Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Big Numbers

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  • Опубликовано: 1 май 2024
  • 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s the estimated number of stars in the universe. That’s a pretty big number. But, how did we get here? And, can we go bigger? You bet we can go bigger. In this video, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice are here to help you understand how big some numbers truly are.
    We have to start small. Neil takes us from a simple million to a billion and then way beyond anything you’re imagining. You’ll learn how many stars are in our galaxy. And, how many galaxies are in our universe. What does the number really mean in the scale of everything?
    How long would it take you to count to a billion? How long would it take you to count to a trillion? Then, we cross the point where numbers get so big that you have to start using words to describe them. Discover more about a mole, a googol, a googolplex, and Skewes’ number. After this video, you’ll look at numbers a whole different way!
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    0:00 - Introduction
    0:46 - Exponential Notation
    2:01 - Billions
    2:41 - How Much Money Does Jeff Bezos Have?
    4:16 - How Many Hamburgers Has McDonald’s Sold?
    4:33 - Trillions
    5:10 - A Billion Seconds in Years
    5:41 - How Long Does It Take To Count To A Trillion?
    6:30 - Quadrillions
    7:36 - Quintillions
    8:50 - Sextillions
    9:48 - Moles
    12:41 - The Sum of All Particles
    13:05 - Googol
    14:09 - Googolplex
    16:35 - Skewes’ Number
    17:55 - Closing
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  • @daddoesthings9461
    @daddoesthings9461 3 года назад +809

    I love how Neil genuinely goes back and forth from hysterical to dead serious explaining something in a matter of seconds

    • @joshuageorge7997
      @joshuageorge7997 2 года назад +22

      Easily among the best scientific illustrators to exist

    • @BlakeGibbons
      @BlakeGibbons 2 года назад +19

      It's called fake laughing so the other person will just shut up and let you finish your point.

    • @irenaveksler1935
      @irenaveksler1935 2 года назад +4

      @@BlakeGibbons okay?

    • @SqaurebearSqaurebear
      @SqaurebearSqaurebear Год назад +2

      @@joshuageorge7997 Amongsus

    • @mgrootemaat
      @mgrootemaat Год назад

      Likewise I hate how the other guy is or pretends to be as smart as a 6 year old.

  • @365er
    @365er 4 года назад +2046

    you guys have the best dynamic of knowledge and comedy in your shows. great content

    • @reallymysterious4393
      @reallymysterious4393 4 года назад +39

      Only to be rivaled by a press conference featuring Fauci and Trump ...

    • @polat__
      @polat__ 4 года назад +9

      Indeed, simple, funny and educational by high-degree astrophysicist

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 4 года назад +1

      What about buzz liteyear?

    • @matt4787
      @matt4787 4 года назад +14

      I must have missed the comedy.

    • @MonsieurDrobot
      @MonsieurDrobot 4 года назад +2

      It’s sci fi babble at it’s finest. Neil gets paid a dollar for ever idiot that still believes humans exist in the opposite direction below them on “the other side of the world.”🙃😹🥂 Needless to say, there’s a ton of sci fi programmed retards that still think they exist on the exterior of an infinitely ballerina twirling lava filled dirt ball that gracefully moves with nearly ZERO turbulence as it whizzes around the sun in the air we are all breathing.😹😹😹🌍🤾🏻‍♂️🗑

  • @theinterruptedlife1783
    @theinterruptedlife1783 Год назад +52

    If you cant express it simply, you have not learnt it yet. How beautifully Mr.Tyson potrays this.

    • @larrycurrycarpediem
      @larrycurrycarpediem 11 месяцев назад +4

      That's one to grow on. I tip my hat to you sir!!!!

    • @ianmikael3019
      @ianmikael3019 8 месяцев назад +2

      well said!

    • @theinterruptedlife1783
      @theinterruptedlife1783 8 месяцев назад

      @@ianmikael3019 it has helped me in my work life. I am a hardware engineer and technical stuff is really important. I keep digging unless I understand it simply
      Luckily I also have a mentee and therefore I have someone to explain things to

  • @sreenathc
    @sreenathc 2 года назад +104

    Neil is one seriously brilliant educator….his explanation with analogies, and giving Aha moments is just amazing!

  • @Varrik159
    @Varrik159 4 года назад +399

    "You don't know inconceivable yet"
    It was such a throwaway comment but I love it XD

    • @carealoo744
      @carealoo744 3 года назад +2

      I happened to skip ahead through the video, and landed right where he said that :)

    • @NathanY0ung
      @NathanY0ung 3 года назад +4

      Can I drink you?

    • @Varrik159
      @Varrik159 3 года назад +5

      @@NathanY0ung Yes. Yes you can.

    • @Robo-xk4jm
      @Robo-xk4jm 3 года назад +2

      Especially since they were only at quadrillion

    • @Puppy_Puppington
      @Puppy_Puppington 3 года назад

      In my peripheral vision, ur profile picture looked like that little ninja people have... it’s so Trippy looking at it directly and realizing it’s not.

  • @lukeh2379
    @lukeh2379 4 года назад +116

    It’s cool that he showed the universe is not only incomprehensibly large but also incomprehensibly small.

    • @rravitejamavr6650
      @rravitejamavr6650 4 года назад +2

      Woow great perspective!

    • @Drinnan
      @Drinnan 4 года назад +5

      The universe is smaller than it is larger

    • @apolicum
      @apolicum 4 года назад +5

      @@Drinnan Everything by definition is smaller than it is larger

    • @st.clairbij9208
      @st.clairbij9208 4 года назад +1

      @@apolicum How do you mean?

    • @jordanlong00
      @jordanlong00 3 года назад +2

      @@st.clairbij9208 I'm not sure I'm correct, but given that the smallest any given object could be is a single point in the universe, and there is no upper limit for volume given the infinite size of the universe, everything is closer to the smallest that it can be than the largest

  • @StaticBlaster
    @StaticBlaster Год назад +9

    You should do a part 2 to this and talk about Graham's number, Tree(3), and countable/uncountable ordinals, Rayo's number, and absolute infinity. And the Hilbert Hotel paradox.

  • @burnout_2017
    @burnout_2017 Год назад +7

    These videos are so fun and interesting and educational all at the same time. Please keep them coming

  • @thelants8569
    @thelants8569 4 года назад +340

    6 year old me: Dad, what's the biggest number?
    My Dad: It's a big number.

    • @imadetheuniverse4fun
      @imadetheuniverse4fun 4 года назад +12

      He wasn't wrong.

    • @nebtheweb8885
      @nebtheweb8885 4 года назад +3

      Reminds me of the Cosmos segment where Carl Sagan explains a GooGOL Plex. ruclips.net/video/0lFQOmb6mVs/видео.html

    • @animationspace8550
      @animationspace8550 4 года назад +2

      My dad said it's a trillion, and I wondered what happened to a trillion and one.

    • @JoeMarine
      @JoeMarine 4 года назад +1

      1 with as many zeros...lol

    • @Speed001
      @Speed001 4 года назад +2

      The biggest number is the biggest number.

  • @ericson0504
    @ericson0504 4 года назад +503

    I had a headache before I started watching this, now my brain is leaking out of my ear.

    • @timkremer6329
      @timkremer6329 3 года назад +11

      Leak on me

    • @Turn420
      @Turn420 3 года назад +3

      Yeah, watching these are not really a cure for headaches

    • @Sejal001
      @Sejal001 3 года назад +3

      @@timkremer6329 😂

    • @chasemiller7974
      @chasemiller7974 3 года назад +2

      Well atleast your headache is gone.

    • @benjackson9299
      @benjackson9299 2 года назад +2

      Search:
      Neil deGrasse Tyson meets Post Malone
      It’s hilarious! 😂 😆

  • @urieowrjdf
    @urieowrjdf 3 года назад +5

    You make your shows seems so simple and that it just popped into your head...but you obviously put in a lot of effort into these shows and I would just like to say that I appreciate it very much!

  • @zachc.1923
    @zachc.1923 Год назад

    This has officially become my favorite thing ever watched on RUclips in the last 7 years.

  • @bitcores
    @bitcores 4 года назад +397

    "There are air molecules that were breathed by Genghis Khan"
    That's not the only thing I have from Genghis Khan.

    • @evo2542
      @evo2542 4 года назад +24

      uh.... his genes?

    • @frocat5163
      @frocat5163 4 года назад +58

      Giggity. Or would it be Genghiggity?

    • @Purrfect_Werecat
      @Purrfect_Werecat 4 года назад +3

      uwu?

    • @Wikidspidr
      @Wikidspidr 4 года назад +8

      @@frocat5163 lol, underrated

    • @xxx-js9go
      @xxx-js9go 4 года назад +7

      @@frocat5163 uh family guy, I see you're a man of culture

  • @Explorer724
    @Explorer724 4 года назад +188

    chuck.exe has stopped working 15:03

    • @naysayer8772
      @naysayer8772 4 года назад +4

      Ghost In The Shell 😂

    • @M1w2a3n4s5a
      @M1w2a3n4s5a 4 года назад +3

      😂😂😂

    • @theduder2617
      @theduder2617 4 года назад +6

      Core system dump. He should be scanned for errors, then restored to his latest recovery point. I suspect an over-clocking issue based on how long it took to write the dump file and restart.
      lol

    • @jeffreyfahie1502
      @jeffreyfahie1502 4 года назад

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @youpratter
      @youpratter 4 года назад

      you must be a millennial :)

  • @ShinyGroudon
    @ShinyGroudon 2 года назад +1

    of all the episodes i have watched. this one absolutely blew my mind further open, than the rest.

  • @andrew1072
    @andrew1072 2 года назад

    I just love how enthusiastic they are about big numbers. Chucks face when he is told about a Google plex is excellent.

  • @gigifox9004
    @gigifox9004 3 года назад +531

    “A yahoo” 😆 He wins

    • @ollinalvarez8555
      @ollinalvarez8555 2 года назад +1

      can't like your comment bc the like count is perfect

    • @whatskrakin37
      @whatskrakin37 2 года назад

      @@ollinalvarez8555 But now you can

    • @KpLam3lasa
      @KpLam3lasa 2 года назад

      🤣🤣

  • @Chartovar
    @Chartovar 4 года назад +93

    Whomever came with the idea of pairing Neil with Chuck is a genius. Neil’s topics can be, at times, really tough to follow, but having Chuck there to offer a more playful way to approach those topics is what I call “a winning combination”.

    • @rottenpoet6675
      @rottenpoet6675 4 года назад +4

      you know I tought the opposite...Neil make it funny enough....I dont need a comment hussar for his explanations

    • @donrico8212
      @donrico8212 4 года назад +3

      I find Chuck corny

    • @vihashah5975
      @vihashah5975 4 года назад +5

      I like Chuck cuz he’s normal and if he doesn’t understand then probably an average person would not understand as well so I guess it helps Neil for like when he need to simplify more or not..

    • @THEronleon1
      @THEronleon1 4 года назад +1

      @@donrico8212 I agree. No offense, but I can't get a laugh out of his attempts.

    • @donrico8212
      @donrico8212 4 года назад +3

      @@THEronleon1 agree. I have never laughed at anything he has said and alot of times I find he takes away from something interesting NDT is saying

  • @michaell.8938
    @michaell.8938 Год назад

    I love this show. I always get introduced to a new way of looking at something.

  • @The-binge_710
    @The-binge_710 4 месяца назад +1

    I love your content 😁 great work

  • @originalhazelgreene
    @originalhazelgreene 3 года назад +174

    I love how you make this information understandable by the common person. But not talking down to us in the process. Thank you ❤️

  • @RandallStephens397
    @RandallStephens397 4 года назад +248

    "It's a googolplex. It's a big number."
    - Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2020

    • @TheDisorganizedNerd
      @TheDisorganizedNerd 3 года назад +3

      It's 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
      Times
      10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 so I'm not typing that but Google might count a googolplex. Granted it would take a lot of time but still

    • @69erthx1138
      @69erthx1138 3 года назад +1

      I still remember as a kid watching the original Cosmos. and Carl Sagan explaining the googal by rolling out a scroll he carried for a long distance, then blowing your mind further by saying, "now take the one followed by one million zeros and raise it to the power of itself."

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 3 года назад +1

      @@TheDisorganizedNerd Not even close

    • @TheDisorganizedNerd
      @TheDisorganizedNerd 3 года назад

      @@MadScientist267 when i said that i meant im not typing out the extended version of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
      to the power of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 thats what i meant by im not typing out a google plex and im not sure if google has the server space for it.

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 3 года назад +2

      @@TheDisorganizedNerd I suspected... But had to run with what was there... You used the word "times", indicating simple multiplication, not the exponential equivalent, that's all... So it came up horribly short 🤣

  • @bluerain9104
    @bluerain9104 2 года назад

    I love these explainer videos!

  • @FranciscoJNarez
    @FranciscoJNarez 2 года назад

    This is the first video I have seen of these two. Probably one of my favorite shows ever now!!

    • @andrewm000
      @andrewm000 Год назад

      My advice to you is to binge Neil DT.
      Search for the video of "What keeps Neil up at night"

  • @Jay-Kaizo
    @Jay-Kaizo 4 года назад +445

    I like hearing what Chuck has to say in between Neil's explanations. He's very valuable to this show in my opinion. Love Chuck. :D

    • @cordellsenior9935
      @cordellsenior9935 4 года назад +40

      He annoys me.

    • @808KauaiKai
      @808KauaiKai 4 года назад +12

      I love chuck

    • @Jay-Kaizo
      @Jay-Kaizo 4 года назад

      @@808KauaiKai Does he have his own YT channel or anything like that?

    • @rottenpoet6675
      @rottenpoet6675 4 года назад +17

      dude he is annoying.....

    • @Franklyfun935
      @Franklyfun935 4 года назад +26

      He makes the show so much worse

  • @rossdatwelder
    @rossdatwelder 4 года назад +53

    Neal’s laugh is so wholesome.

  • @marcelo.n
    @marcelo.n Год назад +7

    The chemistry between these two is even more amazing than the most complex star in the sky. Great video!

  • @OtakumaVII
    @OtakumaVII 2 года назад +1

    this blew my mind. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanation and charisma so much.

  • @M_Alexander
    @M_Alexander 3 года назад +197

    "The total number of combinations of how you could orient the matter in the universe."
    I got a little unsteady on my feet processing that sentence

    • @nebojsanikolic254
      @nebojsanikolic254 3 года назад +6

      You too huh 😶

    • @No1_Inpa_Ticular
      @No1_Inpa_Ticular 3 года назад +6

      And I thought all the combinations of possible winning lottery numbers was big...

    • @phil7218
      @phil7218 3 года назад +7

      Which means that given enough time the combination of matter that makes up you could happen again and you would exist again!

    • @moeschajackson5326
      @moeschajackson5326 3 года назад +2

      a. Me too lol😂

    • @M_Alexander
      @M_Alexander 3 года назад +3

      @@phil7218 there would be uncountable iterations where you exist exactly as you do now but literally everything else is every possible kind of different

  • @2br
    @2br 3 года назад +272

    its an honor for all coming generations to breath molecules from you Mr.Tyson 🙌

    • @DarkSkay
      @DarkSkay 3 года назад +18

      And to drink water molecules that went through Marilyn Monroes kidneys ;)

    • @EarlHare
      @EarlHare 3 года назад

      ...............

    • @shared29
      @shared29 2 года назад

      @@DarkSkay r/cursedcomments

    • @Competitive_Antagonist
      @Competitive_Antagonist 2 года назад +1

      There's probabably a serious market for that.

  • @TheStarlightKing
    @TheStarlightKing Год назад +26

    First time hearing about Skewes' number. I was always told that a googolplex is the largest number.

    • @JustLeftLeg
      @JustLeftLeg Год назад +4

      dude, you can always +1 to any number to get a bigger one, theres no such thing as "the largest" number. Thats why there is a term "infinity"

    • @Krisztian1941
      @Krisztian1941 Год назад +2

      It's the largest that has its own name, other than "someone's number".

    • @JustLeftLeg
      @JustLeftLeg Год назад

      @@Krisztian1941 so now we actually talking. By "largest number" you mean the furtherst you can comparably count something and name it. Cuz as I said, there are always a bigger number and also, there are "big" numbers on the other side of the spectrum. Just use not positive but negative powers of 10. But not many people talk about it cuz theres nothing to count with these numbers.

    • @metaltyphoon
      @metaltyphoon Год назад +5

      Graham's number. Is much larger than Skewes thats is actually applicable to a problem. There is even a notation, the arrow notation, used to write down the last few digits of the number.

    • @donsmith3167
      @donsmith3167 Год назад

      No, Infinity is the Biggest number, and it's so big that a googolplex is just as far from infinity as the Number 1

  • @spysmile123
    @spysmile123 2 года назад

    These videos are underrated.. It just blew my mind and my ego destroyed.

  • @trevorflensted3233
    @trevorflensted3233 4 года назад +135

    When I read the title I thought you were talking about big numbers like 7 or 14

    • @trevorflensted3233
      @trevorflensted3233 3 года назад +4

      @Sagenth the amount of between when this was posted and you replied is bigger than all the numbers he said in this video

    • @DFord301
      @DFord301 3 года назад +5

      @@trevorflensted3233 Actually 3 months have passed since u posted this so that's 7,890,000 seconds (googled it 😁) Jeff Bezos still wins

    • @theanglohouse601
      @theanglohouse601 3 года назад

      LOL!

    • @petergriffin8767
      @petergriffin8767 3 года назад +1

      @@DFord301 how many 1^-9999999999999 seconds? checkmate loser

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 3 года назад +1

      @@petergriffin8767 lame

  • @chrishodgson5430
    @chrishodgson5430 3 года назад +38

    This blows my mind and somehow I really do understand big numbers better. Neil is like the Led Zeppelin of science.

    • @alvaroq2024
      @alvaroq2024 Год назад +1

      Or the Beatles of science.

    • @floridafan561
      @floridafan561 11 месяцев назад +1

      Or the Beetlejuice of science

  • @evanhdez
    @evanhdez 3 года назад +15

    Once I learned about Graham"s Number, Tree(3), and Rayo(10^100) all these numbers seem really small to me. In fact once I learned about Knuth's Up Arrow notation I was blown away by the size that numbers can become.

  • @mike814031
    @mike814031 Год назад +5

    At the end I would have asked Neil is there anything that blows his mind after everything he knows? I'd love to know what he tries to wrap his mind around, because he's got this vast amount of interesting knowledge, I really wish someone would have asked him that. And Incase you're reading this Neil, I've been a big fan of yours for quite a while!

  • @nekojtamu6065
    @nekojtamu6065 4 года назад +57

    How lucky must we be to live in this century and be able to grasp new knowledge this easily...

  • @omegagaming7865
    @omegagaming7865 4 года назад +147

    Much love u 2. Hated Science when I was in school but since then you have opened my mind and ive learnt so much. Inspirational and educational... Can't go wrong

    • @TheExoplanetsChannel
      @TheExoplanetsChannel 4 года назад

    • @voidremoved
      @voidremoved 4 года назад

      I am new here can u explain 2 to me?

    • @Mikemfm666
      @Mikemfm666 4 года назад +1

      Learnt so much? Except how to spell.

    • @Kornelius.1228
      @Kornelius.1228 4 года назад +1

      voidremoved 2=too or to

    • @JasonWW2000
      @JasonWW2000 4 года назад +4

      Mike Miller, Not everyone is a native English speaker. Try to be understanding. :)

  • @theodore8595
    @theodore8595 3 года назад +1

    learned a lot, thank you!

  • @SuperiorWare
    @SuperiorWare Год назад +3

    5:15 When you deal with physics you can calculate so many things you had questions about. Like how many heartbeats gave done so far.vAll this can be calculated

  • @drcraby356
    @drcraby356 4 года назад +136

    Skewes Number:
    _BIG_
    .
    Graham:
    Im bouta end this mans whole career

    • @Einyen
      @Einyen 4 года назад +42

      TREE(3): Graham worry about your own career
      Rayo's number: Hello guys!!!

    • @Sparkz147
      @Sparkz147 4 года назад +14

      einyen1 Did numberphile send you too? 😆

    • @moosemoomintoog230
      @moosemoomintoog230 4 года назад +8

      ​@@Einyen Rayo's Number for the win. It's so big it's just a concept.

    • @matthewwargo6266
      @matthewwargo6266 4 года назад +7

      Hey, what’s up my numberphile guys

    • @MajdFreiji
      @MajdFreiji 3 года назад +1

      The universe will reset itself.

  • @rosiesullivan9150
    @rosiesullivan9150 4 года назад +188

    "Is that called a Yahoo?" - Chuck 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 This was an amazing explanation. Thank you for continuously educating me, Neil! Thanks for the laughs, Chuck!

    • @voidremoved
      @voidremoved 4 года назад

      No number big enough to measure my yahoo baby. What about YOUR number, sugar?

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL 4 года назад +1

      Rosie Sullivan I chuckled a bit, but the there is a logic error.
      Number: Googol.
      Company: Google.
      Company: Yahoo.
      Number should be Yahuu or something.

    • @damyr
      @damyr 4 года назад +1

      @@XtreeM_FaiL No. It's called zillion.

    • @rosiesullivan9150
      @rosiesullivan9150 4 года назад

      @@XtreeM_FaiL 😂

  • @davidfarrall
    @davidfarrall 2 года назад +2

    Thanks. That was very revealing. I’ve played around with big numbers and infinite Math in my head. I wonder about the Skews number though. If it means all the combinations of all components of matter being interchangeable, what does that mean in practice? Does it mean We can eventually re-design the entire Universe? And how far are we off achieving that situation? Maybe, in the New Age and New Order, We will be able to generate that condition fairly rapidly? It’s a wonder concept hopefully it should be stable and safe?

  • @Flaeren
    @Flaeren 3 года назад +4

    10^10^10^56 years: the amount of time you need to wait for the next big bang :) but hey, it's not forever.

  • @maxbell9723
    @maxbell9723 4 года назад +76

    I almost became a math major in the 1st minute of this

  • @hafsasj
    @hafsasj 4 года назад +75

    Neil has always been the reason why I am interested in science. Though having Chuck there really helps getting things easily !

  • @psychachu
    @psychachu 3 года назад +1

    This is one of my favourite ones.

  • @vids2see4me
    @vids2see4me 3 месяца назад

    Most definitely one of my favorite mind blowing episodes... And you two have many mind blowing episodes.
    Thanks, yet again, for pushing my lazy brain to work harder!

  • @spidaxtreme
    @spidaxtreme 3 года назад +67

    Friend: How did you know the answer to that problem?
    Me: I just 10^100ed it.

    • @joltster109
      @joltster109 3 года назад +3

      That's one way to make a mathematician laugh 😆

    • @ariyanmiah54
      @ariyanmiah54 3 года назад +2

      Me: I just 10^(10^100)ed it

    • @evanhdez
      @evanhdez 3 года назад

      @@ariyanmiah54 that's a googolplex

  • @treborironwolfe978
    @treborironwolfe978 4 года назад +185

    This episode of *StarTalk* was unofficially sponsored by the makers of *Advil*

    • @JimLigon
      @JimLigon 4 года назад +3

      BAHAHAHAHA! I literally laughed aloud when I read that. Hilarious. Thank you.

    • @PixelPhobiac
      @PixelPhobiac 4 года назад

      Or any pain killers for that matter 😉

    • @nothisispatrick6832
      @nothisispatrick6832 4 года назад

      clever very clever

  • @Mike504
    @Mike504 2 года назад +1

    Niel explains really big numbers.
    Ronald Graham: hold my beer.

  • @brooklynbarber8946
    @brooklynbarber8946 Год назад

    This is my favorite Star Talk episode of all time. 👌

  • @kepler1175
    @kepler1175 3 года назад +22

    “and is that called a Yahoo?” Just found this series and I’m deeply in love with the combination of these two

  • @abdullahemad9457
    @abdullahemad9457 4 года назад +33

    Glad he didn’t mention grahams number
    Now that would’ve taken an hour to just say how big of a number it is

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 2 года назад +4

      Even if you use a stack of exponents, there aren't enough particles in the universe to write down Graham's number.
      And then there's TREE(3), which makes Graham's number look insignificant.

    • @alexlocke178
      @alexlocke178 2 года назад +3

      Or Rayo's number.

  • @michaelschwartz9485
    @michaelschwartz9485 Год назад +1

    Chuck Norris can write a googolplex on one sheet of paper.

  • @davidnemirow5476
    @davidnemirow5476 2 года назад +1

    Gives new meaning to the googelaphonic speaker system. Great Steve Martin routine. And don’t forget your moon rock needle for the record player

  • @DizzNutt93
    @DizzNutt93 3 года назад +51

    Absolutely amazing! Neil DeGrasse Tyson said that you should always have your mind blown at least once a day, and it's really wonderful seeing him contribute to that and help others achieve that goal with facts that once blew his very own mind. Truly inspirational!

  • @Radiant_OWL
    @Radiant_OWL 3 года назад +36

    9:44 “But let’s keep goin....I’m not done witchuu”
    Preach Neil...preach.

  • @user-vt4bz2vl6j
    @user-vt4bz2vl6j 2 месяца назад

    Skew's Number : I'm Big.
    Graham's number in the corner : Hold my funny notation.

  • @jonalthehost3232
    @jonalthehost3232 Год назад +17

    If I would of known about Neil when I was a kid, I would of probably have a major in science. Man this guy just makes me want to learn more and ask more questions

    • @bitspacemusic
      @bitspacemusic Год назад

      Basics first, young Grasshopper: It's *would've, as in would have. Would of doesn't mean anything. Your second part there even becomes weird because of this mix up, "I would've probably have a major in science", instead of "I would probably have a..." It's never too late to pick up the books. Of a nice day!

    • @jonalthehost3232
      @jonalthehost3232 Год назад +3

      ​@@bitspacemusic When idle time tempts one to correct the grammar of strangers on the internet, you know it's too much. Don't go getting carried away now! Many of us are familiar with the basics of proper writing and yet somehow end up neglecting them in favor of phrases we compose without thought. It's a commonplace occurrence, but hey, it’s the internet, Go Nuts!

    • @bitspacemusic
      @bitspacemusic Год назад

      @@jonalthehost3232 I love you, if that means anything on the internet.

  • @Brockthedog315
    @Brockthedog315 3 года назад +80

    My favorite part about about Neil is how easily he is amused. Probably why he has gained so much knowledge.

  • @hatebreeder999
    @hatebreeder999 3 года назад +4

    Amazing. This was much needed. Do something similar for extremly small numbers too

  • @eulersfollower7140
    @eulersfollower7140 3 года назад +2

    I started shouting when Neil said there ain't enough room for googleplex😭😭

    • @evanhdez
      @evanhdez 3 года назад

      I recommend you watch numberphile video on Graham's number. It will blow your mind

  • @PopeLando
    @PopeLando 3 года назад +2

    Ron Graham : Hold my beer.
    TREE(3) : Hold the combination of things in the Universe raised to Graham's beers.

  • @aliciawiley6479
    @aliciawiley6479 3 года назад +5

    I will be using this in my Algebra class next year when we talk about exponents. Awesome!

  • @jakeportolese4031
    @jakeportolese4031 4 года назад +12

    You can’t find amazing content like this anywhere else! Love it!!

  • @LisaRamseyArt
    @LisaRamseyArt Год назад +1

    There are so many times in this video that I go to hit the Like button and realize I’ve already hit it.

  • @ibrahimjaleel5900
    @ibrahimjaleel5900 2 года назад

    Excellent.
    Speechless.
    Mind boggling.

  • @I-VisiBomb-I
    @I-VisiBomb-I 4 года назад +64

    No one:
    me at 4am: its a big number

    • @PafMedic
      @PafMedic 4 года назад

      I VisiBomb I ,I Just Woke Up,Its 0315😂😂😂😂

    • @dheerajrao2179
      @dheerajrao2179 4 года назад +1

      4:31 here

    • @PafMedic
      @PafMedic 4 года назад

      Dheeraj Rao 7:56 PM Now,Sun Is Just Setting,Im Getting My Telescope and Camera Set Up

  • @bourkey07
    @bourkey07 4 года назад +8

    You guys have awesome chemistry, I love the show! And I could listen to Neil talk about absolutely anything for hours on end 😂

  • @abdulhamidmohammed5493
    @abdulhamidmohammed5493 2 года назад +2

    6:38
    Neil: .. 15 zeros..
    Chuck: This is inconceivable!
    Neil: I'm getting there. You don't know inconceivable yet! 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @aryankangude1208
    @aryankangude1208 2 года назад +1

    "Let's round 80 billion to 100 billion dollars"
    Ah you're accurately physicist!

  • @johnny_veritas
    @johnny_veritas 3 года назад +22

    I always get a tingling in my spine when Neil gets to the number of stars in the universe.

  • @kapilshenviamonkar4641
    @kapilshenviamonkar4641 3 года назад +39

    "This is in conceivable."
    Neil deGrasse Tyson: "We're getting there. You haven't seen inconceivable yet." 😍😍

    • @LauraTenora
      @LauraTenora 2 года назад +1

      America: "one billion"
      Rest of us: "One thousand million" (10 ^ 9)
      America: "one trillion"
      Rest of us: "one billion" (one million million) ( 10 ^ 12)
      America: "one quadrillion"
      Rest of us: "one thousand billion"
      America: " 1 quintillion"
      Rest of us: "1 trillion"
      America: " 1 sextillion"
      Rest of us: " one thousand trillion"
      America: " 1 septillion"
      Rest of us: 1 quadrillion
      America 1 octillion
      Rest of us: one thousand quadrillion
      America: 1 nonillion
      Rest of us: 1 quintillion

  • @borgxxxboy
    @borgxxxboy Год назад

    One of the reasons I like Neil is everywhere I see him, he is laughing. Knowing your place in the universe really makes you happy.

  • @dancekitty135
    @dancekitty135 2 года назад +4

    Why is Bezos tying to build a rocket, when he could just stack his dollar bills and make a path to the moon and back? 😂

  • @WordUnheard
    @WordUnheard 4 года назад +18

    I love Neil deGrasse Tyson. He really does help make this pandemic a little more bearable.

  • @cobraman90
    @cobraman90 4 года назад +5

    This is just mind blowing!
    Side note: I love how the ads for his videos are of him 🤣

  • @andycpu
    @andycpu Год назад

    Neil, thank you so much for making videos like this!!!

  • @thebeyonder8814
    @thebeyonder8814 2 года назад +1

    Incredibly well done 👍

  • @droniholland7185
    @droniholland7185 3 года назад +50

    this is absolutely incredibly unconceivable. learning what a googolplex really is, absolutely blew my mind. thank you, Neil.

    • @jlnger149
      @jlnger149 Год назад +1

      Next is a Googolplexian, which is 10^10^10^100 or 1 x 10^googolplex zeros. And don't get me started on TREE 3 and Graham's Number. 🤯🤯🤯

    • @SmileFlame3
      @SmileFlame3 Год назад

      @@jlnger149 yes

  • @sciencewizard8805
    @sciencewizard8805 3 года назад +7

    Not the first time I've heard about extraordinary numbers, but it was more interesting than I expected. I love that I think I'll always remember what a Google plex is, and how it compares to all the particles in the universe.

  • @brandonsg1367
    @brandonsg1367 7 месяцев назад +2

    So a googol is 10 quintillion times more than all the particles in the universe

  • @ankitsarkhel1750
    @ankitsarkhel1750 Год назад +4

    Absolutely loved the explainer. Also, Dr. Neil you forgot to mention the fact that a 3X3 rubik's cube has approximately 43.252003 quintillion different ways to scramble it.

    • @alvaroq2024
      @alvaroq2024 Год назад +3

      He didn’t forget to mention it, it just didn’t come up.

    • @chriswebster24
      @chriswebster24 10 месяцев назад +1

      Nah, he just didn't know that.

  • @theodores.johnson7734
    @theodores.johnson7734 4 года назад +9

    An 18 minute Neil Degrasse Tyson video has more ads than the sun has hydrogen molecules.

    • @ninjafukwan7
      @ninjafukwan7 4 года назад +1

      Ads..? what Ads?

    • @theodores.johnson7734
      @theodores.johnson7734 4 года назад

      Joe Horn is still subscribed to Watch Mojo. It’s cute really, I remember my first you tube account.

  • @mrs.morris5506
    @mrs.morris5506 3 года назад +5

    Tyson never ceases to amaze. Love it!

  • @favio1415
    @favio1415 2 года назад +1

    Love this! We just need Neil to speak in various languages :)

  • @alanhehe4508
    @alanhehe4508 Год назад

    Fun and informative!!

  • @HiR0SHi.the.D0G
    @HiR0SHi.the.D0G 4 года назад +62

    I had no idea what Jeff Bezos can do with 1$-bills.

    • @renatoigmed
      @renatoigmed 4 года назад +2

      try save air companies from bankruptcy maybe?

    • @cryptid1925
      @cryptid1925 4 года назад +1

      he can go around the earth 200 times and then to the moon and back 10 times

    • @insane_troll
      @insane_troll 4 года назад +2

      He can't because there aren't that many dollar bills.

    • @cryptid1925
      @cryptid1925 4 года назад +1

      @@insane_troll If you listened to the whole video carefully, you would know there are enough bills.

    • @GetFunnied
      @GetFunnied 4 года назад +1

      enslave the world

  • @lordxtheth2634
    @lordxtheth2634 4 года назад +110

    I once got really bored in school, and tried writing out a Google. I had 100 pages of 0s before I gave up.
    It was an amazing waste of paper.

    • @SRC1923
      @SRC1923 3 года назад +4

      you weren't even close to a google tho

    • @Corn0nTheCobb
      @Corn0nTheCobb 3 года назад +66

      A googol is a 1 with only a hundred zeros. You definitely went way way past that number because I'm sure you wrote more than one digit on each page

    • @TaiFerret
      @TaiFerret 3 года назад +23

      A googol is 100100100100110101101001001011001010011000011011111001110101100001011001001111000010011000100110011100000101111110011100010101100111001000000100011100010000100011010011111001010101010110010010000110000100010101000001011101000111100010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
      in binary.

    • @Neidrahwow
      @Neidrahwow 3 года назад +9

      Seems you just didn't understand what a google is, because you could write it on a single page of paper.

    • @Ken.-
      @Ken.- 3 года назад +8

      A lot of people don't seem to realize that he wasn't trying to write out a "googol". He was trying to write out the entire internet.

  • @sphumelelesijadu
    @sphumelelesijadu 2 года назад +1

    It's when Chuck said a Yahoo for me😂😂

  • @Toksyuryel
    @Toksyuryel 3 года назад +1

    Wish you had kept going bigger. I wanted to hear Neil try to describe TREE(3) while Chuck's head explodes.

  • @jdderew1
    @jdderew1 4 года назад +4

    15:49 ''That's insane''
    Yep xD This bit had me laughing for a while, thanks for the video!

  • @jennj8149
    @jennj8149 4 года назад +3

    I love how they make it seem so interesting!! (that’s because it is) And they are the best duo ever!!!

  • @ianwomer6637
    @ianwomer6637 Год назад +1

    “That’s a googleplex, it’s a big number” 😂 dead

  • @SimpleJackPC
    @SimpleJackPC 2 года назад

    The money stacking around the world and to the moon and back analogy actually blew my mind lol

  • @lifecoachanant
    @lifecoachanant 3 года назад +3

    Amazingly informative and entertaining.

  • @Kevin-ul8ux
    @Kevin-ul8ux 3 года назад +8

    "...you have 10 to the google power." "Is that called a yahoo?"- the wittiest joke I've heard Chuck make to date.

  • @MrYTGuy1
    @MrYTGuy1 2 года назад +3

    That last number basically accounts for numerous possible particles combinations for countless universes in the multiverse. But there should theoretically be an even bigger number if adding that to the number of possible universes with differing physics and their possible permutations which could equal our own universes, making that number even more astronomical and an even larger exponential jump than the others before. It's the number particles in all possible versions of every multiverse. Or the number particles in every possible version of the meta-verse. The Metaplex! Now just add the number of particles each one of those multiverses in the meta-verse could simulate and we're really talking. I guess we'll call it the simuplex. Plus you can always just add one more. 😵

  • @zephyrus6003
    @zephyrus6003 2 года назад +1

    Me : laughs in Tree(3)& Rayo's numbers