Turning a sphere inside out (video)

[awvvu]

Some of you guys have probably seen this before, but I thought this was really interesting:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6626464599825291409

 

[Poop-Loops]

HORRIBLE voice acting, but really cool stuff nonetheless.

 

[Cyrus]

This is for you smart math number theory working at NSA people.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

That's pretty amazing. I wonder if it would be possible to work out how to do it for n dimensions 3=>. Those crazy pure maths cats.

I wonder if you could reduce the time by using extra dimensions. I wonder if you could prove that you can?

 

[ice109]

This is for you smart math number theory working at NSA people.

what does this have to do with number theory

 

[Cyrus]

Dont people who do number theory crack codes at the NSA?

 

[waht]

That's topology on steroids.

 

[DaveC426913]

Hmph. It is utterly incomprehensible with the audio off.

 

[ice109]

Hmph. It is utterly incomprehensible with the audio off.

hahaha what do you expect?

 

[Jekertee]

I was expressing myself so much that things got worse somewhere along the microphone plugin

I seriously don't know what was-is going on

 

[RocketSurgery]

Believe it or not a sphere eversion video (the optiverse i think it was called) was actually one of the reasons I became interested in math in the first place.

 

[ehrenfest]

I wonder what kind of real-world applications sphere-eversion has...

 

[d1ff30m0rf1zm]

This would make a good action movie. The music is fitting. All it needs is maybe an antagonist (any ideas?) and some romance between the narrators and its good to go.

 

[mathwonk]

i was enjoying it, although getting impatient with the pacing, until the narrator said the euler characteristic of a sphere equals 1, instead of the correct number, 2.

but i was learning something.or maybe they were using a modification of the euler number, involving the coloring of the domes and bowls, to make it come out 1.

 

[rewebster]

Well, is the 'sphere' part of this very useful in the real world as it has so many real world applications?----




Now, I can see why those being more pure mathematicians invented string theory and MWI, and have promoted it;-- and, why it hasn't been worked on experimentally in the labs.





(nice cgi animations, though, for the 'explanation')

 

[Alienjoey]

I was just watching that the other day. It's a little slow at times, but not too bad overall.

 

[Petter]

i was enjoying it, although getting impatient with the pacing, until the narrator said the euler characteristic of a sphere equals 1, instead of the correct number, 2.

That wasn't the Euler number, was it?

 

[daniel_i_l]

Wow. Seeing it the first time is mind boggling. What makes it even more amazing is the fact that this was first worked out on paper.
Does anybody know if there's a formal way of "ruffling" the surface of the sphere? Are there any simpler ways of doing it?

 

[RocketSurgery]

I wonder what kind of real-world applications sphere-eversion has...

::Sarcasm Alert::

Believe it or not leading string theorists believe our universe is a giant sphere and at the nodes of intersection between two parts of the sphere are black holes.

::/End Sarcasm::


Does it need an application?

 

[mcknia07]

That was so cool to watch. This was actually my first time of ever hearing about it, let alone watching it. I enjoyed it though, and learned some too :)

 

[RocketSurgery]

Heres my favorite version,

The Narrator doesn't talk to you like your watching Barney concurrently either.

So is the type of thing like Geometric Topology/Algebraic Geometry? I really want to learn more about it from a math standpoint. This is the video that got me interested in maths in the first place back when I was in Geometry in High School.

 

[_Muddy_]

wow, that's really cool

 

[mcknia07]

I like the video that Rocket put up better It has a bunch more pretty colors, too