welcome back gang my name is dylan dance i'm a physicist from the land down under
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this central finite curve business because the latest episode of rick and morty i think it was
the finale of season five right they dropped some bombs about the central finite curve
which i was super confused with when i first come across it but they explained it so a bit of a
spoiler warning don't watch any more if you don't want to if you haven't seen it yet go watch it
come back to this video then we can talk about it so we're gonna watch a little bit together just
to refresh and then we can talk about my idea for making a real-life central finite curve and
if you've heard of the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics well it has to do with where
the worlds are in the many worlds version of quantum mechanics so we're going to talk about
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let's get back to the video and he's attached to us infinitely through his weakness
this is why we're with them this is why we're alive
i'm not responsible for every rick out there do you know what the central finite curve is
they built a wall around infinity we separated all the infinite universes from all the infinite
universes where he's the smartest that's freaking cool i like that idea they've done well i couldn't
see how they're going to make it work they made it work i like the idea but there are some problems
with it at the end of the video we can talk about the this sort of like view they've given of it
in terms of visually like uh it's golden which is literally you know really on the nose golden ratio
and i'll explain that and how it relates to the fibonacci sequence at the end of the video so make
sure you stick around how could you actually make something like the central finite curve
and now this can't be counted as science and it is pure speculation but i can totally think of
one way you could make it work in a sci-fi story at least that's good enough for a sci-fi story
now with the the way they've visually represented it it doesn't really work because they've kind
of shown you know what's in this spiral pattern and these universes are separate
little bubbles so that kind of doesn't allow my way of making the central finite curve possible
in my version you could make this work using the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
version of the multiverse because in this type of multiverse the universes are not like separate
bubbles they're all superimposed on top of each other in the same space now there's actually a
really cool idea out there how we might actually be able to communicate between these worlds
if they exist i heard there's a much better version of me just a couple universes over
and unfortunately you guys are stuck with me so make sure you subscribe but it's all right
because there's probably a branch out there where you have subscribed quantum mechanics is about
waves it tells us everything in the universe can be described by something called wave function a
ripple in water is an oscillation in surface height the wave function on the other hand is
an oscillation in probability or more accurately probability density if you were to try and measure
a certain property of a quantum system the wave function shows the shifting probability of
possible results the actual mechanics in quantum mechanics is actually all about determining the
shape and evolution of this wave function this wave function underlies our perceived reality
you can't see the wave function but it really does underlay our reality and we get our measurements
of reality from it so if you go to the ocean or a pond you'll see waves that overlap and they can
cancel out constructive destructive interference do all sorts of kind of wacky stuff this wave
function in quantum mechanics can do just the same thing a great demonstration of this nature of the
wave function is the double slit experiment where you shoot electrons through two slits and then on
the other side you seem to get this interference pattern which suggests that electrons have
this wave nature to them and the funny thing about the experiment is when you put a detector on the
other side to detect the electrons going through the slits to see which slit it goes through
well this interference pattern on the other side disappears and you get just two lines appearing
which suggests that they're just particles there's no way of nature to electrons anymore what in the
copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics it suggests what happens is that the wave function
collapses when you put the detector on the other side there's an interaction the light causes the
wave function of the electron to collapse then you only see the electron in either this position
or this position there's no interference happening but what's important to consider here is that this
is one interpretation of quantum mechanics there's a whole bunch and when people generally explain
the double slope experiment they just tell their favorite interpretation or they're not even aware
and there's a bunch of different interpretations for this very experiment there's a bunch and
another one is the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and what it suggests is actually
that the wave function never collapses instead of collapsing the universe branches so both uh
all possibilities occur when this branching it happens and this branching only occurs for
quantum measurements worlds aren't just constantly and irreparably splitting on a quantum scale the
wave function components actually recombine all the time every time the universe branches
it doesn't split into like a separate universe that's you know in a different place in space
what's actually happening is you know they're superimposed on each other and that's because
you you can actually describe the wave function of the universe right and every time this branching
happens the wave function of the universe actually like uh it sort of differs so let's
say the universe is branched 100 times all right so you've now got 100 different universes with
100 different types of wreck however they're not separate in space they're all superimposed
on top of each other they're occupying the same space and it's just like the these wave
functions in each of them are out of phase and the famous equation we use to describe the evolution
of the wave function is the schrodinger equation which you might have heard of
very famous equation and we think it's a perfectly linear equation i'm not going to explain that but
it might not actually be it might actually have additional terms so it might turn out that we have
quantum mechanics a little bit i don't want to say wrong but you know this stuff we might be
missing and if there's additional terms this would allow insane things it would allow things like
faster than light travel we might even be able to communicate between the worlds in the many worlds
it's really important to understand that our current understanding of quantum mechanics
says you cannot it is impossible to send communications faster than the speed of light
even with quantum entanglement it's not possible so the linearity of this furniture equation is
really delicate if it isn't perfectly linear you will be able to communicate from you know two
points separated on the opposite sides of the universe instantaneously it'll even allow for
backwards in time travel so there's a famous physicist called polinsky who wrote a paper
and described this thing called the everett wheeler telephone which possibly could allow
for the communication between the worlds in many worlds so obviously this telephone is fairly
complicated it's not your average iphone but to give you a little insight it just has to do
with measuring the spin of particles um so yeah if the schrodinger equation isn't completely linear
we might be able to communicate between worlds in a non-linear quantum mechanics universe
actions can influence potentially the entire way function spanning all worlds so this everett
wheeler telephone kind of demonstrates that and it could be a way to make some kind of
communication between the world so there you go if you have one of these everett wheeler telephones
if there's a quantum multiverse and if it works we might be able to communicate between these
many worlds in the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and voila you've got
something like the central finite curve except it's not a spiral curvy thing anymore but
it's like a rigverse where you know they're all separated i think it makes a little bit actually
more sense because you know in the central finite curve in the show you know it's like this spiral
shape and it's somehow isolated from the rest of the universe so it you know there's a lot of
questions there whereas my version explains how that's kind of all in the same place
and you can isolate a subset of those infinite universes by doing what i said obviously this
is super far-fetched guys and there's a lot of ifs and buts and a lot of stuff that is
completely untestable currently but there's ideas so where there's ideas there's always hope and i
think all this stuff sounds pretty awesome pretty exciting and i'm sure it excites to have a lot of
a lot of you guys out there and probably gets a lot of people interested in this stuff so i
have no problem talking about it so let's come back to this golden ratio fibonacci sequence
everybody seems to love this stuff there's so much misinformation about this stuff on the internet
it is a mind-blowing this thing that we saw the central finite curve the visual
representation of it is a spiral and so there and it's golden right
they're clearly odin it's an ode to the golden ratio and you know how some people think
it has like some mystical deep fundamental meaning to everything but that's not the case we actually
there's no evidence of that and it really doesn't actually pop up as much as people seem to think
and a lot of the examples you'll see like these ones that's not actually the golden ratio so the
golden ratio is not actually a perfect spiral if you try and apply the golden ratio to these
objects that people seem to think you know is the golden ratio it's actually quite a bit off
so things like spiral galaxies this c shell over here that is not the golden ratio so it's where
the ratio of the long over the short dimension is the same as both added together over the
long dimension now it actually is a super unusual number but probably not for the reasons you think
it's actually the most irrational number we know of so rational numbers are just numbers that can't
be represented by fractions right and they have an infinite number of decimal digits so this number
just doesn't repeat you know you can get to like the millionth decimal place you still won't be
able to find a pattern in the number because of this it means it's really hard to observe
irrational numbers in nature maybe that's why they use the golden ratio to represent this whole idea
of the central finer curve because it's the most irrational number and this is a very irrational
idea and rick you know within the show is meant to be the ultimate logician he's meant to be rational
completely you know the master of rationality yet he finds himself within an irrational universe
or multiverse so i think that's a nice like juxtaposition if that's what they're trying to do
i respect it an infinitely rational man within an infinitely irrational universe i think that
would probably be a little too dramatic for rick this number is actually super useful for
mathematicians scientists who study the process of synchronization and this process is actually
utilized by the brain which is pretty trippy so i also mentioned earlier how the fibonacci sequence
is related to the golden ratio so here's what the fibonacci sequence looks like
you've probably seen this before and each next number in the sequence is simply
you simply get it from adding the previous two and now if you just divide each number
by the previous number and you keep doing that the number you get will continue to get closer
exactly to the golden ratio 1.618 which it's not perfectly that but it will get like infinitely
close as you go infinitely far so this fibonacci sequence actually does pop up all over the place
in nature and you can see it in the spirals on sunflowers which have to fit together in like
in this nice orange fashion and on the leafs of some plants that need to be arranged in such a way
to get the most sunlight started isolating myself from amy used to tell her everything i was feeling
but then i guess i stopped wish i was brave enough to love them back i don't know maybe you should
try it we don't have as much time as we think oh we that's a pretty good message to end on positive
message from rick and morty for once i like it we definitely don't have as much time as we think so
i i agree with this guy which is why i think it's important to you know be passionate be authentic
no one knows how long they have here on earth you could die tomorrow your heart
could stop beating and that's it and there's zero evidence there's anything afterwards
so you should probably enjoy life whilst you can because it's probably all you've got
and ultimately just remember life would be tragic if it weren't funny