The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT
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Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any text — even Vanilla Ice lyrics? PatrickJMT describes the Ramsey theory, which states that given enough elements in a set or structure, some interesting pattern among them is guaranteed to emerge.
Where are some other areas that one might be able to apply Ramsey theory to guarantee that certain patterns or structures exist?
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- Educator PatrickJMT
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Director M.R. Horhager
- Producer M.R. Horhager
- Artist Aaron Hong
- Animator Sean Janisse
- Editor Sean Janisse
- Compositor Sean Janisse
- Composer Manuel Borda
- Sound Designer Manuel Borda
- Narrator Addison Anderson
