This Object Should've Been Impossible to Make

Can you measure or calculate the size of the said sphere from your glass 4d object?

Why don't you up that ring idea and mount it in a gyroscope?

Cloche is the french word for bell

Adam, I loved this video, but I was screaming at my tv screen , “Adam, add a slow turning motor to another base with an on/off switch! “ With a motor, the sculpture would look slightly different every time you walked into the room. You would probably have to add something soft to the bottom, so it wouldn’t vibrate off the furniture or shelf. Just a thought….. Joan

I cringed every time Adam caught the Boy's Surface with the bell jar when lifting or placing it. Somehow, he didn't crack it or shatter it. 😅

Legend

"Stabel state" *immediately drops it* 😨
seconds later: *drops it again*

god damn it, adam lol i jumped out of my skin twice when you were fumbling with that thing

he dropped it!????????!?!?!?

from a sculpters viewpoint, to me most interesting/difficult piece is the connecting points of the tubes transforming into openings, meaning its inversions. If you would have to do this in wood it would be pita to sand.

Man, I wish my teachers were as enthusiastic about their subjects as Cliff Stoll.

Adam. For the love of all that is good, could you please fix your table saw? It's SO WOBBLY! Scaring the crap outta me man!

That's amazing. If you ever decide to change the color of the lights, imagine that thing in various colors would be amazing.

An incredible amount of ads while watching this video

needs a heart attack warning

Fill the art piece with florescent gas or what ever mount it on a toroid coil 😊

Love it! But why did you block out wiping your nose?

why don't you have two of those brass circles, at right angles, and somehow have it rotating in 360 degrees through all three axes?

cliff stoll is one of my favorite people in the world and seeing his joy at this gift at the end was so incredible. the mount turned out wonderful and illuminated the piece without the light being overpowering as well, wonderful

I love Cliff’s passion when he tries to explain the fourth dimension. It’s such a difficult concept to wrap one’s head around and visualize because it doesn’t exist in our familiar three dimensional world. It’s akin to explaining quantum physics—a complex idea that challenges the laws of physics. Therefore, describing it becomes an arduous task, and visualizing it seems impossible. Existence is incredibly beautiful, complex, and mysterious, allowing us to consider the seemingly impossible as possible. :))
Adam, when you were using the table saw, I feared for your fingers! Always maintain a firm grip on the fence when pushing the block, just in case it kicks back and avoids pulling your hand toward the saw. The display turned out very cool, and the piece is incredibly beautiful! As Cliff said, it’s outstanding! 👏👏

You gotta love the trifecta of glasses guy, bowtie guy, and suspenders guy

It is so beautiful to see humans who are completely free to express unbridled enthusiasm, appreciation , and curiosity.

Fantastic!!!

He was so proud of his glass blowing work he literally wanted to cry he got emotional just by the pure mathematics of the situation. Outstanding if you told this story to somebody they would have no clue what you were talking about

Mobius Strip?
Mobius tube?

The mount was great idea but instead of brass tips use rubber suction cups painted the same colour as the brass. Would it hold it sufficiently over time maune even slightly srin load the holders. That's my thinking anyways loved the video and huge fan from the UK. 👍

Hey, I thought I’d expand on Adam’s explanation of the Boy’s Surface a bit. Think of it like a Möbius strip, but taken to the next level. Neither the Möbius strip nor the Boy’s Surface has an “inside” or “outside” in the usual sense. The Möbius strip is a flat surface that, when twisted and connected in three dimensions, gives us this one-sided shape. The Boy’s Surface is similar, but it starts with a sphere and needs four dimensions to truly exist without crossing over itself. What we see in Adam’s sculpture is like a shadow of this 4D shape cast into our 3D world.

This sculpture represents the Boy’s Surface by flattening it into our three-dimensional space, kind of like how a shadow gives you a 2D outline of a 3D object. But since we can’t perceive the fourth dimension, we see the shape crossing over itself, which wouldn’t happen if we could see it fully in 4D. Imagine taking a sphere and turning it inside out, but instead of just flipping it, you twist it in such a way that it becomes a single, continuous surface—no inside or outside, just one seamless sheet.

The Boy’s Surface twists and folds in on itself because it’s trying to fit a shape meant for four dimensions into three. This twisting is why the sculpture has such an intricate and looping form. It’s a bit like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole—you end up with something that doesn’t quite make sense in our usual way of seeing things, but it’s a beautiful glimpse into the complexity of higher dimensions.

I was wondering... could you rest the object on the 3 pins in such a way that the object is elevated, and use hollow pins with (different colors LED / glas fibers) to illuminate/accentuate the shape ...?

be cool to somehow spin it like a gyroscope

Dude you are awesome but for the love of god put the priceless glass object DOWN when you are feeling super hyper active and fidgety. And not for nothing but the way you simultaneously jump around verbally and physically in those moments is anxiety inducing and frustrating on a level I have never experienced before 😂 especially considering you don’t edit out any of the jarring camera repositioning or abrupt topic changes. My blood pressure has never been so out of control 😭

I am 15 minutes in to the video.... but has Adam thought about venturing into museum gel?

The gentleman’s wonder and excitement and sheer joy at the end was very impactful to me. That may never happen in some people’s lives after childhood. Or, in the unfortunate, maybe never at all. That was beautiful! Thanks, Adam, for sharing THAT!😊

Adam I feel like you need an apprentice.... at least someone to talk to because man you talk to your tools and parts almost as much as I do.

I was thinking a claw shape with a sphere built into the palm would be cool. You could have it made in glass.

Aziz.. LIGHT!
The 5th element reference alone made me love this.

You’re going to hate yourself if you drop that thing.

The closures / bell jars are all too small for these objects.
With the small size, they melt into the object itself and thereby ruining the spectator experience.
Should have been at least twice the size, or even thrice.

Imagine getting this man behind a jet turbine now a days LMFAO

I miss Grant.

he getting old. that scares me for real. I love you Adam. Thanks for being our friend.

Adding a brass handle would have helped to visually separate the display from the object.

If liked to have seen the object mounted inside a gyroscope type mount so it can be spun in any direction.

This older guy is the absolute definition of the wild-haired eccentric scientist.

His constantly shifting the camera and roughly fiddling with this fragile glass object is making me nervous.

I now understand the exaggerated movements of a mad scientist in cartoons

Hmmm interesting task. a reflective black mirror would have looked hot and adding to interesting angles you cant see when looking from above / side

I think you should add a motor to a lazy Susan to the base of it. So it can slowly rotate around.

Actually , I love that idea with the brass ring and the little brass cups I'm only thirteen minutes into the video but I'm surprised.
He's not using some type of rubber.Them or like suction cup Of some kind In the suction cups Or tighten the cups Against the Glass and then putting a tiny little tack So the pin doesn't loosen or make the cups more like Claws like an eagle claw Or.
Something lol And then put the whole ring into another ring, so you can spin it around to See the different angles LO.L .... idk im High right 😂

I love the idea of the first mount with the brass rings and I have the image of sort of an Armillary Sphere with several points of contact to hold it. I think it'd be an interesting 1. viewing experience of the strange object, but also 2. giving sort of an homage to ancient math and sciences. The triangular symmetry reminds me a lot of a Celtic Knot so not only is it a stunningly beautiful object in all ways but it has an artistic layer with so many dimensions. I feel like the cloche's reflections detract a bit from the glass of the object itself and distracts a bit. Having it suspended would just add to the magic of it which gets unwrapped even more when the significance of it is fully explained.
All this being said, I still don't get what it is but it's pretty!

It sounds like you are fastening the tool to the mill using some kind of air wrench. Can you show me how that works, please?