What I believe they mean is the 4D equivalent of an axis. In 3D space objects rotate on a line (the axis). 'Reflecting' a 2D object means rotating it in 3D space using an axis. In the same way, if you were to 'reflect' a 1D line, you would 'rotate' (ie spin it) through 2D space. All this is to say that an 'axis' in 4D space isnt a line like our intuition tells us, but a plane. Which doesn't make sense intuitively but that's higher dimensional geometry for you.
@@CaptKami18 Long form content got pushed aside starting this year. They want creators to have shorts to serve basically as ads for their long form content. A lot of RU-vidrs realized why bother making long form content if they get paid the same for doing shorts only?
@@Johncornwell103you realize Michael never posted frequently. I grew up watching this man for years and upload cycle has been the same for years. He has already explained that research for videos can months and sometimes a year. Stop making up shit for any reason to critique youtube
Is this kind of like when you take a selfie and your shirt letters are flipped so you flip the photo so the shirt looks correct but now the selfie looks weird?
Yeah, mirrors are not what you actually look like - to achieve that you have to put two mirrors at a 90 degeee angle, and then you see what others see of you
vsauce is one of the most beloved people on the internet. there’s plenty of great creators with a lot of haters on this platform but i’ve never in my life seen or heard someone say they hate vsauce. he’s just such a lovable guy. not to mention an immaculate reputation.
Oh someone would also die if this happened to them! Due to the chirality of nature-since many enzymes are chiral, the organic molecules that they create and work on are also chiral (for example, glucose) and they cannot work on the enantiomorph of that molecule (called an enantiomer). If someone were flipped through the fourth dimension to be their enantiomorph, it would stand to reason that all of their chiral molecules, namely enzymes, would be flipped as well and no longer be able to process the chiral molecules of nature that they have evolved to process, causing the person to die of starvation at the very least. Neat, right??
Every molecule is flipped to it's enantiomer, so it would continue to function the same? A molecule like water would just be reflected onto itself? I don't really understand the 4th dimension but I want to read your comment when I'm less tired.
@@LammySammy They're talking about how enatiomer enzymes wouldn't be able to break down food sources (that normal enzymes are evolved to do), and thus you wouldn't be able to break down sugars and other food intakes. You would need the enatiomorphs of those energy molecules to get energy, otherwise they would be incompatible and you would just starve.
I'd say it would break electronics but I'm not sure how it would effect animals. We are symmetrical so a flip would probably not effect us.hower our organs would get flipped which is something that actually can happen naturally. Because some people are born with flipped organs which some people go thire whole lives not knowing about.
@@orang1921Well what someone would have to experience to enter an existential crisis varies from person to person. Someone that doesn’t know what an existential crisis is can still experience one so what you say doesn’t really make sense. Also existential crisis isn’t really something you hear get thrown around a lot so usually people that know what it is know what it means
@@asymmetriq "existential crisis" is being used more and more in youtube shorts comments over very small and silly things and an existential crisis is much more than mild concern or contemplation about life or reality or something it's the same with the word "trauma," mfs using it for everything now
I learnt about this before and it was explained to me very poorly and it took me a while to understand but the way Michael explained it was amazing, simple and easy to understand
@@kenich2611To me it does. Though maybe that's because I'm used to 3d not translating to 2d and systems how to show stereospecificity from chemistry. It doesn't help me to imagine 4d but it helps to show me how 3d is a "drawing" of 4d and how such drawings would act.
Obsessed with his delivery on the last line. Everything about it is perfect. The awed, slightly fearful expression, the tone of voice, the backing away and undoubtedly bumping into the pole behind him, the point, just perfect.
It’s like cookie clicker, you start off with normally making cookies, then you end with making cookie universes and even gods want to try your cookies. But instead it’s Vsauce starting a normal RU-vid channel talking about physics and stuff, then he gets to becoming self aware and figuring out stuff of the 4th dimension!
"0th Dimension" = "TIME"(it can only be observed once a higher "dimension" is added!) 1st->3rd = Length(Lines), Width(Areas), Depth(Volumes) We are currently TIME TRAVELING right now, in all 4 dimensions... There is no known "FIFTH Dimension"...that is the realm of GODS. I'm still upset "scientists" have NOT clarified this to the public.(I am NOT an academic, I'm an autodidact.) B1 from a Carib cousin
It's not that complex. He's "basically" saying, on the 2D plane, when you look at the mirror, you see part of your 3D self. Therefore, in theory, in the 3D plane you should be able to see your 4D self, by looking at a mirror. But... I don't believe that because, he's not accounting for the mirror itself. The mirror is 2D. Just like in 3D we can't see the 1D world, in the 4D world we should be able to see the 2D world. We can imagine what the 1D world would look like, we could even demonstrate it using 2D objects (/ the 2D face of an object), but we'll never be able to actually see. With that being said, if a 3D mirror exists, then sure, we could see a part of the 4D world.
@@markwyman6753 cool way to tell me you’re born post-2010 without saying it directly, I don’t know anyone that genuinely hates Vsauce you either watch his content or you don’t but ain’t nobody hate the guy he’s just incredibly nerdy but makes it entertaining
@@cypha3 You only had to deal with a couple days of organic chemistry in a high school chemistry course. Imagine taking a whole year long course of organic chemistry or 4+ years of it to get a degree or more.
Imagine talking to your friend and then some random fourth dimensional creature just beyond our perseption bumped into your friend and spun them in a fourth dimensional plane and to your perspective they just randomly scream in shock as their body morphed into a backwards version of itself.
Fun fact, pulling a lemon through said 4th dimension of a mirror could turn it into an orange in terms of taste and scent. That’s because the limonene molecule’s chirality will be flipped because of a mirror’s nature, hence flipping the roles of oranges and lemons.
Funny thought but no. You can already test this, grab a lemon, rotate it 180 degrees along any axis, did it turn into an orange? The 4th dimension isn’t any more special than the first 3. Rotation in 3 dimensions and rotation in 4 dimensions is the exact same thing.
@@MyNameIsSalo think of chiral molecules like fusilli pasta. Flipping it upside down gives you the exact same shape you had before. But the mirror image of the pasta spirals the other direction. Same as your hands. Turning your right hand upside down doesn’t make it your left hand. These “non-superimposable mirror images” are what are called enantiomers which are pairs of chiral molecules that are mirrors of each other. If you still have a hard time believing this, I suggest you look into high school organic chemistry books.
I had a lucid dream like this!! One winter I was painting a mural and kinda going into mad artist mode. I dreamt I was walking through the space I was painting in irl, but everything was inverted, slightly desaturated, opposite, and the room was oriented differently like this. Into a chiral version of itself. I noticed something was off the second I walked in 😮 but I could only describe the feeling as becoming consciously aware while asleep
"I still see your shadows in my room Can't take back the love that I gave you It's to the point where I love and I hate you And I cannot change you, so I must replace you (oh) Easier said than done I thought you were the one Listening to my heart instead of my head You found another one, but I am the better one I won't let you forget me I still see your shadows in my room Can't take back the love that I gave you It's to the point where I love and I hate you And I cannot change you so I must replace you (oh) Easier said than done I thought you were the one Listening to my heart instead of my head You found another one, but I am the better one I won't let you forget me You left me falling and landing inside my grave I know that you want me dead I take prescriptions to make me feel a-okay I know it's all in my head I have these lucid dreams where I can't move a thing Thinking of you in my bed You were my everything Thoughts of a wedding ring Now I'm just better off dead I'll do it over again I didn't want it to end I watched it blow in the wind I should've listened to my friends Leave this shit in the past But I want it to last You were made outta plastic (fake) I was tangled up in your drastic ways Who knew evil girls have the prettiest face? You gave me a heart that was full of mistakes I gave you my heart and you made heart break You made my heart break You made my heart ache (I still see your shadows in my room) You made my heart break You made my heart ache (can't take back the love that I gave you) You made my heart break (were made outta plastic, fake) You made my heart ache (I still see your shadows in my room) You made my heart break again (I was tangled up your drastic ways) (Who knew evil girls have the prettiest face?) I still see your shadows in my room Can't take back the love that I gave you It's to the point where I love and I hate you And I cannot change you so I must replace you (oh) Easier said than done I thought you were the one Listening to my heart instead of my head You found another one, but I am the better one I won't let you forget me I still see your shadows in my room Can't take back the love that I gave you It's to the point where I love and I hate you And I cannot change you so I must replace you (oh) Easier said than done I thought you were the one Listening to my heart instead of my head You found another one, but I am the better one I won't let you forget me Leave this shit in the past, but I want it to last You were made outta plastic (fake) I was tangled up in your drastic ways Who knew evil girls have the prettiest face? Easier said than done I thought you were- (Instead of my head, you found another) I won't let you forget me"
I think he means that we can see what the 4th dimension "could" look like because we see him in the mirror pointing with his right arm when in reality he's pointing with his left arm. It's like the L shape, if we said that he was stuck pointing with his left arm and wanted to point with his right arm, the only way he could do it is if he smashed himself inside out, looked into a mirror, or... rotate himself through a higher dimension. We don't see him rotate into a higher dimension, but the mirror shows us how it COULD happen. That's why he says "If I got rotated through a 4th dimension and brought back, I would look like that": as in be woukd now be pointing with his right arm. At least that's what I've gathered.
This comment is for the little bus people. I read it and thought well this is exactly what V said in his video and then thought there must be people that need a little extra guidance to understand what was being said in the video. Once I looked at the replies my hypothesis was correct
wtf I didn’t even get that lol I beat the game and never knew. Shit went over my head. I was too busy building roads and the zip line routes. I was connecting America 🇺🇸 😅
Imagine someone trapped in an image. For them to turn around 180 degrees to face the other way they have to either rotate to be upside down or briefly enter the third dimension to flip
@@alexrynk8831 Chirality is an important concept in chemisty is probably what was meant. If you have a substance and its chiral self, its can be VASTLY different qualities for that reason alone. It's helped make a few breakthroughs IIRC. That said, this short is about Chirality in terms of dimensions. The reason I know the term is because of a talk about a 4th dimensional object called a Klein bottle...if you walked along the entire length of one, when you return to the starting point you would find that you were the opposite chirality from where/when you started.
Good luck! I got a 2.4 last year for my midterm but then I studied hard and got a 7.9 for my final. Have to do it over again this year tho, I'm doing a new degree lol and they didn't want to give me my old credits
Chemistry was literally the only time I’ve ever heard the word “chiral” before this, so hearing VSauce use it in a different context positively surprised me.
I need a clip of Vsauce fearfully backing away from a mirror while pointing at it with a phone in his hand. Edit: Sorry I should clarify, *I need it clipped into audio and animated!*
I read a sci-fi short story once where a character got flipped in the 4th dimension. He started to get sick from malnourishment due to the fact that some molecules in food are 'handed' and the mirror image is useless, nutritionally. In his case, he was mirrored, making him unable to metabolise some food molecules.
There is a great book called flatland about a 2d square who was living his life with other shapes, gets picked up and can suddenly see from above that his world is flat, I think there’s an animated version on yt
Just take everything he said and imagine him saying it upside down, inside out, and backwards... Then it makes perfect sense, from an non chiral 3D plane of existence...
Sorry his expalaination is not how the 4th dimension works. In order to get a perspective of the 4th dimension, you have to be in the 4th dimension looking down on the 3rd dimension to get a 4th dimensional perspective.
This is pretty cool. It explains a phenomenon I was struggling to comprehend when I was learning how to wrap cars. The body panels on each side of the car are chiral which comes into play when you're trying to cut material off the roll. The paper "L"s in here are a perfect representation of how you need to cut out fenders.
When I was little I was assembling this model car. I ended up tearing my hair out because I assumed the left and right stickers are, in my exact words, "mathematically the same and thus interchangeable" (of course they're not, they're just symmetrical).
@@rompis.aIt's certainly good to know whenever you have to reattach both your arms or legs after being symmetrically cut off. It works, try it you don't believe me. You could otherwise end up having them on backwards.
After 3 months I just realized that he shows his left hand pointing at the mirror, holding the phone in his right and that the mirror has the opposite. Exactly what he was trying to say, your brilliance makes me want Uranus
he said mirrors dont show us what we look like in 4th dimension and then proceeded to say we would look like that in mirror at end. 😶 i think he has gone insane. Edit: my bad. I get it now. 💯
@@milanstevic8424yep. Like, things rotate in an impossible way for us, so that they become their mirror image without changing their shape! Anything 4d would by definition not make sense to us, as it's something we can't do!
@@milanstevic8424 oh ok. Its just the 2d image shows the idea of one of powers of the 4th dimension person that can rotate us on 4d axis, which would cause the symmetry of our 2d image to change. Got it.
4D talk always tripped me out growing up. 😅😬 This has to be the best explanation I ever heard. 🙌 No matter how well it's explained, it's rightfully still very confusing.. because it's wildly beyond our comprehension.
@NotDaJayC we can only judge from our own perspective, which makes any judgment of others a projection of the self. I believe everyone is capable enough to fully grasp the information, yet many will choose not to, but that is not from a lack of intelligence.
Being able to understand Michael's mind is a fear of mine. When he goes off on his tangents I feel genuine fear that he will suck me into his existential crisis with him.
