Week 25: 'You discover things that seem impossible to be true, and then get to figure out why it's impossible for them not to be.'

Wonder spawned in: 2012
Wondered into being by: Vi Hart
Wonderspan: 6 min
To experience this wonder at its best: Click 'full screen', make sure you can hear the sound and get ready to think very quickly.

Today's wonder is nature's tendency to spiral into control, as presented by the doodling 'mathemusician' Vi Hart. 

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0

Vi Hart, trained in music and maths, is now paid to doodle.

Thanks to Christopher A for suggesting today's wonder.

Extra:

The next parts of Vi Hart's trilogy on spirals:

• Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOIP_Z_-0Hs
• Part 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=14-NdQwKz9w

'Every single flower or tree you see embodies wau.'  Here's Vi Hart introducing us to wau, a number pronounced as 'wow'.  Find out what 'e to the i to the e i o is e to the wau to the tau wau wau' actually means:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLkou8NvJo

And if you're in the 0.1% or so of the population who finds Vi Hart's high-octane superdoodling reasonably easy to follow, can you keep up with this film as it whizzes you through all the dimensions of the universe?  How many dimensions can you twist your head around before it all stops making sense?  My frontal lobes melt after the first five, maybe the first four and a half.  First, 'we start with a point':

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_GQqUg6Ts

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