

[@giornospiano9729]

3:00 background music it unus annus Memento moris

[@chhayachauhan8521]

This looks easy but its not easy at all BTW the background music was good😁

[@tudbut]

Wow, im early for once

[@rabbidish]

nobody cares

[@tudbut]

@@rabbidish why did you care for it then

[@hapmaplapflapgap]

4:03 I don't know where you got this. There should be geometries for any topological space. These 3 are just the most common ones.

[@Vint_Trn]

how is this staircase even possible

[@gdhammr8113]

It’s not. Did you watch the video?

[@Vint_Trn]

@@gdhammr8113 yes, but no lol. only saw the introduction. also cool user name

[@supernovactc3283]

@@Vint_Trn watch the video if you really want to know about the solution/possiblity

[@donfraki4306]

@Shekhar Not in the world as we know it, anyway. Other geometries can change the way we perceive numbers, it seems, such as when two flights of stairs are perceived to become an infinite number of stairs. Intriguing truly. The conjoining of algebra (numbers) and geometry

[@dragonmaster9316]

@ACTION LAB IS THIS THE ONE THEY USE IN INCEPTION

[@Giyga]

3:11 I see you know Unus Annus

[@quanta_reletum6643]

Basically, he wants to convey that, If you're stuck in a loop then congratulations, You have found what is called as Infinity

[@ks0ni]

Instructions unclear, stuck in infinite loop.

[@luthermorrisjr1657]

😂 omg

[@bluetime78]

Actually you nailed the instructions so good it actually worked wouldn’t call that unclear

[@ks0ni]

​@@bluetime78 Yeah, the stairs _are_ in a infinite loop

[@vilipsy658]

Guy just explained to me my entire 2 months class of physics in a five minute video and it made more sense than the 1 month I've already spent learning it, wow.

[@skyejamss]

When you wanted to go to heaven but god said: *INFINITE S T A I R C A S E*

[@TheSecondVersion]

That mean you're Hindu

[@Skirot]

@@TheSecondVersion when you wanted to go to heaven But God said: you Hindu

[@dennisanderson3895]

I recall the cleverly produced/edited vid that circulated, allegedly demonstrating a real world Escherian staircase. James, you always present reality that is even odder!

[@dhernandez5623]

This was an amazing video! I've known about escher since high school but I've never thought about it in a mathematical and least of all physical sense. I know the physical model shown isn't exactly what people intuitively think of as "escher space" but it's as impressive as the ames room illusion.would love to see more videos like this. Thanks!

[@bugs5485]

The dropoff is one of the very good reasons why the traffic goes continuously to where you started. But I’m still not satisfied. I mean it’s just too stiff. Unless maybe you went there and felt the floor going down. The whole explanation is cool and believable, but it’s still missng one thing. If you happen to visit the area, you should get a spirit level tool and get every steps of the ladder and the surfaces. Because i think it’s not just a dropoff that made it. I think the whole construction is tilted a little to the right, if you take a bottle of water and lay it on the ground, would it draw more water to right?

[@feynstein1004]

Wow, I didn't know that there were 8 different kinds of geometries possible for a 3-D manifold. But isn't our world a 4-D manifold, with one of the dimensions (time) being imaginary? How many possible geometries are there for such a world? I wonder 🤔

[@bengineer8]

Infinite. Yes, 4D has infinitely many possible geometries.

[@Gaetor]

Time is not a dimension it is a movement

[@feynstein1004]

@@bengineer8 Oh wow. That's quite interesting. So our universe could have infinitely many geometries then? What implications might this have for GR?

[@bengineer8]

@@feynstein1004 I don’t know. BTW, our universe is probably fully euclidian due to space and time being the same. Geometries with time and space being different don’t have relativity.

[@bengineer8]

Example: in hyperbolic space with euclidian time, you can easily tell if you are moving towards an object or if that object is moving towards you. Reason being the fact that you would experience a force trying to rio you apart as you moved.

[@Xrairyn]

That background music at three minutes... It brings so many memories....

[@imgonnafindyourfamily3364]

3:00 *theres no coincidences, raise up your ears*

[@Xrairyn]

Memento Mori. *Unus, Annus*

[@tusharagarwal5306]

I didn't get it.

[@Xrairyn]

@@tusharagarwal5306 well, it's too late to get it.

[@solaokusanya955]

Thank you, all these timesaa I have been watching your videos and shorts....I have always been better than I came...thank you

[@zephyrus6003]

Nobody: Flat earthers: the Earth is flat 😂😂

[@TheClinchMagazine]

A moment of acknowledgement that this dude makes interesting content.

[@friendlyoldpieceofapoppedp711]

3:15 unus annus music :(

[@giulianocomoglio]

Obvious question for you perhaps, but how would gravity work in escherian stairs? I mean, if we let a ball roll down such stairs, would it go forever "down"?

[@bloodlust_9890]

"A stairway that only goes up and down" Well Duh

[@luvmonkey666]

If I’m stepping rowing after ascending the staircase up then I’m not always ascending?

[@ilikebeans3821]

Why did you pin THIS comment?

[@lowfunk8466]

Good try

[@ilikebeans3821]

@@lowfunk8466 thx

[@ilikebeans3821]

@Mechanitron 123 well, it would be cool if he had haha

[@ilikebeans3821]

@Mechanitron 123 haha

[@Narayan]

This is fascinating

[@skannerz22]

Why don’t i have a girlfriend in australia *watches grown man play with lego*

[@mrdestructive9005]

If you try you could do this with a Rubik's cube even 4*4 ones but it has 4 different staircases that are connected and always go up or down which is so cool All of the things you have to do is to grab one of the faces and move each column slightly up and turn to the right face and do it again (it will show better on 4*4 ones) after you finished look at the top face it's a continues loop.

[@2507ryan]

You do realize you have just debunked and thrown out all the flat earthers theories and or basis for argument. You sir have just made my day I love it.

[@janpertti]

Can you test does things weight more in wacuum chamber? Because air floats everything litllebit.

[@Saeiane777]

Ok but seriously at 2:59 you disprove every flat earther. I've literally seen them make the argument that this isn't possible lmao

[@shraddha-here]

Thank you so much I really wasn't getting how this works 😄

[@markridgaway3060]

Great video. I couldn't stop stairing...

[@ashraymodi836]

I get a new topic every time from your videos thanks a lot

[@randomperson11yago22]

This would make a great idea on horror movies; Going upstairs to escape from a stimuli but end up on the same floor level 👀

[@colelacey2875]

Wow, never looked at it that way, Thanx for that

[@berner]

In Nil space, how would something like a gas giant, planet or galaxy look?

[@gorjion7094]

Instructions unclear, we now identify this phenomenon as SCP-087, and is now under custody of the SCP Foundation.

[@dacid44]

Love the use of Turncoat here

[@vetriprimus4093]

I need a confirmation if I have made the staircases using a Rubik's cube because they pretty much seem to be the same to me, no illusions

[@RomanoPRODUCTION]

James, I like your haircut, very efficient. Also You have made a nice shortcut to explain the concept because it is not only an optical illusion. It is geometry in 3D.

[@yadiraolivas5915]

can non moving water freeze

[@stevepoper8073]

Haha that's funny, I just watched Jabrils's video 2 weeks ago

[@Roinkki]

I saw that one coming from a mile away. But I still really enjoyed this video! : )

[@sreerajmj3359]

You are always best when explaining thing