Hairy Balls and the Shape of Reality
- Author
- Mike Breault
- Published
- Wed 15 Jan 2025
- Episode Link
- None
Take a coconut, a vector field, and a big idea: on any sphere you can't comb every hair flat. We’ll unpack the hairy ball theorem with Euler characteristics and index sums, then trace its fingerprints in computer graphics, weather, electromagnetism, and even higher dimensions.
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