Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Big Numbers

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  • @daddoesthings9461
    @daddoesthings9461 3 года назад +931

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

    • @joshuageorge7997
      @joshuageorge7997 3 года назад +28

      Easily among the best scientific illustrators to exist

    • @BlakeGibbons
      @BlakeGibbons 3 года назад +24

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

    • @irenaveksler1935
      @irenaveksler1935 3 года назад +4

      @@BlakeGibbons okay?

    • @SqaurebearSqaurebear
      @SqaurebearSqaurebear 2 года назад +2

      @@joshuageorge7997 Amongsus

    • @mgrootemaat
      @mgrootemaat 2 года 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 +2102

    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 +2

      What about buzz liteyear?

    • @matt4787
      @matt4787 4 года назад +16

      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 2 года назад +100

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

    • @larrycurrycarpediem
      @larrycurrycarpediem Год назад +4

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

    • @ianmikael3019
      @ianmikael3019 Год назад +2

      well said!

    • @theinterruptedlife1783
      @theinterruptedlife1783 Год 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

    • @miquelr2353
      @miquelr2353 7 месяцев назад

      I always love Neil explaining. He knows to simplify things for people like me 😂

  • @Varrik159
    @Varrik159 4 года назад +459

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

    • @carealoo744
      @carealoo744 4 года назад +3

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

    • @NathanY0ung
      @NathanY0ung 4 года назад +4

      Can I drink you?

    • @Varrik159
      @Varrik159 4 года назад +5

      @@NathanY0ung Yes. Yes you can.

    • @Robo-xk4jm
      @Robo-xk4jm 4 года назад +2

      Especially since they were only at quadrillion

    • @Puppy_Puppington
      @Puppy_Puppington 4 года назад +1

      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.

  • @bitcores
    @bitcores 4 года назад +421

    "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 +28

      uh.... his genes?

    • @frocat5163
      @frocat5163 4 года назад +60

      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

  • @StaticBlaster
    @StaticBlaster 2 года назад +36

    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.

  • @lukeh2379
    @lukeh2379 4 года назад +131

    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!

    • @3point1.2
      @3point1.2 4 года назад +5

      The universe is smaller than it is larger

    • @apolicum
      @apolicum 4 года назад +6

      @@3point1.2 Everything by definition is smaller than it is larger

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

      @@apolicum How do you mean?

    • @jordanlong00
      @jordanlong00 4 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

  • @originalhazelgreene
    @originalhazelgreene 4 года назад +179

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

  • @sreenathc
    @sreenathc 3 года назад +123

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

  • @thelants8569
    @thelants8569 4 года назад +358

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

    • @imadetheuniverse4fun
      @imadetheuniverse4fun 4 года назад +13

      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 +4

      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 +516

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

    • @ohitstim
      @ohitstim 4 года назад +11

      Leak on me

    • @Turn420
      @Turn420 4 года назад +3

      Yeah, watching these are not really a cure for headaches

    • @Sejal001
      @Sejal001 4 года назад +3

      @@ohitstim 😂

    • @chasemiller7974
      @chasemiller7974 3 года назад +2

      Well atleast your headache is gone.

    • @benjackson9299
      @benjackson9299 3 года назад +2

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

  • @michaelschwartz9485
    @michaelschwartz9485 2 года назад +7

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

  • @gigifox9004
    @gigifox9004 4 года назад +555

    “A yahoo” 😆 He wins

    • @ollinalvarez8555
      @ollinalvarez8555 3 года назад +1

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

    • @whatskrakin37
      @whatskrakin37 3 года назад

      @@ollinalvarez8555 But now you can

    • @KpLam3lasa
      @KpLam3lasa 3 года назад

      🤣🤣

  • @Jay-Kaizo
    @Jay-Kaizo 4 года назад +452

    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 +43

      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 +19

      dude he is annoying.....

    • @Franklyfun935
      @Franklyfun935 4 года назад +28

      He makes the show so much worse

  • @burnout_2017
    @burnout_2017 2 года назад +7

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

  • @DizzNutt93
    @DizzNutt93 4 года назад +50

    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!

  • @Chartovar
    @Chartovar 4 года назад +96

    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 +6

      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 +4

      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

  • @urieowrjdf
    @urieowrjdf 3 года назад +7

    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!

  • @hafsasj
    @hafsasj 4 года назад +74

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

  • @RandallStephens397
    @RandallStephens397 4 года назад +256

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

    • @TheDisorganizedNerd
      @TheDisorganizedNerd 4 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 4 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 4 года назад +2

      @@TheDisorganizedNerd Not even close

    • @TheDisorganizedNerd
      @TheDisorganizedNerd 4 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 4 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 🤣

  • @All_Things_Funny
    @All_Things_Funny 25 дней назад

    This is such an underrated video. This should be shown in schools.

  • @nekojtamu6065
    @nekojtamu6065 4 года назад +58

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

  • @Explorer724
    @Explorer724 4 года назад +193

    chuck.exe has stopped working 15:03

    • @naysayer8772
      @naysayer8772 4 года назад +5

      Ghost In The Shell 😂

    • @Saab-v1d
      @Saab-v1d 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

    • @jeffrey-is-Rook
      @jeffrey-is-Rook 4 года назад

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @youpratter
      @youpratter 4 года назад

      you must be a millennial :)

  • @zenzealot444
    @zenzealot444 4 года назад +53

    Neal’s laugh is so wholesome.

  • @2br
    @2br 4 года назад +273

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

    • @DarkSkay
      @DarkSkay 4 года назад +18

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

    • @EarlHare
      @EarlHare 4 года назад

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

    • @shared29
      @shared29 3 года назад

      @@DarkSkay r/cursedcomments

    • @Competitive_Antagonist
      @Competitive_Antagonist 2 года назад +1

      There's probabably a serious market for that.

  • @zachc.1923
    @zachc.1923 2 года назад

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

  • @M_Alexander
    @M_Alexander 4 года назад +198

    "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 4 года назад +6

      You too huh 😶

    • @No1_Inpa_Ticular
      @No1_Inpa_Ticular 4 года назад +6

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

    • @phil7218
      @phil7218 4 года назад +8

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

    • @moeschajackson5326
      @moeschajackson5326 4 года назад +2

      a. Me too lol😂

    • @M_Alexander
      @M_Alexander 4 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

  • @trevor3233
    @trevor3233 4 года назад +135

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

    • @trevor3233
      @trevor3233 4 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 4 года назад +5

      @@trevor3233 Actually 3 months have passed since u posted this so that's 7,890,000 seconds (googled it 😁) Jeff Bezos still wins

    • @theanglohouse601
      @theanglohouse601 4 года назад

      LOL!

    • @petergriffin8767
      @petergriffin8767 4 года назад +1

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

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 4 года назад +1

      @@petergriffin8767 lame

  • @Augmuse
    @Augmuse 4 месяца назад

    These shows are so well done and complex things explained in everyday terms. No one does it better than Neil and Chuck.

  • @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

    • @exoplanets
      @exoplanets 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. :)

  • @treborironwolfe
    @treborironwolfe 4 года назад +186

    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

  • @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!

  • @chrishodgson5430
    @chrishodgson5430 4 года назад +38

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

  • @rosiesullivan9150
    @rosiesullivan9150 4 года назад +192

    "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 😂

  • @khushayarshah5595
    @khushayarshah5595 7 дней назад

    So interesting Mr. Tyson. I am sure many did not understand these astronomical numbers but still we love the way you explain them simplistically. Thanks!

  • @Brockthedog315
    @Brockthedog315 4 года назад +79

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

  • @drcraby356
    @drcraby356 4 года назад +138

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

    • @Einyen
      @Einyen 4 года назад +43

      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 4 года назад +1

      The universe will reset itself.

  • @jgraytopgun
    @jgraytopgun 3 года назад

    Thanks!

    • @jgraytopgun
      @jgraytopgun 3 года назад

      My 5 year old son's mind was blown! He sort of understood the googol but both of us were like 🤯🤯🤯 around both 10^googol and 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 around Skewes' numbers. Thanks for making this video!

  • @kepler1175
    @kepler1175 4 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

  • @maxbell9723
    @maxbell9723 4 года назад +76

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

  • @EdithKFrost
    @EdithKFrost 5 месяцев назад +1

    So how would you attempt to comprehend something like Tree(3), which is way bigger than skew’s number

  • @abdullahemad9457
    @abdullahemad9457 4 года назад +34

    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 3 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 3 года назад +3

      Or Rayo's number.

  • @Radiant_OWL
    @Radiant_OWL 4 года назад +36

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

  • @evanhdez
    @evanhdez 3 года назад +17

    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.

    • @nataliamoore7389
      @nataliamoore7389 Год назад

      I love all the notations and stuff we use now

    • @RamsesTheFourth
      @RamsesTheFourth Год назад +1

      Knuths arrow notation blew my mind as well.

    • @kellies4032
      @kellies4032 6 месяцев назад

      lol grahams number is essentially zero compared to TREE(3

  • @jakeportolese4031
    @jakeportolese4031 4 года назад +13

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

  • @spidaxtreme
    @spidaxtreme 4 года назад +67

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

    • @joltster109
      @joltster109 4 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

  • @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.

  • @WordUnheard
    @WordUnheard 4 года назад +18

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

  • @aliciawiley6479
    @aliciawiley6479 4 года назад +5

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

  • @PopeLando
    @PopeLando 3 года назад +4

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

  • @hatebreeder999
    @hatebreeder999 4 года назад +4

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

  • @droniholland7185
    @droniholland7185 4 года назад +49

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

    • @jlnger149
      @jlnger149 2 года 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

  • @ShinyGroudon
    @ShinyGroudon 3 года назад +2

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

  • @kapilshenviamonkar4641
    @kapilshenviamonkar4641 4 года назад +40

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

    • @LauraTenora
      @LauraTenora 3 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

  • @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 😂

  • @ankitsarkhel1750
    @ankitsarkhel1750 2 года 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 2 года назад +3

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

    • @chriswebster24
      @chriswebster24 Год назад +1

      Nah, he just didn't know that.

  • @anthonygruner2670
    @anthonygruner2670 4 года назад +62

    I had to go back and double check and he did actually say “if you counted one number per second” - to a trillion.........it would take 31 thousand years and that would be somewhat accurate but if you literally counted/spelled out the numbers (two hundred and forty seven billion, four hundred and thirty one million, nine hundred and sixty two thousand, three hundred and fifty five etc.) all the way to a trillion, it would probably take closer to a million years

    • @blowc1612
      @blowc1612 4 года назад +17

      That’s why he said if you can count a number per second. Words!

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 4 года назад +1

      @@blowc1612 The example given IS a number. Words!

    • @theguywhoisaustralian1465
      @theguywhoisaustralian1465 3 года назад

      @@blowc1612 Clearly not a fan of math huh?

    • @blowc1612
      @blowc1612 3 года назад

      @@MadScientist267 you seem to don’t understand it still 😂.

    • @blowc1612
      @blowc1612 3 года назад

      @@theguywhoisaustralian1465 clearly you have no brain huh?

  • @JangaLangaBanga
    @JangaLangaBanga 4 года назад +19

    I would love to hear Neil's take on the art behind him. Why he chose it, what he likes about it. It'd be cool to hear the way he thinks about art.

    • @ssbothwell
      @ssbothwell 4 года назад +1

      Yes! Yes yes! YEEEESSSSS!!!! 😁

    • @mikes.7545
      @mikes.7545 4 года назад +1

      Indeed. I just noticed them the on in the middle is the universe but the two on side look like doves representing some form of ying and yang dope af

  • @FranciscoJNarez
    @FranciscoJNarez 3 года назад +1

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

    • @SeriousPOV
      @SeriousPOV 2 года назад

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

  • @zangorajura
    @zangorajura 4 года назад +18

    Dayum, chuck does really need money judging from the amount of ads in this video lol, love the vid content anyway as always ❤️

  • @johnny_veritas
    @johnny_veritas 4 года назад +22

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

  • @jpsned
    @jpsned 2 года назад +1

    9:53 6.02 x 10^23 As soon as he mentioned this, I thought, "Oh yes! Avogadro's number!" 🙂

  • @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 4 года назад +4

      you weren't even close to a google tho

    • @Corn0nTheCobb
      @Corn0nTheCobb 4 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 4 года назад +23

      A googol is 100100100100110101101001001011001010011000011011111001110101100001011001001111000010011000100110011100000101111110011100010101100111001000000100011100010000100011010011111001010101010110010010000110000100010101000001011101000111100010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
      in binary.

    • @Neidrahwow
      @Neidrahwow 4 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.- 4 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.

  • @stephanienirenberg7426
    @stephanienirenberg7426 4 года назад +6

    My 7 year old son and I have to hear this gentleman everyday and he has taught us so much. Thank you from the bottom of our heart.my son is the next astrophysicist to blow you away. Thank you Mr. Neil Degrasse Tyson.

  • @vedagirishankar59
    @vedagirishankar59 5 дней назад

    Truly incredible explainer, when it comes to science I don't listen to anybody else, Neale is all I need. A million thanks.

  • @sciencewizard8805
    @sciencewizard8805 4 года назад +6

    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.

  • @xHyperElectric
    @xHyperElectric 4 года назад +5

    Continue this with a part two and go into Graham’s number and TRE3 and other massive numbers

  • @spysmile123
    @spysmile123 2 года назад

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

  • @Brandon-pv9kk
    @Brandon-pv9kk 4 года назад +20

    Neil, I love the art

    • @JasonWW2000
      @JasonWW2000 4 года назад

      Joe, are you being sarcastic or just mean for no reason?

  • @Doppelus
    @Doppelus 4 года назад +7

    Almost everytime I watch this show, I learn something new. 💡

  • @LisaRamseyArt
    @LisaRamseyArt 2 года 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.

  • @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

  • @matt4787
    @matt4787 4 года назад +5

    I wish he would have talked more about Knuth's up-arrow notation more.

  • @CoolCJ1410
    @CoolCJ1410 Год назад +1

    Petition for Niel to make a StarTalk explaining small numbers

  • @Kevin-ul8ux
    @Kevin-ul8ux 4 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.

  • @kingbooming2362
    @kingbooming2362 4 года назад +59

    Neil has a godly explanation for everything, like he can make you understand how a baby crawls in a satisfying video 😂

    • @ikitclaw7146
      @ikitclaw7146 4 года назад +5

      He is just such an amazing communicator, that he can take even a relatively boring subject matter, in this case numbers, then blow your freeking mind by giving it all perspective, in a way you can understand. Hes the teacher for the world, anyone who will listen he will gladly interrupt you and talk all day about the universe lol

    • @levelplanet3841
      @levelplanet3841 4 года назад +1

      you poor poor gullible thing

    • @janelwilliams9144
      @janelwilliams9144 4 года назад

      it's that enthusiasm he has- it's contagious! I was just imagining how vastly different school would have been for me if ANY of my teachers had had even HALF the love of knowledge and passion for learning as this man does....SO glad I stumbled across his channel!!

    • @janelwilliams9144
      @janelwilliams9144 4 года назад

      @@levelplanet3841 ? who is gullible

    • @rudy6222
      @rudy6222 4 года назад

      Keksi can you?

  • @marcelo.n
    @marcelo.n Год назад +6

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

  • @TheStarlightKing
    @TheStarlightKing 2 года назад +28

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

    • @JustLeftLeg
      @JustLeftLeg 2 года назад +5

      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 2 года назад +2

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

    • @JustLeftLeg
      @JustLeftLeg 2 года 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

  • @mrs.morris5506
    @mrs.morris5506 4 года назад +5

    Tyson never ceases to amaze. Love it!

  • @dunbreezy5052
    @dunbreezy5052 2 года назад +1

    How the heck do you even begin to try and calculate all the possible configurations of particles in the universe?

  • @H3iMda11_G0d
    @H3iMda11_G0d 4 года назад +4

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

  • @bigchunk1
    @bigchunk1 4 года назад +19

    I'm still sitting here impressed by how large a billion is.

    • @vihashah5975
      @vihashah5975 4 года назад

      bigchunk1 same it’s amazing what 100 billion can do

  • @tunnookie
    @tunnookie 2 месяца назад

    My mind is blown this was very informative. Literally my favorite show ever!Neil and Chuck. I stopped watching everything and I binge watch Star Talk 24/7 no lie. I'm growing my scientist mustache lol

  • @MrJoeFuego
    @MrJoeFuego 4 года назад +15

    I ❤️ Star talk

    • @nikbak9793
      @nikbak9793 4 года назад

      you heart star talk? i dont understandd you

  • @jonalthehost3232
    @jonalthehost3232 2 года 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.

  • @vids2see4me
    @vids2see4me 11 месяцев 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!

  • @raniamagdy681
    @raniamagdy681 4 года назад +16

    Big numbers they said, it would be easy to grasp they said

  •  4 года назад +37

    A googolplex of likes for this episode... :-)

    • @vincentxu8217
      @vincentxu8217 4 года назад +3

      Google's server doesn't have enough processing power for this many likes

    • @johntracy72
      @johntracy72 4 года назад +1

      Even that is as far from infinity as one is....

    • @davidacosta9158
      @davidacosta9158 4 года назад

      john tracy infinity is not a number

  • @annecaldwell3239
    @annecaldwell3239 5 месяцев назад

    LOVE this...! Having Chuck onboard
    makes the already humerous quality
    even FUNNIER!!! :)
    Just one point: One million is one thousand times
    AS BIG AS MUCH as one thousand,
    N-O-T "more than" [which would be additive].
    O yeah...I paid attention in math classes.

  • @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!

  • @garryheywood1
    @garryheywood1 4 года назад +7

    I love listening to Neil, the things he talks about are amazing and he takes time to explain them in a way that is easy to understand, makes me feel like I'm back at school

  • @shpresim43
    @shpresim43 Год назад +1

    He taught me more about numbers and astronomy than all my teachers together.

  • @KirikomiMoon
    @KirikomiMoon 4 года назад +14

    Ugh, trying to imagine those unimaginably BIG numbers really made my head spinnn! 😣😫

    • @emilnilsson3165
      @emilnilsson3165 4 года назад +1

      Check out numberphiles video on a number called grahams number

    • @evanhdez
      @evanhdez 3 года назад

      @@emilnilsson3165 is it just me or upon learning about grahams number it feels almost like an obligation to share it with the whole world

  • @sorak185
    @sorak185 4 года назад +10

    *TREE(3) has entered the chat.*

  • @ElfSixDave
    @ElfSixDave Год назад

    Probably the best video I have ever seen. Truly awesome explanation of very large numbers for us simple minded peasants.

    • @R3cce
      @R3cce Год назад

      The chance for a boltzmann brain to appear in your room right now is 1x10^-10^10^80%
      or 0,00000…1% with 10^10^80 zero’s

  • @Flaeren
    @Flaeren 4 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.

  • @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.

  • @daskut.
    @daskut. 5 месяцев назад +1

    14:11 "Is that a Yahoo?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    I am dead

  • @thirstfast1025
    @thirstfast1025 4 года назад +8

    I'm 38, and I remember when McDonald's had specific numbers on their signs.

    • @greensky01
      @greensky01 4 года назад +2

      Thirst Fast wonder how many cows they murdered to make those patties. ...

    • @earthling7260
      @earthling7260 4 года назад +1

      When is humanity going to advance enough to stop butchering living things?

  • @MrYTGuy1
    @MrYTGuy1 3 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. 😵