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#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
Lex Fridman Podcast
Do You Live on a Mobius Strip?
We can ask you one ape to another. Does it make you feel that you don't know if you live in a circle or on a knot? I'm going to be honest with you. It does not bother me at all. We're constantly imagining actual three dimensional creatures, like how it actually feels like to live in a Mobius strip is tricky to internalize. On what's called the real protective plane, which is kind of even more sort of like messed up version of the Mobius strip, but with very similar features. That would be a way you could know without leaving your world that something very funny is going on. You know, it's extremely weird.
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