That's a nice compilation of paradoxes leading to critical thinking about them. However, with English not being my mother tongue it's unfortionately quite difficult to really follow the narrator through the scientific subjects. It's a great video though :)
An infinite is such a big number it becomes a paradox in it's own right, but if you put that infinite number in a box.. You know the box will have 4 sides, even though you'll never reach a corner on that box.
the Chinese box 1 doesnt make sense to me. if a robot can be taught 1 language, all it has to do is learn pattern relation, knowing, when you see this, do this. humans do it the same way. we learn abc. then lets say the translation is 123. so when she says
"4-15 25-15-21 11-14-15-23 20-8-5 1 2 3'19" you can say 25-5-1-8 or more proper 25-5-19.
robots do it all the time, they call it binary.as long as the robot has the capacity to remember
actually n°5 is einstein's special relativity, and not general relativity.
our GPS system uses einstein's general relativity that says that time goes faster the bigger the gravity potential is (the farther away from earth you are).
Love that a comedian is somehow qualified to comment on physics and mathematics perhaps because he has an interesting, intellectual sounding voice . . .
can somebody help me understand the first one? The way I see it, it´s like saying that if a car that runs at 200km/h gives some initial advantage to one that runs at 2km/h, it will never be able to catch up with the slow one. This, of course, makes no sense, so I must have misunderstood something...
@iranakamura This is only possible mathematically. Realistically it is not true - which is why it was stated it is a paradox, and also why the video contained the caption: "NB: Movement is possible".
@withoutsin got it, thanks! (This makes me think how a good decision it was for me to give up my Philosophy studies, hahahha, imagine I interrupted the class every three minutes to ask these kind of questions)
@iranakamura Re: Zeno's paradox: I guess the best way to explain the catch about it is to point out on an infinite division of a finite amount of time. (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, ... 1/n^2 if you start with Achiles being twice as fast as the tortoise) The catch is that this infinite division still adds up to one time unit, and we have no way of slowing down time. So in that one time unit, the tortoise has walked distance 1 and Achilles walked d = 1 (the head start) + 1 (what the tortoise walked).
#5 isn't a parodox as it has been resolved and explained, also, the paradoxyness wasnt explained. when bert looks down at al on earth, al's clocks are ALSO moving slowly, even when he comes back! that's the paradox (which has been solved with the light flashes conclusion)
If anyone is interested in theory of mind and artificial intelligence, I'd recommend reading "The Mind's I" by Hofstadter, and Dennett. It's fairly old, but it is a collection of essays, including the Turing test and Chinese Room experiment, both discussed here. With commentary from the book's Authors.
Brilliant way to familiarise yourself with the field, without getting bogged down with too much jargon. And real interesting, and thought provoking!
Wonderful animation and a delightful educational tool. I hope these fun videos will lead viewers to crack a book or two to learn more about the topics. Also, it would be nice if the Open University adds the name of the animator who created the video.
can a Polish person explain why you are expecting a translation of this in Polish? it's from the UK Open University, not the Polish one? or did they have a link to this on the Polish OU site? I'm just wondering, that's all. :)
@tablaqueen I don't know, even though I'm Polish I' ve received this link from Stephen Fry. And I'm ashamed of my native who cursed without any reason.
What's so hard to understand about no. 4? What paradox? Infinite is infinite, it never ends, we all know that, I don't get what's so strange about that.
And about the no. 1, it's all fun and games until Achiles is 1 cm from the turtle and he takes a step 1 meter long.
Schrodinger's cat: the engine only does one thing or another, depending on the particle's state. The answer: the engine needs to to something when the particle is in the superposition state.
@TeamJulene it wasn't explained here, but it actually is a paradox. If we treated Earth as an intertial frame of reference, the twin in the rocket might be treated as stationary and we could say that earth is moving close to the speed of light, hence the paradox, we wouldn't know which twin should age faster. However, Earth isn't in fact an inertial frame and therefore we know that the guy who stays on earth has proper clock...
In response to the Grandfather Paradox, it can be entirely disproved as a paradox if you take into account that time is just a dimension, like forwards, left, and up. Altering one part of the dimensions doesn't change another part along the same axes. Thus, killing your grandfather in the past would have zero effect at all, except if someone else went back in time to that moment, the grandfather would be dead.
Of course, assuming you CAN time travel and that time works like a spacial dimension.
@RawkBanderz Just appearing in the past would cause an air displacement which would eventually change the weather patterns of the future, meaning thousands of people lived that would have died and visa versa. Why would you have to kill your father when just being there would break the future. Even just breathing would be enough.
I have a question about achilles and the tortoise... While this paradox holds true if they are traveling at the same speed, it would not if achilles were traveling faster than the tortoise. Right? Their individual speeds were never stated, but were they implied? Achilles is undoubtedly able to travel faster than the tortoise. It doesn't matter how great the distance is between the two at the start. If achilles is moving faster he will eventually pass the tortoise. Right??!?!?
@vivaelseales yes you're right... the theory is only valid if Achilles were moving with a same or lower speed as the tortoise.. if Achilles's speed was even slightly higher than tortoise's, he would've manage to overcome or pass the animal, because in what we learnt in mechanics, if we equalize the both displacement (s) of the two equations, we will get the time (t), where Achilles overcomes the tortoise.
@istillloveguitar Exactly. The paradox is really illogical in that aspect. A human is obviously going to travel faster than a tortoise. Instead of Achilles and a tortoise it should be two identical beings.
@vivaelseales This paradox is not based upon observations and what actually happens logically, but upon mathematics using decay. It was simply another way to describe quantum physics, and like most paradoxes, are only made to make you think. The amount of distance that achilles has to travel to meet with the tortoise's starting position will decrease upon each interval, to a point where time and distance= 1.0x10^infinite. So logically, you are correct, but mathematically, you are not.
achilles & the tortoise is a easy one - when the tortoise moved the achilles have to cover the distance tortoise maked but the speed of the tortoise and chilles doesnt change so while the tortoise is covering distance achilles will cover the distance tortoise maked and the distance making
@AgentHD123 They're not riddles, they're paradoxes. You can't solve it. The Achilles and the Tortoise paradox deals with the fact that infinite series can add up to whole numbers. In reality Achilles *would* catch up to the tortoise, but when you look at it as a series of steps, Achilles would just barely never catch up.
@Hawkknight88 Have you played the game? It's like standing between two mirrors, but they are portals instead which when you go in one you come out of the other, and they are closing up towards you like a sandwich.
@bloximonkey you would be cut off inbetween dimensions where space and time do not exist; in other words, you will fall into a black hole, meaning you will be crushed by extreme amounts of/ infinite gravity. So don't do it haha
@Champigne It was an interesting thought experiment though that really did highlight the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation (i.e. wave-function collapse).
John Searle, and Albert Einstein are the only ones that can be demonstrated, (and they have alredy been) the rest are more imagination, not to be given to deep of a thought.
@pancakewafflebacon agree, the paradox disregards time and distance, and only factors in the space between the two. it makes a point, but with a nonsensical argument.
no it doesn't, even if he is always moving forward its impossible to divide the distance between them past zero. so logically he can never catch up to the tortoise because the distance between them can never reach zero.
@timen1986 One small problem with your logic. You are assigning a limit to infinity. You cannot say that the two lists have the same 'number' of elements as infinity is not a number. What you are saying is that skinny Bob weighs the same as fat Bob because they are both called Bob.
@timen1986 You missed the point. 'infinite' has no size. 'Infinite' cannot be measured, therefore you cannot say that one infinite is the same as the other infinite as neither has size. What you are trying to do is assign an object an attribute it does not have. How much does a kilometer weigh? How long is a Kilogram?
Aah yes, i see. Thanks for just explaining that and not giving me an all caps rage how stupid i am :) You don't see normal conversation a lot on youtube. But i guess that depends on the subject of the video :P
If I'm not mistaken, that isn't necessarily the case. There is a concept of something called cardinality. And there are some infinites, that are "bigger" than others - in that they have bigger cardinality.
Take the sets of natural and rational numbers for example:
You can make a simple algorithm that describes ALL natural numbers, but if you were trying to make one to describe rational ones, you could easily prove every list you made was incomplete. (Roughly said :) )
@Voccoc You're almost right, but actually, rational numbers have the same cardinality as natural numbers:
Consider the set of all rational numbers. All rational numbers can be written as a ratio. Call the denominator a and the numerator b. Calculate (a + b)*(a + b + 1)/2 + b. This function will give a unique natural number for every rational number. (See Cantor pairing function on Wikipedia.)
However, real numbers do have a different cardinality.
the other in some alien numbers starting at tohk and increasing by zaing
both lines are infinite but have the same amount of numbers. NOW, replace the second alien line with a line starting at 2 with an arithmetic sequence increasing by 2. it's practically the same thing except our minds see the similar numbers and assume that the first line has more numbers when actually both lines have infinite numbers.
@timen1986 That's not the way you want to think of it. You have to think of it as 1 is paired with 2 and therefore 2 is paired with 4 and so on. This would make them the same level of infiniti i.e. countably infinite.
@A55ma57er My point, is that he's not a "jack-off" for saying multiple dimensions don't exist, because there's no evidence for or against it. He didn't even say anything about another dimension, he said something about a parallel universe. Learn the difference.
The String theory is also still what it says it is, a theory. While it seems plausible, it still isn't a hard fact.
@nlo13 OMG! I just gotta get a screenshot now! Do you even realize what you just wrote? God you're fucking moron! A DIMENSION IS A PARALLEL UNIVERSE YOU IDIOT!
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@TheZomgStuff You're the retard, You British FAGGOT!
If there are other dimensions there they ARE connected to our universe, we just don't sense them. And they wouldn't be seperate universes! They'd be part of a greater whole We can't grasp yet!
You are a rude, vile character, and I am pleased that there is an ocean between us preventing me from having the displeasure of meeting you in person.
@A55ma57er Congratulations! You have officially turned everybody on this page against you and your immature, uneducated views. I don't need to tell you the difference between a Dimension and an Alternate Universe; half a dozen people seem to have done that already. But I will tell you that unless you radically change the way you perceive people of more sophisticated Nationalities and the way you understand Science nobody will take you seriously.
@A55ma57er Before calling other people morons you should go back to basic high school physics and mathematics and learn the definition of a dimension!
Achilles' thing either wasn't properly explained or he didn't add any variables. Either way it doesn't seem very useful... like any math to a high school student.
To explain the first theory, Achilles wouldn't be able to catch up with the tortoise as when he reaches the spot here the tortoise had started, the tortoise would have already moved. Then when Achilles reaches the second spot where the tortoise had moved to, he would again have moved. So basically everytime Achilles moves to the new spot the tortoise had reached he would always have moved even if it's the tiniest fraction of length. Remember it's just a theory :)
drivel lacking in philosophy. we're in the 21st ... get your head out of the 18th century lol.
TheOriginalEntz 5 days ago
Achilles & the Tortoise = me and the movie buffer bar.
nevinwebster 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos 2
thumbs up if u didn't understand a thing she said ....
MarieVilla7 1 week ago in playlist Fun stuff
@MarieVilla7 it was pretty simple to follow. Kinda sad that you couldn't understand it
Bubbiea 5 days ago
you suuureee like snakes
MarieVilla7 1 week ago in playlist Fun stuff
Well, that was certainly a well displayed video.
ElasticWorld 1 week ago
I still don't understand why Achilles wouldn't just rush straight past the tortoise.
HarduntheRanger 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Is that Dave Mitchell narrating?
Fuzzy192006 1 month ago
@Fuzzy192006 Yes, his voice is perfect for this.
OSS1E42 1 month ago
@Fuzzy192006
I'm pretty sure.
DanieleGiorgino 4 weeks ago
That's a nice compilation of paradoxes leading to critical thinking about them. However, with English not being my mother tongue it's unfortionately quite difficult to really follow the narrator through the scientific subjects. It's a great video though :)
witzbold91 1 month ago
in cartoon fornm rene barjavel looks like sideshow bob from the simpsons :)
everythingman987 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Excellent...I miss my nights with open university :)
lgonggr 1 month ago
This sounds like Dave Mitchell... o.O
CelticCowgirl 1 month ago 4
@CelticCowgirl
Exactly what I was thinking. So I did some research and it really is david mitchell. peep show, fuck yeah.
HmTastySoup 1 month ago
@CelticCowgirl I suppose it is Dave Mitchell.
dellilit 1 month ago
charmeleon sent me
TheRpsv 1 month ago
Locouk's Padadox:
An infinite is such a big number it becomes a paradox in it's own right, but if you put that infinite number in a box.. You know the box will have 4 sides, even though you'll never reach a corner on that box.
locouk 1 month ago
Pretty awsome
chillpill2197 1 month ago
Adventures in thought are amazing. I don't understand, and yet I understand completely.
Scalene87 1 month ago
undead cats... dead and alive is same time :P
KoTowaty 1 month ago
Awesome. [2]
yetanothertubeuser 1 month ago
Most interesting of all is that the video is narrated by David Mitchell.
hfrigums 2 months ago
the Chinese box 1 doesnt make sense to me. if a robot can be taught 1 language, all it has to do is learn pattern relation, knowing, when you see this, do this. humans do it the same way. we learn abc. then lets say the translation is 123. so when she says
"4-15 25-15-21 11-14-15-23 20-8-5 1 2 3'19" you can say 25-5-1-8 or more proper 25-5-19.
robots do it all the time, they call it binary.as long as the robot has the capacity to remember
xTheDeathSaintx 2 months ago
actually n°5 is einstein's special relativity, and not general relativity.
our GPS system uses einstein's general relativity that says that time goes faster the bigger the gravity potential is (the farther away from earth you are).
961kgb 2 months ago in playlist More videos from OUlearn
Awesome.
Onewa80 2 months ago
I used to be an adventurer in thought. But then i took an arrow to the knee...
turnstray 2 months ago
LMAO! Einsteins nad Schrödingers part are fucking hilarious!
PenisWurst030 2 months ago
so that's how peoples heads randomly explode
MrBubbles3120 2 months ago 3
what?
wrnerd101 2 months ago
Love that a comedian is somehow qualified to comment on physics and mathematics perhaps because he has an interesting, intellectual sounding voice . . .
ludwigchopin 2 months ago
@ludwigchopin because only retards tell jokes.... and you must be a complete idiot to make a living off of it.....
xTheDeathSaintx 2 months ago
can somebody help me understand the first one? The way I see it, it´s like saying that if a car that runs at 200km/h gives some initial advantage to one that runs at 2km/h, it will never be able to catch up with the slow one. This, of course, makes no sense, so I must have misunderstood something...
iranakamura 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@iranakamura This is only possible mathematically. Realistically it is not true - which is why it was stated it is a paradox, and also why the video contained the caption: "NB: Movement is possible".
withoutsin 2 months ago in playlist 60 Second Adventures in Thought 2
@withoutsin got it, thanks! (This makes me think how a good decision it was for me to give up my Philosophy studies, hahahha, imagine I interrupted the class every three minutes to ask these kind of questions)
iranakamura 2 months ago
@iranakamura Re: Zeno's paradox: I guess the best way to explain the catch about it is to point out on an infinite division of a finite amount of time. (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, ... 1/n^2 if you start with Achiles being twice as fast as the tortoise) The catch is that this infinite division still adds up to one time unit, and we have no way of slowing down time. So in that one time unit, the tortoise has walked distance 1 and Achilles walked d = 1 (the head start) + 1 (what the tortoise walked).
StrikaAmaru 3 weeks ago
@StrikaAmaru thank you!
iranakamura 2 weeks ago
For those who have expressed an interest, the animators were: Henry Paker, Victoria Kitchingman.
OUlearn 2 months ago 47
#5 isn't a parodox as it has been resolved and explained, also, the paradoxyness wasnt explained. when bert looks down at al on earth, al's clocks are ALSO moving slowly, even when he comes back! that's the paradox (which has been solved with the light flashes conclusion)
megablade12345 2 months ago
If anyone is interested in theory of mind and artificial intelligence, I'd recommend reading "The Mind's I" by Hofstadter, and Dennett. It's fairly old, but it is a collection of essays, including the Turing test and Chinese Room experiment, both discussed here. With commentary from the book's Authors.
Brilliant way to familiarise yourself with the field, without getting bogged down with too much jargon. And real interesting, and thought provoking!
piprod01 2 months ago
Do you not have trolls in England? As in, people who are are annoying just to get a rise? Wait of course you do, you have Jeremy Clarkson...
YuriHabadakas 2 months ago
@YuriHabadakas haha so true!
Shinobi35103 2 months ago in playlist Other Shit
i understand everything.... exept that last one. lol
BloodLoverHnKnA 2 months ago
Is it David Mitchell's voice?
Deel2506 2 months ago 3
@Deel2506 I was gonna say the same thing too! I think it might be.
victorianonymous 2 months ago
While the video is awesome, all I can think of is "where can I get the music from the cat's segment?"
ShiroKage009 2 months ago
Wonderful animation and a delightful educational tool. I hope these fun videos will lead viewers to crack a book or two to learn more about the topics. Also, it would be nice if the Open University adds the name of the animator who created the video.
elwoodhsmith 2 months ago 4
Wonderfully interesting and basically all pointless!
atomicmrpelly 2 months ago
LOL! Made my day! :-D
morganalefaye2006 2 months ago
I...I don't understand. -_-
VamLoveAndKisses 2 months ago
I'm learning!
YummCookie 2 months ago
Anyone else sent here by Mr. Fry, but then realised they'd already watched the video about 10 times already?
AMockTurtle 2 months ago 9
Is David Mitchell narrating? :D
trollsSuck4ever 2 months ago 6
@trollsSuck4ever Yes, it is David Mitchell.
heatburg 2 months ago
Stephen Fry.
CabjoyAU 2 months ago 6
can a Polish person explain why you are expecting a translation of this in Polish? it's from the UK Open University, not the Polish one? or did they have a link to this on the Polish OU site? I'm just wondering, that's all. :)
tablaqueen 2 months ago
@tablaqueen I don't know, even though I'm Polish I' ve received this link from Stephen Fry. And I'm ashamed of my native who cursed without any reason.
madziek23 2 months ago
Cheers stephen ^^
Kirenje 2 months ago 4
Stephen Fry brought me here via twitter :) I like the video!
Annatar3469 2 months ago 15
good old David Mitchell ;)
tablaqueen 2 months ago 4
worst cat video ever!! haha
georgiegrrrl 2 months ago
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TheAst4rtes 2 months ago
Oh Xeno, the prime example of why you shouldn't take Physics lessons from philosophers.
incarnedine 2 months ago
Mind = Blown
MrToastwithbutters 2 months ago
This sentence is wrong.
This is a lie.
musicalbeast 2 months ago 2
Mózg rozjebany.
GevellTheTorturer 2 months ago 4
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Damn, this makes me want to go to HornyHabits com! Haha
1jimmyju 2 months ago
mind = blown
Tom4shG 2 months ago
nie ma polskich napisów ; d
Hawkearful 2 months ago
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mcfuxx 2 months ago 21
@mcfuxx jak za trudno się angielskiego nauczyć to co ty tu robisz.
PerelkaLyoko2 2 months ago
@mcfuxx zamknij mordę jebany robaku
MartwyMiron 2 months ago
David Mitchell makes everything better
amrat0sunny 2 months ago
i think i sprained my brain...........
Biodeamon 2 months ago 2
What's so hard to understand about no. 4? What paradox? Infinite is infinite, it never ends, we all know that, I don't get what's so strange about that.
And about the no. 1, it's all fun and games until Achiles is 1 cm from the turtle and he takes a step 1 meter long.
Schrodinger's cat: the engine only does one thing or another, depending on the particle's state. The answer: the engine needs to to something when the particle is in the superposition state.
I liked the time machine one :)
SylarTheBest 2 months ago
Twin Paradox and Shrodinger Cat aren't paradoxes, they are JUST thought experements.
TheZomgStuff 2 months ago
Holy shit is this david mitchell narrating this?
dougtraceur 2 months ago
yay i understood a few ^^
urveasa 2 months ago
Mind=Poop
Gamespflow 2 months ago
The twin paradox isnt really a paradox, it's just what will happen.
TeamJulene 2 months ago
@TeamJulene it wasn't explained here, but it actually is a paradox. If we treated Earth as an intertial frame of reference, the twin in the rocket might be treated as stationary and we could say that earth is moving close to the speed of light, hence the paradox, we wouldn't know which twin should age faster. However, Earth isn't in fact an inertial frame and therefore we know that the guy who stays on earth has proper clock...
kornellster 2 months ago
my head hurts
TheRafa2196 2 months ago
MOAR!!
jala528v2 2 months ago
lolwut?
BananaCans 2 months ago
David mothafuckin Mitchel.
gizmofly870 2 months ago
eeee, takie tam pierdolenie, POZDRO POLSKA!
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MultiAhka 2 months ago
In response to the Grandfather Paradox, it can be entirely disproved as a paradox if you take into account that time is just a dimension, like forwards, left, and up. Altering one part of the dimensions doesn't change another part along the same axes. Thus, killing your grandfather in the past would have zero effect at all, except if someone else went back in time to that moment, the grandfather would be dead.
Of course, assuming you CAN time travel and that time works like a spacial dimension.
RawkBanderz 2 months ago
@RawkBanderz Just appearing in the past would cause an air displacement which would eventually change the weather patterns of the future, meaning thousands of people lived that would have died and visa versa. Why would you have to kill your father when just being there would break the future. Even just breathing would be enough.
parthon 2 months ago
I've learnt more in a 6:41 YT video than I did in school.
MBGamingLegends 2 months ago
so fascinating
Djangolulu 2 months ago
I have a question about achilles and the tortoise... While this paradox holds true if they are traveling at the same speed, it would not if achilles were traveling faster than the tortoise. Right? Their individual speeds were never stated, but were they implied? Achilles is undoubtedly able to travel faster than the tortoise. It doesn't matter how great the distance is between the two at the start. If achilles is moving faster he will eventually pass the tortoise. Right??!?!?
vivaelseales 2 months ago in playlist 60 Second Adventures in Thought
@vivaelseales yes you're right... the theory is only valid if Achilles were moving with a same or lower speed as the tortoise.. if Achilles's speed was even slightly higher than tortoise's, he would've manage to overcome or pass the animal, because in what we learnt in mechanics, if we equalize the both displacement (s) of the two equations, we will get the time (t), where Achilles overcomes the tortoise.
istillloveguitar 2 months ago
@istillloveguitar Exactly. The paradox is really illogical in that aspect. A human is obviously going to travel faster than a tortoise. Instead of Achilles and a tortoise it should be two identical beings.
vivaelseales 2 months ago
@istillloveguitar read my reply to vivaelseales.
kgmaistropitcher22 2 months ago
@vivaelseales This paradox is not based upon observations and what actually happens logically, but upon mathematics using decay. It was simply another way to describe quantum physics, and like most paradoxes, are only made to make you think. The amount of distance that achilles has to travel to meet with the tortoise's starting position will decrease upon each interval, to a point where time and distance= 1.0x10^infinite. So logically, you are correct, but mathematically, you are not.
kgmaistropitcher22 2 months ago
achilles & the tortoise is a easy one - when the tortoise moved the achilles have to cover the distance tortoise maked but the speed of the tortoise and chilles doesnt change so while the tortoise is covering distance achilles will cover the distance tortoise maked and the distance making
AgentHD123 2 months ago
@AgentHD123 They're not riddles, they're paradoxes. You can't solve it. The Achilles and the Tortoise paradox deals with the fact that infinite series can add up to whole numbers. In reality Achilles *would* catch up to the tortoise, but when you look at it as a series of steps, Achilles would just barely never catch up.
Hawkknight88 2 months ago
SO COOL.
mscraziefreak 2 months ago
What would happen if two portals (from the game if you know) closes up on you (making is portal to portal)? Where would you go?
bloximonkey 2 months ago
@bloximonkey "What would happen if two portals closes up on you?" What does that mean?
Hawkknight88 2 months ago
@Hawkknight88 Have you played the game? It's like standing between two mirrors, but they are portals instead which when you go in one you come out of the other, and they are closing up towards you like a sandwich.
bloximonkey 2 months ago
@bloximonkey you would be cut off inbetween dimensions where space and time do not exist; in other words, you will fall into a black hole, meaning you will be crushed by extreme amounts of/ infinite gravity. So don't do it haha
kgmaistropitcher22 2 months ago
I went back in time and gave this video 5 stars, not a Like.
StackCityEntOfficial 2 months ago 2
5 seasons of big bang theory paying off (H)!!
AXMTV 2 months ago 2
The Schrodinger's Cat theory was postulated more as a joke/poking fun at quantum mechanics, yet everyone took it seriously.
Champigne 2 months ago
@Champigne It was an interesting thought experiment though that really did highlight the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation (i.e. wave-function collapse).
xKaMiKaZe747x 2 months ago
great
drillport 2 months ago
God, this is SO F*CKING INTERESTING!
Science. <3
dtowngirl109 2 months ago
*mind explodes*
AfterschoolEffects 2 months ago
lol GLaDOS in Portal makes a reference to Schrodinger's cat idea :D
Desgax 2 months ago
awesome! now my brain hurts
8aftonstjarnan8 2 months ago
more!
please!
OleksiyBaby 2 months ago
brain... overloaded... rebooting...system error...err...errooo.. eeerrrorooorrrrrrrrrr...
bankofamer 2 months ago
make more please
Skoolkidsproduction 2 months ago
Too much info in 6 min :)
xxMIK1989xx 2 months ago
John Searle, and Albert Einstein are the only ones that can be demonstrated, (and they have alredy been) the rest are more imagination, not to be given to deep of a thought.
DiceWarwick 2 months ago
that first paradox implies that achilles has to stop and give the tortoise a head start before continuing
pancakewafflebacon 2 months ago
@pancakewafflebacon agree, the paradox disregards time and distance, and only factors in the space between the two. it makes a point, but with a nonsensical argument.
DiceWarwick 2 months ago
@pancakewafflebacon
no it doesn't, even if he is always moving forward its impossible to divide the distance between them past zero. so logically he can never catch up to the tortoise because the distance between them can never reach zero.
BassLiberators 2 months ago
only one i understood was the first and second one
charlie120asc 2 months ago
Thumbs up if you watched this before it was on memebase.
unholyjebus 2 months ago 31
*brain implodes*
sausagemanlorne23 2 months ago
is it wrong that i don't understand any of this? :S
TheMrFellinni 2 months ago
@TheMrFellinni yes, you're retarded. but its also not a great explanation
BigJewOnFIre 2 months ago
@BigJewOnFIre hahahahaha. That made me laugh.
JillyMac95 2 months ago
@TheMrFellinni if you're older than 15, then yes, it's very wrong
DeTruZion 2 months ago
I blanked out
polo9878 2 months ago
imagine 2 infinite lines of numbers.
Imagine one line with all the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, ect
The other would contain the numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24..ect
Now both lines are infinite, so both lines have the same infinite amount of numbers. right?
How can line 1 and line 2 have the same amount of numbers when in line 2 we know you only have half? Infinity sucks !
timen1986 2 months ago 9
@timen1986 One small problem with your logic. You are assigning a limit to infinity. You cannot say that the two lists have the same 'number' of elements as infinity is not a number. What you are saying is that skinny Bob weighs the same as fat Bob because they are both called Bob.
BlamsNZ 2 months ago
@BlamsNZ
uuhm, yes, i do understand what you are saying. But infinite is the same in both lines? so they would be the same size (?)
timen1986 2 months ago
@timen1986 You missed the point. 'infinite' has no size. 'Infinite' cannot be measured, therefore you cannot say that one infinite is the same as the other infinite as neither has size. What you are trying to do is assign an object an attribute it does not have. How much does a kilometer weigh? How long is a Kilogram?
BlamsNZ 2 months ago
@BlamsNZ
Aah yes, i see. Thanks for just explaining that and not giving me an all caps rage how stupid i am :) You don't see normal conversation a lot on youtube. But i guess that depends on the subject of the video :P
timen1986 2 months ago
@timen1986 @BlamsNZ
If I'm not mistaken, that isn't necessarily the case. There is a concept of something called cardinality. And there are some infinites, that are "bigger" than others - in that they have bigger cardinality.
Take the sets of natural and rational numbers for example:
You can make a simple algorithm that describes ALL natural numbers, but if you were trying to make one to describe rational ones, you could easily prove every list you made was incomplete. (Roughly said :) )
Voccoc 2 months ago
@Voccoc You're almost right, but actually, rational numbers have the same cardinality as natural numbers:
Consider the set of all rational numbers. All rational numbers can be written as a ratio. Call the denominator a and the numerator b. Calculate (a + b)*(a + b + 1)/2 + b. This function will give a unique natural number for every rational number. (See Cantor pairing function on Wikipedia.)
However, real numbers do have a different cardinality.
FrederikVds 2 months ago
@timen1986 hmmmmm
2 similar infinite number lines;
one starting at 1 and increasing by 1
the other in some alien numbers starting at tohk and increasing by zaing
both lines are infinite but have the same amount of numbers. NOW, replace the second alien line with a line starting at 2 with an arithmetic sequence increasing by 2. it's practically the same thing except our minds see the similar numbers and assume that the first line has more numbers when actually both lines have infinite numbers.
mega48man 2 months ago
@timen1986
Infinite isn't a definite amount of numbers
FoolishOrc 2 months ago
@timen1986 That's not the way you want to think of it. You have to think of it as 1 is paired with 2 and therefore 2 is paired with 4 and so on. This would make them the same level of infiniti i.e. countably infinite.
lazypunk502 2 months ago
A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is coming out to ios. I could really like these kind of storytelling artifacts in it. It would fit perfectly
dEEPZoNE1 2 months ago
When it comes to "the grandfather paradox"... who is this jackoff to say that there AREN'T multiple dimensions?
He also has an annoying voice too! Someone should kill him!
A55ma57er 2 months ago
@A55ma57er There has never been strong evidence for and against multiple dimensions.
miniemor 2 months ago
@miniemor So it's all speculation! What's your point exactly?
PS: String theory, baby!
A55ma57er 2 months ago
@A55ma57er My point, is that he's not a "jack-off" for saying multiple dimensions don't exist, because there's no evidence for or against it. He didn't even say anything about another dimension, he said something about a parallel universe. Learn the difference.
The String theory is also still what it says it is, a theory. While it seems plausible, it still isn't a hard fact.
miniemor 2 months ago
@A55ma57er
he says nothing about multiple dimensions, ya jack-off, he's talking about parallel universes; two totally different things.
nlo13 2 months ago
@nlo13 OMG! I just gotta get a screenshot now! Do you even realize what you just wrote? God you're fucking moron! A DIMENSION IS A PARALLEL UNIVERSE YOU IDIOT!
A55ma57er 2 months ago
@A55ma57er Actually he was right, and a moron is you.
Dimension is a thing that everything allignes on. An Axis. For example, as far as we know our universe from our perspective has 4 dimensions:
Length, Width, Heigth and Time (lineral). 3 Space Dimensions, 1 Time Dimension.
Or you would like to say that for example, a length is a separate universe? Are you bloody retarded?
TheZomgStuff 2 months ago 3
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@TheZomgStuff You're the retard, You British FAGGOT!
If there are other dimensions there they ARE connected to our universe, we just don't sense them. And they wouldn't be seperate universes! They'd be part of a greater whole We can't grasp yet!
Sorry old chap! Now fuck off!
A55ma57er 2 months ago
@A55ma57er
As an Englishman I resent your attitude.
You are a rude, vile character, and I am pleased that there is an ocean between us preventing me from having the displeasure of meeting you in person.
Qw3rtypop 2 months ago 90
@Qw3rtypop u mad bro?
1emoguy 1 month ago
@Qw3rtypop Fuckin' burnn
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@A55ma57er Congratulations! You have officially turned everybody on this page against you and your immature, uneducated views. I don't need to tell you the difference between a Dimension and an Alternate Universe; half a dozen people seem to have done that already. But I will tell you that unless you radically change the way you perceive people of more sophisticated Nationalities and the way you understand Science nobody will take you seriously.
SanctuaryShred 2 months ago 7
@A55ma57er let's be honest, you are getting parred off horribly.
CausticUK 2 months ago
@A55ma57er Before calling other people morons you should go back to basic high school physics and mathematics and learn the definition of a dimension!
morphine1398 2 months ago
after watching this , my head became too heavy for me to pick up
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JennyLawsx 2 months ago
Achilles' thing either wasn't properly explained or he didn't add any variables. Either way it doesn't seem very useful... like any math to a high school student.
1stGlitchhunter 2 months ago
oh gosh I knew it was David Mitchell
lovely series too, guys. I could watch these forever.
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MOREEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
COD6PRO 2 months ago
This was really fun, MOAR MOAR MOAR.
alZiiHardstylez 2 months ago
That's not the twin paradox!
villasukat 2 months ago
Awesome!
Ferdi811 2 months ago
The thing with the tortoise is that you always look at smalller time spans. that's the whole trick to this.
Gogeta0991 2 months ago
This is awesome.
ThePythagorean 2 months ago
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JennyLawsx 3 months ago
你會說文嗎？
WorldTour09 3 months ago
To explain the first theory, Achilles wouldn't be able to catch up with the tortoise as when he reaches the spot here the tortoise had started, the tortoise would have already moved. Then when Achilles reaches the second spot where the tortoise had moved to, he would again have moved. So basically everytime Achilles moves to the new spot the tortoise had reached he would always have moved even if it's the tiniest fraction of length. Remember it's just a theory :)
moh89 3 months ago
Can't concentrate....keep thinking if it really is David Mitchell....
bluegreenplanet89 3 months ago 68
@bluegreenplanet89 Yes, it really is David Mitchell :)
OUlearn 3 months ago 68
@bluegreenplanet89 Yes!!! I think its David Mitchell. I love him!!
TheMayari 2 months ago
I don't get the first one. Achilles would not be behind the tortoise, he can just speed up. Wtf?
eagleduzt 3 months ago
@eagleduzt Yeah, a lot of these are dumb paradoxes. Look up the Monty Hall problem, dunno why they didn't include it. =|
Haroids 3 months ago