It really seems like our universe could be part of a hypersphere, but... it's probably not

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  • @brauggithebold7956
    @brauggithebold7956 Před 3 lety +1094

    Physicists: "According to our obeservation, the universe is moving away."
    Audience: "Away from what?"
    Physicists: "Yes."

  • @N0URii
    @N0URii Před 4 lety +1184

    *meanwhile 4D beings*
    "guys the universe might be 5D sphere! "

    • @usaball9190
      @usaball9190 Před 4 lety +81

      There’s always a bigger fish except for beings on the 11th

    • @adrianoippolito1999
      @adrianoippolito1999 Před 4 lety +27

      @@usaball9190 wait. why 11? cant dimensions just go up infinetly?

    • @fellipsilva
      @fellipsilva Před 4 lety +54

      ​@@adrianoippolito1999i think it's something related to string theory, but i don't know how to explain

    • @rubenanjavreesma7235
      @rubenanjavreesma7235 Před 4 lety +55

      @@fellipsilva I think you're right. String theory requires 11 dimensions.
      As far as i know its not possible to formulate a universe like ours with any fewer dimensions than 11 if you use strings as the fundamental particles.
      M-theory is similar to string theory, but includes a 12th dimension by turning some strings into membranes.
      In both string theory and M-theory some of these dimensions are curved and very very small so they dont fit with the 'hyperspheres all the way down' model implied by the initial post.
      If you ask me thats unfortunate, because it would be funny if the universe was hyperspheres all the way down, just like the old 'turtles all the way down' myth.
      Come to think of it, a hyperturtles-based theory of everything would probably be my favorite theory of all time :D

    • @jookim7024
      @jookim7024 Před 4 lety +2

      Ruben & Anja Vreesma 😐

  • @akacurryful
    @akacurryful Před 3 lety +741

    Whenever I feel down or stressed about something at work or in life, I come to youtube to watch these cosmic science videos. Nothing beats stress and anxiety better than the feeling of existential crisis.

    • @alanlowey2769
      @alanlowey2769 Před 3 lety +13

      Do you think it's possible for dark matter to exist at the centre of the Earth????

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 Před 3 lety +20

      Oh yeah, I love re-watching Kurzgesagt's false vacuum video whenever I feel like having actual nightmares.

    • @arifsaifee4146
      @arifsaifee4146 Před 3 lety +6

      @akacurryful - that's exactly what I do too... When I said this to a couple of close friends, they thought I was crazy :). Nice to know there's someone else who thinks the same way.

    • @louloutre
      @louloutre Před 2 lety +5

      @@arifsaifee4146 You're not crazy. It works on many people. It just reminds us how insignificant our lives are, which makes our problems insignificant too. :-)

    • @blackstream2572
      @blackstream2572 Před 2 lety +3

      After an existential crisis, I'd imagine you'd be almost glad to have something to focus your attention on for the moment to get your mind off the dread.

  • @calvinwang9814
    @calvinwang9814 Před 4 lety +1630

    Imagine in the future where people argue wether the universe is flat or a spherical lol. That would be interesting.

    • @boogiethekingtm5413
      @boogiethekingtm5413 Před 3 lety +92

      Our universe is a sphere, but that sphere transforms into a cube :) Our Universe is a Box. Holding us hostage inside so we never escape. Going up or going down, doesnt matter. You always end up back were you started "As Above As Below"

    • @Boogaboioringale
      @Boogaboioringale Před 3 lety +32

      Like now.

    • @amethystblue6355
      @amethystblue6355 Před 3 lety +49

      You know how people got mad a few hundred years ago for people suggesting the idea the earth was spherical? I kind of see the same thing happening with the shape of the universe argument. Then eventually scientists are almost 100% certain whether it is spherical or flat. But then instead of flat-earthers it's flat-universers or spherical-universers

    • @OpenMindArtist
      @OpenMindArtist Před 3 lety +16

      What if you combine milti-verse idea as well as hypersphere.. time being the depth of the sphere. Still with space, except theres an invisible depth, where entirely similair or different worlds exist

    • @boogiethekingtm5413
      @boogiethekingtm5413 Před 3 lety +1

      @@OpenMindArtist well done! - COD Voice

  • @baff_forfun
    @baff_forfun Před 3 lety +929

    Dumb people: ''The Earth is flat!!''
    Smart people: ''The universe is flat.''

    • @Humulator
      @Humulator Před 3 lety +3

      Lol

    • @vincentwee5332
      @vincentwee5332 Před 3 lety +2

      Dumb fools: "The Earth is flat!!"
      Smart fools: "The universe is flat."
      Don't think so?
      Check this out:
      www.uvs-model.com/UVS%20on%20overviews.htm#validity

    • @octapc
      @octapc Před 3 lety +13

      @@vincentwee5332 another Bashir batshit concept. Funny how that page has reference to the definition of truth.

    • @vincentwee5332
      @vincentwee5332 Před 3 lety +8

      @@octapc Those who believe the universe is flat are just another lots of fools, and it doesn't matter some N-prizes were awarded to such fools. Get over it.

    • @vincentwee5332
      @vincentwee5332 Před 3 lety +2

      @@alexanderday6754 The reply to your point number 1 is, the current scientific development is merely for pragmatic theories of truth with the consilents that do not refer to reality. It merely requires the scientific hypotheses to work in the objective reality with its hypothesized subjective reality.
      FYI, the quantitative prediction for the retrograde motion of the Mars is very precise in the geocentric worldview. Despite the geocentric model could fairly precisely predict, we all now know geocentrism is fundamentally flawed without a doubt.
      For your point 2, you need to understand the predicated logic of the scientific hypotheses that were validated to work pragmatically, are not tantamount to the reality of nature they are emulating. The contemporary modern physics is entirely built on its fallacious posits that flopped on every aspects under the law of noncontradiction.
      Check this out:
      www.uvs-model.com/UVS%20on%20time%20dilation.htm
      And this:
      www.uvs-model.com/UVS%20on%20clarifying%20the%20concept%20of%20gravity.htm
      If you could grasp these, you would understand I did not simply consume media that some else had handled to me.
      For your point 3, the SI measurement for the definition of a second is alright, but the assumption for the caesium atom would remain stable under different gravitational potential, is just an assumption. This scientific consensus was concluded with circular reasoning, and consequently all the modern physics propositions were thus inbued with that confirmation biased.
      To answer your point number 4, it would be: be enlightened to a paradoxical reality of nature.
      www.uvs-model.com/UVS%20on%20paradoxical%20effect.htm
      And the structure of the observable universe:
      www.uvs-model.com/UVS%20on%20the%20structure%20of%20the%20observable%20universe.htm
      BTW, by understanding the actual underlying mechanisms of the cosmos, among the resolutions to the numerous unsolved problems of physics, the 400-year mysteries of the solar cycles are unequivocally resolved. Check this out:
      www.uvs-model.com/WFE%20on%20sunspot.htm#solar_cycle
      Galileo was never given a podium, so am not holding my breath the smart fools could really come to their senses at all even a podium was given. It would take alot more than that, but I foresee a scientific revolution of physics is inevitable.

  • @_BLACKSTAR_
    @_BLACKSTAR_ Před 4 lety +681

    OF COURSE the big bang happened everywhere at once, because at that time "Everywhere" was all in the same spot.

    • @hayrayna1314
      @hayrayna1314 Před 4 lety +76

      Fucking hell that is logic!
      Live long and prosper!

    • @goose300183
      @goose300183 Před 4 lety +66

      Yeah exactly. When talking about the universe, the universe means "everything". It makes no sense to think about what it is expanding "into", or what is "outside". From our point of view, the universe is all there is.

    • @user-ef8kc4rv7n
      @user-ef8kc4rv7n Před 4 lety +52

      @Kenzita This is incorrect. It wasn't in one tiny place, it happened everywhere. It was only "smaller" in the sense that distances between objects was less and the universe was denser. And "exploded" is misleading as it didn't go anywhere, just stretched.

    • @lotusflower_
      @lotusflower_ Před 4 lety +2

      that just made a big bang happen in my brain oof

    • @lotusflower_
      @lotusflower_ Před 4 lety +5

      uhhh hold up explain? I thought they big bang came from a singularity of “nothing”?

  • @Nico-nb1ut
    @Nico-nb1ut Před 3 lety +371

    "The universe might be flat"
    Flat earthers: *WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN*

  • @killr292
    @killr292 Před 3 lety +554

    1D beings: the universe could be a 2D LINE
    2D beings: guys the universe might be a 3D circle

    • @diondredunigan2583
      @diondredunigan2583 Před 3 lety +86

      3D: beings: guys, i've got something that'll blow your mind-

    • @thangs
      @thangs Před 3 lety +102

      @@diondredunigan2583 4D beings: One more dimension, and we can finally warn our 3D ancestors to get the hell off that rock.

    • @diondredunigan2583
      @diondredunigan2583 Před 3 lety +12

      Eminsomethingthatisntem Lmao, I’ve been dreaming of this type of thing for the past month. weird coincidence.

    • @tanuyadav9960
      @tanuyadav9960 Před 3 lety +14

      You mean they don't know what the correct shape of further dimensions but predict on the basis of their own shapes??
      Like a 4d sphere (but actually sphere is 3d)

    • @ortherner
      @ortherner Před 3 lety +12

      4D Beings: Guys! I think the Universe is a 5D Hypersphere!

  • @vincentdamaso6719
    @vincentdamaso6719 Před 4 lety +779

    Imagine someone in a 2d universe trying to explain a ball.

    • @jelaninoel
      @jelaninoel Před 4 lety +51

      I always wondered why they always say a 2 dimensional being can’t conceptualize 3D but we can do it with 4D

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 Před 4 lety +93

      @@jelaninoel Some of us can, and then mostly with math. Intuition quickly fails on anything more complicated than a hypercube.

    • @amartinez97
      @amartinez97 Před 4 lety +63

      @@jelaninoel The thing is 2d creatures more than likely do not actually exist. And if they do exist in another universe somewhere the laws of physics which govern that universe would be one of the most perplexing mysteries and discoveries of science ever.

    • @yashuppot3214
      @yashuppot3214 Před 4 lety +88

      @@jelaninoel We have mathematical descriptions of higher dimensions. We do not have a strong conceptual understanding of these dimensions.

    • @Jamie-Russell-CME
      @Jamie-Russell-CME Před 4 lety +12

      @@jelaninoel they say they can, but we can show a 4D (hypercube) corollary by drawing 3D concepts (persective) in 2D (on paper). Can these 2Ders do the same in 1D? I say Nay good sir, NAY! Analogy debunked.

  • @sebastianp4023
    @sebastianp4023 Před 4 lety +590

    Zach Star: "... the universe is mostly flat."
    Flatearthers: "I KNEW IT!"

    • @subhajitsarkar2272
      @subhajitsarkar2272 Před 4 lety +4

      What a comment 😂😂

    • @hazeldejesus
      @hazeldejesus Před 4 lety +7

      this was literally my first thought lol

    • @97YoAnDrEwYo97
      @97YoAnDrEwYo97 Před 4 lety +23

      I am thinking, people used to think the earth is flat due to lack of perspective. Relatively, we don't have perspective of our universe. Its simply too big.

    • @Hooman88634
      @Hooman88634 Před 4 lety

      @@97YoAnDrEwYo97 and the fact that all SPACE AGENCIES had their own flaws and solar system is just faulty, like , what is sun made of? if fire, why would it burn on a vacuum space? fire needs oxygen, right?

    • @bmw123ck
      @bmw123ck Před 4 lety +1

      they should be Flatuniversers hahaha, they got it wrong

  • @jaydenford8302
    @jaydenford8302 Před 3 lety +157

    Pardon my language but him explaining how the universe expands away from you no matter where you are is some serious mindfuck.

    • @bmoneybby
      @bmoneybby Před 2 lety +5

      Welcome Neo, we've been expecting you.

    • @soggdogg
      @soggdogg Před 2 lety +2

      You're telling me, this entire video fucked with my mind

    • @alexeysaranchev6118
      @alexeysaranchev6118 Před 2 lety +5

      Inflate a balloon a little. Put on a lot of dots on its surface. Continue to inflate it. What's so mindfucking about it?

    • @eugene5153
      @eugene5153 Před 2 lety +1

      @@alexeysaranchev6118 that it happens naturally, and theres no big man blowing air on the universe

    • @alexeysaranchev6118
      @alexeysaranchev6118 Před 2 lety +3

      @@eugene5153 does wind blowing also amaze you then?

  • @ImtheEntity
    @ImtheEntity Před 3 lety +113

    Our 3D universe is in fact expanding into something. It is expanding into the future. The moment we experience now is the 3 dimensional "slice" of the hypersphere we are stuck on. We can not move backward into the past because of the forward "push" of entropy, and we can not skip ahead to the future because causality is limited to the speed of light.

    • @kippchapin7750
      @kippchapin7750 Před 2 lety +14

      Agreed. Gravity is the drag that our universe experiences as it moves forward through the 3-sphere.

    • @hunterkudo9832
      @hunterkudo9832 Před 2 lety +4

      @@kippchapin7750 so what we experience as the passage of time is the, causes gravity?

    • @MinhSoSexy209
      @MinhSoSexy209 Před 2 lety +2

      Very interesting idea!

    • @WisdomThumbs
      @WisdomThumbs Před 2 lety +1

      @@hunterkudo9832 Well, gravitational waves travel at the speed of light. We know that much.

    • @MP-cv6if
      @MP-cv6if Před 2 lety +4

      wait a minute that explaination is so beautiful

  • @antoniogutierrez7218
    @antoniogutierrez7218 Před 4 lety +119

    Kudos for adding "We think that...", most of the time people explain things as facts when they are not, some times is just the best answer right now, and some times that's enough to get some results, but it's not the best we can get

    • @elizabethbeckham3649
      @elizabethbeckham3649 Před 4 lety +1

      ^^^^^^^

    • @CyberiusT
      @CyberiusT Před 4 lety +2

      You need more upvotes. "I'm doing MY part!" /Starship_Troopers

    • @omarhatem9575
      @omarhatem9575 Před 4 lety +1

      @fynes leigh what do you mean?

    • @omarhatem9575
      @omarhatem9575 Před 4 lety +2

      @fynes leigh OK firstly, I don't struggle with language (I am c1 level in English)
      Secondly, what I meant is explain what you mean by "we are imaginary", like *how* are we imaginary. Maybe also provide proof for that statement.

    • @Futt.Buckerson
      @Futt.Buckerson Před 4 lety

      @fynes leigh You always aim just left of the mark. It's a great way to play cat & mouse.
      I counter with: Wargames

  • @mceky89
    @mceky89 Před 4 lety +1123

    My takeaway: The universe is a higher dimensional loaf of bread

    • @englishmotherfucker1058
      @englishmotherfucker1058 Před 4 lety +27

      the plum pudding model might not fit with the atom but at least it applies to the fucking universe

    • @funnycomentguy3282
      @funnycomentguy3282 Před 4 lety +18

      i hope the 4 dimensional baker doesn't sell us to someone who eats us

    • @NavyNukerz1337
      @NavyNukerz1337 Před 4 lety +7

      4D bread is hella thiccc

    • @ares3052
      @ares3052 Před 4 lety +2

      The universe could also be the toe nail of a giant baby 👶🏻 xD

    • @nameforcomments4092
      @nameforcomments4092 Před 4 lety

      You mean a cat?

  • @davidepascu3026
    @davidepascu3026 Před 4 lety +487

    Flat earthers be like: “checkmate”

    • @gsmarchand
      @gsmarchand Před 3 lety +31

      They didn't make it to 20 seconds. come on bro.

    • @vasiljambazov
      @vasiljambazov Před 3 lety +21

      They: Earth is flat!
      We: Don't be silly, earth is sphere. But, you see, universe is flat.
      Some higher beings: Don't be silly, univers is Hypersphere...
      Some Higher higher beings: Don't be silly dimensions don't exist everything is simulation and every conciousness percieve reallity as it wish...

    • @igs8949
      @igs8949 Před 3 lety +7

      @@vasiljambazov higher beings, or high beings?

    • @vasiljambazov
      @vasiljambazov Před 3 lety +1

      @@igs8949 :) it also suits well

    • @haggardestofthedukes
      @haggardestofthedukes Před 3 lety

      noice

  • @mjrmls
    @mjrmls Před 2 lety +23

    12:15 "If the universe was on a hypersphere, then it would be an extremely large hypersphere." I don't understand why that invalidates the theory. After all, we've found space to be much bigger than previously thought many times throughout the 20th century. Also, wouldn't a flat, infinite universe be infinitely larger than a hypersphere? So that's even weirder than the hypersphere theory

    • @lenoncerqueira8308
      @lenoncerqueira8308 Před 2 lety +5

      Agreed, thought the very same thing. The hypersphere idea is somewhat easier to grasp for me, for the concept of infinity, when applied to the physical world (beyond mathematics), usually turns out to be very problematic in many different ways.

    • @Crazytesseract
      @Crazytesseract Před rokem +3

      I agree. Also, how do we know that the hypersphere is or is not on the hypersurface of a 5D hyper-hypersphere? We, as human beings are extremely limited in our capacity to understand the brain of the creator.

    • @eggs3000
      @eggs3000 Před 7 měsíci

      yep, it makes a whole lot of intuitive sense, practical sense, etc. and then at the very end. “nope the math doesn’t check out”. Using 3D geometry it all still appears to be 3D, well no shit! lol Like it was forgotten that the math for the model is not going to be the same math as the real thing. It has been said that in order to learn more about the universe, like quantum mechanics and what not, but we have to ‘discover a new math’ so this is no surprise.

    • @woraknihs
      @woraknihs Před 10 dny

      This is still the best reply here and I wish it was pinned to the top. Just because the universe appears too large for us to know whether it is a hypersphere or not does not seem like a good answer to whether or not it is a hypersphere.

  • @darthkenobi66
    @darthkenobi66 Před 4 lety +676

    flat-universer : flat universe society has members all around the cosmos

    • @rarebeeph1783
      @rarebeeph1783 Před 4 lety +18

      "around" :thinking:

    • @Royvan7
      @Royvan7 Před 4 lety +21

      i think you mean 'the flat universe society has members all around the glome'

    • @orlandotouristtraps7410
      @orlandotouristtraps7410 Před 4 lety +6

      Didn't the mystery schools of ancient Greece teach that the universe was a polytope dodecahedron? And if you were to ever speak of the existence of such a shape you would be instantly killed it was so secret. The reason it was so secret is the fact that it is no infinite. The expansion is key to the framerate of our perceived time. Eventually the universal will likely contract.

    • @orlandotouristtraps7410
      @orlandotouristtraps7410 Před 4 lety +2

      @Alchemica Blackwood It al should be easier to prove than it is. I still don't know why there isn't a single untouched photo of earth from outter space. Not one.

    • @garrettelliott5849
      @garrettelliott5849 Před 4 lety +6

      I honestly can’t tell if this reply section is a joke.

  • @mjolninja9358
    @mjolninja9358 Před 4 lety +438

    The celestial bodies just practicing social distancing

    • @cowafungus8104
      @cowafungus8104 Před 4 lety +16

      Nah, that was pretty funny thumbs up bud

    • @arias1695
      @arias1695 Před 4 lety +4

      Love to see what the cosmos considers it's covid. That shit must be nuts.

    • @caolansheridan1695
      @caolansheridan1695 Před 4 lety +6

      Stfu ken

    • @frightenedsoul
      @frightenedsoul Před 4 lety +12

      Caolan Sheridan “Ken” should now be what we call the male version of a Karen

    • @thundaaz5640
      @thundaaz5640 Před 4 lety +5

      @@frightenedsoul being a bit ignorant, this guy might be defensive cause he just lost a loved one, leave him be. But also yes Corona jokes.

  • @ddavidmac6009
    @ddavidmac6009 Před 4 lety +88

    Its just so fking cool to hear this stuff at my age in life.

  • @cmantheninja
    @cmantheninja Před 4 lety +25

    No matter what the universe is, black holes seem like the key to figure out what our universe is

    • @virtuallyreal5849
      @virtuallyreal5849 Před 2 lety +5

      Perhaps, but it's just a hell of a lot of matter in one spot.

  • @peterpan4038
    @peterpan4038 Před 4 lety +150

    To be fair, it's easier to imagine a really fu***** huge sphere, then anything related to infinite.

    • @Uressabe
      @Uressabe Před 4 lety +25

      I think people don't actually get what it means to be in an infinite universe. Just to blow some brains i will say there would be infinitely many earths almost exactly like ours, and by "almost exactly" i mean almost exactly with us people included, our history and our personalities. That same thing you watched in sci-fi moovies about parallel universes, but all in our universe, just because it is infinite

    • @peterpan4038
      @peterpan4038 Před 4 lety +13

      @@Uressabe Exactly, that's why it's basically impossible to imagine infinite >>>anything

    • @divest_.2759
      @divest_.2759 Před 4 lety +6

      is there a universe where i eat riley reids ass while playing country music?

    • @cbennefeld03
      @cbennefeld03 Před 4 lety +4

      Divest_. Yes

    • @peterpan4038
      @peterpan4038 Před 4 lety +1

      @@divest_.2759 Well, if the universe has infinite parallel-universes, then yes.

  • @julianha5473
    @julianha5473 Před 4 lety +306

    Can't wait for flat-universers becoming a thing once we prove that the universe is on the surface of a ball...

    • @Aim54Delta
      @Aim54Delta Před 4 lety +6

      You'll be more hard pressed to explain to us steady state universe types why it is physics from trillions of years ago at the edge of our observed universe looks almost identical to now, even though a proton should have been half the size and the existence of our elements impossible.
      Unless things didn't exist in particles back then. Which would be amusing as the quantum eraser would make them into particles.... There is a physics brain-bender for you.
      In any event, what is more interesting is that these stars which were some of the first ever formed, supposedly, have a high concentration of transition metals in them, if their spectra is any indication to be taken seriously.
      Of course, I'm something of a skeptic of time dilation and lorentz transformations of "space time" - so tie me to the stake and burn me like a heretic I suppose.

    • @TheZacdes
      @TheZacdes Před 4 lety +1

      @@Aim54Delta OMG, you idiot. I would say get an education, but you obviously dont have the brainpower,lol. Protons half the size, hahahahahahahahahahah..Not in THIS universe moron,lol..Hmm, on second thought this comment was a bit mean. Its not a subject that most people know much about:) As for the "steady state"idea. This is not 1950, that idea is out the window big time:/

    • @anteconfig5391
      @anteconfig5391 Před 4 lety

      @@TheZacdes idk if you know but protons are shrinking in size. Are you saying that protons being half the size they are now is impossible, or are you saying the protons cant shrink?
      Im asking because i want to know more about physics

    • @Aim54Delta
      @Aim54Delta Před 4 lety +7

      @@TheZacdes
      I'm assuming that since you can't articulate any kind of explanation as to why I am incorrect or flawed in my example, you, yourself, lack the necessary knowledge of physics theory to engage in much of a discussion.
      However, here is the problem with "space expands" theories: we have to then define what space is. Now, by taking the speed of light as a universal constant, we can arrive at what have been termed Planck units. These are, effectively, the smallest units of length, volume, and time. If you know your quantum mechanical experiment history and how field theories were developed, you'll note a direct relationship between wavelength, energy, and particle behaviors. Those of us who come from radio and microwave fields of experience tend to think of the subatomic universe less as particles and more of stupidly small radio systems where harmonics, interference, coupling, etc all play major roles in how things play out.
      All of this works because the planck units are defined as set to the speed of light. Which is constant so far as we have experienced in the vacuum. Which ... Gets interesting because all of this implies a scalar field and therefore a prefferrential reference frame. But that is another story.
      The world in which much of cosmology operates is in one dominated by relativity. Relativity utilizes what are called lorentz transformations to explain how space and time can be distorted. The problem is that these operate completely detached from any material reality we have observed. Lorentz transformations don't explain what gets stretched or how it does so - only illustrates how it is possible to stretch apparent dimensions into uncountably infinite space - where I can fit a whole universe inside a marble, or something.
      Of course, this is more of an illustrative tool than a physical model as even though there is a ton of empty space inside things - and arguably nothing there to begin with until you look for it - the entire premise of space expanding or contracting flies in the face of every physical mechanism we know to be consistent with everything we consider to be material fact.
      If space is expanding between galaxies as part of a 4d expansion, then that same space must necessarily be expanding as well within our planets, atoms, etc.
      If the photon and the speed of light are the units of measure we use to measure our world and define space, then the question then becomes "what is space other than the amount of time it takes for information to be transferred?" - and what is time other than the distance over which something travels between the occurrence of two events?
      Spatial expansion theories, therefore, argue that space expands and attenuates the wavelength of a photon. Because the volume of space containing the photon has increased, the total wavelength has decreased (this requires energy to have dissipated, somewhere, as photons have an energy proportional to their wavelength). Thus, if a photon arrives with a shifted frequency implying a 5% reduction in wavelength, we would estimate that space has expanded roughly 5% in that timeframe. So, all subatomic particles would be expected to occupy 5% less space (well, to have a 5% smaller diameter... So a lot less space, actually). This is a disaster of a problem as you can't do that in QM.
      So, there are four potential courses to address this.
      First is that space doesn't expand and redshift is caused by some other factor - perhaps light "leaks" energy and this is why red shift seems proportional to distance. Perhaps there are other explanations.
      The second is that some weird mechanisms take over we are not familiar with - IE - space is somehow different than the methods we use to measure it, and thus it can expand without disrupting the behavior of subatomic particles.
      The third is that physics is in a temporarily stable state and spatial expansion will eventually trigger a catastrophic shift in the way the subatomic world works. This also has interesting implications as the photons we are encountering from distant parts of the universe are entities which came into existence under our current physical reality from a fundamentally different one.
      The fourth is basically an appeal to ignorance in that it would argue we know too little about our world to be making these determinations because almost any internally consistent theory can be proposed to explain our world granted the inability to test the claims. Grant us one free miracle and we'll explain the rest.

    • @TheZacdes
      @TheZacdes Před 4 lety

      @@anteconfig5391 hahahaha. Protons cant shrink man, they are what they are given the rules governing this universe. If Protons were half the size[in another universe say] things would be entirely different. We would not be here:) I could go into detail but as you are not educated in the field it would mean nothing:/ I could also copy/paste any number of easily found articles on this that YOU could find with a VERY simple google search:/ If you want to know more..GOOGLE IT!!

  • @Housephonestimes4
    @Housephonestimes4 Před 3 lety +101

    On November 1980, a bloke told me: "our universe could be cigar shaped!"

    • @Ludifant
      @Ludifant Před 3 lety +3

      @Sarvesh LM yeah, let´s never think again, it´s just to futile.

    • @paddaboi_
      @paddaboi_ Před 3 lety +1

      In 1980 my mother wasn't even born yet lol

    • @octapc
      @octapc Před 3 lety +3

      Not possible, god doesn't smoke

    • @jamesholmstrom5837
      @jamesholmstrom5837 Před 3 lety +1

      How will humanity learn if people would rather enjoy themselves than to be bothered to think? I dunno the shape of the universe, but I believe it's like that loaf of bread analogy...and yes that loaf of bread has a center.

    • @long6live6metal6
      @long6live6metal6 Před 3 lety

      Where exactly they told u ?

  • @delcox8165
    @delcox8165 Před 4 lety +18

    I figured this out on my own some 25 years ago, though I used string and balloons to step up from one to three dimensions. Some flaws here are like the parallel laser test, where the vastness of the universe would compare somewhat similarly to testing the curvature of the Earth by measuring parallel lines between two adjacent atoms.

    • @LyteRetro
      @LyteRetro Před 2 lety

      This comment got my brain working haha thank you

    • @duane5851
      @duane5851 Před 2 lety +1

      I just watched n read your interesting comment, I felt u might be suggesting the micro/ macrocosm universe theory that it seems people shy away from?

  • @callkat
    @callkat Před 4 lety +37

    Binge-watching these videos because they're so much more interesting than my online lectures

  • @RC32Smiths01
    @RC32Smiths01 Před 4 lety +52

    That's what I really enjoy about the physics and composition of the Universe, you never know what's out there! Just the thought of an infinitely expanding universe was always interesting to me.

  • @carldombrowski8719
    @carldombrowski8719 Před 3 lety +98

    The infinite flat universe theory has far worse problems: It would make the universe infinitely dense at the beginning, an infinitely large black hole, where nothing could escape. Afaik, the error margins of the measurements for the flat universe theory still include the universe if it was a 4d ball which expanded for 14 billion years. If we assume a universe which works more like mathematical vectors, space being an illusion, and expansion being comparable to adding more curvature locally, a map of that whole universe would still have a form, and, considering we don't see an edge in either direction, a 4d ball would be pretty much the only option (regardless of whether it has a positive, negative or neutral curvature when time is included). Here we are at another point: Are they calculating the shape of the universe including or excluding time? With time, geometry and speed of expansion both affect measurable curvature, and rising speed of expansion can create the effect of a flat universe even if it is actually round. There might actually be a relation between the two... Imagine a 3D Ball with a 2d surface, like Earth. We are in a small city and can only see using very slow sound or light, so that what we see of neighboring cities is millions of years old. If the world expanded at the right rate, the streets would look stretched out, adding to an apparently flat curvature, with a sharp dip right behind the event horizon, where the expansion is faster than the speed of the sound/light, so that we can't see it.

    • @user-rg5sb4zg4o
      @user-rg5sb4zg4o Před 3 lety

      كل الا حطتك ببومهن ونسهن

    • @ahmetakgun7709
      @ahmetakgun7709 Před 3 lety +5

      According to a theory based on higher energy state calculations, the size of the whole universe is 10²⁴ x observable universe. That's 90 billion light years times with 10 followed by 24 zeroes. And still growing faster than the speed of light...

    • @carldombrowski8719
      @carldombrowski8719 Před 3 lety +7

      @@ahmetakgun7709 Do you have a link? I'd like to see those calculations. A few ultra-large structures in the universe plus a picture where the same (rare type of) galaxy appears twice, just billions of light years apart, make me uncertain at the moment whether we really expand faster than light or may just get this impression because light traveled around the universe a few times and we see a much larger universe than there actually is.

    • @carldombrowski8719
      @carldombrowski8719 Před 3 lety +2

      @@ahmetakgun7709 According to NASA, no-one really knows: www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/5-8/features/F_How_Big_is_Our_Universe.html

    • @carldombrowski8719
      @carldombrowski8719 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ahmetakgun7709 The popular extreme size estimates are based on one group saying they were able to calculate the curvature of space, but I have yet to see a good source detailing their methods in an easy to test and reproduce way. If the entire universe expanded at the speed of light for 13.7 billion years, it's radius is exactly 13.7 billion years and it's diameter is 27.4 billion years. Things change if we assume the spatial expansion is in 4 dimensions and we can only see 3 of them - the surface. Like a comic hero painted on the surface of a balloon can only see and move in 2 dimensions. That would make the apparent (3D) diameter of the universe equal the circumference of it, similar to the comic hero seeing itself in the center of a plate larger than the radius of the balloon. So we get a 'diameter' of 84 billion ly. More if there are more dimensions or if hyperinflation is true and such. If we move at such a fast speed, only the light of nearby galaxies becomes visible to us, after a time which corresponds to the distance. That's the visible universe. It's not clear how much of a percentage of the universe is actually in the view - that depends on our rate of expansion. I personally believe it might be considerably slower than light. That would allow the light we see to travel around the universe multiple times before reaching us. So the universe might have a radius of 10 billion ly or less and we see 3 billion of that as mirror images. I don't think we could tell by just looking at the galaxies, like above mentioned scientists say they can. But there are a few indicators, like a 5 billion light year ring of gamma ray bursts, which is not possible in a flat universe with inflation, among other mega structures and anomalies. Your sources are not able to convince me otherwise, among others because of sloppy explanations, like assuming that objects from 13.7 billion light years away have moved more than the expexted 13.7 billion light years away from us, without real explanation (math formulas). In my model, it would be a maximum of 27.4 Gly, appearing as 43 Gly if we assume a 4D hypersphere.

  • @MaxOakland
    @MaxOakland Před 3 lety +37

    “The Big Bang happened everywhere at once”
    Wow 😳

    • @swine13
      @swine13 Před 3 lety +2

      Less of a big bang and more of a big "!"

    • @emberdragon4248
      @emberdragon4248 Před 2 lety

      Me: What is my country of birth?
      Parents: Yes

    • @pacotaco1246
      @pacotaco1246 Před 2 lety

      Also it never stopped happening

  • @Declan-pg8cg
    @Declan-pg8cg Před 4 lety +9

    You see? I told people I'm not getting fatter,
    my body's just compensating for universal expansion.

  • @blckrig1817
    @blckrig1817 Před 4 lety +50

    It’s quite simple actually. Just start by mentally projecting a 4D hyper sphere with your minds eye into this feeble 3D existence.

    • @CockAndBallTorture.
      @CockAndBallTorture. Před 4 lety +6

      Ah yes, I see it now. Thank you!

    • @Artiz...
      @Artiz... Před 4 lety +1

      Excellent observation! Understandable simplicity trumps all!

    • @jeffdunnell508
      @jeffdunnell508 Před 4 lety +2

      Just think,there's no beginning and no end to the universe,it's forever, always was and always will be

    • @hyenada6388
      @hyenada6388 Před 4 lety +1

      😂

    • @ethanneal8158
      @ethanneal8158 Před 4 lety +1

      Dubiously

  • @BierBart12
    @BierBart12 Před 3 lety +35

    Honestly, time being a spacial dimension sounds terrifying to me.
    Imagine some higher dimensional being accidentally stepping on you because it stepped "back" in time
    Like time travel is just.. walking for them.
    And the "expanding universe" is actually the entire universe falling.. towards something we can't see, because we can't see in time.
    It may just be the pepperoni, falling towards a fourth dimensional hyperpizza.

    • @masicbemester
      @masicbemester Před 3 lety +1

      I added this to a story I'm writing. Well, I haven't started really writing it down anywhere but it's more of a collection of ideas in a way.

    • @kruksog
      @kruksog Před 3 lety +3

      Ignoring time, a 4th dimensional being could pick one of us up, rotate us in the fourth dimension, and place us back. This would eventually kill you. Most of the nutrients we take in are right-handed isomers, but your body would now be prepared for left-handed isomers. Hence you'd never absorb another nutrient again. (Simplified to keep the comment short.)

  • @bufordbartholomew7231
    @bufordbartholomew7231 Před 3 lety +1

    I think the things you choose to focus on get everything to the point, and your descriptions are easy to visualize. You are quite amazing.

  • @andrewsalinas4089
    @andrewsalinas4089 Před 4 lety +129

    Do I even have to say it at this point?

    • @georgesimos4914
      @georgesimos4914 Před 4 lety +17

      Did you just post this message 6 days ago? :P

    • @brewbearz1136
      @brewbearz1136 Před 4 lety +41

      Video uploaded minutes ago,
      comment uploaded 6 days ago.
      Yup, time is working just fine i guess.

    • @benooft1355
      @benooft1355 Před 4 lety +35

      Time is relative takes on a whole new meaning now.

    • @bashirirfan2340
      @bashirirfan2340 Před 4 lety +10

      What the hell

    • @spiderthecat
      @spiderthecat Před 4 lety +7

      whaaaa

  • @anubis63000jd
    @anubis63000jd Před 4 lety +32

    I'm just happy this many people enjoy topics like this.
    We need these people.

    • @ricksanchez694
      @ricksanchez694 Před 4 lety +1

      even tough 98% of em are stoners sitting in their couch saying woooooow dud ?
      ok then

    • @anubis63000jd
      @anubis63000jd Před 4 lety

      @@ricksanchez694 Sure. We all start somewhere.

    • @anubis63000jd
      @anubis63000jd Před 4 lety

      I am presumptuous then.

    • @ricksanchez694
      @ricksanchez694 Před 4 lety +1

      @John Barber you dont know that. be humble

    • @ricksanchez694
      @ricksanchez694 Před 4 lety

      @@anubis63000jd some crawl before they walk, other keeps crawling.

  • @Sosukz
    @Sosukz Před 3 lety +66

    Thats how my dog feels when I talk to him

  • @agodsjp632
    @agodsjp632 Před 4 lety +97

    This sounds like how we used to think the earth was flat

    • @Neoplasie1900
      @Neoplasie1900 Před 3 lety +13

      With the major difference that when we use reason and experiment we find that the earth is a spheriod while the same principles indicate an overall flat universe. It's more of language thing I'd guess.

    • @watinc.9918
      @watinc.9918 Před 3 lety +3

      Some people still do think it’s flat

    • @howedaddy6122
      @howedaddy6122 Před 3 lety +18

      @@Neoplasie1900 Well we did use reason when we thought the earth was flat. We said it looked flat so it was. It wasn't great reasoning but it was all we have. It is the same thing here where we use all the reasoning we have now to say the universe is flat but we certainly still don't have the full picture not even close.

    • @Ludifant
      @Ludifant Před 3 lety +4

      Nobody in history thought it was flat, flat earthing is actually a recent event.

    • @howedaddy6122
      @howedaddy6122 Před 3 lety +10

      @@Ludifant Really -_-? So you think that hunters and gatherers though they lived on a planet and that the planet was round

  • @user-mz7cn9hq8v
    @user-mz7cn9hq8v Před 4 lety +66

    So universe is a flat sphere... Yeah, enough internet for today

    • @Execrate200
      @Execrate200 Před 4 lety

      And yet you morons still don't get it, that earth is a level plane.
      Just continue typing idiotic one liners and post brain-dead memes.
      All the while oblivious to your enslavement and many preferring it,
      and wanting to impose it on others.
      Oh well... still a level plane.

    • @user-mz7cn9hq8v
      @user-mz7cn9hq8v Před 4 lety +9

      @@Execrate200 hi darling
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia

    • @Execrate200
      @Execrate200 Před 4 lety

      @@user-mz7cn9hq8v Bye sweetheart Kisses hugz

    • @Execrate200
      @Execrate200 Před 4 lety

      @@user-mz7cn9hq8v www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html

    • @user-mz7cn9hq8v
      @user-mz7cn9hq8v Před 4 lety +8

      @@Execrate200 better get professional help than talk about it on internet

  • @OK-69420
    @OK-69420 Před 4 lety +36

    4:06 flat earthers: *u dare oppose me mortal?*

  • @kesavanramesh5663
    @kesavanramesh5663 Před 3 lety +62

    IF this theory was true we be laughing at the flatearthers but we are kinda like them in our perception of the universe

    • @swine13
      @swine13 Před 3 lety +1

      So... youre saying you're a flat earther basically

    • @rubengomes3883
      @rubengomes3883 Před 3 lety +20

      Nah. Because we are willing to accept to change our views through science and data... They refuse to listen.. we don't

  • @RobyTalksWrestling
    @RobyTalksWrestling Před rokem

    So I was enjoying your clips and watching and YT was rewarding me by feeding them to me.
    But now because I recently faced back into a Universe kick it fed me this from 2 years ago. I hope there is at least more content like this to find and then a grander hope is that you are continually putting this content out because it's good.

  • @Pspersonal-bp8by
    @Pspersonal-bp8by Před 4 lety +7

    Wow, I'm truly impressed. You explained difficult concepts in an understandable and approachable way without dumbing it down to drivel. First video I saw from this channel and subbed.

  • @TylerMatthewHarris
    @TylerMatthewHarris Před 4 lety +37

    It seems like you could say everything is shrinking and space is constant.

    • @stuartdriedger9989
      @stuartdriedger9989 Před 4 lety +7

      Jesus, that actually makes sense.

    • @balrighty3523
      @balrighty3523 Před 4 lety +1

      Everything in the universe: "I WAS IN A POOL!!"

    • @Jamie-Russell-CME
      @Jamie-Russell-CME Před 4 lety +2

      probably a better way to explain it. Einstein says, "You can't prove either. It's relative. And reference frames."

    • @88Timur88Bahmudov88
      @88Timur88Bahmudov88 Před 4 lety

      @@Jamie-Russell-CME yeah, i was about to write that it's basically the same thing if you don't have another universe to compare 😄

    • @manuell3505
      @manuell3505 Před 4 lety +1

      You will meet a problem with the not decreasing orbital period of electrons and such things...
      It might work with the string theory. The elementary foundation of reality has to be fuzzy, without any constant.

  • @Xanderj89
    @Xanderj89 Před rokem +1

    It’s actually super interesting how many things in physics would make total sense if all our confusion was that it’s all 4d physics and we’re just seeing the 3d bit.
    “Sometimes we bump it up a dimension and use imaginary numbers and then back down and it works better than just trying it all with 3d real numbers not quite sure why” or maybe that was the trick all along

  • @DavidConnerCodeaholic
    @DavidConnerCodeaholic Před 3 lety

    Your videos are fantastic: both simple and sufficient in scope, while also comprehensive. This one answers many important, fairly basic questions I’ve had about cosmology from one time to another. Some of these I’ve answered but the explanations were slow in coming. Questions like: is there any edge to the universe, what do other galaxies see and where is the center?

  • @benooft1355
    @benooft1355 Před 4 lety +19

    I love your vids and you helped me find what I want do to for my major thanks a lot.

  • @elietheprof5678
    @elietheprof5678 Před 4 lety +16

    How about: spacetime is a hypersphere, but time is the "radius" dimension while space is the other 3 polar coordinates?
    The question is whether the math would be compatible with the Lorentz transformations in Special Relativity.

    • @Boogaboioringale
      @Boogaboioringale Před 4 lety +6

      Elie The Prof : My thoughts exactly. The is expanding thru the 4th spatial dimension at “c”. Since we’re on the surface, far away galaxies will seem to move faster. For example, a galaxy on the “opposite side “ would be moving from us at twice that speed.(if measured through the “center “. Our movement along this 4th dimension would seem like what we call time. The past would be unreachable because it’s now inside the hyper sphere.

    • @okkoheinio5139
      @okkoheinio5139 Před 4 lety +4

      That sounds like it could make a lot of sense. Surface area increases as radius increases just like how the universe expands as time goes on.
      This is just my intuition, but now that I think about it, it wouldn't make sense if radius was *not* the time dimension if all the other points were true.

    • @Guztav1337
      @Guztav1337 Před 4 lety +1

      As time goes on, the radius increases. Hence everything is expanding away from each other.

    • @michaelpitzel5430
      @michaelpitzel5430 Před 4 lety

      Nope, it's a TRIMOIUS(R), US Patent 4,138,744.A single sheet of a 3-ball in 7-space.

    • @zdcyclops1lickley190
      @zdcyclops1lickley190 Před 4 lety

      How about air is ancient unicorn farts? A theory is a hypothesis plus a mathematical model that agrees with current observations and makes predictions of what you will observe under differing conditions.

  • @jamesfarrell8339
    @jamesfarrell8339 Před 2 lety

    Fantastic video
    Thank you for all the hard work putting this together

  • @NewtonDKC
    @NewtonDKC Před 4 lety

    @3:48 THANK YOU! I was always wondering if this was the case for the expanding universe and could never find a clear answer - maybe I didn't look hard enough, or maybe I wasn't sure I really understood the concept. But thank you for explaining gravity wins locally and atoms etc don't fly apart...
    I had always wondered if, for example, I could compare my body now to my body from billions of years ago if the me now would be enormous and b.y.a. me would be relatively tiny or at least noticeably smaller (obviously this is a thought experiment and factors such as time travel capability for the comparison, mortality that would adversely interfere with the temporal specimens, and weight gain extrapolated over such a lifetime are ignored for convenience's sake).So they wouldn't be appreciably different sizes, right? What about galaxies (how local is locall?)? Galactic clusters would be "larger" (again, I hope the things I'm ignoring for the sake of clarity don't come off as completely ignorant of the development of things like galactic clusters, galaxies, stars themselves...so instead of just 12-14 billion years ago to now, maybe a comparison between a human body from 12bya, 8bya, 4bya, and now (hmm, and say 4billion years hence and so forth) - all other factors accounted for (species stays same size, nutrition, planet size/gravity the same - let's take homogenous to ridiculous levels and include all times as well-solely for the development of comparable specimens to compare which just goes to show nothing stays the same!).

  • @machineball
    @machineball Před 3 lety +3

    i've had this theory for years. thank you so much for presenting this on youtube.

  • @towelie5997
    @towelie5997 Před 4 lety +18

    I had an interesting exchange about a flat or curved universe in a comment section just yesterday and had a hard time understanding the flatness in a universe that's obviously not 2d. Your video just cleared that up so easily! Thank you, you're a brilliant teacher and i'd love to see more content from you :)

    • @asmrgamingOz
      @asmrgamingOz Před 4 lety

      visualise a bubble of space and u get the idea

    • @amonGustavo07
      @amonGustavo07 Před 4 lety

      ASMR Gaming nah it isn’t proven. The plane of our existence can either be a plane, a curved plane, or a sphere. We don’t know yet but research shows we are most likely in a curved plane I think.

    • @vacuumdiagrams652
      @vacuumdiagrams652 Před 4 lety

      It could also be a cylinder, a torus, or some more complicated surface, too.

    • @donaldbaird7849
      @donaldbaird7849 Před 4 lety

      @@amonGustavo07 Research shows we're most likely in a 3d flat plane

    • @amonGustavo07
      @amonGustavo07 Před 4 lety

      Donald Baird which is a curved plane I don’t remember the actual name

  • @jaycalli40
    @jaycalli40 Před 3 lety +2

    Imagine. A greater being looks down on the universe and all they see is a picture. This picture changes from time to time. Things move in the painting. Why do they move?

  • @BaseDeltaZero1972
    @BaseDeltaZero1972 Před 3 lety

    This was really well explained and presented for the layman with a bit of interest.
    Subbed and liked!

  • @spindoctor6385
    @spindoctor6385 Před 4 lety +15

    I did the angle measurement experiment in my back yard i took 10 steps one way,
    turned 90 degrees clockwise, took another 10 steps turned 90 degrees again and
    finally took another 10 steps, i was not in the same place, therefore the earth is flat.
    Q.E.D.

    • @topsecret1837
      @topsecret1837 Před 4 lety +1

      Were those ten steps standardized? How likely is it that you will always land your foot on the same distance for an n number of times around the perimeter of a square? Probably very low.
      If you expected this to be an R/whoosh, nope! Here’s my UNO reverse card:
      🔁

    • @spindoctor6385
      @spindoctor6385 Před 4 lety

      @@topsecret1837 You are right, I will play my skip card until i re-do the experiment, i will bring my yard stick and protractor and give you the new results soon.

    • @lotusflower_
      @lotusflower_ Před 4 lety +1

      I- 👁👄👁

    • @gsmarchand
      @gsmarchand Před 3 lety

      @@spindoctor6385 your comment is going to end up in one of their videos lmao

    • @TrinsitCom
      @TrinsitCom Před 3 lety

      Bruh, it only works if you travel a quarter of the distance around the sphere along each line lol

  • @shuffleB
    @shuffleB Před 3 lety +8

    6:01= Hands, that's Handling. The opposing team gets a free kick.

    • @bubzuru
      @bubzuru Před 3 lety

      you mean a hand ball ??

  • @poisoncurls882
    @poisoncurls882 Před 4 lety

    I just stumbled upon your channel.
    Thanks for sharing your knowledge and theories.
    Keep it "up" ;)

  • @Bode2468
    @Bode2468 Před 3 lety

    Great video, easy to follow and really thought provoking

  • @Son-Of-Gillean
    @Son-Of-Gillean Před 4 lety +13

    Anyone else find it kind of unreasonable that the idea the universe is flat has been chosen over the idea that our measurements are just not over a big enough distance to determine a shape?
    Doesn't seem like there is any reason to choose the idea of flatness, simply preferring an idea is not good enough.

    • @dragonemperor007
      @dragonemperor007 Před 4 lety +3

      It hasn't been ruled out that the universe could be curved. However, if you are a physicist making calculations over gigantic distances, you can safely assume that the universe is flat.

    • @gameguy8101
      @gameguy8101 Před 4 lety +4

      This is true, but for calculation purposes it's helpful to say it's flat.
      And locally, a flat surface and a sphere are identical. If you're familiar with topology, it's why those two manifolds are equivalent. Because when proving equivalence you only talk about tiny infinitesimal regions. We view the universe as in we are in one of those tiny infinitesimal regions, so it seems flat. Whether it is or not we have no way of knowing, but it behaves that way for us so it's helpful to use occams razor and assume the simplest case based on all observations.

    • @Tletna
      @Tletna Před 4 lety +1

      @@gameguy8101 From an engineering view point, on a small scale, this might be useful, but it is still illogical to assume.

  • @MarcoLiedekerken
    @MarcoLiedekerken Před 4 lety +8

    The universe does not expand. Matter just shrinks !

    • @poyodarkz
      @poyodarkz Před 4 lety

      Ever heard of Dank Energy and Matter? The Cosmic Inflation?

    • @Mosern1977
      @Mosern1977 Před 4 lety

      @DankMemeKid - we have no direct observations of distances increasing. We have redshift of distant light. Cause could be an expanding universe. Could be a million other things as well.

    • @Mosern1977
      @Mosern1977 Před 4 lety

      @DankMemeKid - well, the problem is that if we shrink - then all things not shrinking should expand equally. Expanding universe model states that far away objects are expanding away faster than closer ones.

    • @MarcoLiedekerken
      @MarcoLiedekerken Před 4 lety +1

      @@Mosern1977 The far away objects are shrinking much longer, which we perceive as "moving away faster". Also the photons that we receive from the far away galaxies may be 'shrinking' which influences their frequency (redshift).

    • @ericcarvalhoferreira512
      @ericcarvalhoferreira512 Před 4 lety

      @IdkGoodName Vilius Yeah,we know

  • @ashokrayvenn
    @ashokrayvenn Před 2 lety +1

    “Looks the same everywhere”, -except the voids. The Bootes void is scary.

  • @dannystratton7712
    @dannystratton7712 Před 3 lety

    Cool video Bud, good analogy of the universe. I like to think it's a little bit different.

  • @cobalius
    @cobalius Před 4 lety +5

    So, living on the 3D ball will give you the option to travel in 2 orthogonal directions to come to your starting point again.
    Living on the 4D ball with give us the option to travel in 3 orthogonal directions to come to our starting point again.
    That means, traveling along the room-like 3d dimension will be seen as a 3rd line across the hyperspherical ball, without entering the 4D ball (or 4th dimension).
    Interesting🤔

  • @IQFREAKY
    @IQFREAKY Před 4 lety +10

    "Well the Universe is shaped exactly like the Earth, if you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were"

    • @wilfredoagno5947
      @wilfredoagno5947 Před 3 lety

      And you could be looking at the same thing but in opposite directions.

  • @yerejun
    @yerejun Před 5 měsíci

    Thank you Zac for fulfilling my intellectual and humour centers simultaneously 😊 I watch both your channels .

  • @Unknowava
    @Unknowava Před 4 lety +2

    Super video. I really like how it's explain without getting too complicated but still complex in a certain way. I have a question for you : how can we be sure than the universe is expanding rather than we (all the things inside the universe) are getting smaller?

    • @otaku-chan4888
      @otaku-chan4888 Před rokem

      both are actually the same thing, depending on your perspective.

  • @hazeldejesus
    @hazeldejesus Před 4 lety +30

    thinking about stuff like this sometimes makes me wish I pursued Music instead of Physics lol
    I'm gonna need some Tylenol now

  • @Italiano9091
    @Italiano9091 Před 3 lety +3

    Can we just respect the camera man for giving us these shots...

  • @ThePetesims
    @ThePetesims Před 3 lety +2

    I love it when the explanation leaves you more confused than the question

  • @Tepalus
    @Tepalus Před 3 lety +1

    To be honest, i like the idea of a hyperspheric universe much more. It is a countable infinity. We as simple humans can grasp it and it makes for a nice analogy with balls, that are a familiar shape to earth.
    Also as someone once told me:
    "There was never nothing, then everything was everywhere at the same time, and at the end nothing will be forever."

  • @maxinefinnfoxen
    @maxinefinnfoxen Před 4 lety +19

    4:59
    That's faulty logic since we don't know how far our universe goes. There for, it could still be a sphere but so far that we can't measure if the lines are slowly getting closer.

    • @rouninpanda6318
      @rouninpanda6318 Před 4 lety +3

      Exactly. I mean the alternative here is an infinite flat universe. If the flat universe needs to be infinite to exist, then you'll never really be able to be sure you're measuring far enough to verify there's no curve. Idk why it would be easier and more logical to assume an infinite flatness, rather than a finite 3 sphere that's just much larger than our current observable universe.

    • @lotusflower_
      @lotusflower_ Před 4 lety +1

      i thought it was faulty because shining two beams of light parallel to each other isnt the 4D version of verifying this. Shining two beams parallel to each other in a 3D space will result in a hypothetical 2D plane like the 3D sphere example. I think the 4D way of verifying that we live in a hypersphere is with parallel 2D planes separated through 3D space; If they make a 1D cross-section anywhere in space when they meet, then we do.

    • @BriggsDCory
      @BriggsDCory Před 3 lety

      I guess our instrument sensitivity would have to be so low in comparison to viewable versus actual size that we can't see a change. Possible, but I don't know.

    • @GordieKat
      @GordieKat Před 3 lety +1

      @@rouninpanda6318 I don't like the flat universe because to me it seems it must have edges if it's not closed.

  • @curtisreeves7248
    @curtisreeves7248 Před 3 lety +5

    Lets say hypothetically that there is an edge to the universe, whats beyond? Is there like an invidible wall in a video game? Is there anything that we could potentially compare it to?

  • @Durvington
    @Durvington Před 2 lety +1

    Everyone is the center of the universe since it’s expanding, and everything you see is technically all in your mind, so your mind is the center of the universe

  • @WestOfEarth
    @WestOfEarth Před 3 lety +1

    This does point to an experiment that would differentiate between a flat 3D universe and 4D hypersphere. In the analogy you present, the flatlander on 2-sphere could aim a powerful laser in one direction. If detects that laser light coming back to him from behind, he'd know it must have curved. We could do something similar by looking at powerful Quasar beams in one direction, and then look in the opposite direction to see if we see the same Quasar beam.

  • @equesdeventusoccasus
    @equesdeventusoccasus Před 4 lety +3

    Excellent video, there's two small points I'd like to bring up. The concept of parallel lines converging on a sphere is related directly to people walking to a pole on the sphere. (Which in reality can be any point on the sphere.) If however they're walking in the same direction *not* towards a pole one will have a shorter walk than the other to get all the way back to the starting point but they will never converge. Conversely, two people cannot walk in absolutely parallel lines towards a single point. (This last bit is somewhat pedantic I realize, yet it's still true.)
    Also, I realize that you specified you were not speaking about time for the 4th dimension, but imagine going to the exact same point, wearing the same clothes taking a photo of the exact same landmark using the same camera once a year, you have a prime example of 4D travel. Everything is the same in the first 3 dimensions, only the 4th (time) has changed, therefore to reference the different visits, you would need to reference time to differentiation between them. This how I describe 4D to people.

  • @oliviakittridge8932
    @oliviakittridge8932 Před 4 lety +11

    You mentioned scientists tested the triangular "Walk straight, then two 90 degree turns" method and found it was "close" to 180 degrees, couldn't that point to our universe theoretically being in a hypersphere that's.. unthinkably enormous? so big that even our biggest possible measurements would seem to point to it being otherwise?

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 Před 4 lety +3

      That is still a possibility. Neither proven nor disproven.

    • @willhastings731
      @willhastings731 Před 4 lety

      This is why scientists talk about the observable universe. They say the observable universe is flat, because the size of the observable universe is known, and measurements of flatness can be made within that context.

    • @Boogaboioringale
      @Boogaboioringale Před 4 lety

      Olivia Kittridge : Exactly. The margin of error is 0.4%(or something like that). Anywho, it means the universe could be curved but it have be at least 250 times the diameter of the observable universe, and if we get more accurate, even bigger than that. It’s probably impossible to get 100% accuracy so I’m holding out for the curved universe. That way, we can have colliding bubble multiverses of different sizes and other cool stuff.🤗

    • @Artiz...
      @Artiz... Před 4 lety

      The clue is in the answer Olivia.... 'found it was "close"... maybe, maybe not! What a surprise!

  • @F4ngel
    @F4ngel Před 4 lety +1

    I hypothesised this once. Since a hyper cube is an object that has all its faces touching another face, it would make sense that if all points in the universe are connected and that there is no edge and no center if we assume its a hypersphere. Its really hard to explain without just repeating the video. Don't even know if what I said made sense. Seems like the more I read into this the less I seem to know.. It would be interesting to try and map the visual known universe onto a hypercube with us in the center.
    Our universe could just be a giant expanding 4d muffin orbiting around an even more giant expanding 4d croissant.

  • @ivocanevo
    @ivocanevo Před 3 lety

    Lots of intuitive explanations. One of the better videos on this subject.

  • @BenTheBeanYT
    @BenTheBeanYT Před 4 lety +3

    I usually understand these things... but at 1 AM, this broke my brain.

  • @spockskynet
    @spockskynet Před 4 lety +4

    What confuses me is cosmologists will talk about how inflationary expansion is expected to make a universe that looks very flat even if it isn't, but then promptly forget about this when talking about direct measurements of the geometry.

  • @markwebcraft
    @markwebcraft Před 4 lety +1

    You actually made a hypersphere understandable. This theory make a lot of sense to me. Well done, thank you

  • @scottconwell2146
    @scottconwell2146 Před 3 lety

    Thanks, think I have it, via expanding raisin bread analogy. Space is the things that's expanding, & the galaxies are moving with it. This vs. the old image of a mono block, or mono sphere, as the original center with mater exploding outwards from that, forming as planet, star, galaxies, etc.

  • @FirstCelestialEmperor
    @FirstCelestialEmperor Před 4 lety +51

    I'm a proud flat universer, do your research instead of listening to the media

    • @realdragon
      @realdragon Před 4 lety +2

      Nah, Universe is concave

    • @BrutusAlbion
      @BrutusAlbion Před 4 lety +3

      @@realdragon It's obviously a donut ...

    • @lit3plumber12
      @lit3plumber12 Před 4 lety

      Knowledge > research.
      We don't know if it's flat, well... It's not really, it's 3D with gravity being an additional dimension. If you look at it per slice, it appears flat.

    • @TheNini666
      @TheNini666 Před 4 lety +2

      Neh, just a brain in a vat, don't overcomplicate.

    • @TR-vl2nb
      @TR-vl2nb Před 4 lety

      People we know nothing

  • @jamesmosher6912
    @jamesmosher6912 Před 4 lety +14

    Question about “expansion”. If all of space is expanding, and like any two raisins in the bread loaf, or any two points on the infinite plane, what would it matter? Yes, the universe “expanded” but so did the relative distance between my head and my feet (which constitute two points, or two “raisins”). How would one even observe such an expansion? ie, if from a to b was 1,000 units of my height before the expansion, would it not likewise be 1,000 units of my height after/during expansion? Or am I (matter) somehow “disconnected” from this expansion? Or expanding at a different rate?

    • @jeromeorji1057
      @jeromeorji1057 Před 4 lety +3

      Not a physicist but you can find evidence for expansion by looking at redshifting of light sources. Tl;dr it's a similar phenomenom as how the pitch of a ambulance siren deepens as it passes you by.

    • @WindLighter
      @WindLighter Před 4 lety +3

      @@jeromeorji1057 seems like the only reason we can register expansion is the fact that we get information about different chunks of space from different timeframes. By the way, what will change if space will stay the same size, but the speed of light will decrese?

    • @Elias-hk9sc
      @Elias-hk9sc Před 4 lety +3

      The distance between your head and your feet does not constitute two raisins, cause Gravity. It would rather be part of the raisin. Since Gravity cancels out the effect of the expansion, the raisin would be an equivalent to our Solar System, which stays constant in size. Just like the raisin does not increas, but merely the space in between.

    • @zerobyte802
      @zerobyte802 Před 4 lety +7

      The distance between your head and feet is not expanding because the forces holding you together are stronger than the expansion of space. This extends all the way up to structures like galaxies and such, which are gravitationally bound together. Imagine you had a rubber band with two ants drawn on it. The drawings would be stretched apart from each other, but the drawings themselves would be getting stretched wider and wider as well, because each ink particle is moving with the rubber. Now if you had two real ants on the same rubber band, they would be getting further from each other as the rubber stretched, but they wouldn't get stretched/ripped apart because they're not bound to the rubber itself - sure their legs touch the rubber itself, but it just gradually slips under their feet as it stretches. But they're still being carried away from each other because they're not tied together.

    • @WindLighter
      @WindLighter Před 4 lety

      @@zerobyte802 how the forces keep everything togther if them acts within the space and space itself expands? Do we just can not measure expansion at scales like star systems or galaxies simply because it's too small for our instruments? Does calculations of stars trajectories orbiting gelaxy center consistent with expansion included or not, and how (may be Earth orbit is stable cause it's spiral but that cancels out with univerce expansion too)?

  • @ultimateguardian4544
    @ultimateguardian4544 Před rokem +2

    I love to sit around and create situations that are contrary to popular thought. One of my favorite things to think about is "What if you could explain the existence of stars without the need for a universe or galaxy." Most of my musings on this subject are nonsensical, but I have one that actually seems to have some promise to it. My thought is this, what if all the other stars we see out in space are actually just the sun, but at different points in time: Premise 1- If you pass a 3-dimensional object through a 2-dimensional plane, it will look as if the object is growing or shrinking. premise 2- if that three-dimensional shape is an odd shape, let's use for example a horseshoe shape, then at first, it would look as if there are two rectangles that move towards each other. then it would appear as if those two rectangles then merge to be one giant rectangle before disappearing. Premise 3- if there were flat landers living on one of these two small rectangles they would be able to see the second rectangle across an empty void. premise 4- what if time is indeed a spacial dimension rather than its own set of dimensions, that would mean your past present, and future are actually all just one object that is slowly being passed through a 3-dimensional space. Premise 5- what if the temporal shape of our sun is actually a complex shape, like a spiraling sin curve, then we could actually see the other parts of this fourth dimensional as it is being passed through our 3-dimensional plane of existence.
    I decided to start looking through the internet to see if anyone else has come up with this alternative way of explaining stars, and so far this is the closest I have found.

  • @katefletcher5838
    @katefletcher5838 Před 2 lety +1

    *As a preface, I don't know what I'm talking about* Could the expansion of the universe be us observing a new slice of a 4d sphere? Because when we try to project a 4d shape into 3d we take slices of that 4d shape at different planes along the shape. Afaik 4d balls expand and contract (when we iterate through them) right? So, potentially the expansion of the universe could be a function of time iterating the slice of the universe that we see.

  • @wkanost
    @wkanost Před 3 lety +6

    If the universe is “infinite” then any point you are observing the universe, becomes the center of the universe. (From your perspective anyway.)

    • @samseymour7004
      @samseymour7004 Před 3 lety

      Well there is no “center” in infinity, but I get your point

    • @davidarvingumazon5024
      @davidarvingumazon5024 Před 2 lety

      What does it mean?

    • @wkanost
      @wkanost Před 2 lety +1

      @@davidarvingumazon5024 - it means…the universe is so vast the human brain is incapable of comprehending its scope and age.

    • @davidarvingumazon5024
      @davidarvingumazon5024 Před 2 lety

      @@wkanost pogchamp

  • @tonas3843
    @tonas3843 Před 4 lety +17

    Let's say that the 3D-sphere-world is really on a 4D-sphere, and we keep continue and assume that the 4D-sphere is on a 5D-sphere which is on a 6D-sphere and so on to infinite. We have the infinite dimensions overlapping each other theory.
    I swear somebody must have made that theory.

    • @abealis
      @abealis Před 4 lety +1

      I have most definitely thought about it myself

    • @lotusflower_
      @lotusflower_ Před 4 lety +2

      actually I heard some other guy say that the minimum is 11 dimensions, but in string theory. In “M-theory,” (idk what that is either) there are 12 minimum. So, infinite dimensions is possible, but 11 dimensions is required, at least in string theory.

    • @BriggsDCory
      @BriggsDCory Před 3 lety +2

      Sometimes I hate the limitations of being human. I want to know this stuff!

    • @swine13
      @swine13 Před 3 lety +1

      They did but it doesn't make it right...

    • @tonas3843
      @tonas3843 Před 3 lety +1

      @@swine13 It's just a theory

  • @BowlingCrony
    @BowlingCrony Před 4 lety +1

    I think of space being a something rather than an expance of nothing. Thinking of space as a replicating bacteria that forces everything else out does it for me.

  • @bernardochagasaraujo8755
    @bernardochagasaraujo8755 Před 3 lety +1

    This video taught me more about the Principle of Finite Induction than the 4 times I took Discrete Mathematics.

  • @arciviousx2362
    @arciviousx2362 Před 4 lety +5

    U know how if u get a 3D object and pass it through a 2D plane and u will see a circle expanding and shrinking because that it's cross section,
    What if our 3D universes is just a cross section of a 4D hypersphere passing through a 3D plane,
    This will give a reason for the universe's expansion but also means the universe will shrink at one point!

    • @orik737
      @orik737 Před 4 lety +3

      Wouldn't you see new things popping into existence constantly then? Imagine passing a 3D spherical universe through a 2d plane. To those on the 2d plane, there wouldn't be expansion, it would look different entirely

    • @arciviousx2362
      @arciviousx2362 Před 4 lety +1

      @@orik737 this might happen on such a large scale and plus our observable universe is limited by the expansion
      Nice try tho

    • @arciviousx2362
      @arciviousx2362 Před 4 lety +1

      @@orik737 do we really understand higher dimensional objects tho

    • @orik737
      @orik737 Před 4 lety +1

      aman varshney perhaps not, you've got a point when it comes to things happening on such a large scale, but I'm inclined to believe that we would notice something so obviously unintuitive, on however large a scale, but obviously neither of us are going to have a compelling argument on the basis of evidence beyond a hunch and shaky logical reasoning.
      As for understanding higher dimensions, we have no way to actually observe them so I suppose you're right, but id argue that they're likely to follow the same patterns as lower dimensions, which we can observe. Plus your initial proposition required assumptions regarding the nature of 4 dimensional objects. While we don't necessarily understand them, I think it's reasonable to hypothesize on the basis of what little understanding we do have.

    • @arciviousx2362
      @arciviousx2362 Před 4 lety +2

      @@orik737 u r a smart person mate
      Should become a defense lawyer or something
      However this could also explain y gravity is so weak since it already spreads in the 4th spacial dimension unlike the rest of the forces
      I should just stop trying now Really 😂

  • @mendaxMultorum
    @mendaxMultorum Před 4 lety +3

    question: a 3d person percieving a hypersphere would see it as a sphere that grows and then eventually shrinks, so could our perception of the universe expanding be a property of our 3d nature, observing a grand cosmological hypersphere?

  • @deadlyEuphoria420
    @deadlyEuphoria420 Před 3 lety

    Very good watch!!!

  • @TheIntriguingii
    @TheIntriguingii Před 4 lety +1

    I have been saying the universe is round for years and spinning in the opposite direction at speeds higher than light while we are in the eye of its huge mass as it is rolling through space which is why everything seems to be moving away from us depending on if they are facing up or down or like a clock ticking clockwise until you see it from the other side it appears to be spinning counter clockwise as seeing and being on top of a galaxy looking down versus up.

  • @ijabbott63
    @ijabbott63 Před 4 lety +4

    I quite like the idea of the universe being hypertoroidal. Flat, with no boundary. Like Asteroids™ but three dimensional.

    • @raidermaxx2324
      @raidermaxx2324 Před 4 lety

      so that if you travelled for long enough in one direction, you would eventually end up where you started, at the beginning? I dont really like that idea at all.. lol.. its seems so much like any living entity travelling withing this universe would just be chasing its tail..

    • @michaelpitzel5430
      @michaelpitzel5430 Před 4 lety

      Nope, it's a TRIMOIUS(R), US Patent 4,138,744.A single sheet of a 3-ball in 7-space.

  • @milanstevic8424
    @milanstevic8424 Před 4 lety +5

    @12:00 You seem to have missed this
    www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0906-9
    Oh also, while we're at it, and you're a mathematician, wouldn't it be possible to estimate the size of a hypersphere required to make our observable universe seem like a speck (i.e. what size is enough in order not to be able to detect local curvature)?
    And what would happen if we'd then try and marry that estimate with the perceived expansion of the universe? In other words how fast is the hypersphere growing if that's the case?
    And does it accelerate in growth or does it grow constantly? (it should be the 3-sphere area that is growing exponentially due to an obvious exponent.)
    All fine questions imho.

    • @norcal_faithful775
      @norcal_faithful775 Před 4 lety +2

      I saw a similar article about positive curvature. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned. As to the size question, I believe this calculation has been done. I remember watching a science video on YT like Spacetime or Arvin Ash where they mentioned someone did the math and if I remember right, the minimum size to see no curvature was huge. Like mind boggling larger than the observable universe.

    • @tetraedri_1834
      @tetraedri_1834 Před 4 lety +3

      @@norcal_faithful775 Well, if the size was that of the observable universe, we would quite easily be able to observe the curvature... So it's quite natural to expect the size to be humongous.
      Just think about it: you can observe the curvature of Earth just by stand on a shore and watch a ship to disappear under the horizon. And the size of Earth is huge compared to what we can observe when standing still. Not completely analogous to observing curvature of space, but it gives some perspective.

    • @tetraedri_1834
      @tetraedri_1834 Před 4 lety +1

      Oh, and the article posted my Milan seems quite intereating, amd I've missed it. Cool to see some possible progress in this direction - I'm wondering how different models of multiverse we currently have could survive if the curvature indeed is globally positive (or do some of them actually predict it? I'm not familiar enough to know this x) )

  • @catastrophe2155
    @catastrophe2155 Před 2 lety

    He is like that one professor who teaches really chill but you get what he is saying ahaha. Keep up good work. Also a suggestion, would love u to add formulas in the graphics

  • @captaingabi
    @captaingabi Před 4 lety

    Great video. Also another thought experiment:
    If you take a picture anywhere anytime in the universe that is 1920*1080 with 32 bit color, then you only can have ( 2 pow 32 ) pow (1920*1080) such picutre. After taking that +1 you gotta get one doulbe at least. And that resolution and color depth for us basically can describe anything for our eyes. So even if the universe an infinite space and time, or very large, we would see lots of recurrence in it with our limited perception.

  • @TheDemolition2000
    @TheDemolition2000 Před 4 lety +5

    At 8:55 regarding the 2D “flat-mans” perspective on the surface of the sphere.
    Let’s assume that the sphere is not expanding, and such the surface area isn’t either, and that the speed of light is the same. He would either (a) only be able perceive the point at which he is located on the sphere that is the tangent plane, or (b) be able to see the entirety of the spheres surface.
    But let’s suppose that the sphere is expanding, thereby the surface area, and that the speed of light is the same. He would either (a) still only be able to see the point at which he is located because that is the tangent plane or (b) only be able to see a limited circle on the surface of the sphere like that depicted in the video.
    So the only way he could see in a limited circle and not the entirety of the surface would be if the sphere itself was expanding. So to carry that over to us, the “4D” shape that we rest on the surface of must be expanding, because we can only see a limited part of the universe. And if the “4D” shape that we are resting on were to NOT be expanding, we would be able to see ourselves from behind ourselves on the opposite “end” of the universe. Just like the flat-man would be able to look at the back of his head if the sphere was not expanding.

    • @hayrayna1314
      @hayrayna1314 Před 4 lety

      Yes,
      Live long and prosper!

    • @personmcdudeguy
      @personmcdudeguy Před 3 lety +1

      actually, if the universe was like that but not expanding, the more likely idea is that the light from all the stars in the universe would loop back around, basically causing everything to fry and become the heat of infinity suns.

  • @stardestroyer19
    @stardestroyer19 Před 4 lety +3

    But more importantly, MAY it be a hyper sphere?

  • @TooManyEditsProductions
    @TooManyEditsProductions Před 3 lety +2

    jeez dude I came here for the maths not to have an existential crisis

  • @Mywtfvids
    @Mywtfvids Před 4 lety +1

    Wow you have great editing skills 👏 haha cool video 🤯😍 👍