[johnkpaul]

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?si=X1LY6Qc_s-HDqI3S

[rtolsma]

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]

Yeah you don’t want to get hbomberguy’d.

[BriggyDwiggs42]

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]

The first paragraph linked to the YouTube video and mentioned

> (we’ll take a slightly different approach).