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Hmm, is this author related to the Physics for the Birds YouTube channel? That channel just released a video on the same topic. https://youtu.be/v5ev-RAg7Xs?s

• BriggyDwiggs42 2y ago
  I was thinking that too. Could be -plagiarized- inspired by the birds, since the flow of the article starts out the exact same way
  • j16sdiz 2y ago
    The first paragraph linked to the YouTube video and mentioned > (we’ll take a slightly different approach).
    • johnkpaul 2y ago
      That new line in the first paragraph was added _after_ this comment was written.
• rtolsma 2y ago
  Yes, I saw that! Inspired me to look at the original paper. The video takes a slightly different approach from the paper and uses a retraction on the möbius strip to its boundary as a contradiction. That particular argument doesn’t generalize as well in higher dimensions (in particular, the symmetric product won't always have a boundary to retract to), so I followed the original paper’s one instead. I'll add a link to that video as well
  • TaylorAlexander 2y ago
    Yeah you don’t want to get hbomberguy’d.