[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.