The universe's biggest gear reduction! GOOGOL to 1

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • Today at 14:52 I will be exactly 1 billion seconds old. To celebrate I build this machine that visualizes the number googol. That's a 1 with a hundred zeros. A number that's bigger than the atoms in the known universe. This machine has a gear reduction of 1 to 10 a hundred times. In order to get the last gear to turn once you'll need to spin the first one a googol amount around. Or better said you'll need more energy than the entire known universe has to do that. That boggles my mind. ⁣
    The version in the video is a prototype and cannot run for to long BUT I'm making a version that could run for years/decades. If you are interested don't hesitate to contact me via email.
    Follow me on instagram for more: / daniel_de_bruin

    This work is inspired by the work of Arthur Ganson. Machine in concrete.
    Music by Brendon Moeller
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Комментарии • 3,1 тыс.

  • @danielbruin
    @danielbruin  4 года назад +1837

    Let me know if you would like to see a one hour video of this thing spinning! (EDIT: its live on my channel!)

    • @Keremmsii
      @Keremmsii 4 года назад +12

      danielbruin yes please

    • @ieradossantos
      @ieradossantos 4 года назад +30

      one hour? go for 7 days or something and become a legend

    • @Derek-cb9lx
      @Derek-cb9lx 4 года назад +14

      Time lapse, something like this though people will watch for decades haha

    • @nickr7437
      @nickr7437 4 года назад +1

      Can you explain how this gear system works to cause this process to take so long?

    • @klex3905
      @klex3905 4 года назад +4

      Um.. IF we want to see the hour long? Of course we do.. The climax is what we all look for!

  • @GlennC789
    @GlennC789 4 года назад +7388

    The first gear takes about 3.5 seconds to turn. The second gear takes about 35 seconds, or 3.5x10^1. The fifth wheel will take around ten hours to turn once. In a month, the seventh wheel will have almost one rotation. The eighth will take a little over a year. If you watch this machine from the time you are born until the time you die, you will probably live to see the tenth gear make most of one rotation. The eleventh will take over a millennium to turn, the twelfth considerably longer than all of recorded history, and the fourteenth wheel would take about as long as humans have existed. In the time since the dinosaurs went extinct, the sixteenth wheel would turn a little more than half way. Earth's existence has been long enough to get the eighteenth wheel half way around, and in the entire history of the known universe the twenty-first gear would move by just over one tooth.

    • @danielbruin
      @danielbruin  4 года назад +1495

      Thanks for that! Nice comparisons!

    • @GlennC789
      @GlennC789 4 года назад +1045

      @@danielbruin No, thank you. This is an amazing representation of compounding orders of magnitude that are mind-bending just to think about, and now we can actually see them in an operating, physical object.

    •  4 года назад +431

      So, nobody would be able to see the 100th gear turning once?

    • @espectador-
      @espectador- 4 года назад +177

      @ i don't think so...

    • @kiiistreak8748
      @kiiistreak8748 4 года назад +44

      Very nice deduction

  • @sellosqueez6278
    @sellosqueez6278 4 года назад +6469

    When the last gear makes one full rotation, Half Life 4 will be released.

    • @JohnDoe-xo2yf
      @JohnDoe-xo2yf 4 года назад +22

      No

    • @David39861
      @David39861 4 года назад +109

      Gta 6

    • @jeron9272
      @jeron9272 4 года назад +102

      and gta 6, maybe in 2 rotations

    • @MrDamo34
      @MrDamo34 4 года назад +15

      Underrated comment.

    • @prohz9129
      @prohz9129 4 года назад +15

      It’s gonna be another rotation for Bloxburg Nonbeta to get released.
      Edit: This didn’t age well

  • @CSGhostAnimation
    @CSGhostAnimation 3 года назад +2681

    spin the opposite side: achieve the speed of light

    • @petrjanos5316
      @petrjanos5316 3 года назад +269

      yeah, let's try... the torque needed to do so would be something between insane and infinite :-D

    • @petrjanos5316
      @petrjanos5316 3 года назад +71

      @ExalyThor this scenario would be more likely for a real mechanism, but that's just because the gears cannot withstand applied power. If the gears were capable to transfer enough power, you would never have enough torque to move it. Either way, spinning opposite side will not lead to speed of light (or any speed at all).

    • @ArchangelExile
      @ArchangelExile 3 года назад +43

      There is no known material in existence that can withstand the force necessary.

    • @adh_4351
      @adh_4351 3 года назад +4

      We must apply tons of force for it.

    • @dkis8730
      @dkis8730 3 года назад +4

      Not possible because of physics and real world loss

  • @championarrow8505
    @championarrow8505 3 года назад +2756

    *accidentally plugs the motor into the wrong end and creates a black hole*

    • @arstotzka6520
      @arstotzka6520 3 года назад +19

      lol

    • @E_se_Endrick_fosse_assim
      @E_se_Endrick_fosse_assim 3 года назад +185

      You could put a ship engine in there but you wouldn’t be able to overcome the torque

    • @thatoneguy611
      @thatoneguy611 3 года назад +85

      The motor wouldn’t turn. It takes far too much force to set it in motion from the other end

    • @DhirC35
      @DhirC35 3 года назад +16

      @@thatoneguy611 im sure if i tried to turn it before it moved it would break

    • @ryanotte6737
      @ryanotte6737 3 года назад +53

      Yes, gentlemen. The original poster was indeed being serious when saying that the electric motor would be capable of driving this gear arrangement at the opposite end and create a black hole. Warp speed, Mr. Sulu.

  • @samuelavila6606
    @samuelavila6606 4 года назад +902

    I think you will get a lot of attention from this masterpiece. This can be displayed in a museum, running forever.. Amazing Work!!

    • @danielbruin
      @danielbruin  4 года назад +65

      Thank you!

    • @alanau111
      @alanau111 4 года назад +21

      yeah right, or on the tonight show or science channel!

    • @samuelavila6606
      @samuelavila6606 4 года назад +3

      @@alanau111 High chance

    • @RuLeZ1988
      @RuLeZ1988 4 года назад +15

      It will not run forever, cause at some point it will wear itself out and then probably the first gear has to be replaced :D

    • @draco_2727
      @draco_2727 4 года назад +4

      I thought just the same, leave it running on a museum. but probably the gears up front should be replaced every N months because they would wear quicker.

  • @kg_canuck
    @kg_canuck 3 года назад +833

    This thing should legitimately be in a museum or art gallery, always on

    • @jarovanduren5641
      @jarovanduren5641 3 года назад +16

      Such a thing already exists, its slowly drilling into a wall as we speak

    • @eliteslayer66
      @eliteslayer66 3 года назад +4

      @@jarovanduren5641 source?

    • @ialamm
      @ialamm 3 года назад +9

      @@eliteslayer66 sure

    • @wiktor3727
      @wiktor3727 3 года назад +19

      Actually it is, it just looks different but I saw it in Copernicus Science Centre. Although its not a machine but you can spin the first cog by your hand as long as you want

    • @mel816
      @mel816 3 года назад +14

      That would be like the mechanical version of the pitch/tar drop experiment 😄

  • @benlee5039
    @benlee5039 3 года назад +427

    car dealership: so how much torque do you want?
    me: *yes*

    • @ilikeanimals5015
      @ilikeanimals5015 3 года назад

      What is torque?

    • @phenry5083
      @phenry5083 3 года назад +41

      @@ilikeanimals5015 measurement of bald eagles

    • @TobsterStrudel
      @TobsterStrudel 3 года назад +7

      @@ilikeanimals5015 force applied when twisting something.

    • @jokunimi5625
      @jokunimi5625 3 года назад

      They'll give you a brochure for Wärtsilä RT-flex96C. 7 million Nm of torque. 100 000 HP.

    • @makosen
      @makosen 2 года назад

      And he already blows a multiverses by accident

  • @teemurantala4765
    @teemurantala4765 4 года назад +2193

    step 1. turn the gears at the other end to receive the speed of light

    • @jmarkula
      @jmarkula 4 года назад +42

      it wouldnt last very long.. .-P

    • @just_noXi
      @just_noXi 4 года назад +137

      wow this is just wrong in so many ways

    • @LilKata
      @LilKata 4 года назад +9

      @@just_noXi what would happen?

    • @andrewalberico6177
      @andrewalberico6177 4 года назад +219

      @@LilKata you wouldnt be able to turn it

    • @karlopena882
      @karlopena882 4 года назад +24

      That is what I wanted to see! 😂

  • @CSGhostAnimation
    @CSGhostAnimation 3 года назад +1398

    This can lift Thor's hammer.

    • @ayushrai2057
      @ayushrai2057 3 года назад +8

      Hey dude i have seen your vids great editing idea feels nice

    • @Zuion_Art
      @Zuion_Art 3 года назад +2

      *Exactly*

    • @vurbin
      @vurbin 3 года назад +21

      Imagine if you could have enough torque and gear strength to spin it from the other side.... if it was feasible, one turn would probably equal to light speed of the input gear being used now, lol

    • @Mikasks
      @Mikasks 3 года назад +11

      @@vurbin even the energy in the entire universe can’t spin it 0.0001 degrees. But if we somehow have the energy and an ideal world, I guess you can reach the speed of light. But tbh in an ideal world, you wouldn’t even need that much energy to go lightspeed.

    • @kingstonjames8477
      @kingstonjames8477 3 года назад +2

      Yes. But it would probably take more than solar system's lifetime.

  • @michaelfarrell8962
    @michaelfarrell8962 3 года назад +1564

    The last gear STILL does more than Congress.

    • @parkertheprophet
      @parkertheprophet 3 года назад +17

      Fr

    • @galenmarek8287
      @galenmarek8287 3 года назад +13

      Christian Burns at they’re accurate shots though.

    • @DIZAZZO
      @DIZAZZO 3 года назад +20

      The last one does more than Brazilian supreme court...

    • @peterklein1347
      @peterklein1347 3 года назад +7

      @@DIZAZZO Brazilian supreme courts works hard, it just doesn't make useful or productive things but still

    • @pacifist11
      @pacifist11 3 года назад +20

      Lets be honest . Given congress' track record. Do we want them to do more?

  • @smartaIec
    @smartaIec 3 года назад +400

    I didn't know you could put gears together in a way that gives me an existential crisis

  • @gabenicholson6949
    @gabenicholson6949 3 года назад +508

    Time traveler here. Watching the final gear complete it's final rotation was incredibly underwhelming.

    • @kennylukito7280
      @kennylukito7280 2 года назад +16

      Yo, tell us your home's year

    • @-Askar-
      @-Askar- Год назад +27

      GTA 6 released

    • @-Askar-
      @-Askar- Год назад +12

      @@kennylukito7280 ah fuck nvm another delay

    • @JonMcG
      @JonMcG Год назад +2

      hahahaha brilliant

    • @rogerwilco1777
      @rogerwilco1777 Год назад +6

      ..I'm sorry to tell you this, but the final gear was at the OTHER end of the Universe

  • @Quonzer
    @Quonzer 3 года назад +722

    Step 1: Remake it all out of steel.
    Step 2: Lubricate all the gears.
    Step 3: Hook it up to a powerful engine.
    Step 4: Try it out.

    • @gagd7351
      @gagd7351 3 года назад +250

      step 5: tow an entire continent

    • @vape80
      @vape80 3 года назад +90

      @@gagd7351 step six: money shift

    • @robertnagy3942
      @robertnagy3942 3 года назад +63

      @@vape80 step 7: generate enough power for your entire city

    • @warandpeace8535
      @warandpeace8535 3 года назад +80

      @@robertnagy3942 step 8 : split earth into 2 equal parts

    • @BaxterCash
      @BaxterCash 3 года назад +66

      @@warandpeace8535 step 9: create a singularity

  • @marcelocolletti
    @marcelocolletti 4 года назад +98

    Awesome! This machine got me thinking so much about time, space, speed, energy, the size of the universe and a lot more! I would most definitely love to have one of this spinning around at home.

    • @danielbruin
      @danielbruin  4 года назад +21

      It does that to me as we'll! Have fun having that strange feeling in your stomach. ;)

    • @frankjones43
      @frankjones43 4 года назад +4

      When you look over and the last gear twitches *everything goes black

  • @yamondakawazuki8941
    @yamondakawazuki8941 3 года назад +77

    they're all waiting for their turn

  • @Bramon83
    @Bramon83 3 года назад +393

    Me, being a man of culture:
    Put the motor on the other end.
    Me in 2 seconds: what dimension am I in.

    • @carlosgaldames681
      @carlosgaldames681 3 года назад +1

      Hahahaha

    • @linkenparis9562
      @linkenparis9562 3 года назад +12

      reddit moment

    • @igggoshastudios7802
      @igggoshastudios7802 3 года назад +21

      Imagine how much torque you would need

    • @jegr3398
      @jegr3398 3 года назад +2

      @@igggoshastudios7802 yeah, something would break for sure

    • @Sharpless2
      @Sharpless2 3 года назад +1

      @@igggoshastudios7802 idk maybe like 146 billion foot pounds?

  • @Vort2k
    @Vort2k 4 года назад +760

    And if you attach a 101 gear to this mechanism? It will Google+ ?

    • @GameShowFan9001
      @GameShowFan9001 4 года назад +19

      It would only be a googol once that 101th gear is attached; at 100 gears, it would take only 10^99 revolutions of the first gear to cause the last gear to rotate once
      EDIT: Apparently I wasn't thinking when I wrote "101th"; that should've been "101st" instead lol

    • @bredrunner
      @bredrunner 4 года назад +6

      good one dud

    • @anSealgair
      @anSealgair 4 года назад +32

      The mechanism will stop due to lack of interest

    • @antimatter4733
      @antimatter4733 4 года назад +1

      Too soon

    • @bobbyjones-uv5cn
      @bobbyjones-uv5cn 4 года назад +3

      @@josh.rice_ this isn't Reddit.

  • @StickerWyck
    @StickerWyck 3 года назад +166

    Kinda weird to think that in abstraction, there's this impossibly long "infinite" route between the first gear and the last one even though it's all just a few lumps of steel that can't weight more than a few kilos. When you turn the first gear and the subsequent gears move slower and slower still, it's like watching your effort disappear down an endless hallway.

    • @CptnMango9108
      @CptnMango9108 2 года назад +3

      Kinda horrific to think about. I love it

    • @flashdimenson
      @flashdimenson 11 месяцев назад

      Basically an energy sink with infinite capacity. I wonder if there are applications for this in armor or shielding things from impacts.

  • @williamblueshirts4947
    @williamblueshirts4947 3 года назад +563

    THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR 500 LIKES!
    THIS HAS BEEN MY MOST POPULAR COMMENT ON RUclips! I AM STILL DECENTLY HAPPY, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS NOT A SHARP GROWTH, LIKE OTHER TOP COMMENTS ON POPULAR VIDEOS (like the one that reaches 1k likes in 1 day or so)
    The expanded version of Glen's (events in the age of the universe)
    1st gear: 3.5s (actually it's 3.48 seconds from frame checking, but I won't update as this will require rewriting which takes tons of time)
    2nd gear: 35s
    3rd gear: 5'50"
    4th gear: 58.3 minutes
    5th gear: 9.7 hours
    6th gear: 4.05 days
    7th gear: 40.5 days
    8th gear: 13.3 months
    9th gear: 11.09 years
    10th gear: 110.9 years
    11th gear: 1109.84 years
    12th gear: 11098.4 years
    13th gear: 110984.27 years
    14th gear: 1.11 million years
    15th gear: 11.1 million years
    16th gear: 111 million years
    17th gear: 1.11 billion years
    18th gear: 11.1 billion years (Solar system ends)
    19th gear: 111 billion years
    20th gear: 1.11 trillion years (galaxies darken)
    21st gear: 11.1 trillion years
    22nd gear: 111 trillion years(end of star formation)
    23rd gear: 1.11 quadrillion years (Planets fall or are flung from orbits by a close encounter with another star)
    24th gear: 11.1 quadrillion years
    25th gear: 111 quadrillion years
    26th gear: 1.11 quintillion years
    27th gear: 11.1 quintillion years (Stellar remnants escape galaxies or fall into black holes)
    31st gear: 111 sextillion years (Possible ionization of matter)
    Future with proton decay:
    43rd gear: 11.1 decillion years
    49th gear: 11.1 duodecillion years (All nucleons decay)
    (Begin of Black Hole Era)
    76th gear: 111 Unvigintillion years(protons might decay on higher-order nuclear processes) (10^68)
    80th gear: 1.11 Trevigintillion years (10^72)
    90th gear: 11.1 Sexvigintillion years (10^82)
    100TH GEAR: 1.11 Nonvogontillion years (10^92) That's 1 and 92 ZEROS after it!
    GETTING TOO LONG.
    MORE INFO AT docs.google.com/document/d/13025ngegsKlc2Pk8N78o6vrN4VwjtZiJoSQ5UlBsS6E

  • @adrianortega1431
    @adrianortega1431 3 года назад +43

    And when the last gear has been turned once, the first second of eternity will have passed. You might think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a gear.

    • @anderstermansen130
      @anderstermansen130 3 года назад +3

      I dont remember writing this comment.

    • @doooofus
      @doooofus Год назад +1

      the first second of eternity passed a long time ago bruh

  • @octamaster5000
    @octamaster5000 4 года назад +91

    There isn't enough energy in the universe to keep this contraption running until the last gear makes a rotation

    • @ch1ckenphat514
      @ch1ckenphat514 4 года назад +9

      Not this universe anyways.

    • @Oli4Post
      @Oli4Post 4 года назад +9

      So, this machine is a huge black hole.

    • @michaelandersen4433
      @michaelandersen4433 3 года назад +1

      Lol yes there is ?

    • @benjamin7114
      @benjamin7114 3 года назад +1

      @@Oli4Post Black holes fear this machine.

    • @jtg2525
      @jtg2525 3 года назад +6

      @@michaelandersen4433 no. You’d need to rotate the original gear more that a quadrillion times the number of photons in the entire observable universe. A googol is just a ridiculous number

  • @albertliao9015
    @albertliao9015 3 года назад +164

    Time comparison for the first 30 gears to rotate once
    Gear #1: 3.5 seconds
    Gear #2: 35 seconds
    Gear #3: 5.8 minutes
    Gear #4: 58.3 minutes
    Gear #5: 9.7 hours
    Gear #6: 4.1 days
    Gear #7: 40.5 days
    Gear #8: 1.1 years
    Gear #9: 11.1 years
    Gear 10: 110.9 years
    Gear 11: 1109.1 years
    Gear 12: 11,091.1 years
    Gear 13: 110,910.6 years
    Gear 14: 1,109,105.8 years
    Gear 15: 11,091,058.5 years
    Gear 16: 110,910,584.8 years
    Gear 17: 1,109,105,847.7 years
    Gear 18: 11,091,058,477.4 years
    Gear 19: 110,910,584,773.8 years
    Gear 20: 1,109,105,847,738.4 years
    Gear 21: 11,091,058,477,384 years
    Gear 22: 110,910,584,773,840 years
    Gear 23: 1,109,105,847,738,400 years
    Gear 24: 11,091,058,477,384,000.8 years
    Gear 25: 110,910,584,773,840,008.4 years
    Gear 26: 1,109,105,847,738,400,083.8 years
    Gear 27: 11,091,058,477,384,000,837.6 years
    Gear 28: 110,910,584,773,840,008,376 years
    Gear 29: 1,109,105,847,738,400,083,759.7 years
    Gear 30: 11,091,058,477,384,000,837,596.7 years

    • @8_x_9.
      @8_x_9. Год назад +10

      So it's not in a hurry.Time it's on your side.May you live long.😇🤗

    • @MaskOfCinder
      @MaskOfCinder Год назад +1

      Imagine having a life span so long that the 30th gear would only be half of your life.

    • @ThePeterDislikeShow
      @ThePeterDislikeShow Год назад +2

      Assuming that the gears are made of anything heavier than iron, the gears will radioactively decay before the back half of the system even moves. Even the zinc galvanizing if it's steel isn't safe.

    • @HANuNID
      @HANuNID Год назад +4

      Gear 30 : 11 Sekstilion 91 quintillion 58 quadrillion 477 Trilion 384 billion 837 thousand 596

    • @Siapawak
      @Siapawak 11 месяцев назад

      Last gear?

  • @infinitevirus4826
    @infinitevirus4826 3 года назад +63

    when the last gear makes one rotation, your 5 minutes on the treadmill will be complete.

  • @bigmack70
    @bigmack70 4 года назад +247

    Just turn the last gear around one time to create a new universe worth of energy 4head

    • @monsesh1316
      @monsesh1316 4 года назад +41

      That's galaxy brain stuff right there

    • @hubleauxhuijsschendonck
      @hubleauxhuijsschendonck 4 года назад +3

      You cannot turn it unfortuanetly

    • @spiritualgrowth3424
      @spiritualgrowth3424 4 года назад +5

      @@hubleauxhuijsschendonck too much force would be required right?

    • @TTGTanner
      @TTGTanner 4 года назад +1

      Best comment

    • @pfc9769
      @pfc9769 4 года назад +11

      Unfortunately energy is conserved so it would take the same amount of energy to turn the last gear one revolution as it would take to turn the front gear one googol times. Even if you had a magic machine to enter the required force to get the last gear moving, the gears would just break due to a limited amount of force they can endure.

  • @earwigs1125
    @earwigs1125 3 года назад +37

    Never been so fascinated by things not moving

  • @TheAzraf123
    @TheAzraf123 3 года назад +10

    This isn't only simple engineering, it's art.

  • @TB-vr8hy
    @TB-vr8hy 4 года назад +145

    Now that has to generate some serious torque on the exit :D

    • @Djakkennaia
      @Djakkennaia 4 года назад +38

      If you had some way to 'tether' all of the mass in the universe to that final gear, this machine would have no problem flipping the universe even with that tiny motor, if you were to live long enough. Even with a motor capable of spinning 100,000 rpm, with a reduction of magnitude in each set, the final gear would have a revolution of 1×10^-95 rpm. Thats a decimal, 94 0s, and a 1 way down on the very end

    • @trexmidnite
      @trexmidnite 4 года назад +9

      Enough torque to take you no where..

    • @gemhunter616
      @gemhunter616 4 года назад +8

      The force from the end is only as strong as the build.
      Plastics aint gonna hold

    • @miguelelias3744
      @miguelelias3744 4 года назад +5

      @@Djakkennaia none of that matter... what matters is: how fast will it go on the quarter of mile?

    • @southern_merican
      @southern_merican 3 года назад +1

      As much torque as it has, i wonder if the teeth can even handle it. Whether u scale up OR use metal gears.

  • @AlexEdimensionz
    @AlexEdimensionz 4 года назад +100

    Shut it off.. I need that power to mine bitcoins

    • @SnazzySMM
      @SnazzySMM 3 года назад +1

      That is the miner

  • @davidbranchal6576
    @davidbranchal6576 3 года назад +7

    I think with quantizing the everending idea of time with something like this, it really helps with existentialism to scale it down. I love this

  • @wittypiddy4974
    @wittypiddy4974 3 года назад +49

    turn the last gear 1 revolution in 1 second and a black hole will appear.

    • @dddd-yo5wh
      @dddd-yo5wh 3 года назад

      @@pqr2673 who told you such crap.

  • @brendanstanford5612
    @brendanstanford5612 4 года назад +25

    This thing makes my brain go wild.
    So much is going on, it's hard to fathom

  • @michaelnapper4565
    @michaelnapper4565 3 года назад +9

    I just finished watching paint dry and I thought to myself, "I need a much slower hobby".

  • @PedroVencore
    @PedroVencore 4 года назад +30

    wow, I really had to stop and try very hard to grasp the scale of this, this is huge but tiny at the same time, Im having a rollercoaster of thoughts with a video of just 1 minute, math surely can be beautiful

  • @PressTube
    @PressTube 4 года назад +81

    Wow dit is vrij indrukwekkend!!! Groetjes vanuit België !

    • @danielbruin
      @danielbruin  4 года назад +2

      Dankjewel!

    • @PressTube
      @PressTube 4 года назад

      Daniel de Bruin Het is wel een beetje slecht te omvatten wat nu precies een 1 met 100 nullen is :) Welk tandwiel zou bv 1x rond gaan bij 100.000.000 omwentelingen van het eerste?

    • @danielbruin
      @danielbruin  4 года назад +1

      Gewoon de nullen tellen, Dus tandwiel 9 in dit geval :)

    • @PressTube
      @PressTube 4 года назад

      Daniel de Bruin Damn !

    • @meteto7489
      @meteto7489 4 года назад +16

      Sorry i dont speak noodles

  • @Matoro342
    @Matoro342 3 года назад +4

    Finally, the mechanical advantage I need to overcome depression

  • @cellscribe
    @cellscribe 4 года назад +175

    so, ideally, although some are very slow, all the gears are moving.

    • @neonexus7144
      @neonexus7144 4 года назад +111

      Not necessarily; if there are air gaps between the teeth, there are probably gears that aren't having any force applied to them (yet)

    • @cellscribe
      @cellscribe 4 года назад +53

      @@neonexus7144 Yes, that certainly wouldn't be ideal.

    • @TraumaER
      @TraumaER 4 года назад +3

      David Logan you obviously don’t know how a car transmission works.

    • @cellscribe
      @cellscribe 4 года назад +32

      @@TraumaER Enough to know, it would be more accurate to compare this to a watch and you need to reread my initial comment, do it again, find a dictionary, try it again. While you're at it also look up the word obvious.

    • @jasielrivera1193
      @jasielrivera1193 4 года назад +5

      @@cellscribe r/iAmVerySmart

  • @user-hh2is9kg9j
    @user-hh2is9kg9j 4 года назад +49

    Can we make a version of this that can last 22 billion years ( age of the universe) and make it from the strongest possible material and store it in a vault deep inside the earth and supply it with energy. Just for the hell of it.

    • @pesopurbs
      @pesopurbs 4 года назад +4

      The universe isnt 22 billion years old tho..

    • @user-hh2is9kg9j
      @user-hh2is9kg9j 4 года назад +5

      @@pesopurbs it is not but it is estimated to last up to 22B. But yea maybe I should have used a different word than"age"

    • @pesopurbs
      @pesopurbs 4 года назад

      @@user-hh2is9kg9j True

    • @TheNyanShadow
      @TheNyanShadow 4 года назад +3

      or put it in the middle of the desert and use solar energy

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL 4 года назад +1

      last shadow That is the estimation if "The big rip" will happen, but it is highly unlikely.

  • @Justin_Leone
    @Justin_Leone 3 года назад +10

    Make sure there are no atoms jammed between the last 2 gears, because they will eventually get crushed with devastating results!

  • @ostrove4694
    @ostrove4694 4 года назад +7

    This is absolutely fascinating in so many ways. I would actually buy one of these at a smaller size just to have it home and show everybody lol. Great work!

  • @MrWeddingPhotography
    @MrWeddingPhotography 4 года назад +4

    Very thought provoking especially with the great choice of music. A visual representation of time.

  • @anonydun82fgoog35
    @anonydun82fgoog35 3 года назад +6

    I'll come back in a couple decades and see how far the gears closer to the end have moved... You totally should livestream this 24/7 lol

  • @Lichnaya_pravda
    @Lichnaya_pravda 4 года назад +22

    Lifting term "useless machine" to the new level.

    • @RennieAsh
      @RennieAsh 4 года назад +3

      Boogie Man80 it’s not useless; you can turn a planet with a small electric motor!

    • @ELValenin
      @ELValenin 4 года назад +1

      @@RennieAsh or the universe, just wait long enough.... jk

    • @jekesan4221
      @jekesan4221 3 года назад

      @@ELValenin Maybe if it's built from the same materials Thor's axe is made from.

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL 3 года назад

      @@jekesan4221 Yes! The famous Thor's axe. :P

  • @LogiForce86
    @LogiForce86 4 года назад +13

    I think this device will rust solid before the 15th gear starts to move.

  • @Bbfishman
    @Bbfishman 3 года назад +2

    wow truly riveting stuff....definitely the type of thing you want to record at regular speed and upload to youtube in a 1 minute clip

  • @markallen1711
    @markallen1711 4 года назад +30

    So, for the last gear to turn once, 3.5*10^100 seconds will have passed. To grasp that number, think of this. You have 3.5*10^100 seconds set on a timer, and you press "start." What you have to do to pass the time is: Every second, buy a powerball. Every time you hit the jackpot, pick a blade of grass. Once the world has no more grass, roll 100 dice. Then, plant all the grass back, and repeat. Once all of the dice land on 1 simultaneously, go skydiving. Every time both parachutes fail, take a drop of water from the world's oceans. When the Earth is dry, remove an atom from the Andromeda Galaxy, refill the oceans, and repeat. Repeat this 1900000 times, and your timer will have run out.

    • @infinitevirus4826
      @infinitevirus4826 3 года назад +1

      huh. well ima go back to sleep.

    • @theherrdark4834
      @theherrdark4834 3 года назад +2

      @Rays Through Trees, Summer Breeze Also the power of time. It is a great way to teach history and put it into perspective.
      This could get many kids interested in history

    • @nssherlock4547
      @nssherlock4547 3 года назад +2

      Ir's all over the first time both your parachutes fail.

    • @justincharles6585
      @justincharles6585 3 года назад

      @@nssherlock4547 🤣🤣

    • @boogiewoogie450
      @boogiewoogie450 3 года назад

      i would like to solve this , But can i use watermelons as reference

  • @The_sinner_Jim_Whitney
    @The_sinner_Jim_Whitney 4 года назад +7

    At first I thought, 'huh, this might be kinda cool, I'll take a look'. After thinking about it for a little while, this gearset is actually pretty much incomprehensible. Some other commenters have done the math, and even with it explained it's kinda baffling to even think about. Crazy, crazy stuff, just by meshing some gears together.

  • @saturnion4453
    @saturnion4453 3 года назад +2

    This person took into account the whole universe but not the man with 500 Lego gears.

  • @zhangruoran
    @zhangruoran 3 года назад +28

    Theoretically, we don’t know if the 100th gear is actually rotating.

    • @MeTurtlesLike
      @MeTurtlesLike 3 года назад +8

      It's not.

    • @telescopicS627
      @telescopicS627 3 года назад +8

      It probably hasn't taken up the slack yet. But I wonder, when it does take up the slack, will the motor stop?

    • @thepoweroftheweed2215
      @thepoweroftheweed2215 3 года назад +15

      In a purely theoretical and ideal system, aren't all the gears rotating? They would be just rotating at an infinitesimal speed

    • @dorusie5
      @dorusie5 3 года назад +18

      @@thepoweroftheweed2215 Yes, if the gears would have been machined perfectly, and installed without slack, they would all be moving, the last one just very very little. I wonder though, if the amount of rotation in the last gear per second would be less than the plank length (and so immeasurable within that time frame). If the gear before that would be moving less than that, we could say the last gear is acually not moving within that time frame. I'm not a physicist, but that would make sense to me. Boggles the mind.

    • @RedSkyHorizon
      @RedSkyHorizon 3 года назад +1

      @@dorusie5 I was thinking the same with regards to the planck length. Interesting.

  • @alvarogdc
    @alvarogdc 3 года назад +6

    The guy that did this with legos: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!

  • @W0LFB3AT5
    @W0LFB3AT5 Год назад +1

    Our entire Milky Way Galaxy would cease to exist once the 100th gear makes its full rotation.

  • @martinstedtler
    @martinstedtler 4 года назад +6

    There is a science exhibition in germany where the last wheel of a giant gear reduction is just welded to the ground....because it won't matter for the next hundred years XD

    • @EngineeredCuriosity
      @EngineeredCuriosity 4 года назад +2

      Good stuff to observe though, if the weld breaks then the whole gear train actually works and would be a proof that somehow the last gear at least moved just for a very little amount.

    • @ShaahzaadKaleem
      @ShaahzaadKaleem 4 года назад

      Hundred years? Millions of years bro

  • @skewbmotorsport9299
    @skewbmotorsport9299 4 года назад +18

    Primer engrane
    -3.5 segundos
    Segundo engrane
    -35 segundos
    Tercer engrane
    -5:53 minutos
    Cuarto engrane
    -58:33 minutos
    Quinto engrane
    -9:43 horas
    Sexto engrane
    -4.05 dias
    Septimo engrane
    -5.7 semanas
    Octavo engrane
    -13.31 meses
    Noveno engrane
    -11.09 años
    Décimo engrane
    -110.98 años
    Decimo primer engrane
    -11.09 siglos
    Decimo segundo engrane
    -11.09 milenios
    Decimo tercer engrane
    -110.98 milenios
    Decimo cuarto engrane
    -1.1 millones de años
    (Edad del sistema solar 4.5 mil millones de años)
    Decimo quinto engrane
    -11 millones de años
    Decimo sexto engrane
    -111 millones de años
    Decimo séptimo engrane
    -1,111 millones de años
    Decimo octavo engranaje
    -11,111millones de años
    (Edad del universo 13 mil millones de años)
    Decimo noveno engrane
    -111,111 millones de años
    Vigesimo engrane
    -1,111,111 millones de años
    ( y eso solo son 20 engranes de 100

    • @thejugador225
      @thejugador225 4 года назад +2

      Kevin F18 por favor termina de hacer este cálculo a ver qué resulta

    • @wotblitzlatam5883
      @wotblitzlatam5883 4 года назад +1

      WTFFF , es imposible

    • @EJVR1184
      @EJVR1184 4 года назад +1

      TE RIFAS PAPS ... PULGAR ARRIBA

    • @carloshernandez2700
      @carloshernandez2700 4 года назад +1

      ¿Por qué se obtiene ese tiempo? ¿Por qué tanto?

    • @ShaahzaadKaleem
      @ShaahzaadKaleem 4 года назад

      somebody please translate this

  • @pintaridergaming
    @pintaridergaming 3 года назад +16

    I bet when this is close to being one full rotation, itll be treated like the mayan calendar and people will think one full rotation will be the end of the world lmao

    • @Roxfox
      @Roxfox 3 года назад +9

      I mean, the universe will probably have stopped existing before then, so that's fair.

  • @jacekeller4128
    @jacekeller4128 4 года назад +5

    When you realize someone has made this same gear reduction with legos

  • @MrWayneOfficial
    @MrWayneOfficial 3 года назад +5

    With the last gear, you can pull anything out of a black hole

  • @ArchangelExile
    @ArchangelExile 3 года назад +2

    Title: The universe's biggest gear reduction!
    Meanwhile aliens:...

  • @MaclaneGamer
    @MaclaneGamer 3 года назад +8

    One billion years later:
    Final Gear: Moves one millimeter.

    • @kake52
      @kake52 3 года назад +1

      probsbly much less

  • @pauldavis1583
    @pauldavis1583 3 года назад +4

    I would love to see the whole video where the last gear roates fully, maybe you could upload a longer version?

    • @gexkiller5028
      @gexkiller5028 3 года назад +2

      There is no video long enough to see the last gear even moving one mm, since it will take trillions (or even more) of years.

  • @DIYwithBatteries
    @DIYwithBatteries 3 года назад +2

    You are a freaking Genius you know that :D

  • @MisterSavage777
    @MisterSavage777 4 года назад +5

    It's okay, I can wait.
    I've got time.

  • @n00bularbacon64
    @n00bularbacon64 4 года назад +4

    Finally, a gear ratio large enough to handle the power of the new Supra

  • @ChainingDeer0
    @ChainingDeer0 Год назад +2

    Run it... backwards..... speeeeeeed gear

  • @-johnny-deep-
    @-johnny-deep- 3 года назад +3

    So, 100 gears, each with a 10 to 1 reduction ratio. Pretty cool to realize that last gear is moving *so incredibly slowly.*

  • @pfc9769
    @pfc9769 4 года назад +4

    You should make a video showing how the gear reduction works. Unfortunately I can't see how the motion is translated between gears. I don't know much about gear science so it would be a great to see how you did it to learn more about gears.

    • @mikkey1877
      @mikkey1877 Год назад

      I know this is old but just ran across this video and have the exact same question.

  • @술덕후
    @술덕후 2 года назад +1

    슈카형 영상봤다고 이게 뜨냐.... 알고리즘님 어디까지 나를 꿰뚫고 계신건가요...

  • @richardhead8264
    @richardhead8264 3 года назад +4

    _The time required to take up all the backlash is greater than the age of the universe._

  • @aswayalmao
    @aswayalmao 4 года назад +4

    By the time it reaches googol, gta 6 still won’t be released

  • @jameskyle3310
    @jameskyle3310 2 года назад +1

    Stars will burn out before even a single gear tooth’s width is passed on this things final set

  • @D3adP00I
    @D3adP00I 4 года назад +22

    spin it from the other end, watch the last gear kill someone 🤣😂🤣

    • @davidk7529
      @davidk7529 4 года назад +2

      Not even Thor could spin that.

    • @santhoshmeche3431
      @santhoshmeche3431 4 года назад +3

      The torque required to rotate that would be so much high

    • @pfc9769
      @pfc9769 4 года назад +4

      You can't spin the other end. The energy required to spin the last gear one time is the same no matter which end you start from. The gears would break before you could apply enough force.

    • @JackobsnN
      @JackobsnN 4 года назад

      someone ? .... Everyone ,everywhere

  • @Roger-xs8yh
    @Roger-xs8yh 4 года назад +14

    Please please please set up a live stream where it runs 24/7!

    • @alanau111
      @alanau111 4 года назад +3

      That's a great idea!!!! and have a standby motor when that one fails after 15 years..lol

  • @gavincurtis
    @gavincurtis 3 года назад +2

    Conversation piece for sure. Have the last gear trip an alarm bell so we know when the next innovative Apple product arrives.

  • @Mathiasisneat
    @Mathiasisneat 3 года назад +4

    The fact that I can't see any movement passed the 3rd gear makes my brain angry

    • @knownas2017
      @knownas2017 3 года назад +3

      0:14
      This shows the 2nd and 4th gear closest to furthest.
      You can see the 4th gear move.

  • @CosmicCitiZenOfficial
    @CosmicCitiZenOfficial 4 года назад +13

    Daily Dose Of Gears 😉😄

  • @gearifyit2728
    @gearifyit2728 3 года назад +1

    Next video: lifting a car using 1 to GOOGOL

  • @Slenderbanana880
    @Slenderbanana880 4 года назад +14

    Alright I have a question:
    Assuming we hook this thing up to a fictional infinite energy supply, If we run the first gear at light speed how long would it take to get the last gear to turn?

    • @Xx32123
      @Xx32123 4 года назад +5

      @@Sci_X1 that's like 1.617 hundred sexvigintillion years (1.617^10E83)

    • @monsesh1316
      @monsesh1316 4 года назад +6

      And also breaking all laws of science, how fast would the 1st gear turn if you can move the last gear to turn at exactly 1 full rotation a second. How many plank instant has passed for the 1st gear to complete a rotation?

    • @Xx32123
      @Xx32123 4 года назад +3

      @@monsesh1316 omg my brain hurts just thinking about it

    • @zeptaxis
      @zeptaxis 4 года назад +4

      @@monsesh1316 well it would have to spin a GOOGOL times per second, so 1/GOOGOL sec per rotation, which should give if i'm not mistaken something like 1.8 * 10^-57 planck time per rotation :)

  • @mohammadgagat7589
    @mohammadgagat7589 4 года назад +11

    That represents how long my crush answering my 'hi' chat.

  • @THEmomentumJUNK1E
    @THEmomentumJUNK1E 24 дня назад

    Love it!! I use this gear-set as a conversational reference often. If it would never wear out and required 1 joule to rotate the input gear once, converting all the matter in the universe to energy with 100% efficiency to drive the motor, would have to be done 10 nontillion times to get one output rotation. 10 million trillion trillion universes...

  • @FPSPARKER
    @FPSPARKER 3 года назад +3

    There's a guy that made one of these with legos also. Pretty neat.

  • @Everfalling
    @Everfalling 4 года назад +7

    i'm curious: did you eliminate all the backlash/slop/play in the gears as you assembled it? because otherwise a lot of that time is gonna be taking up that instead of moving the gears.

  • @Faisal_8019
    @Faisal_8019 Год назад +1

    When the last gear moves, gta 7 will come out

  • @gnarlock3927
    @gnarlock3927 3 года назад +3

    If My Calculations Are Correct, When This Baby Hits 88 Miles Per Hour, You're Gonna See Some Serious Shit!

  • @angelikamerker4006
    @angelikamerker4006 3 года назад +3

    So it' clear: revers mooved the last, means first wheel, reaches multiple light speed. That's the god machine.

  • @megusta1486
    @megusta1486 3 года назад +1

    100 years later they find out only the first 4 gears actually work

  • @telescopicS627
    @telescopicS627 3 года назад +4

    Theoretically, would the motor even have enough power to turn the gears once the slack was taken up in the first 10 or so?

  • @SFYRl
    @SFYRl 4 года назад +7

    Fun fact: literally EVERY gear is moving, even though its going at microscopic speeds.

    • @MichaelHenderson59
      @MichaelHenderson59 4 года назад +4

      The teeth probably haven't even engaged yet. Seeing as they're laser cut out of wood the play and tolerances between them is retty loose. The last few gears would move from the sound vibrations from your voice if you talked near them than the mechanical torque applied by the power system.

    • @Octalion
      @Octalion 4 года назад +1

      Not all, after the 25 they're probably not even moving at cellular level maybe a few atoms per day

    • @MichaelHenderson59
      @MichaelHenderson59 4 года назад

      @@Octalion nothing is perfectly stationery. That would mean they are 0' Kelvin. Nothing to our knowledge is absolutely true 0' Kelvin because at a quantum level it still has energy.

  • @dannygjk
    @dannygjk 3 года назад

    This is a good tool to demonstrate to people why some problems in computer science are intractable for classical computers.

  • @Abominable_Intelligences
    @Abominable_Intelligences 3 года назад +4

    "How hard you ram it"
    "What she feels"

  • @WaitWhereAmEye
    @WaitWhereAmEye 4 года назад +4

    What happens when you spin the last gear? Does it spin really slow? Does it make the first one spin really fast, or does it even spin at all?

    • @nathanj4194
      @nathanj4194 4 года назад +3

      Don’t @me on this (basing this off of playing with lego gears) but my guess is that it would spin the first gear insanely fast, but neither the material of the machine nor any realistic amount of force would be able to make the last gear spin on its own

    • @shadesilverwing0
      @shadesilverwing0 4 года назад +6

      Turning the last gear would turn the adjacent gear 10 times faster, the one after that 100 times faster, ect...
      The machine would break before you could move it even a micrometer.

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL 4 года назад

      Robert Brown Trying to move the last gear is like trying to move Mt Everest, except harder.

  • @bradyvelvet9432
    @bradyvelvet9432 3 года назад +1

    1000 years from now, this will be the Antikythera Mechanism found by aliens.

  • @chasith4498
    @chasith4498 4 года назад +4

    It’s sad that any of us won’t live to see the last circle spinning.

    • @toxicgamertm7227
      @toxicgamertm7227 4 года назад +1

      It Takes 1 googol years for the Last gear to make 1 roation.so we won't see even past the 20th

    • @spiderwings1421
      @spiderwings1421 3 года назад

      Maybe if immortality is achieved before we die? Cryopreservation? Then our consciousness is uploaded to the cloud? Then after thousands or millions of years humans figure out how to transfer things between universes to avoid the black hole era. And then we basically live on forever and see the 100th gear turn. That would just be amazing.

    • @chasith4498
      @chasith4498 3 года назад

      @@spiderwings1421 dude, you trippin

    • @spiderwings1421
      @spiderwings1421 3 года назад

      @@chasith4498 lol

    • @spiderwings1421
      @spiderwings1421 3 года назад

      @@chasith4498 doing anything to procrastinate from completing my homework really

  • @tristmist717
    @tristmist717 3 года назад +4

    You could cast the end of it in stone and it would still take longer than the known universe has existed for it to all come to a stop.

  • @Takcci
    @Takcci 3 года назад +1

    If you ever feel useless. Remember the last gear

  • @ricarleite
    @ricarleite 3 года назад +4

    How much torque on this thing?
    Yes
    No, no, how much?
    All of it.

  • @finnwestenhaver849
    @finnwestenhaver849 4 года назад +8

    Can you physically turn the final gear because this is a representation or is it physically impossible?

    • @Svitojus
      @Svitojus 4 года назад +4

      If it was indestructible you could, but since you need all the energy in the universe to complete the final rotation - you would need all the energy in the universe to turn the final gear as well.

    • @FoxTheProducer
      @FoxTheProducer 4 года назад +7

      @@Svitojus and if you could spin the last gear, the first one would spin over a googol times per second. lots of times faster than the speed of light

    • @Svitojus
      @Svitojus 4 года назад

      Fox The Producer yes :)

    • @jhgrc
      @jhgrc 4 года назад +2

      Well everytime first gear has gone one full round, then final has moved 1/googl rounds, so last one is contantly moving if we assume there is no play/gap on all gears. AFAIK this is not digital trip meter where more significant digit moves just when other is going from 9 back to 0. This is constant gear box, meaning all the gears are theoretically moving all the time.
      If first gear has moved 100cm, second has moved 10cm, third 1cm, fourth 0.1cm, fifth 0.01cm etc. So it is very hard to see the movement but it happens if not play in the system..

    • @ccricers
      @ccricers 4 года назад

      Some of the gears would eventually get close to light speed and you need an infinite amount of energy to move them that fast

  • @nsant
    @nsant 3 года назад +1

    The last gear is definitely in a union

  • @kuzickin
    @kuzickin 3 года назад +4

    Let me know please when the last gear makes full rotation. I promised my girlfriend to propose then

  • @gameryusic825
    @gameryusic825 3 года назад +5

    Why would you do this?
    "Because I can."

  • @Calthecool
    @Calthecool 3 года назад +2

    Connect the same end to a super fast brushless motor so we can really make some progress.

  • @pas5294
    @pas5294 3 года назад +3

    Probably faster than the GTA 5 loading screen