The title of this video is Tentacles, Kimbo.

Just because I've wanted to do something that sounds not mathematical but is glass blower Lucas Clark comes over to my house and says, Cliff, I made something and I can't understand it.

Then he shows me this.

It's to class tubes.

Hooked is a ring.

Yeah.

Are you trees, eyeglasses or you're treated as two rings linked together like this?

He says to me, This is two rings connecting, I say, Yeah, it's mathematically a to hold tourists, He says.

Okay, they reaches over, is their bag and he pulls out this.

They says, Isn't this the same thing?

And I said, Yeah, yeah, you've just taken this stretched it And so this is the same.

Is this still a to hold tourists with two holes in it?

Topology does not care about distance.

It doesn't care about size.

It says if you make it out of stretchy rubber.

OK, so he says, What if I I inflate the middle of this?

I'm good.

Just blow Aaron inflate.

This, they say, should make no difference in its properties.

So he pulls out this okay from here.

Thio here.

It still has 12 holes and connected here.

It would be called to hold tourists or could also be called handle body with two handles on it.

Okay, No problem.

So I'm looking at thinking about him.

He pulls up the next day, says I can take this handle regal and bring it over there.

And I say, Yeah, that should be no problem.

So he does.

So he goes, Look over to there.

So the next thing this glass blower doesn't say, what happens if I move this connection here, just carry it around over to there in this connection over here, there's a perfectly legal according to operations in topology, you could move the same.

Where you want is lying.

It's still connected.

So he says, I'm going to take that connection in this one.

Go OK like that.

Okay, so he does.

So he moved those two ears from being next to each other parallel to so that they're connecting like this.

Ah, Okay.

Yeah.

Illegal, safe.

Everything's legal.

No problem at all, he says.

Suppose I shrink this sphere part now?

Oh, that's easy.

I shrink it from that to this.

What have you done now?

So that becomes that and this one becomes this one here, hopes to have a big nose.

And so this fear part becomes this wide part here, where that new hole come from.

What new hole?

This new hole here.

Where is it from?

Hey, starts asked me, where is that from?

And then he goes one step further and fully shrinks that into this.

Uh, wait a second.

He's telling me that this can be transformed into this following ordinary rules of topology.

I'm looking at all this.

He's saying, Can you explain it?

And I'm saying will go back to this.

This is a lot like a human being.

It's like me standing with my arms like this.

There's a hole there in a hole there.

This is Kimbo here.

I am a Kimble, and this is the same as me with my fingers linked together like this.

Yeah, there's a hole here.

There's a hole here and there.

This space here that my head's waggling around in the same Is this space here, Right here is that space is the same as the space here.

Okay, Yeah, my fingers are like this.

And so I say, somehow this has been transformed to this, which is the total logically the same as going from Ah, Kimbo, two interlinked fingers.

So I'm sitting there and thinking ought to be able to go from here back to this.

And that night I'm in bed trying.

Go.

But you live like this.

The wife nudges me and says, Cut out, Cliff, go to sleep, all right.

And I keep going like this, waggling my fingers around.

It's not working right, and I'm saying, What's wrong with us?

And and and and and a couple days later, visitor comes by three visitors from Denmark.

People are often times coming over my house.

Check out topology and things, and I show this to them.

And these three grad students, I think from Denmark, came through and I showed this to him, and I said, I'll give you a client bottle if you could solve it.

They sit around thinking about it, talking about it.

Couple days later, they show me the answer and I'll show it to you know, I'm going to need a little bit of help.

I'm going to need a couple tentacles.

Can I go from one arm?

Kimbo, to this Well, I'll try it.

The way I'll do it is I'll put off put my finger here.

And I claim that going like this is the same top.

Logically is going like this.

This, this tentacle is to just give me a longer finger so I can go like this and round like this over here to my thumb, and then move my thumb along to this.

I got it.

Thanks to the wonderful miracle of tentacles, I can show that I can go from here to here.

Okay?

On my left hand, I could do the same thing, but the room with the blue got it with two hands.

I can go from here to here.

So this is a preserve.

You know, the number of holes.

One whole, one hole has been preserved.

So what about what about with two hands going to this?

I'll start with this and I'll start over here and this hand here.

I'll go around over to my nose.

Reagan, there's my nose.

I'll now take this finger over here and bring it to my shoulder like that.

I'll now read your own around this way.

See the end of this.

I have to keep this guy touching, but I could move around till it gets no thumb.

Get it like this.

See, I've done that.

Now I could move my fingers together.

They've got get rid of that.

I know.

Have this shape right here.

I've managed to bring my fingers around to enclose this one finger.

Similarly, having done that, I can't take this finger My left index finger around and around this way.

Spring like this or you wear like that.

No.

Is that cool or what?

In other words, I can transform from arms a Kimbo into interlinked fingers with the aid off a couple tentacles and by extrapolation, Aiken, do it.

If only I had longer fingers defied to longer fingers, I could do it entirely off which to me says Topol logically.

Oh, there's cool things you can do with tentacles.

A Kimble.

But wait, there's more freaky.

There's more.

Go.

Okay, First, I'll show the lemon.

If you start with your finger on your chest, you can extend to your thumb by falling a woman arm and this pointer finger can go all the way there in here, up here and connect right here with this sum to make this.

This is very what you have.

This We can extend this to just fingers just like the bone and get to this.

Then I'm buying 11.

I just showed you could go all the way off your arm to get this.

This can then be a flight on the other arm by falling your fingers all the way up and in connecting with your thumb, and then you have the desired result.