Toroflux paradox: making things (dis)appear with math

Toroflux paradox: making things (dis)appear with math



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Today is all about geometric appearing and vanishing paradoxes and that math that powers them. This video was inspired by a new paradox of this type that Bill Russel from Bakersfield, California discovered while playing with a toroflux. Other highlights to look forward to: a nice new visual proof of Cassini’s Fibonacci identity which forms a core of a very nice Fibonacci based paradox, the classic Get-off-the-the-Earth puzzle, and much more.

Here is the link to Daniel Walsh’s blog post on the toroflux:

As usual thank you very much to Marty for all his nitpicking, Michael for his help with filming the video and Danil for looking after the Russian subtitles.

Today’s t-shirt I got from here:

The piece of music at the end is: English_Country_Garden from the free YouTube music library.

There is a bit of a visual typo at 6:19: The pieces are fine but the grid in the background is not. Here is what it’s supposed to look like

According to the the wiki page the inventor of the toroflux Jochen Valett who is German 🙂 .

Enjoy 🙂

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