Explaining Gojo's Infinity with Calculus

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  • @ChucklinHSR
    @ChucklinHSR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4817

    I think you have confused Zeno’s arrow paradox with the Achilles and the tortoise.
    The arrow paradox require the arrow to go an infinite amount of half ways before moving thus unable to move since needed to do infinite things.
    The tortoise and Achilles is where every time Achilles run and gets to the position the turtle was at the turtle has gone forward and is thus still ahead. This means for all time the turtle will always be ahead of Achilles even if he is faster if we require Achilles to get to the position of the tortoise.
    While infinity ability works better understanding the arrow paradox Gege cites the tortoise and the hare
    Edit: What I called the arrow paradox should actually be the dichotomy paradox. Mistakes on the naming as well

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1180

      Ugh you are right. I'm really annoyed at myself for this because I remember doing this in research. I'll pin this comment for this reason. The thing is, I think Gege might have confused the two as well, and such is why I got mixed up.
      www.quora.com/Does-Gojos-Limitless-involve-gravity-manipulation
      This Quora answer shows the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox, but then discusses the infinite series 1/2^i and so I conflated the two in my head. I think, both because of the Wiki answer, and because of what I linked, the explanation in the video still holds. I do apologize for this confusion and incorrectness though. Luckily, the math is still correct AFAIK.

    • @purevert
      @purevert 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +428

      Leave it to the Dr. Ratio pfp guy to find a mistake, thanks.

    • @arcticakecold2744
      @arcticakecold2744 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      @@purevert fr

    • @ChucklinHSR
      @ChucklinHSR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +97

      @@copywright5635 The arrow paradox makes more sense for the show achilles and the tortoise is more paradoxical.
      Gojo's power can further be understood with calculus when you understand that blue convergence drawing things together is doing an infinite sum to get a finite amount (reassigning distance to a finite infinite sum).
      Blue convergence was well understood in the gojo clan just as converging infinite sums were well understood historically. Red divergence represents divergent infinite sums and is only more recently understood. Divergence red is gojo taking a sum of space and then making it larger thus being similar to repulsion.
      For the deeper inclined imaginary purple is a color mix of red and blue. Naïvely we would say that the average of negative convergence blue and the positive divergence red is zero, however this only considers one dimension. If considering the complex plane it can be argued that the average of a positive and negative is actually in the imaginary axis because it is the average rotation amount (0 degrees and 180 degrees for positive and negative with average at 90 degrees). This would explain how gojo awakened the purple by mixing red and blue and "ascended" to a new plane.

    • @ChucklinHSR
      @ChucklinHSR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      In failing to do my own citation what is noted here is the arrow paradox should be the dichotomy paradox. The true arrow paradox is that at every instance of time there can be no velocity. The argument of infinite points needed to cross is the dichotomy paradox. I too should check the argument name before posting as I conflated that a flying arrow must cross an infinite amount of points while the dichotomy paradox traditionally cites running as the example.

  • @tiringking
    @tiringking 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7645

    The moment the graph of megumi showed up I was praying for a bum reference. I was not disappointed.

    • @SSSyoutube8035
      @SSSyoutube8035 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +232

      The more you are megumi the more you are bum

    • @astralithium
      @astralithium 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      But what about toji 😭😭😭

    • @inFayt_Lies
      @inFayt_Lies 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      pure undiluted petty hatred of an agenda would have made reverse-flash himself proud 💪⚡️

    • @JewelxxetPierre
      @JewelxxetPierre 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      @@astralithiumLike Father Like Son

    • @midnightstories6619
      @midnightstories6619 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Why do people hate megumi man 😂

  • @udiomoudochi8696
    @udiomoudochi8696 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +662

    This man did not fail to call Megumi a bum any opportunity he got.

    • @lain5858
      @lain5858 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He is not a good person

    • @syrienangel4137
      @syrienangel4137 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @@lain5858 That's what Megumi gets for being a bum

  • @degen7278
    @degen7278 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4268

    And here I scoffed at my teachers telling me id use calculus. Dont I look silly now.

    • @deezidibbs9796
      @deezidibbs9796 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      Its still on some weebo stuff anyway,you're not doing some engineer work atleast :3 ...for now

    • @CyberMonkey03
      @CyberMonkey03 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      If you become an engineer you’ll use calculus, and make big money

    • @playyourturntodieatvgperson
      @playyourturntodieatvgperson 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      honestly, calc is one of the few parts of math that i think has a lot of aplications pretty much everywhere. even in things like driving, understanding the concpets helps

    • @moomooha234
      @moomooha234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@playyourturntodieatvgperson please explain more how it relates to driving

    • @jacobharris5894
      @jacobharris5894 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I think knowing a bit of physics and math can help you make safer driving decisions because you’ll be more aware of dangerous situations. It’s not super necessary obviously.
      But since you asked. If you plot the velocity of the car as a function of time you can use it to calculate the total displacement of the car by integrating under the curve. Likewise, you can calculate the total distance traveled by the car, if you use speed instead of velocity. (This isn’t what a odometer does, they use the number of tire rotations. Although digital speedometers use digital signal processing, which may involve calculus.) If you assume constant deceleration when breaking hard, you can use the kinematic equations to deduce if it’s safer to stop at or run a red light, depending on your speed and distance from the light. For non-constant deceleration a similar analysis can be done. But it would be more complicated and likely involve calculus, along with the model of your car. For car collisions, if you have a changing force as a function of time, you can use integration to calculate the impulse or total change in momentum of the car. Or you can use differentiation to find the maximum force.
      It’s worth noting though, if your taking real life data, you would need to interpolate the data to get nice continuous functions that you can differentiate or integrate. But methods for doing that, like the Discrete Fourier transform, are inspired by analogous concepts that use calculus.

  • @GokuEnjoyer69
    @GokuEnjoyer69 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1346

    In JoJo part 6 there’s a really similar concept which makes much more sense to how Gege explains infinity. Every time someone reaches halfway to Dio’s kid, they shrink to half their size, making the distance to travel to the next halfway point the same every time.

    • @bmuhammadthariqhumaid4670
      @bmuhammadthariqhumaid4670 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

      Ah yes GGGoH

    • @reflex9238
      @reflex9238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      I think you mean Part 5 with GER as it also manipulates space time.

    • @Kazonk9954
      @Kazonk9954 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +222

      @@reflex9238 I think he's talking about the green baby.

    • @reflex9238
      @reflex9238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      @@Kazonk9954 ah in that case kinda. The concept of an infinite series that converges to a single point where it doesn’t go beyond that is definitely still there, only issue I see if the Green Baby really keeps the distance the same that way.

    • @GokuEnjoyer69
      @GokuEnjoyer69 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@reflex9238 no Green baby made from dios bone that becomes C moon

  • @user-11Il10I1
    @user-11Il10I1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4700

    Potential man catching stray is crazy 💀

    • @TerminallyOnTheGrind
      @TerminallyOnTheGrind 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

      the one who left 255 behind

    • @karmacop217
      @karmacop217 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Well "potential man" came in for clutch. The time it takes for a chapter to come out is not the canon time that passes in the manga, the real bums are the people seeking to validate their blatantly false head canons

    • @dankrigby5621
      @dankrigby5621 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@karmacop217 even waiting aminute bc he "doesnt want to live" while he is the reason all his remaining friends die in that moment is a certified bum moment. if he wasnt such a bum choso and a lot of others wouldnt have died/been in the risk of dying.

    • @LeoRoosebrouck
      @LeoRoosebrouck 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@dankrigby5621He got his soul sunk in darkness due to a evil fucking bath and the 4 UNLIMITED VOIDS he got hit with. He shouldn't even be walking yet here he is. Being a fucking GOAT.

    • @dankrigby5621
      @dankrigby5621 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@LeoRoosebrouck if he could get over himself after 5mins, he could've done it 5 mins earlier too so chose didn't have to die and others wouldn't almost die without todos help lmao

  • @Fotoschiki
    @Fotoschiki 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +206

    I had divergence, convergence and the definition of infinity in my first semester studying electrical engineering, while I watched JJK season 1. It was litterally in the same week our professor first used these words when Gojo explained his powers. It still feels surreal.

    • @hatsurrin
      @hatsurrin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Bro is living in jjk

    • @vivelespatat2670
      @vivelespatat2670 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Did he cast Hollow Purple in class ?

    • @adwikbasuroy1367
      @adwikbasuroy1367 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@vivelespatat2670 The professor can't cast Hollow purple because he is not the Honoured one.

    • @Abraham_the_pierra
      @Abraham_the_pierra 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@adwikbasuroy1367how'd you know.

  • @gunther268
    @gunther268 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1063

    Bro mahoraga so smart it mastered calculus and mathematics in a matter of 10 spins 🤯🤯

    • @water4041
      @water4041 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

      he adapted to have a Issac Newton level brain for him

    • @Wonder_Chariot
      @Wonder_Chariot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I love this comment

    • @infinitelyascending
      @infinitelyascending 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      he adapted academically

    • @impermisto
      @impermisto 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      yeah, that's always bothered me. Because that's Mahoraga's technique. It's not something rational. On the contrary, it's an automatic process. He has the wheel and the sword that help him do that, like filling a cup with water. But Sukuna being able to reproduce something like that ON THE FIRST TRY in a “oh there's infinity, so I'm going to send a cut there” approach is absurd. I'm not even talking about the 6 eyes not sensing anything.

    • @The.empire.enjoyer
      @The.empire.enjoyer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      ​@@impermisto Gege just didn't know how to kill Gojo off with some bullshittery

  • @chlorine-17
    @chlorine-17 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3082

    I actually had this same realization a while ago, and it also kind of works for his extension techniques too. While blue seems to hinge more on the fact that it’s introducing a negative number into reality, I see it as a point approaching negative infinity which causes it to constantly draw in the space around it. Then red would be causing whatever’s in front of it to “approach positive infinity” by being blasted away, and purple makes a point that approaches positive infinity from one side and negative infinity from the other, so the limit (and thus everything in the purple) does not exist.

    • @fungmonger3000
      @fungmonger3000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      Nice

    • @sphera4147
      @sphera4147 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +131

      Yo that's actually a nice explanation, never thought of it that way.

    • @Stolanis
      @Stolanis 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +206

      It's particularly telling that the literal translation of what Gojo says when he uses Purple is 'Imaginary Expression: Purple'. Dude is combining Red and Blue to create a thing that *should not exist in reality,* almost as though the colour purple was one that no-one had seen or even realised was possible until he invented it.

    • @nikhilm2803
      @nikhilm2803 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

      i like to think of it as converging and diverging series bc of gojo's little speech about "convergence...divergence...". Bc infinite summations cannot converge and diverege at the same time, you get purple when gojo forces both to happen.

    • @vanzwho854
      @vanzwho854 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      whats the difference between approaching infinity, and infinity itself?

  • @Plupert
    @Plupert 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +131

    When I watched JJK and Gojo was showing that Jogo would never be able to touch him but he never actually “stopped” moving towards him.
    My immediate thought was oh Gojo is like an asymptote. I’m happy someone else thinks like I do.

    • @adeleisnamedafterme
      @adeleisnamedafterme 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I was sitting in calculus and realised the same thing!

    • @emmarooker3607
      @emmarooker3607 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That was me too!

  • @HENRIQUEKOUTAROSAGAHARA
    @HENRIQUEKOUTAROSAGAHARA 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2522

    Broo no way. TH-cam blessed me with this piece of art.

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

      Thanks for watching. I honestly think of this as a bit of a dumb post, but glad you enjoyed it!

    • @HENRIQUEKOUTAROSAGAHARA
      @HENRIQUEKOUTAROSAGAHARA 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      @@copywright5635 I just love the relationship between anime and mathematics.

    • @anonymous_4276
      @anonymous_4276 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      ​@@copywright5635 this video feels like tricking kids into eating some broccoli.

    • @saftheartist6137
      @saftheartist6137 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@HENRIQUEKOUTAROSAGAHARA I agree that using media and TV show examples is a brilliant way to better teach mathematics. This technique takes relatable content and connects it to the less relatable philosophy of mathematics, which helps many visualize the reasons behind the concepts being taught in mathematics.

    • @saftheartist6137
      @saftheartist6137 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anonymous_4276 it often works 😂

  • @sungod9797
    @sungod9797 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +207

    We can prove using basic Diff Eq that an object approaching Gojo can never reach him if it slows down proportionally to the remaining distance left as a fraction of some initial distance from Gojo. The problem could be expressed as a simple ordinary differential equation of the form y’ = v*(p-y)/p, where y(t) is the position (distance traveled to Gojo), p is the initial distance from Gojo, v is the initial velocity, and y’(t) is obviously the current velocity. By separation of variables, this becomes (1/(y-p))dy = (-v/p)dt -> ln|y-p| = -tv/p + C -> y = p + Ce^(-tv/p). At time 0, y = 0, so C = -p. So, y(t) = p(1-e^(-tv/p)). Finally, we try to find the amount of time it takes for the right hand side to equal p (when all the distance is covered). This occurs when e^(-tv/p) = 0. But this never occurs for any value of t, even though the value of the expression exponentially decays towards zero as t goes to infinity. Thus, at no time will the object reach Gojo. Probably an unnecessary amount of work, but still kinda fun to show with a basic ODE lol
    The interesting thing is that in the anime, the technique seems to be visually depicted more like a barrier than can actually exert force to push you away from Gojo (without using red), as shown when he crushes Hanami against the wall, or when the knives suspended in mid-air move away from him as he walks forward.

    • @shanedsouza189
      @shanedsouza189 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Well, one could easily imagine that what's actually happening is that the technique is just exerting a repulsive force inversely proportional to the distance from Gojo. That is to say, the repulsive force grows infinitely large as you approach him.

    • @sungod9797
      @sungod9797 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Well his technique is never actually described that way, but yeah that would accomplish the same effect. It’s supposed to work using spacetime manipulation, so I guess you could argue the force is just some sort of anti-gravity created by having some negative spatial curvature around him. That would also explain how he “reinforces” the technique to counter domain amplification, by just increasing the force exerted at any given distance using extra cursed energy. But it does lead one to wonder what’s special about his Cursed Technique Reversal (described as “the power to repel”) if it basically does the same thing as the “neutral” limitless (described as the “power to stop”), with the only difference being that Red looks like an energy projectile. I guess you could say he’s just taking the location of the reference point for his technique’s distance measurement and moving it away from his body towards his opponent. Not sure why the cursed technique amplification/lapse of limitless would create an attractive force though, since you’d think pouring extra cursed energy into limitless would make it repel more, based on this explanation. So I guess in that case it would make more sense if the effects of Red and Blue were swapped

    • @thatsmyhellsing
      @thatsmyhellsing 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@sungod9797BLUE pull towards cause he create a negative space around reality....because a negative space cant really happen, the reality itself bends towards Gojo...thats why blue atracts

    • @SevenRedSuns1296
      @SevenRedSuns1296 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      the way I think about it with the Hanami situation is that he's forcing her to traverse infinity, thus accelerating her at ludicrous speeds to translate the "distance" created by his enlarged infinity

  • @blakerenimu9033
    @blakerenimu9033 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1169

    I'm learning math and having fun WHAT!?

    • @No-cc1fq
      @No-cc1fq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have a teacher with nice pair of tiddies.. You will love math, thats happen to me in highschool

    • @sulanjirabbisinyinza4152
      @sulanjirabbisinyinza4152 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      The worst part is you willing want to learn more 😢😂

    • @localmilfchaser6938
      @localmilfchaser6938 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@sulanjirabbisinyinza4152fr I just started college and already want to kms

    • @KotikKelTuzada
      @KotikKelTuzada 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Fear not the math my friend.
      And let the calculus begin.

    • @Eshuu-w4l
      @Eshuu-w4l 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Relatable brother​@@sulanjirabbisinyinza4152

  • @xendurr8180
    @xendurr8180 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Gojo is such a good teacher that even in the end he still manages to teach us how to do fractions.

  • @arjun_kre
    @arjun_kre 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +273

    "Gege Akutami kinda sucks at math"
    Duh, he's a sadis- I mean a mangaka , he ain't no mathematician 😂😂

    • @shadowslime3640
      @shadowslime3640 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I mean three of some of his favorite villains are Muzan, AFO, and Overhaul so you're not wrong on that first part.

    • @milkman4407
      @milkman4407 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The proof is RCT, which makes no sense, because you can’t just multiply energy together

  • @therishisenpai
    @therishisenpai 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    So I spend 60 hours to familiarise myself with Gojo's abilities, drop a video, and NOW I find this piece of art 😭😭😭

  • @---li1oo
    @---li1oo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +200

    Genius, I can finally put my calculus to work

  • @iamdivan7368
    @iamdivan7368 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +319

    I always interpreted this technique as Gojo believing in the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise so hard that the reality bends over it. The reason why I think that is because (I think it was a Gojo quote) in jjk your ego and your selfishness makes you the better sorcerer, so I always interpreted that as your curse technique being a cheat code that breaks reality in some way, and the more you and the others believe it the stronger the techniques are. Like, our space has motion and Achilles does indeed catch up to the turtoise, "limits" exist for it and in it, but Gojo' "Limitless" technique (aka his schysophrenia and ego) just goes "nah you don't", and so it doesn't.

    • @Nazar_Melnyk
      @Nazar_Melnyk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      Yeah, it seems to be like that. Remember Mahito's and Kenjaku's disagreement over the soul-body priority? And that, after the little rebellion of Geto's body against Kenjaku, Kenjaku concluded that reality differs for each individual technique? IMO, that was a pretty solid explanation.

    • @Nishom0926
      @Nishom0926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Damn that means Dr.Mohoraga is PH in mathematics plus Sukuna had to do some bullshit Calculations to cut this guy up while fighting him, Taking infinite void and Brain 🧠 damage while figuring out this shit.

    • @vaguelyfamiliar_
      @vaguelyfamiliar_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      might also explain how revealing your technique to the enemy strengthens it; you're making the enemy believe it as well

    • @AvidCanineEnjoyer
      @AvidCanineEnjoyer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@vaguelyfamiliar_wait that’s so right omg 😨😨😨

    • @IshanDubey-xs4vg
      @IshanDubey-xs4vg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sakuna didn't do shit, he used mahoraga to do everything for him , kinda like chat gpt​@@Nishom0926

  • @daegukreb4219
    @daegukreb4219 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

    man, this really just reminds me of the two all nighters spent on the math IA -- you expressed it so concisely and in much simpler terms compared to my calc knowledge at the time.

    • @kittyveggies4454
      @kittyveggies4454 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      cant believe im thanking IB maths for helping me to understand this video

    • @daegukreb4219
      @daegukreb4219 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@kittyveggies4454 fr dood

  • @rzkrdn8650
    @rzkrdn8650 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Megumi's bumness is beyond gojo's infinity

    • @saikimin9896
      @saikimin9896 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Infinity isnt a large enough capacity to describe your uselessness

    • @syrienangel4137
      @syrienangel4137 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@saikimin9896 As is your existence

  • @RixesPuffs
    @RixesPuffs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +574

    Maybe what Gojo meant is that he doesn't shower and his stench is literally frying the air molecules around him so much, that they expand infinitely

    • @samahJoical
      @samahJoical 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Bro

    • @ItsCrunkulous
      @ItsCrunkulous 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ong hanami didn't die because he was crushing her with infinity that stench was so bad cuz bro ain't had a shower since he was 17 once he fully developed infinity

    • @r.jguerra5526
      @r.jguerra5526 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

      Bro's projecting

    • @XanderAnimations
      @XanderAnimations 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      true

    • @lailoutherand
      @lailoutherand 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

  • @CamiWuzHere
    @CamiWuzHere 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    seeing the megumi graph and watching him get roasted for like 5 minutes straight hurt my heart😭😭

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Ok if it comforts you I don't actually hate Megumi. I was thinking, how do I get JJK fans to pay attention to math, and well... it worked clearly

  • @someguy4405
    @someguy4405 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    "he mixed up 5 and 50"
    Or Myamura got something wrong for the ninth time.

  • @Seloliva1015
    @Seloliva1015 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Megumi has never recovered from that panel with no shoes

    • @saikimin9896
      @saikimin9896 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You will never recover from your failures

  • @thecrionesevideomaker2977
    @thecrionesevideomaker2977 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I love it when I see two of my favorite things put together in a video. It's actually very interesting and informative.

  • @ethanramos5372
    @ethanramos5372 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I’m glad you made this video. I happened to be taking calculus when jjk was first coming out and we were literally learning limits, asymptotes, all that. I made the connection that gojos ability is literally that.

  • @SillyInternetGremlinBoy
    @SillyInternetGremlinBoy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    The bumigumi reference earned my sub, this video is a massive W

    • @saikimin9896
      @saikimin9896 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unsubscribe from life

    • @SillyInternetGremlinBoy
      @SillyInternetGremlinBoy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@saikimin9896 lol I unsubbed from it a while ago when it stopped being fun, but i’m still watchin’

  • @alaminior
    @alaminior 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    0:58 that's why instantaneous acceleration is necessary. It's why there's a minimum possible distance

  • @SparkyMasterK
    @SparkyMasterK 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    at 7:31 When you brought up the infinity barrier line I thought for sure you were going to say "this is a piecewise equation so at that x-value the function changes has two different domains, Hence why they say 'Domain expansions" Literally the moment they change reality.

    • @ninjahunterx7497
      @ninjahunterx7497 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh wow, that's actually genius. But the issue is, Gojo's infinity barrier is not his domain expansion, it's another type of cursed technique. It actually can be bypassed from subdomain expansions type things.

  • @axionyx
    @axionyx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    1:42 omg what the vsauce erference

    • @nooby3641
      @nooby3641 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chad luffy

  • @digantadutta2143
    @digantadutta2143 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    finally i understood delta epsilon method

  • @undeade.t7044
    @undeade.t7044 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

    i like to understand the limitless with science rather than math infinity is like the void of space infinity expanding to from the center to the point where reaching the center or the end is impossible. the sub abilities of red and blue are like the poles of a magnet to use the attractive force of blue Gojo assigns him himself and his target with the opposite polarities to attract one another. Red on the other hand works by Gojo assigning the same polarity to himself and the target to repel each other. purple is created by forming a mass that attracts and repels at the same time. Infinite void works by overloading the brain which is a computer with limited storage space and processing speed with an infinite amount of data that fries the brain because it does not have the proper hardware to allow it to process and store and infinite amount of data.

    • @chyumiming.
      @chyumiming. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Your right about the magnetic poles. Gege say It in a book

    • @yoosapkid69
      @yoosapkid69 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Yup gojo technique more make sense with science
      Let's say he have ability like dark energy in his curse technique that can expand space infinitely around him.
      Because that's how fabric of space works. Not divided

    • @kujojotarostandoceanman2641
      @kujojotarostandoceanman2641 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      But instead of magnet, blue creates a semi vacuum that force objects around it into it to fill the lack of space, and red is condensed space thus pushing everything outward, purple is like a glitch where you put those two together that was supposed to cancel eachother out but using curse technique to force red and blue to stay exist, thus making a extremely unstable area where it's constantly pushing and sucking at the same time and basically turns into a blender

    • @Joefo-y67
      @Joefo-y67 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@yoosapkid69nah y'all Einstein fanboys coping so hard about Zeno paradox

    • @iMíccoli
      @iMíccoli 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Joefo-y67😂😂😂😂 LMAO

  • @diegovillalobos4176
    @diegovillalobos4176 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Nah the megumi bum relationship got me off guard i WAS NOT expecting that 😂😂😂😂
    Btw great video i never thought of gojo being a literal asymptote

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hey it made you pay attention right? Thanks for watching!

  • @signormythomagic_yt7128
    @signormythomagic_yt7128 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Love how the concept is limits and the name of the ability is Limitless. I was cooking this theory for a while now and I was delighted to find your video on it. I feel heard.

  • @Zen-zt4uk
    @Zen-zt4uk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +448

    Me thinking its a normal gojo + math video from a random youtuber: Okay, time to get hit with boring maths.
    This guy: pulls up bum as the x-axis for Bumgumi
    I didn't think you were capable of going this far Phanimations!!!

    • @Sir_Isaac_Newton_
      @Sir_Isaac_Newton_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      y-axis

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      well if no one else was going to become a monster, then I'll do it

    • @lavans5721
      @lavans5721 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@copywright5635 domain expansion: Infinite Series

    • @zhanglaoshi5529
      @zhanglaoshi5529 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@@copywright5635bro became yuta 😭😭

    • @doneedanickname3522
      @doneedanickname3522 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      math can be really fun if just expressed through a different medium. I like turning my notes into dumb powerpoint slides and express problems in really dumb scenarios. Makes memorisation much more easy and fun

  • @Explodingstrawberry125
    @Explodingstrawberry125 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Megumi catching strays and I'm all here for it

    • @saikimin9896
      @saikimin9896 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unlike your dad that wasnt there for you

    • @syrienangel4137
      @syrienangel4137 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@saikimin9896 Projecting much?

    • @radu-andreinitu3961
      @radu-andreinitu3961 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@saikimin9896Bro is crying through the entire thread at some basic Bumgumi slander lmao

  • @mantasr
    @mantasr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    If you divide the distance infinite times you divide the time it takes infinite times - making the time it takes infinitesimal. And infinitesimal time goes by super quick. Which is why your reach the tortoise.
    You don't reach Gojo because he only divides the space, not the time.
    He's just OP. He should have won (the damned arrogant bastard).

    • @Khann_2102
      @Khann_2102 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Gege just felt funny at that time

    • @ndnd7614
      @ndnd7614 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s just approaching an asymptotic limit 😂

    • @vigorouslethargy
      @vigorouslethargy หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was an asspull for sure. "Well I can't cut you directly, so I'll just cut the idea of reality which just happens to include you in it." Not a great solution to the OP character you wrote into a corner, Gege.

  • @roberty.agyekumaddo6071
    @roberty.agyekumaddo6071 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It's very impressive of you being able to explain Gojo's power with Calculus. I really enjoyed it. I wonder if you could make another video like this explaining Accelerator's esper abilities from "A Certain Magical Index".

  • @noobhue1997
    @noobhue1997 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I always interpreted the limitless as some kind of distortion on the space, where the distance increases as we get near Gojo. So when under the limitless barrier, one need to move through kilometers to move only centimeters.
    We reach the same end by diferent methods, basically.

  • @XLORDPROPL
    @XLORDPROPL หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    0:28 I heard about this paradox the first time in my life yesterday, and now i see it in a video for the first time in my life, no one will tell me it's science anymore...

  • @Donpablo219
    @Donpablo219 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I don’t know why I thought I clicked on this thinking I would understand ts 4:04

    • @Micro_ca
      @Micro_ca หลายเดือนก่อน

      Haha hehe

  • @randomdudeguypersonlol
    @randomdudeguypersonlol 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Incredibly intuitive and comedic explanation of limits lol, insanely underrated

  • @newwaveinfantry8362
    @newwaveinfantry8362 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Hyperbolic goemetry, or even more simply explained, this is exactly how electromagnetic potential works. Electromagentic attraction, hence repulsion, is proportional to the inverse of the distance between the electromagnetic centers of the objects, so as one gets closer, the potential goes to infinity.

  • @AverageSensei
    @AverageSensei 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    First use for calculus in 10 years and it's to understand Gojo's limitless void 💀

  • @justacatnamedmob
    @justacatnamedmob หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you! this has actually helped me with my math, I was weeks ahead with the concept of asymptotes because of your video. it also helped me with the exam. thank you!

  • @excellent_potato
    @excellent_potato 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I really don't know how you continue to find so many topics to explore. And from all your videos, I can tell you enjoy making them. You are super underrated right now, but I have a feeling you will become huge soon. Just keep pumping out these fun quality videos, and also have fun making them!

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad you enjoy it!

    • @leon9878
      @leon9878 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True in hindsight the guy has mad potential.

    • @excellent_potato
      @excellent_potato 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@leon9878 he can become the next Vsauce, but specifically for maths.

    • @leon9878
      @leon9878 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@excellent_potato yeah basically that in tandem with also interpreting how math is used in power systems stories and fiction to spice things up.

  • @Galactic1078_
    @Galactic1078_ 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I have been learning this at school the past year, why did I understand this better than my teachers lessons

  • @-Medley-
    @-Medley- 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thanks for explaining how sukuna is a fruad and uses plotholes :)

    • @Nishom0926
      @Nishom0926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Damn that means Dr.Mohoraga is PH in mathematics plus Sukuna had to do some bullshit Calculations to cut this guy up while fighting him, Taking infinite void and Brain 🧠 damage while figuring out this shit.

  • @mungelomwaangasikateyo376
    @mungelomwaangasikateyo376 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I do agree with this explanation of limitless to the infinity explanation. Approaching gojo is more like an asympotic function. You may continue approaching him but will never reach him

  • @prisma.
    @prisma. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The mad man... he did it. He explained Gojo's technique.

  • @Ash-my4gf
    @Ash-my4gf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I just learned about limits today in calculus, thanks for the recap

  • @IamWhoIam-z6i
    @IamWhoIam-z6i 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I can imagine Gege watching this video and say
    " What ! It works like that ? "

  • @joeyuzwa891
    @joeyuzwa891 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    WAIT. YOU TRICKED ME INTO WATCHING A VIDEO ABOUT CALCULUS! YOU FIEND!

  • @mostgoofiestyoutuber
    @mostgoofiestyoutuber 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Or simple thing short, there is infinite space between Gojo and the object which is trying to touch him. Now u might say, why did the knives levitate on gojo while on the phone? Its because the knives had enough force to stay on track but because of the infinite space they seemed stationery.

    • @chrome1018
      @chrome1018 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yup, also remember that Gojo can allow certain objects to pass through his infinity, in this case it was his phone.

    • @mostgoofiestyoutuber
      @mostgoofiestyoutuber 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@chrome1018 that depends on him. It's a pretty nifty ability to have ngl

  • @omino_fr
    @omino_fr หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Holy shit! On my soul I was thinking of this about a week ago and I came to the same conclusion of Gojo being an asymptote, I feel like an accomplished mathematician rn 😭

  • @quantumgaming9180
    @quantumgaming9180 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    BRO I WATCH 1 JJK OPENING ON TH-cam AND NOW EVEN MATH CHANNELS SPOIL ME!!

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      Nah I'd spoil. Also legitimately sorry, all the panels and vids I put are everywhere on the internet so I figured it'd be ok (plus it's mostly blurred), but yeah I apologize for the spoilers.

    • @quantumgaming9180
      @quantumgaming9180 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@copywright5635 Nah I'd be fine. I like your videos anyway

    • @Coleecool
      @Coleecool 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lol facts😂

  • @abdouplay
    @abdouplay 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Ain't no way I understood math from a jjk YT video instead of my teacher when he's yapping on a Monday morning💀

  • @SnapstickGamer
    @SnapstickGamer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I always thought like this, that infinity changes the curvature of space time and makes it asymptomatic. A lot of jjk’s powers can be looked at ‘scientifically’ and I love how the way they fight is so deductive. They’re trying to figure out cursed energy on the fly, and making predictions about each other

  • @Yx1xY
    @Yx1xY 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your simple explanations. Keep up the good work.

  • @bearfaery737
    @bearfaery737 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    I remember when I first saw his powers, my response was "So he makes Zeno's Paradoxes into reality".
    Also, to be entirely nitpicky, the Paradox of Achilles and the Tortise is different from the Dichonomy Paradox. The Dichonomy Paradox is the constant halves, Achilles is that in a race between Achilles and Turtle where the Turtle has a head start, it should be impossible for Achilles to ever surpass the Turtle, as he constantly has to run to where the Tortise had been down to infintismal pieces of distance and time. They're similar, but not the exact same.

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes this is true. However, there are actually multiple tellings of the Achilles and the Tortoise story. Some describe it as you have, and others describe it in the same was as the Dichonomy Paradox

    • @ultimaxkom8728
      @ultimaxkom8728 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How likely is that most of the multiple tellings just being multiple mis-tellings? And how likely are we being infected by it?

  • @caiolaytynher5994
    @caiolaytynher5994 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bro straight up gave the better explanation of the epsilon delta definiton of limits that I ever seen in a jjk themed video. I'm a fan

  • @ianchoi버디
    @ianchoi버디 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    What Ik before watching past the intro of this vid. Base infinity warps the distance between Gojo and anything that Gojo's mind subconsciously detects as dangerous, by when that object enters the aoe of limitless keeps it from making the full distance by halving it. On a normal 2d graph reaching something would be a liner line but the Infinity Barrier makes it a curved line that never meets the final point going on infinitely.
    Amplifying this limitless gets lapse, azure, or amplification Blue, which removes the space that it's conjured in, sicking everything into it like a black hole.
    Multiplying the negative cursed energy to get positive RCT, applied to Blue gets Reversal Red. Red forces space and matter outward similar to how we think dark energy works(opposite to gravity), and since 1 RCE is many normal CE since it was multiplied Red is several times stronger then Blue.
    After combining the 2 techniques Gojo creates Purple, which normally flied in a direction at near or full light speed ripping apart space and matter that's in it's way.
    Of course there isn't much math in this, it's just all ik. Ima watch the vid now :)

    • @ianchoi버디
      @ianchoi버디 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      After I watched the vid. I alr knew this, yay!

  • @nookleer
    @nookleer หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent video. I grasped this already but i have never seen a clearer explanation.
    That said, you also supported my idea of Gojo's weakness.. LASERS.
    Since photons do not generally experience time, they'd manage to get near enough to essentially hit him in a single moment.

  • @grey_b7319
    @grey_b7319 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    naaaah, the Megumi slander is crazy 💀

  • @DerSockerZocker
    @DerSockerZocker หลายเดือนก่อน

    Clicked on this for the meme but was pleasently surprised by a nice explanation/application of the epsilon-delta definition of continuity

  • @shihab3611
    @shihab3611 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Here's another loophole, If nothing can reach gojo then that implies even light cannot reach gojo. Therefore gojo should be a black shadow.

    • @jernmp
      @jernmp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      no cuz infinity selects stuff that is harmful to gojo thats why he fan still breathe

    • @hoangthihongphuong8473
      @hoangthihongphuong8473 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Gojo can choose what to let in and what's not

  • @destinyorel7994
    @destinyorel7994 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i went to calc tutoring today to help understand epsilon and delta. this taught me more than that whole hour about limits

  • @Flameeyboi
    @Flameeyboi หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Throughout heaven and earth i am calculus 1:56

  • @top_drilla8345
    @top_drilla8345 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You need to do more of these videos bro it is so entertaining and it helps me to learn

  • @weonadomicilio398
    @weonadomicilio398 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Yeah that's how I first thought about it

  • @c0ntrl
    @c0ntrl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazing video! You almost made me forget this was the exact subject that nearly made me fail high school

  • @iceydied151
    @iceydied151 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

    any chance you could tell me what song is playing at 0:14 ? great video btw

    • @AlexanderMatos
      @AlexanderMatos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was also looking for it!!

    • @gaaaaavi
      @gaaaaavi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      it's Kaneda's theme, from Akira.

    • @AlexanderMatos
      @AlexanderMatos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hmmm I don’t think so,. But close

    • @doomi_no.17
      @doomi_no.17 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@gaaaaavi Thx

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      It's not Kaneda's theme from Akira lol. I always link all the music in the description of the video. That's "Impact Prelude" by Kevin Macleod (Creative Commons licensed too!)

  • @Dexxterx
    @Dexxterx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just stumbled on this. Amazing work, you deserve to get all the way up there with this stuff

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you comrade, El Psy Kongroo

  • @eyes5877
    @eyes5877 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Not into college yet. Very intertaining but my ear goes right through the other one

  • @geckoram6286
    @geckoram6286 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Normal youtubers: Explaining calculus with a series
    This guy: Explaining a series with calculus

  • @copywright5635
    @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Link to Code for the Video: github.com/shawnseanspencer/manimations/blob/main/gojo.py
    Also Patreon Plug: www.patreon.com/Phanimations
    Edit: Any suggestions for future videos please post them as replies to this!

    • @malldvd
      @malldvd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This video is produced very nicely. I never knew that this style of animation was just python code.
      Edit: (I just found out that it's a library called Manim by 3Blue1Brown.)

  • @damianfarci6778
    @damianfarci6778 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You are making me love math again. I have always asked my teachers where I could use math and all, but I never got an answer I was satisfied with. (Additionally, I’m horrible at math but I like it) Seeing you explain a character’s ability from an anime made me quite interested in it again. I hope you could find another anime/anime character’s ability that can be explained in math. I loved watching it.

  • @fullmetaltheorist
    @fullmetaltheorist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    If infinity stops everything that comes close to Gojo then why doesnt he freeze cause heat and light wouldn't reach him too?

    • @randomdude9367
      @randomdude9367 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't watch jjk and I had the same question for my friend since he's a fan.
      Apparently gojo can choose what can and can't go through his limitless barrier and showed me a clip of him catching an eraser and block a pencil as proof. I guess he just does that with light and particles.

  • @stevenmatuszak7536
    @stevenmatuszak7536 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude this was highly entertaining. You’ve got a new sub!

  • @InfinitiaterYT
    @InfinitiaterYT 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The thing with Achilles and the tortoise is that Achilles isn't just gonna move 1cm every step, so when the distance shrinks down to like 3cm, Achilles would just make a 5cm step and overtake the tortoise. Also he probably moves 3 times every time the turtle moves once.

    • @themanysirs1814
      @themanysirs1814 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      p-probably/?? Wa-?? this is a hypothetical using known things, it's not, it's not actually Achilles and a tortoise.

    • @InfinitiaterYT
      @InfinitiaterYT 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@themanysirs1814 ik just using the characters given in the hypothetical :/

    • @themanysirs1814
      @themanysirs1814 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@InfinitiaterYT aah. got it.

  • @SinWuu
    @SinWuu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I studied Engineering and took 3 Calculus courses. Never once in my 4 years in college did I understand the "Limit" this much. Thank you man it makes me wana go through all those textbooks all over again.

  • @cakeboiplayz9667
    @cakeboiplayz9667 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    3:53 i lost it

  • @jello8mellow
    @jello8mellow 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm so glad you mentioned the asymptote, probably the best logic based comparison honestly, it always baffled me in school that they never touched the axis

  • @nos5915
    @nos5915 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is genuinely more helpful than any calculus lecture i've ever had

  • @hermesshallot3325
    @hermesshallot3325 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Crazy I’m in AP Calc rn and the stuff we learned last week actually made this really easy to comprehend

  • @steakiefrags1866
    @steakiefrags1866 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heard the word "supertask", immediately thought of Vsauce's video because i rewatched it for the 10000th time yesterday, and of course you bring it up instantly. perfect.

  • @g_vaibs8005
    @g_vaibs8005 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really cool video, for even more math nerd based anime powers look up A Certain Scientific Accelerator. The character accelerator is definitely a big inspiration for Gojo as their powers are very similar in effect(they are also white haired and strongest in the world in their particular division by a long shot) . Accelerator can manipulate vectors of any object as long as he can resolve them.

  • @SliceofStef
    @SliceofStef 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Gege who thought of none of that: 😬

  • @guilhermefonsecaribeiro1561
    @guilhermefonsecaribeiro1561 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is interesting, thank you for making this video!

  • @tonywilliams5340
    @tonywilliams5340 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm glad someone else caught this. Im an engineer and calc was the only for me to fully conceptualize his powe

  • @fury374
    @fury374 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I start college in a week, and im taking calculus, so this was a great headstart, thanks man

  • @skylercloud3077
    @skylercloud3077 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    the vsauce theme jumpscared me even though I saw it coming XD

  • @Wokovsky
    @Wokovsky หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just willingly watched a 8 minute lecture on calculus. The world is truly amazing.

  • @NunsenseStudios2110
    @NunsenseStudios2110 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am too uneducated to actually understand anything that is being discussed in this video, but I love math on a conceptual basis and I find the explanations here fascinating regardless! My brain is tingling from all the technical descriptions and exploration of Gojo's abilities from a mathematical framework.

  • @Cedxfy
    @Cedxfy หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Im currently in algebra 1 and the fact i was able to semi understand is crazy

  • @crimsondragon2677
    @crimsondragon2677 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I learned more JJK lore than math.

  • @Yamazakura00
    @Yamazakura00 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just learnt about geometric sequence to sum to infinity and am glad that I sort of understand what is being explained, shown that i actually learnt the concept

  • @enivid9552
    @enivid9552 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Holy shit you have saved my life, I learned about series in calculus now

  • @johndalepringle5978
    @johndalepringle5978 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is probably one of the best explanations I've seen of the Epsilon-Delta definition 💀

    • @copywright5635
      @copywright5635  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that was the goal! happy you enjoyed

  • @biznessman4597
    @biznessman4597 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Potential man slander will be appreciated, U just gained a subscriber