This one didn't quite work. I could see the drop off from the beginning. It didn't look like you were going up on that corner, but down. I know the idea of the trick, but it didn't work for me this time.
One of the best "real time" demonstrations of this Escher phenomenon was in the 1986 film The Name of the Rose, a Medieval mystery starring the great actor Sean Connery. In it he and his protege discover a hidden library in an old monastery that can be reached only by climbing stairs that cannot possibly exist since, at one point, they are facing each other on stairs on opposite sides of the tower--and they are each upside down to the other. Once they are in the library, they go down stairs from one room to another only to eventually end up in the original room! Quite a fascinating section of film that has never (to my knowledge) been duplicated since. If you've never seen the film, it is well worth finding and watching. The key is whether you can solve the mystery before they do!
You are the first person I've seen to show the actual shape of the srairs! I knew there was a trick to it but seeing it I can visualize exactly what is going on! Great video! This whole video is awesome!
Same, that music is obscure enough for him to only use it because he knew about it. It makes me happy, knowing how much it's missed, and how well it'll be remembered.
That's because Unus Annus just made it popular. But it's a song called Turncoat by Michael Rothery and it already existed even before Unus Annus came to life. But yes they will be remembered so we shall continue crying..
I would love for someone to make a real-life staircase like this. I've climbed 30 flights of stairs one time, and felt just like this. None of the floors have the number from the stairwell, so it felt like it gone on for infinity. The real question is, would a person know they were on an infinite staircase? Or the brains eventually tell them, something isn't right here? Much like how people get lost and end up doubling back where they started.
If you had two really long corridors that sloped down so gently you didn't notice, you could have a flight of stairs going up on either end. They might need to be like 300 metres long though for a single 3 metre rise.
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90 degrees right angle is actually a feature of Euclidean flat geometry, a Line drawn on a sphere is actually a curve and the 90 degrees you measured is actually between the tangents to these curves, not the actual curves. There is a 3D angle measurement called the Steradian
This was an amazing video! I've known about escher since high school but I've never thought about it in a mathematical and least of all physical sense. I know the physical model shown isn't exactly what people intuitively think of as "escher space" but it's as impressive as the ames room illusion.would love to see more videos like this. Thanks!
3:00 WHY IS THERE UNUS ANNUS MUSIC, this the track Unus Annus basically used for it's theme. I can notice it so well because I just listened and listened when it went away.
Wait, if you keep walking up the stairs in a circle, that means you aren't really getting anywhere, or do the stairs still bring you up to the top floor?
@Shekhar Not in the world as we know it, anyway. Other geometries can change the way we perceive numbers, it seems, such as when two flights of stairs are perceived to become an infinite number of stairs. Intriguing truly. The conjoining of algebra (numbers) and geometry
I recall the cleverly produced/edited vid that circulated, allegedly demonstrating a real world Escherian staircase. James, you always present reality that is even odder!
Guy just explained to me my entire 2 months class of physics in a five minute video and it made more sense than the 1 month I've already spent learning it, wow.
Wow, I didn't know that there were 8 different kinds of geometries possible for a 3-D manifold. But isn't our world a 4-D manifold, with one of the dimensions (time) being imaginary? How many possible geometries are there for such a world? I wonder 🤔
@@feynstein1004 I don’t know. BTW, our universe is probably fully euclidian due to space and time being the same. Geometries with time and space being different don’t have relativity.
Example: in hyperbolic space with euclidian time, you can easily tell if you are moving towards an object or if that object is moving towards you. Reason being the fact that you would experience a force trying to rio you apart as you moved.
If you try you could do this with a Rubik's cube even 4*4 ones but it has 4 different staircases that are connected and always go up or down which is so cool All of the things you have to do is to grab one of the faces and move each column slightly up and turn to the right face and do it again (it will show better on 4*4 ones) after you finished look at the top face it's a continues loop.
Sir I'm 💯% agree with your theory....most specially that thing that you are holding.....Sir can you please make a miniature of that echerian stairwell with upper view so that we can seen the view from above... thank you....
In the spherical geometry you showed us, the tri right-angled triangle angles are more than 90°, more 100° or so??? Maybe in a bigger triangle this woukd work better?
James, I like your haircut, very efficient. Also You have made a nice shortcut to explain the concept because it is not only an optical illusion. It is geometry in 3D.
You do realize you have just debunked and thrown out all the flat earthers theories and or basis for argument. You sir have just made my day I love it.
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Am I the only one who saw the dropoff without the reveal? No wonder why I was confused of how it even was an illusion.
I saw it too, right from the start
I saw it too. They tried covering it up by making it all black but it was the only possibility.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty obvious. But I was surprised at how steep the dropoff actually was after seeing it from the other angle.
@@1vader yeah I didn't realise that the drop off was so high, if it was lower the illusion could have worked from the start
@@FunnyCODAssasin yeh it was the darker than vantablack colour he made that sucks 99.23% of all light
Infinite stairway is...
In science: Escherian staircase
In real life: escalator
Lol
Walk downwards on an escalator that is going up
For you that dont know, an escalator revolves on a belt
@@cloakey1036 SPY!
*UNDERRRATED*
“Infinite stairs are impossible”
slopes: *are you sure about that*
What a plot twist! :)
Yes
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
I can hear the voice
@@SonOfAFridge_ 3 years later
1:56 ''it's not quite the shape you'd expect''
Exactly the shape I expected
This one didn't quite work. I could see the drop off from the beginning. It didn't look like you were going up on that corner, but down. I know the idea of the trick, but it didn't work for me this time.
Agreed
I think if it was 3d printed, with nice crisp lines and angles, it would have looked better.
Being handcrafted really didn't work for this one.
Yeah... For me also
@@Bszewski
the f*ck? everyone but you, including 90+ likes understood her.
@@Bszewski bro she's spitting fax. You could clearly see the steep drop off...are you partially blind ?
Slope was obvious to me, looked like a slope even from fixed angle. Didn't realize it was that steep though.
it was obvious to just about every single person with eyes
same
same- LOL
It was very obvious but it's painted very black so you can't see depth very well.
@@Hugh.G.Rectionx I don't even have eyes, I listen to the rgb pixels frequencies. Kinda like echo location
ok lets make a slide in a nil Geometry and have fun and free energy.
Wait till science bois criticize about perpetual motion being impossible
@@foxtrotgolf4957 i am scince boi. But yea wont work of course (;
@@foxtrotgolf4957 ZenoRogue does have a video on the matter.
@ElectroBrocoli Felix ok BOOMers
Jk
I thought you say Geometry Dash lmfao
One of the best "real time" demonstrations of this Escher phenomenon was in the 1986 film The Name of the Rose, a Medieval mystery starring the great actor Sean Connery. In it he and his protege discover a hidden library in an old monastery that can be reached only by climbing stairs that cannot possibly exist since, at one point, they are facing each other on stairs on opposite sides of the tower--and they are each upside down to the other. Once they are in the library, they go down stairs from one room to another only to eventually end up in the original room! Quite a fascinating section of film that has never (to my knowledge) been duplicated since. If you've never seen the film, it is well worth finding and watching. The key is whether you can solve the mystery before they do!
apparently it has also been adapted in animation. Watch Chainsaw man and the same concept has now been duplicated.
Instructions unclear, head stuck in a microwave.
Wow, what an unoriginal, unfunny comment
@@ilikelebronjames6426 but it made me laugh ..
??
Instruction nuclear
@@ilikelebronjames6426 If you can't laugh at the classics you are dead inside. Sorry for your failed life. Maybe some prayer and vitamin C will help.
You are the first person I've seen to show the actual shape of the srairs! I knew there was a trick to it but seeing it I can visualize exactly what is going on! Great video! This whole video is awesome!
*Imagine the office staircase being like this one*
Not only U won't need to arrive on time and u won't be going home either
The stairs would take you to Brazil
3:14 do you recognize this music
@@lyn7591 I see that as a win-win
@@kbee225 plot twist: you are working from home
1:47
"Its not a shape you'd expect"
*Actually is what i expected*
Instructions unclear, I reached the moon and my oxygen supply is running out.
Take lift from Saitama
@@gklnth187 😂
Use *Moon Breathing First Form*
P.S : only *DEMON SLAYER* fans can understand
@@gklnth187 plant a tree 🌳 ASAP
@@divyalokhande3586 find water from the moon and shine sun on the tree QUICK
2:28 is it just me or that looks like a shoe
Edit:wow guys this is prob my most popular comment thanks😊
It’s just you
You
Lol
I see it.
itsjustyou
2:59 why is there Unus Annus music in the background? *confused screaming and crying about what's gone*
That took me for a spin, I’m so sad it’s gone
Same, that music is obscure enough for him to only use it because he knew about it. It makes me happy, knowing how much it's missed, and how well it'll be remembered.
That's because Unus Annus just made it popular. But it's a song called Turncoat by Michael Rothery and it already existed even before Unus Annus came to life.
But yes they will be remembered so we shall continue crying..
memento mori
NOOOOO
We should have a one hour version of him waking the LEGO person up the stairs
No way u hearted my comment out of all of them :D
@@rgwbibwzuarwbraoubbweviuxg7526 Congrats ^.^
Yes I have rewatched the lego walking up like 200 times now
Indeed,It's weird but for me it's quite interesting haha
Nah. I want 250 hours.
It's just like when I tell my grandkids Time to go up to bed. No matter how long they take, they never get there :-)
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would love for someone to make a real-life staircase like this. I've climbed 30 flights of stairs one time, and felt just like this. None of the floors have the number from the stairwell, so it felt like it gone on for infinity. The real question is, would a person know they were on an infinite staircase? Or the brains eventually tell them, something isn't right here? Much like how people get lost and end up doubling back where they started.
They already did it, a Filipino architect named Rafael Nelson Aboganda did it in a building
Building #7
Now you just need a video on Gödel and Bach.
lmfao
Who is bach
The Action Lab: its real infinite stairs
Me: hes just turning the lego guy
The Unus Annus music in the back makes this so much more interesting
Yeah. I was looking at the comments to see if someone else noticed it
Rip
@@alyoooh same lol
@@alyoooh same
"It's not the shape youd expecte"
No that's exactly the shape I expected
I got the general Idea, but didn't expect one side to lower so much, I thought it was going to be a little bit more subltle, but nope.
@@HoradeFidges I agree
If you had two really long corridors that sloped down so gently you didn't notice, you could have a flight of stairs going up on either end. They might need to be like 300 metres long though for a single 3 metre rise.
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Pretty good but the dimensions weren't perfect.
Underrated comment
Exactly
always nice to see a dutch person mentioned in things like this. as a dutch person like that
Grade school kid: "Ugh, geometry 101 is so hard!"
* Nil Geometry has entered the chat... *
I think most people wrote a comment before the 2 min hit mark... love how we tend to judge something before fully analyzing it
My mind is blown
HOLY
Stop commenting on popular videos.
And every video I watch.
Are you keeping track of my browser history.
What if this guy is actually forgot to switch to justin y and accidentally revealed his real account
90 degrees right angle is actually a feature of Euclidean flat geometry, a Line drawn on a sphere is actually a curve and the 90 degrees you measured is actually between the tangents to these curves, not the actual curves.
There is a 3D angle measurement called the Steradian
I figured these out the second I saw them.
It was pretty obvious, eh? The trick of connecting the two flights with a downward slope.
@@donfraki4306 if presented better it would be harder to see, just check out Jabrils video
MC Escher's "Hands" taught me how to draw myself. Really Cool !!!
I have used this stairs.
I pinched myself it didn't hurt.
Then I woke up. Good morning
Nil geometry. Free energy from never ending waterfalls!
Fascinating!
I can't read that word so let's change it to Ed Sheeran. 😂
Ah yes Ed Sheeran the infinite staircase
Lmao. I wonder where you people get these wits from and what you actually eat to be this way 😂😂😂😂
@@humanbeing1429 I get it from my dad and I eat dinner for breakfast and breakfast for lunch and lunch for dinner
@@humanbeing1429 the truth is... doritos. Look at the name of the person who commented this
I saw this on RUclips got confused, then I decided to consult an expert. This dude explains science wonders like a pro
This was an amazing video! I've known about escher since high school but I've never thought about it in a mathematical and least of all physical sense. I know the physical model shown isn't exactly what people intuitively think of as "escher space" but it's as impressive as the ames room illusion.would love to see more videos like this. Thanks!
Love the use of Turncoat here
oh my god
turncoat started playing at 3:10
I'm gonna cry
Unus Annus
Memento Mori
F
I'm not an expert, but that was the best explanation of spherical gemetry that made me finnally understand it.
*"So you can see I'm continually climbing up but getting to where I'm starting from"*
*well duh, at the end you're going down back to the start*
Anybody say anything this was amazing ❤️
Lov from India
Instructions unclear, stuck in infinite loop.
😂 omg
Actually you nailed the instructions so good it actually worked wouldn’t call that unclear
@@bluetime78 Yeah, the stairs _are_ in a infinite loop
That background music at three minutes... It brings so many memories....
This guys teaches me more in 5 minutes than me physics teach in a year 😄😂
I love this dude, most wholesome guy ever
3:00 WHY IS THERE UNUS ANNUS MUSIC, this the track Unus Annus basically used for it's theme. I can notice it so well because I just listened and listened when it went away.
Well that's because it isn't unus annus' music to begin with. It's a song called Turncoat by Michael Rothery. 👍
@@00WatName00 yeah, hate when people do that lol
Instructions unclear, we now identify this phenomenon as SCP-087, and is now under custody of the SCP Foundation.
Wait, if you keep walking up the stairs in a circle, that means you aren't really getting anywhere, or do the stairs still bring you up to the top floor?
Yes, but it also brings you back down to the bottom floor when you are supposedly walking up... The magic of Nil Geometry 🎆😃
Escherian Staircase: Basically an infinite staircase but it's more "special"
Escalator: **laughing in auto-moving infinite staircase**
3:55 - flat earthers cover your ears.
🤣🤣🤣
1:34 I got it even before you explained it to us!
I just realized what the 2nd song was, if anyone else notices it. Memento Mori
Thank god someone pointed it out lol Memento Mori
I get a new topic every time from your videos thanks a lot
how is this staircase even possible
It’s not. Did you watch the video?
@@gdhammr8113 yes, but no lol. only saw the introduction. also cool user name
@@Vint_Trn watch the video if you really want to know about the solution/possiblity
@Shekhar Not in the world as we know it, anyway. Other geometries can change the way we perceive numbers, it seems, such as when two flights of stairs are perceived to become an infinite number of stairs. Intriguing truly. The conjoining of algebra (numbers) and geometry
Thank you so much I really wasn't getting how this works 😄
3:00
*theres no coincidences, raise up your ears*
Memento Mori.
*Unus, Annus*
I didn't get it.
@@tusharagarwal5306 well, it's too late to get it.
I don’t understand anything he says but I enjoy his videos
This looks easy but its not easy at all
BTW the background music was good😁
3:00 background music it unus annus
Memento moris
I recall the cleverly produced/edited vid that circulated, allegedly demonstrating a real world Escherian staircase. James, you always present reality that is even odder!
3:06 When you miss the most important part of the tutorial
Thank you, all these timesaa I have been watching your videos and shorts....I have always been better than I came...thank you
When you wanted to go to heaven but god said: *INFINITE S T A I R C A S E*
That mean you're Hindu
@@TheSecondVersion when you wanted to go to heaven
But God said: you Hindu
Very clearly goes up the down on the ends
3:11 I see you know Unus Annus
Guy just explained to me my entire 2 months class of physics in a five minute video and it made more sense than the 1 month I've already spent learning it, wow.
Wow, im early for once
nobody cares
@@rabbidish why did you care for it then
You are always best when explaining thing
Wow, I didn't know that there were 8 different kinds of geometries possible for a 3-D manifold. But isn't our world a 4-D manifold, with one of the dimensions (time) being imaginary? How many possible geometries are there for such a world? I wonder 🤔
Infinite.
Yes, 4D has infinitely many possible geometries.
Time is not a dimension it is a movement
@@bengineer8 Oh wow. That's quite interesting. So our universe could have infinitely many geometries then? What implications might this have for GR?
@@feynstein1004 I don’t know.
BTW, our universe is probably fully euclidian due to space and time being the same.
Geometries with time and space being different don’t have relativity.
Example: in hyperbolic space with euclidian time, you can easily tell if you are moving towards an object or if that object is moving towards you.
Reason being the fact that you would experience a force trying to rio you apart as you moved.
Wow, never looked at it that way, Thanx for that
Nobody:
Flat earthers: the Earth is flat 😂😂
I saw that one coming from a mile away. But I still really enjoyed this video! : )
But I can literally see you climbing down in the top left part tho :/
If you try you could do this with a Rubik's cube even 4*4 ones but it has 4 different staircases that are connected and always go up or down which is so cool
All of the things you have to do is to grab one of the faces and move each column slightly up and turn to the right face and do it again (it will show better on 4*4 ones) after you finished look at the top face it's a continues loop.
3:15 unus annus music :(
This is fascinating
"A stairway that only goes up and down"
Well Duh
Your explanation is clear as mud, thanks so much!
Why did you pin THIS comment?
Good try
@@lowfunk8466 thx
@Mechanitron 123 well, it would be cool if he had haha
@Mechanitron 123 haha
Sir I am from India and I like your videos 😁
Great video. I couldn't stop stairing...
it is very interesting how it looks like the edge is cancelled out. i find that very fascinating thank you!
This would make a great idea on horror movies; Going upstairs to escape from a stimuli but end up on the same floor level 👀
He painted the top with vanta black to hide the depth and make the illusion better. Nice!
This one guy can teach me more than school
I always aspired one such staircase but I didn't get a chance to see it sir Thank u so much!
A moment of acknowledgement that this dude makes interesting content.
Those stairs are like my career. I feel like I’m always going up but then I end up at the same place.
Sir I'm 💯% agree with your theory....most specially that thing that you are holding.....Sir can you please make a miniature of that echerian stairwell with upper view so that we can seen the view from above... thank you....
Hey I was clearly able to to see that upward slant at the start itself
In the spherical geometry you showed us, the tri right-angled triangle angles are more than 90°, more 100° or so??? Maybe in a bigger triangle this woukd work better?
James, I like your haircut, very efficient.
Also You have made a nice shortcut to explain the concept because it is not only an optical illusion. It is geometry in 3D.
You do realize you have just debunked and thrown out all the flat earthers theories and or basis for argument. You sir have just made my day I love it.
One of my favorites from Mc Escher
I just use you as my physics idol. thanks, dude It helped me a lot in understanding concepts and not just byhearting them.
Behold! credit to a brilliant mind of a Filipino archetech who built it.👍
The use of the black paint (the M one I suppose) really works wonders
I didn’t care about your staircase. My mind was blown when I saw 3 right angles make a triangle! 🤯
Ok but seriously at 2:59 you disprove every flat earther. I've literally seen them make the argument that this isn't possible lmao