To Hold Infinity In The Palm Of Your Hand

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This simple little experiment shows something that we find quite profound.
Create a random pattern of dots on an A4 sheet of paper, and then make an identical copy of the dots on a sheet of acetate. It is important to make sure you are using an acetate that is designed to work in a photocopier!
Place the acetate on top of the sheet of paper, and align the two sets of dots.
Then. move the top sheet slightly, giving it a slight rotation. Immediately a circular pattern appears, around the point of rotation. It works the other way, in that if the acetate sheet has been placed randomly on the top of paper in such a way that the dots are not aligned, and a circle of dots appears, place your finger tip in the centre of the circle and rotate the acetate sheet in order to move it into perfect alignment.
Tim then goes on to show other experiments when the acetate size is made slightly bigger or slightly smaller than the paper sheet.

[@TravelGeeq]

This man literally spoke about dots on paper for 7 minutes and I paid attention to this more than anything else this entire year.

[@mrtoast244]

He respects the audience and doesn't waffle, which is a really nice change of pace

[@matman6494]

The magicians magic

[@matman6494]

The magicians magic

[@NaughtiusMaximmus]

I actually didn't notice this was 7 minutes long lol

[@j3arnold]

retention is going extinct

[@aseelgamer7251]

Tim is Merely Demonstrating 1% of his Power here.

[@jps2360]

Tim does it this way because he knows the World is not prepared for his 2% of Power

[@liveuk]

Conclusions and demonstrating so many years of work is very rewarding without any effort.

[@Momo-bb2fn]

There’s some recent studies indicating he’s using only 0.1% of his power! Quite extraordinary.

[@Azloctifyy]

Really? I heard he isn’t even using any power

[@jacquelinesommerville7821]

'0.1%:'

[@KonstantinKopenhagen]

Interesting - didn't expect that something such simple could have that impressing effect. Thanks Tim.

[@Carcosahead]

Now, imagine you are the center (earth) and everything around is the universe expanding… mind blowing (with a pinch of existentialism) isn’t?

[@normanmccollum6082]

A board with a bunch of nails stuck in it, and some rubber bands, can prove to be a lot of fun too! :D

[@_Featch_]

@@Carcosahead But what is the exact analogy why you can recreate the effect of the expanding universe by twisting the copy of the dots on the papers?

[@coryman125]

My science teacher in grade 8 or 9 did this demonstration for us! He showed that the paper expanded evenly; the angles and relative distances between the dots didn't change, the pattern was identical, it's just that one paper is slightly bigger. And yet, if you line the papers up so that one dot matched (like the ring in the last example here), you can see that the nearer dots to it stayed mostly the same, while the further dots moved quite a bit. He then told us that's a great analogy for the expansion of the universe, and why it's possible for objects to appear to move faster than light away from us. The universe expands evenly everywhere, and so distant things move away from us very quickly, while things we can observe nearby (like our own galaxy) stay pretty close. I remembered it both as a very eye opening lesson, and a super fun visual, and sure enough it still holds up!

[@rickyseedo4067]

Space is fake just like an acetate paper tiger

[@johnreid5814]

The earth expands!?

[@nathanoher4865]

@@johnreid5814 No, space inside a galaxy and the things in a galaxy don’t expand. The expansion of space only occurs across extremely long distances of empty space, like gaps between galaxy clusters.

[@bayekofsiwa365]

You can also do it with a balloon with dots on them. The space between the dpts expands exponentially.

[@jujui4641]

Its a fun demonstration of the square cube law

[@HMFan2010]

@4:15 you begin to see what is known as a Moiré Effect when two identical patterns (or nearly identical patterns) are superimposed upon one another. If you move them you can achieve an apparent motion and/or a blinking effect. Sensation and Perception was my favorite class in psychology.

[@Talkingworms]

🎶 When a grid's misaligned with another behind, thats a Moire´ 🎵 (xkcd)

[@ashe_neko]

​@@Talkingworms underrated

[@meinbrazil]

​@@Talkingworms youre gonna get about a million likes right away

[@MV-vv7sg]

Could you suggest some good reading about perfection and visual sensations? I’m reading philosophy and it comes up allot but want to find some good scientific literature on the stuff!

[@HMFan2010]

@@Talkingworms That is absolutely epic! 😂🤣

[@Brekner]

The fact that the center changes when you move it around is really awesome :o

[@MelindaGreen]

And it moves very quickly from the smallest adjustments

[@duffman18]

It's why wherever you are in the universe, you appear to be in the centre of it. Because wherever you are, everything seems to be moving directly away from you.

[@haemogoblin7006]

they told me humans have this uncanny ability to spot patterns and after watching this i dont doubt it even a bit

[@MelindaGreen]

@@haemogoblin7006 The flipside is that humans also have an uncanny ability to find patterns where there are none.

[@haemogoblin7006]

@@MelindaGreen I believe you're talking about superstitions?

[@lcusatis]

Tim never disappoints. This is excellent!

[@Laurencetw]

Hey Tim. even though you never became a famous professional magician, I consider you something very close to that. I consider you a full member of a very old and small club that includes Martin Gardner, Harry Lorrayne, Dai Vernon, Karl Fulves - and more recently Ricky Jay, Michael Close. (sorry to others I can't remember at the moment). You may not be a sleight of hand expert, but your contribution is legendary and you stand among those greats imo. I am honored to know you and have a chance to comment here. God Bless you.

[@athomenotavailable]

He's a member of the Illuminati, keep it hush hush ok, else he'll send demons to silence us.

[@Tunafishloverr]

2M+ subscribers ain’t bad though

[@someone3195]

U have a weird way of complimenting. U kinda roasted the dude :,)

[@apexone5502]

From the opening credits to the program itself, this video is making me feel nostalgic because it reminds me of the type of programming I’d see on public television here in the states back in the day. Especially when public television would show educational programming from the UK. I’m digging this.

[@iboofer]

Tim, you're the best. I literally used to watch your toy demonstrations back in undergraduate studies years ago. I'm so glad you're still at it!

[@CrazedGamer117]

That’s way better than I thought. Could be a great teaching tool too.

[@masterjunk9227]

This man is like a national treasure, I love each of the demonstrations of things he shows us, and the lessons he teaches! This demonstrates the expansion of our universe and how everything is constantly moving in the depths of space.

[@kevinsalvini2806]

This is one of the coolest, simplest, most complex things I've ever seen. What a great way to show that the center of the universe is wherever you are.

[@DragonXero]

I managed to get this to work in Photoshop too! You can just drop down random noise, do some contrast and brightness to make fewer spots and brighter ones, duplicate, then transform! What's really cool is that you can actually watch the center change as you move the layer. Doing a size reduction makes it even more interesting. You start getting a clear diagonal movement of the center with size reduction and a turn.

[@ultimatelyinsane4501]

Plot twist: Tim is actually playing around with infinite multiverses and he’s just hiding it from us

[@kaustubhgupta168]

This is literally the coolest thing I have seen today! Thanks Tim!

[@Mrleejunman]

Coolest thing I have seen all week !😉

[@gunnarallgottsmann]

Yes, that’s what it is. Beautiful and unexpected. I wish everyone a prosperous, happy future 🕊🍀❣️

[@kaustubhgupta168]

@@gunnarallgottsmann Thanks mate

[@Praise___YaH]

Guys, Here is our Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified/Pierced for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Egyptian Semitic: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moshe (Moses) wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Egyptian Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"

[@generalgarand3926]

You can do this on photo editing software like photoshop or something similar as well! Create an empty layer over your white background, place the dots on the new transparent layer, duplicate the layer, then rotate the new duplicated layer and you will achieve the same effect at your desired pivot point!

[@mmedeuxchevaux]

great idea!

[@gmanplaysgames256]

I was hooked from the first couple seconds of the video, wondering "what on Earth is Tim up to here?", And I was by no means disappointed. Well done Tim and the crew, my favorite videos of yours are definitely ones like this that provoke a bit of thought.

[@Macieks300]

Tim can make even dots on a piece of paper interesting

[@Wozzup1223]

It brings me such joy that these videos are still produced, love Tim and all of his many collection!

[@KelbPanthera]

I'm glad this dude is still around after the last few years took so many older folks from us. The world will be a little darker when he leaves us. Such wholesomeness and simple charm is so very rare.

[@TheRangaTanGaming]

You can also do this on a paint program: just make the first layer, duplicate it and experiment with angles and positioning. Just tried it and it works fantastic!

[@MarkSheeres]

That’s the first thing I thought. I’m about to try it in Adobe Illustrator. 🙂

[@snapeinvader6208]

This reminds me of classic programs that were fun and engaging without much need for anything over the top. The presenter Tim has a great way about him, really draws people in.

[@TheMonikutes]

This is truly marvelous, I had never seen such effects before! And to think, that it's so accessible and quite simple to achieve, what a spectacular trick.

[@aron8999]

Hey Tim, I'm a math major. If you work with sheets of infinite size, as long as you either rotate or upscale even a little bit, you'll always find a point that lines up with itself - a "black hole" if you will.

[@mmedeuxchevaux]

is there a mathematical name for the black hole/spiral galaxy etc effects?

[@aron8999]

@@mmedeuxchevaux The point at the center is a fixed point. The sheets are the domain and codomain R2 under a contraction mapping. One could also summarize this by saying every isometry of the plane is a rotation around some point, and when coupled first with a scaling gives that point as the only fixed one.

[@samgab]

Actually, infinite such points…

[@aron8999]

@@samgab If the sheet is identical to the paper and you haven't moved it at all, sure.

[@williamrobinson7435]

This had to be rewatched. There is some fabulous stuff on my subscription channels this week. This is DEFINITELY one to revisit, and ideas to try out! Extra nice one Tim. 🌟🌟👍👍

[@michaelcox3257]

Could watch Tim do a video on anything and would enjoy it, great video as usual, guys.

[@atacstringer8573]

So simplistic but so fascinating thank you Tim

[@_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-]

Such a simple yet amazing effect!

[@trevor_dunn]

So cool! I wonder what kind of effects you could make with multiple layered acetate sheets? Or what about different colored sheets or even gradients or shapes? Different colored dots? Probably some neat effects you could make if you programmatically printed out some designs. We need a part two trying these! 😊

[@alliebonesVODs]

I think you could get some really beautiful effects by doing something like this with different colors! You could also probably use different shapes besides dots!

[@finminder2928]

This new intro is actually fantastic. Great job to whoever has made it

[@harrygoodwin1795]

Beautiful stuff, still providing us with wonder after all these years Tim! ❤

[@Raythe]

Tim has discovered the analog origins of 3D animation. Never change, Tim.

[@kristoffersonsilverfox3923]

As a wise man once said: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand , and Eternity in an hour."

[@WaywardFax]

The quote comes from a William Blake poem.

[@deletoblue1109]

The Angel that presided 'oer my birth said, "Little creature, form'd of Joy and Mirth, "Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.”

[@thesunman]

Every Night & every Morn Some to Misery are Born Every Morn and every Night Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to Endless Night We are led to Believe a Lie When we see not Thro the Eye Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light God Appears & God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of day

[@gravyz2cute4u]

What a simple, yet interesting way to create space/galaxy backgrounds! Thanks for the explanation

[@davidshi451]

I love this! Tadashi Tokieda did a fantastic video on Numberphile about the mathematics behind these patterns

[@hobbes281]

I'd love to see that! Do you have a link?

[@crains8087]

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[@m1sfitl0v3]

Such a simple yet beautiful phenomenon, no CGI needed

[@rogercoziol2768]

Nice! I saw something like that explained in a book about fractals, when rotation or different scales are superposed. Patterns appear from chaos.

[@Jabersson]

Absolutely wonderful the little (or big) worlds our minds can create!

[@ComplexVariables]

I could see doing this with two or more duplicate layers in Photoshop. Great stuff, thank you!

[@maki_zuninnn5457]

I absolutely love your channel, I’ve been watching for years now and it never failed to bring me joy!

[@fuzzy-02]

I have been enlightened. Everything is so interconnected so simply yet can be studied with so complex sciences

[@jedstanaland2897]

You are absolutely amazing in so many different ways and you have always brought me joy every time I see one of your videos and I hope you are around for much much longer.

[@mamuteddymad]

This was awsome! One of the best videos of this channel! 😊

[@tonydabaloney]

I love your work! It is amazing and I learn something each time I watch one. I'm 70yrs old and tell my grandkids that when you stop learning you might as well be a rock. Thank you! Your toys and ideas you bring us are a blessing. I wish I could send you the wind up Mickey Mouse piano playing mouse and band my father had. It was very old ,but worked great.

[@aliendude99]

I Remembered I watched these videos several years ago, I'm really glad you're still making them 😁

[@miguel.ibieta]

What an interesting video! From a mathematical point of view, you showed a way of visualizing some transformations of the plane: Translations, rotations, dilations and the combinations between them. We were able to imagine the path a point would follow under the action of these transformations (lines, circles, spirals...)

[@AABB-px8lc]

more like human brain ability to fill missing parts of image if it "think" that it is same object but moving.

[@mitaskeledzija6269]

​@@AABB-px8lcdoesn't dismiss the fact that this is how our universe is shapes a mix of strings and planes lol

[@ahhthatsjustgrand6502]

This is a demonstration of how relativity is responsible for the harmonious context of nature amongst every level of the cosmos. Also, this is like some of the best Unintentional ASMR. I think its so good because its like someone talking to you about something that they really enjoy and its sort of like when you're hanging out in class and someone is humming and drawing next to you. Its comforting

[@bobfake3831]

"This is a demonstration of how relativity is responsible for the harmonious context of nature amongst every level of the cosmos." that doesnt make any sense

[@airthrowDBT]

That is very cool, I instantly started wondering how I could motorize the transparent sheet to make some kinetic art out of this, thanks for sharing!

[@actualturtle2421]

I love this bc it's not really trying to teach me anything, it's just "hey, isn't this neat?"

[@Ucatty2]

This is very neat to see, Tim! Thank you for showing us!

[@Rooftopaccessorizer]

You could apply this concept to plotter art actually . In a drawing app, add in a variety of shapes of throughout the page and simply copy that result and rotate it. You could experiment with layering, size, randomness, colors etc. then just have your plotter draw the whole thing on paper.

[@mattikaki]

THAT was really mesmerising. Thanx, Tim.

[@SmokiWonKenobi]

This is actually fascinating. Reminds me of the old 1960s music videos with the overlays of colors and shapes. They used a similar effect

[@jaredhavens8126]

Could this be done with two transparent sheets, on an over head projector?

[@HMFan2010]

Yes, it can! Project it on a wall and paint the resultant image with glow-in-the-dark paint and you can have your own spiral galaxy on your wall!

[@billgriffiths1685]

Tim is the Willy Wonka of the Toy world.

[@kentslocum]

It's insane how good our brains are at detecting patterns in random dots.

[@Cudlla]

This is as beautiful as it is mindblowing. Brings calm...

[@wbeaty]

Re-invention forty years later! Cool! I was messing with this around 1982, while developing slot-aperture 3D printouts[1]. I even published (in the local Mensa newsletter, Rochester NY.) Also about ten years ago I saw it cropping up somewhere online. Besides the zoomed radial version, notice odd behavior when peeled up, creating a gap between sheets. And so we try sticking a plate of clear 1cm acrylic between, and that makes it move around whenever you shift your head, or walk past it. More: with extremely dense dots, the center becomes a white patch (where dots are overlapped, not adjacent.) A white blotch, which from a distance, moves up or down when you walk past. Then, put the zoomed sheet in front of the un-zoomed paper, w/plastic slab between. The light patch is now a real image, floating in front of the device. Stick your eye there, and the light patch grows to cover the entire plate. (It's a nonrepeating Moire' pattern, some amorphous "Moire' glass" rather than crystalline. ) Great minds THINK TWISTED. (And when forced, minds move 90deg from what one would expect?) . [1] I stumbled upon the idea that we can make real 3D postcards by using arrays of pinholes rather than arrays of lenses. Or more simply, arrays of narrow vertical slits, with a clear plate. In front we have a transparency of slits (use line-zipatone, photocopied onto transparency.) Then behind, make stereo-pair art from two collections of superposed vertical lines. Now align the sheets, and your left eye sees one pattern, right eye the other, just like 3D postcards do it via lenticular arrays. The image is pretty dark though. Use white paper, and backlight the hell out of it. (Heh, I didn't take it any further, or even publish, and then about three years later, someone else patented the same thing. Oh well.)

[@AgentExeider]

And it's because of this effect astronomers first falsely believed that you could, figure out the center of the universe, but then realized that you couldn't precisely because of the effect Tim just demonstrated. Since the universe, all points are expanding away from one another uniformly, if you pick any spot, and line up ANY dot, all the other dots will appear to be moving away from it, then if you pick another dot and line THAT dot up, all the points will appear to move away from THAT dot. and so on. Thus showing that there is no "center of the universe".

[@peoplez129]

There definitely has to be a center of the universe. Which means the observable universe is likely nowhere near it, as the initial point of the big bang would definitely still have a super giant blackhole. If the big bang happened, then matter would have to bunch up in the "explosion", and the expansion halting itself at some point by backing itself up. The point in the universe where the big bang started, likely coalesced into a super giant blackhole, because the big bang couldn't have been a uniform explosion, and so there definitely had to be a lot of mass remaining, which also pulled in mass that it had previously ejected. Basically the singularity had to explode until the point where it could be the maximum size a blackhole could possibly be, but at that point a bit more would also be stripped from it from the stresses, keeping it from being just on the edge of becoming a singularity again. So basically the center of the universe would be virtually indistinguishable from the edge of the universe, because both would appear like complete nothingness, except for the gravity pull when you got close enough.

[@invisiblekphrasis]

Simple and elegant! Thanks for sharing

[@thehat2869]

It's so brilliant to see Tim still going

[@FlamRackett]

Another great video Tim. I understand it would be taxing to your health but a live tour of your toys, tricks and magic would be awesome

[@gamingguru1305]

Look, I can hold infinity in a much easier way..... Just draw a line on paper and hold that paper stiffly in your hand. OP Explanation: A line is a collection of an infinite number of points. 👍👍👍

[@jollyog]

It’s nice to see you still here on KZbin and posting videos still

[@nullifye7816]

That's a really cool pair of flat motionless planes!

[@black_rhino241]

Do I need to learn how to transfer the energy from a horse through stirrups to achieve the power of infinity?

[@JG-vq7td]

Only if you like horsing around for eternity.

[@asheep7797]

No. Just throw pepper everywhere on your paper, photocopy, and you get ∞.

[@hullinstruments]

Wow that is really neat and much cooler than I was expecting

[@whozz]

Moiré patterns are fascinating! This one is called Glass pattern. Other types of patterns can be seen on TV screens, fences with closely spaced bars, car grilles and even on banknotes to prevent counterfeiting

[@DoctorNemmo]

It took me until the end if the video until I realized that I had the captions off, but I understood everything you said. I love your english.

[@Christian-ve1wi]

Fantastic new intro lovely stuff, thank you Tim and all those behind the scenes 😀

[@fletchy40]

An absolutely splendid video Tim.

[@opticalmouse2]

What a paradox! Man holds infinity in the palms of his hands.

[@dreacul]

I could see this very good for drawing especially for perspective learning.

[@Aethgeir]

This has got to be the most wholesome channel on KZbin!

[@GabrielSpanamberg]

beautiful!

[@KimberleySanchez]

That is fascinating! So glad I watched this.

[@Kroggnagch]

This is so neat...

[@Sikanda.]

His voice is so pleasant to listen to. His little exercise is quite inspirational

[@lovingthesauce]

Amazing! This episode could’ve been on Art Attack back in the day👍👍

[@coax47]

That's so cool man I'm definitely trying this

[@harrybyaqussamprayuga1756]

The wow factor directly correlate to the number of dots. Very interesting!

[@vincehoppel5594]

I need a loop of this effect! It makes me feel so calm

[@hyde5213]

Featuring Tim from the Grand Illusions(TM) series.

[@rosetodaro5081]

You never disappoint sir.

[@incarnage]

Just took this idea to photoshop, you can create the duplicate layer with 2 clicks so its super easy to have a go on there. Within 5 minutes I had some really cool results, thanks for the tip!

[@OneMinuteMeds]

A very good demonstration how the expanding universe is illusory.

[@fCauneau]

Simply beautiful !

[@thewildnath]

Absolutely wonderful!

[@Clarkillustrations]

I'm going to try this with my kids with some velum paper I have lying around! Awesome!

[@robinbrowne5419]

Tim always has amazing illusions 👍 Merry Christmas 🎄🪆🪅⭐🧸⛄🎅

[@MrOlivertyler0105]

Finally some usefully information! Genius!

[@athomenotavailable]

Depending on the displacement, our brains connect each pair of dots as little lines and imagine a vector direction for them so there is a sense of spiral or circles or radiating out/in.

[@rogerchtarponne4968]

So simple and so beautiful

[@orange-vlcybpd2]

To keep the curiosity of a child through a lifetime is amazing.

[@josuelservin]

Always wonderful to see the marvels Tim has for us,

[@thefaq3196]

İts very nice to see you still making videos

[@anthonyC9199]

Woupd be cool to make interactive art for your home with this technique. Thanks for sharing.

[@sajidabatool4659]

Hi Tim, I am 68 years old and I love your videos. I watch your videos because your videos made me think about old days.