perhaps he is excited because the initiation to the hex-a-cult is dunking into cold but fluffy snow for a bit of honeycomb much like a college attendee at a party is almost religiously compelled to dunk their head in water for what may or may not be an apple.
What a nice new logo you've got for yourself there, Mark. Glitterbomb shirt ordered: markrober.store/collections/tees/products/glitter-bomb-wireframe-tee
As a non american who's already getting sick of hearing all about the president who literally wore clown makeup for 4 years, AND THOUGHT IT LOOKED GOOD, This was better.....
Can't wait for another update to the part of the electoral college video about losing the popular vote but winning the electoral college! Ok hopefully that doesn't happen again but there's a real chance it will.
@@troll3332 That's an option but it's a whole lot more impressive when you win an argument you didn't start deliberately because you knew you could win it. Organic ftw.
I disagree with this video. The most efficient way decrease the surface area to volume ratio is to increase the size of the shape rather than change it to a hexagon. For shapes of the same size, however, the hexagon would be the best shape to use, but I do not see why the bees don’t just make their holes bigger
@@chieuleyang6768 Each hexagonal cell contains an egg which develops into larvae, which in turn spins a cocoon and pupates into a bee, all within the cell. So making the cells any bigger than necessary for that purpose would be wasteful.
Me at the start of the video: Oho, how cute, the bees make hexagons Me at the endagon of the video: MY GODAGON, THE BESTAGON HEXAGON CAN NEVER BE GONEAGON
I think we all got enlightened by the hexagon. Hexagons are the bestagons. Hexagons are the bestagons. Hexagons are the bestagons. Hexagons are the bestagons.
And thus one of my biggest neurodivergent hyper-fixations was born. Now I look for hexagons everywhere I go, every day. You would be shocked how common they are once you start keeping an eye open for them. Every time I see one I get a little happy boost of dopamine. Thank you CGP grey, thank you Hexagons :)
@@caramelldansen2204 Triangles as hexagons are better than hexagons because they leave clean edges and you dont have to get the saw out to cleanly and efficiently fit them to something else.
It was snowing and I looked out the window with such amazement (I live where it doesn't usually snow), and my friend was like "I know its cool but jesus" and I just whisper "hexagons are the bestagons..." they were very confused
@@lucianite0 Flaw: The chessboard is wrong. The bottom right corners (facing the players) should be a white square, queen takes her own color. Grey's chessboard has black in the bottom right corners.
“This chess board is causing a distortion in the very nature of time and space. It must be destroyed. Can’t you see that the bishop travels farther than the rook, even though they go the same number of spaces? This is madness, madness I tell you! [curls up into the fetal position, muttering] Hexagons are the bestagons, hexagons are the bestagons…”
Actually there are some apps that actively use hexagons For example, I use Typewise keyboard, which has hexagon keys instead of regular qwerty - and it's really cool!
The nitrogenous bases that make up your DNA are also at least partially hexagons.. the arrangement of different types of hexagons decide all of your genetic traits!
In diamonds, their molecular structure is based on squares, which causes it to be extremely hard, even to the point that it is considered the hardest material ever, but there was actually a material found from a meteorite called Q-carbon that, while extremely similar to diamond, is actually even harder than diamond. Why? Because instead of having their molecular structure based on squares, Q-carbon’s molecular structure based on, you guessed it, *hexagons* *Hexagons are the Bestagons*
I think that the honor should go to the triangle for the long game. Somehow the triangle has been integrated so much into our math systems, that for how much we rave about hexagons, we know more about triangles.
Apparently the 'No, don't touch that' when Grey was talking about the Ice9 is a reference to the book Cat's Cradle. From what I found online.. "In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle, a central plot element is called ice-nine. The substance, created in a lab, was made up of familiar H2O molecules, but they were locked in a novel crystalline structure that froze solid at room temperature. Because ice-nine crystals could spontaneously convert normal water into more ice-nine, the material was dangerous-just licking it would cause all the water in a person’s body to freeze solid. At the end of the book, a piece of ice-nine is accidentally knocked into the ocean, causing all of the Earth’s water to freeze and ending nearly all life on the planet in an instant."
From what I read (about 5 minutes of google/wikipedia reading), Ice 9 (or Ice IX) is a real ice structure, but in real life it's nothing like the novel and is pretty similar to regular ice. Feel free to correct me
Enter the bad opinion zone: Catan is boring, overrated, and absolute garbage, and the endless expansions for it are completely meaningless... Hexagons are superior its true, but they can't save Catan... >_>
This is actually just an audio clip of Grey ranting to Civilizations 4 about how they should use hexagonal tiles instead of square tiles so Grey can get the most nearby resources per city. They listened and Civ 5 has hexagonal tiles. Years later, Grey decides to animate it.
"The humble bumble has an engineering problem to solve. She makes two things - honey and wax. The former to eat and the latter to contain the former." There's poetry in this.
Bees don’t actually make the wax in hexagons in the first place, it just melts into that shape because that’s how maths works, you can do this with bubbles as he said in the video, if you blow several bubbles around each other they form roughly 120 degree angles, forming hexagons
Well, they could have a 12-sided Space Force-operated Dodecahedral-design space station that will also have the internal volume of the structure to work with. Should actually be pretty structurally sound, methinks. They can call it: The Dodecahedron.
Bees actually do arrange their honeycomb into circles. The heat produced by their movement heats the honeycomb and softens it. It then hardens in the most energetically-favourable position - the hexagon.
_Hexagons are the bestagons..._ Wait, what was I saying? Guess I'm still partially in the grasp of the hexagons... But anyways, if you'd be brave enough to plan on getting out, you should consider that squares are easier to mathematically organize and calculate overall, not to mention that hexagons are the definition of inefficient when attempting to convert into and using as a 3d polygon, as opposed to cubes. But the members of the hexagon order are probably going to see this and do unthinkable things to me for telling you this. I've already said too much...
@@foxelfire Pfah squares are infinitely divisible and the repitition of the pattern is exactly it's weakness. The lines are the source of strength but the square pattern aligns the weakest lines alternating with the strongest lines. The square pattern also propagate forces along the lines, never dampening the forces until the squares bend enough to cease to be squares, unlike the hexagon that divides the forces in two again and again.
In the UK (where Grey lives) it is quite common to see electoral maps made out of hexagons where regions are scaled by their voting power, not by land area.
I build houses. So when he says "Hexagons provide maximum area for minimum wall" I feel like thats important. Maybe if I build a house for myself Ill make it a hexagon instead of a square.
"And a little bit of ice nine. Don't touch that." AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!! Dying now. I'm re reading Cat's Cradle now. I laughed way too hard at that. I'm a nerd. Well done.
i love the attention to detail on the chess board. The realistic opening, the check with the bishop that was then blocked by the knight along with a early queen trade. this is already amazinf
Yeah, it is, but the chessboard is rotated by 90 degree, that's strange. In that orientation, queen never can be on her color at the start in the right order.
@@csongorkiss630 it is solely because the chessboard was using the terrible, hideous and deceitful square tiles that corrupt the laws of piece movement in chess, had the tiles been hexagons which are inarguably the bestagons, everything would've made perfect sense.
amazing. i love to play chess but i only even learn from my own games i don't practice or learn about it any other time. but i can tell your a vivid chess lover. its a pleasure to see this
minecraft is made of cubic blocks. when you rotate a cube such that a vertex is at the centre, the resulting shape is a hexagon - HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS
I've been enjoying these for a while, but my 6yo daughter recently discovered this video and is repeatedly telling the whole family "hexagons are the bestagons". This morning she related the carbon structure of pencil lead to me. Explaining something complex quickly and clearly to a 1st grader is some sort of major Achievement Unlocked in my book!
OMG THIS IS AMAZING! I’m sorry but I was once that 6yo talking about carbon structures I learned from a RUclips video to anyone who would listen. Please if you would, tell your daughter to never stop learning and having fun doing so. There is an infinite amount of knowledge at your fingertips, just dig a little, and one day everything talked about in these videos will come to being and you will get to see it happen, or even participate yourself! Goodluck in your journey ^^
I hope Grey is aware of Boards of Canada. the scottish electronic music duo obsessed completely with hexagons. From their song “Turquoise Hexagon Sun” to their label simply named Hexagon Sun.
bees actually make circles, but they automatically turn into hexagons to make them stronger. Hexagons are the Bestagons, but cirkles is the path to Bestagons. Like bubbles, just as you said
Fun thing to nitpick on, since it doesn't so much denounce the claim as reframe it, bees actually DO make their honeycombs as circles to start with. The raw wax forming in circular patterns as the bees work. It's just that, as the force of gravity acts on this half-shifted grid of circles while it hardens, the combs naturally coalesce into the most structurally stable, least chaotic tiling shape they can. Which, surprise surprise for all the reasons listed, happens to be hexagons! Bees may not be following the true path, but that's fine. Because *physics itself* steps in to subtly correct them. Double fun fact, hexagons being the most energetically stable state correlates to why basalt breaks in hexagons. As the structural stress the rocks are under while cooling seeks the most energy-releasing shape to break into by virtue of thermodynamic laws. And, thus, because they have the most surface area upon which to break into repeating patterns, these columns thus break into hexagons. Neat, right?
I only just started the video and had a quick peek at the comments to see if he somehow missed that huge detail... I was hoping that was part of the video. This is the worst oversight CGP has ever done as far as I'm aware. Makes this all deeply cringey.
I thought he would show the jump between Civilization 4 and 5 where they finally switched to hexagons. That one has been bugging me for years and I was so glad when the developers finally switched it.
It feels like this rant on hexagons is to distract from the chess game Grey's losing. White is down a piece, can't castle, and has some serious king safety issues should black decide to control the c file.
I think both sides don't have very developed pieces, since all the rooks are in their starting spaces, although white does seem to have the most vulnerable pieces.
yeah, and if you take a circles diameter, you can mark 6 marks around that circle, then connect those points, and you get a hexagon. Im not sure, but im pretty sure its also the same length as a circle, just more compact, that could be wrong though.
@@rosibalisong4403 Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean, but you can do that with any polygonal shape… if you evenly space four marks around the outside of a circle and connect them, for example, you have a square, and the diagonal length of that square is the diameter of the circle. You can make three marks anywhere on the perimeter of the circle and draw a triangle, and you can use that triangle to recreate the circle. Etc.
Came here to say this. Biology doesn't prefer hexagons, energy optimization does. It's all physics. (If you look at a picture of a bee hive cut open you'll see there's an occasional 5 or 7+ sided polygon)
"You could make a religion out of this" -CGP Grey's thoughts, clearly. For real tho, loved this. I learned a lot. Hexagons are bestagons. Edit: Wah, so many likes. Why is this my crowning achievement on the internet? Have I been blessed by the hexagons?
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Behind the Scenes of making this video: ruclips.net/video/4R3N1oeKbE4/видео.html
When he said “the humble bumble” and it had the bee with a hard hat and blueprints, I thought that was the cutest thing I ever saw.
Very yes
With the music too
Except bumblebees don’t make honey :^)
@@someoneidkyeahok *w h a t*
Yes, yes they are
I love how Grey is so obviously excited. I can only imagine him smiling all while recording this
I can imagine
With lightning and thunder in the background
perhaps he is excited because the initiation to the hex-a-cult is dunking into cold but fluffy snow for a bit of honeycomb much like a college attendee at a party is almost religiously compelled to dunk their head in water for what may or may not be an apple.
Can you really imagine him smiling... if you've never seen him?
@@john-paulgies4313
I almost know it comes of a little creepy XD
I have a vague idea
"because bees."
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what your english teacher means when they say to begin your essay with a strong hook
I'ma use that next time
5:28 I’m actually surprised he didn’t talk about the wood on the pencil being shaped as a hexagon
**Grey intensifies**
That’s what he was teasing. It was a bait and switch
Too predictable probably
This guy has more popularity on this comment (in 13 days) than my best did in like 8 months
@@GameristicForce i got more
I mean hexagons are pretty good... but have you seen Penrose tilings?
I thought of your video while watching this
Not this again....
That video was hella confusing don’t remind me...
Aperiodic tiling is the best tiling
hey it's the physics man, what's up
I adore how this video really covers all the bases from literal atomic structure to "6 is more than 4 which is better"
yes!
Don't forget "squares are boring"
@@azteka9692 square’s aren’t boring
@@wonjaechoi4714 square is are not boring
@@wuberkz1692 Maybe they meant that the square possesses the aren't boring
"Sir, this is a Wendy's"
OH MY GOD THIS IS GOLD
omg INUT is alive
wot
Perfect
Fix your upload schedule
I absolutely love your content! Keep up the great work!!!!
@@yfua Because it's no hexagon :(
thank you for giving to our glorious hexagon leader
Why is your comment pink
@@_rd_5043 i don't remember why i said that but i think it was a joke.
Hexagons :D
This was delightful. I got a shirt to join the order.
agreed
OH NO HE'S ALSO A HEXAGON
collab time??????
Your lightbulb to is a hexagon Mark
What a nice new logo you've got for yourself there, Mark. Glitterbomb shirt ordered: markrober.store/collections/tees/products/glitter-bomb-wireframe-tee
This video pleasures my eye hexagons.
As did it for me.
Tell Cyanide he has square ass.
i love your content about csgo bulshittery
Now that was r/unexpected
wth ur in this cult too?
Me: I wonder if Grey will post an Election Day video.
Grey: HEXAGONS
As a non american who's already getting sick of hearing all about the president who literally wore clown makeup for 4 years, AND THOUGHT IT LOOKED GOOD, This was better.....
@@TheBetterGame same
God i haven’t seen asimo3089 in years lmao
Can't wait for another update to the part of the electoral college video about losing the popular vote but winning the electoral college! Ok hopefully that doesn't happen again but there's a real chance it will.
HEXAGON 2020
Organic chemistry teachers: *visible happiness*
He should of said michael faradays best invention benzene
Now I'm confident that I can win an argument that I will probably never have.
Just start an argument
Oh damn, its Jumbo. The man who holds the world record for fastest pet of a living animal.
@@troll3332 That's an option but it's a whole lot more impressive when you win an argument you didn't start deliberately because you knew you could win it. Organic ftw.
I disagree with this video. The most efficient way decrease the surface area to volume ratio is to increase the size of the shape rather than change it to a hexagon. For shapes of the same size, however, the hexagon would be the best shape to use, but I do not see why the bees don’t just make their holes bigger
@@chieuleyang6768 Each hexagonal cell contains an egg which develops into larvae, which in turn spins a cocoon and pupates into a bee, all within the cell. So making the cells any bigger than necessary for that purpose would be wasteful.
I... I think I just joined a hexagon-based cult...
your dpad reminds me of squares.... grrrrrrrrr.....
HEXAGON CULT
WHAT WAS THIS FANTABULOUS FEAVER DREAM!
I mean, I already joined a cult of lobster god on facebook this year. Might as well...
It's not a cult if you have science to back up your grand claims °U°
I love that grey has slowly transitioned to slam poetry and none of us have questioned it
It’s awful. He needs to stop the rhyming
@@SweetSweetVideoBoom Absolutely not
It's interesting how he uses the rhyming to easily interact with the tone of the video
@@SweetSweetVideoBoom Booooooo!!! 👎👎👎
He should never stop!
Me at the start of the video: Oho, how cute, the bees make hexagons
Me at the endagon of the video: MY GODAGON, THE BESTAGON HEXAGON CAN NEVER BE GONEAGON
Thought you said “Ohio, How cute”💀
Niceagon
itagon happenedagon toagon meagon toagon
@@jungle003 *meagon tooagon
Didn’t expect to see the story of a stickman getting lured into joining a cult for a geometrical shape when I clicked on this, but I‘m not complaining
Hexagonism
Wait, isn't that just Pythagoras?
@@OrangeC7 right triangles are the best triangles
I think we all got enlightened by the hexagon.
Hexagons are the bestagons.
Hexagons are the bestagons.
Hexagons are the bestagons.
Hexagons are the bestagons.
You got 666 likes. Is that ironic?
Everyone: _Posts about the US elections_
*CGP Grey:*
And that's why he's the best!
You have good tastes Justin Y
Hexagons for President
4 minutes to a Justin Y. comment, neat
hexagons are bestagons
This feels like the monologue of a hexagon themed super villain, before they pull out their mathematically indestructible hexagonal super weapon.
You could start a web series
it's only strong when it has the inner structure, aka triangles
“The weapon will eradicate all square life threatening our universe for the strongest life possible, does that not make it the bestagon?
And the wise old man says you will need the almighty tridestroyer
Isnt a hexagon just 6 triangles?
And thus one of my biggest neurodivergent hyper-fixations was born. Now I look for hexagons everywhere I go, every day. You would be shocked how common they are once you start keeping an eye open for them. Every time I see one I get a little happy boost of dopamine. Thank you CGP grey, thank you Hexagons :)
hexagons are just multiple triangles put together. sorry.
@@thepjup4507 Triangles are just cowards who don't want to admit they need to be hexagons to function efficiently. Did you not watch the video?
Dopamine is made of hexagons, so you get a boost of hexagons every time you see a hexagon.
This vid did the same for me
@@caramelldansen2204 Triangles as hexagons are better than hexagons because they leave clean edges and you dont have to get the saw out to cleanly and efficiently fit them to something else.
5 yo kid: What is your favourite shape?
Grey: **cracks knuckles**
**cracks neck**
breaks leg
@audwee dismembers body
And turns him into a hexagon cake
@Hand Grabbing Fruits The true ending is to give the cake to the kids family.
The hexagon cake turns everyone into hexagons
I just realized that the reason Grey uses a few French phrases is because France is, famously, a hexagon.
Lmaooooooooooo!!
L’hexagone mon ami 👌
exact
Idk, looks pretty pentagonal to me.
Yes but he could have made those English because Sierra Leone is also a hexagon
I now go through life quietly whispering "Hexagons are the bestagons" whenever I see one.
It was snowing and I looked out the window with such amazement (I live where it doesn't usually snow), and my friend was like "I know its cool but jesus" and I just whisper "hexagons are the bestagons..." they were very confused
I just call them bestagons. Nobody gets it but hey it's their loss.
@@AntoineHorns I call them bestagons as well. No one seems to care . . . or notice.
Omg me too
I just say that randomly. So catchy...
You can make a religion out of this.
note: Never play chess with CGP grey or he'll go on a rant about how the chess board should be hexagonal and throw a box of bees on the board
I'm trying to find the part where anything there is a flaw...
@@lucianite0 hexagons have no flaws...
Gex: "This is like playing chess with CGP Grey!"
@@lucianite0 Flaw: The chessboard is wrong. The bottom right corners (facing the players) should be a white square, queen takes her own color. Grey's chessboard has black in the bottom right corners.
“This chess board is causing a distortion in the very nature of time and space. It must be destroyed. Can’t you see that the bishop travels farther than the rook, even though they go the same number of spaces? This is madness, madness I tell you! [curls up into the fetal position, muttering] Hexagons are the bestagons, hexagons are the bestagons…”
Bill Wurtz: You could make a religion out of this.
CGP Grey: I already have.
underrated comment xD
Pythagoras wants to know your location
Actually there are some apps that actively use hexagons
For example, I use Typewise keyboard, which has hexagon keys instead of regular qwerty - and it's really cool!
always has been
Imagine you're just playing a game of chess and this man just breaks out in a nine minute rant on why hexagons are cool
Lol
I play hexonia
You don't know why I got this like
Not just cool but;
_snaps fingers into finger guns_
*the bestagon*
All while,he's beating you
@@eos5273 lol
Now I want to make a hexagon cult for a DND campaign.
Do it would be fun
After the End Fan Fork, a mod for Crusader Kings 3, feature a Hexagonal religion.
make the dungeon map with squares
@@pippen1001 blasphemy!
Gosh, that would be the best, but I already have this thing with flying pickles for my characters
This is the most passionate I have ever seen someone about shapes since my kindergarten's squares-versus-triangles debate
Where triangles obviously won becuase they're closer to the hexagon of course
I hope you see now why both sides were wrong.
did squares lose?
@@TheArmyKnifeNut Heh, sides.
@@PlagueMoo yes, by a lot
The passive aggressiveness to squares is amazing
Something a square would say
@Ggnkrsfkoqxbk sounds like a square pretending to be a hexagon to call out another hexagon
@@ikeilledaguy4349 sounds like a hexagon pretending to be a square to call out a square pretending to be a hexagon
@@emotionalavocado2336 Sounds like a square calling out a hexagon pretending to be a square to call out a square pretending to be a hexagon
because square is the best. Hexagon completely distort horizontal and vertical axis, which is worst than the diagonal problem in square grid.
Glucose is a hexagon. Your body literally runs on hexagons as a fuel source.
The nitrogenous bases that make up your DNA are also at least partially hexagons.. the arrangement of different types of hexagons decide all of your genetic traits!
oh interesting
@@hallowillkommengutenmorgen5175 THEN IS IT THE BESTAGON
I
*w h a t*
Interesting
In diamonds, their molecular structure is based on squares, which causes it to be extremely hard, even to the point that it is considered the hardest material ever, but there was actually a material found from a meteorite called Q-carbon that, while extremely similar to diamond, is actually even harder than diamond. Why? Because instead of having their molecular structure based on squares, Q-carbon’s molecular structure based on, you guessed it, *hexagons*
*Hexagons are the Bestagons*
Grey is one tragic event away from becoming a super villain that claims that humans must go extinct because of their imperfections.
I only have one like to give but it is yours use it well
@@akivabarrett8428 Thank you I won't spend it all at one place
Sounds like a Pokemon game villain.
@@gyro2846 I mean, that’s literally Lysandre
Less than even that
I love that you can hear the sheer delight in his voice when talking about our lord and savior hexagon
Buzz light year green aliens: Ahhhhh!
Hexagons are the hexagods.
*Hexagod
@@cobalius let’s not get into semantics.
How to Start a Cult in Less Than 10 Minutes: The Hexagon
Over 300 likes and no comments
Me: *its free real estate*
@@iamssmrt5298 Hexagon
Will McDaniel taught me to support the church of the 8 sides.
hexagon is the bestagon
I think that the honor should go to the triangle for the long game. Somehow the triangle has been integrated so much into our math systems, that for how much we rave about hexagons, we know more about triangles.
Apparently the 'No, don't touch that' when Grey was talking about the Ice9 is a reference to the book Cat's Cradle. From what I found online..
"In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle, a central plot element is called ice-nine. The substance, created in a lab, was made up of familiar H2O molecules, but they were locked in a novel crystalline structure that froze solid at room temperature. Because ice-nine crystals could spontaneously convert normal water into more ice-nine, the material was dangerous-just licking it would cause all the water in a person’s body to freeze solid. At the end of the book, a piece of ice-nine is accidentally knocked into the ocean, causing all of the Earth’s water to freeze and ending nearly all life on the planet in an instant."
Woah"0
From what I read (about 5 minutes of google/wikipedia reading), Ice 9 (or Ice IX) is a real ice structure, but in real life it's nothing like the novel and is pretty similar to regular ice. Feel free to correct me
@@Racoonma392 I figured it was a reference to the metal band Ice Nine Kills
@@andrewquintal1251 Maybe? We'll never know
Oh I thought it was radioactive
CGP Grey: square boards for games suck, hexagon boards for games better
Me: this is just secretly about Settlers of Catan isn't it
And then he makes a hexagonal chess game. I was waiting for Catan to get a shout out lol
Tigris and Eufrates is a great game and it's in squares.
@@BrianOrEric and colonist!
Enter the bad opinion zone: Catan is boring, overrated, and absolute garbage, and the endless expansions for it are completely meaningless...
Hexagons are superior its true, but they can't save Catan... >_>
@@garthor You got Twilight imperium, that's in hexagons and really good :D
Hexagon: exists
Grey: we can make a religion out of this.
Welcome to the hexagonal order!
That would be a great crossover
Starting of a hexagon world order.
Oh it's already everywhere 😂.
Let us all unite & become a part of this cult
no, don't
Hexagrams are the Bestagrams.
Years of organic chemistry has prepared me to learn this.
All that benzene ring junk makes total sense now
Laughs in crystallography and solid state physics.
AKA the Six Billion Secret Names of Carbon
Years of organic chemistry also made me fear Hexagons. Benzenoid
s are the sledge hammer of the organic chem.
I can’t believe that cyclohexane wasn’t mentioned.
This is actually just an audio clip of Grey ranting to Civilizations 4 about how they should use hexagonal tiles instead of square tiles so Grey can get the most nearby resources per city. They listened and Civ 5 has hexagonal tiles. Years later, Grey decides to animate it.
source, please.
@@altruistic_eagle3709 it was merely a joke, friend. There is no truth to my comment.
"The humble bumble has an engineering problem to solve. She makes two things - honey and wax. The former to eat and the latter to contain the former." There's poetry in this.
HUMBLE BUMBLE
i agree, the way he delivers this line is indeed beautiful
"you can make a religion out this!"
Bees don’t actually make the wax in hexagons in the first place, it just melts into that shape because that’s how maths works, you can do this with bubbles as he said in the video, if you blow several bubbles around each other they form roughly 120 degree angles, forming hexagons
Meanwhile at the Pentagon:
"Why do i feel like we are missing a side?"
😆👏👏👏👏
Hexagons are the bestagons
wel u do
not anymore, space force up
Well, they could have a 12-sided Space Force-operated Dodecahedral-design space station that will also have the internal volume of the structure to work with. Should actually be pretty structurally sound, methinks. They can call it: The Dodecahedron.
I've wasted so many years thinking about cubes and squares 😭
Wait what are you doing here?
@CampfireDudeシ
you don't know that jperm watches veritasium and cgp? I'm thoroughly disappointed.
@@flausseur im disapointed in myself for not knowing this
Shame! Shame!
Oh ples sotp
He spent 9 minutes converting us to a hexagonal cult
"hexagons however have 6, which is more than four, which is better"
- I died
same!
Truer words have never been spoken-about the 6 is more than 4 and therefore better I mean, not your comment
ðɪs ˈvɪdioʊ ɪz ˈnʌmbər 42 ɑn ˈtrɛndɪŋ
get alive soon!
You died because you made 1 on a hexagon dice, which is called a hexagonal death (or fail) !
"Hexagons are the Bestagons"
Organic chemistry: You just found out?
Supported by your local Meth producers
"If you're a game based on squares, I'm so sorry"
Mojang: I don't like your funny words, magic man
Minecraft is a game based on cubes
@@framekixrr a cube is just many squares
Minecraft is allowed it dosent matter it has cubes minecraft is the best (my opinion)
Im going to learn how to code just to make a hexagon based pixel game. Because why not
@@framekixrr Aaand cubes have six sides, you know what else has six sides?
Did I watch a man explain how hexagons are the bestagons for 9 and a half minutes? Yes.
Was it worth it? Double yes.
Grey had _WAY_ too much fun doing this.
I approve.
Same
how does this only have one reply? Well.... now it has 2
@@yqiu2848 Wdym only 2? there's 3
@@Play_solosongs you mean 4
@@yqiu2848 5 now
It's cool recently that Grey has been putting these catchy, repeated phrases in. "Shenanigans beget shenanigans" has entered my everyday vocabulary.
It's called brainwashing... or memorization techniques... the distinction is in the motivation behind the repeating of the phrase.
@@lars_larsen True, true. What is teaching but positive brainwashing.
@@thecobe-lee9674 or nagitive, like Blue no matter who with Dems
@@lupvirga Keep your politics out of my bestagons!
ßs@ac
Definitely one of the best cults I've been in, 10/10 would worship again.
and how many cults have you been in? this is my third.
@@reginaanderson6733 Pretty sure it's my fourth.
@@joshmiddlebrook239 now we need to know the other cults
@@joshmiddlebrook239 Ametures, this is my eight
Have you guys checked out The Human Movie Cult it literally about the bee blockbuster The Human Movie
This never gets old and I get excited every time RUclips recommends it.
hehe, same
Bees actually do arrange their honeycomb into circles. The heat produced by their movement heats the honeycomb and softens it. It then hardens in the most energetically-favourable position - the hexagon.
Please upvote so CPG can see it. I was about to post it.
But, still, hexagons are the bestagons
Came here to find this comment. Yup! I just learned that bees make circles which "melt" into hexagons, so, come on Grey! Get it right!
I literally just learned this last week and came to say the same thing! Kinda disappointed that Grey didn't get that one little detail right lol
@@vampirina33 same! Was this on Reddit recently or another science RUclipsr? Wonder where we seen it
@@PergiZoltan I think it was a TIL reddit post
I am genuinely surprised he didn’t mention that the pencil itself is a hexagonal prism
Probably because a lot of them aren’t.
I thought it was a missed opportunity too.
It's a bait and switch
Yeah that's... kind of the humour in that scene.
That’s the joke
As a hexagon myself, I approve of this message.
@Hexelectron ay a fellow hexagon, nice!
As a person who’s Sona is basically a bunch of hexagons, I also approve of this message
Hexagons are the bestagon
That's why France is called the most beautiful country on earth, damn smart hexagoners.
As a circle i need to destroy you
Thanks!
Pin this
"Oh cool a new CGP Grey Video"
"Wait, why am I in a cult?"
Cultagon
Ikr
_Hexagons are the bestagons..._
Wait, what was I saying? Guess I'm still partially in the grasp of the hexagons...
But anyways, if you'd be brave enough to plan on getting out, you should consider that squares are easier to mathematically organize and calculate overall, not to mention that hexagons are the definition of inefficient when attempting to convert into and using as a 3d polygon, as opposed to cubes. But the members of the hexagon order are probably going to see this and do unthinkable things to me for telling you this. I've already said too much...
@@foxelfire Pfah squares are infinitely divisible and the repitition of the pattern is exactly it's weakness. The lines are the source of strength but the square pattern aligns the weakest lines alternating with the strongest lines.
The square pattern also propagate forces along the lines, never dampening the forces until the squares bend enough to cease to be squares, unlike the hexagon that divides the forces in two again and again.
@@bramvanduijn8086 Somehow your answer sounds just like Grey. Like, seriously, I read it in his voice and cadence.
People on election day:
Anyone: *politics*
CGP Grey: HEXAGONS!
Vote for Hexagons!!
Because Hexagons are the bestagons
In the UK (where Grey lives) it is quite common to see electoral maps made out of hexagons where regions are scaled by their voting power, not by land area.
I squares vs hexagons is extremely political. Right up there with Goku vs Superman.
So original.
but what if politics is based on hexagons
I feel like i've been recruited to a cult of hexagons and i do not resist
Welcome to the hive
All Hail Hexagon!
Buuuuzzzzzzzzzz
Along with at this current time 168k others behold the hive to grows in strength
@Christopher Bell Blasphemy!Hexagons are the bestagons!All hail Hexagons!
I make sure to watch this video every two months to remind myself why Hexagons are indeed the Bestagons.
“Circles only work when you need just one.” For some reason, I have a feeling that’s an important insight.
I build houses. So when he says "Hexagons provide maximum area for minimum wall" I feel like thats important. Maybe if I build a house for myself Ill make it a hexagon instead of a square.
I should have a hexagon of friends?
@@danielm5535 Or one complete one.
Ditch two eyes, only need one.
Anyone who's tried to store big amounts of beer in their fridge knows that.
Grey 2019: Yup- stay tuned for a **huge** video on Indian reservations
Grey 2020: *TUMBLEWEED = WORSTWEED, HEXAGONS = BESTAGONS*
“Hexagons are the bestagons”
The rectangular screen that let me see this:
"I promise to give the people not only what they want, but what they need
Hexagons"
Vote for Ken Candidate!
I’m ken kandidate and I approve this message
"And a little bit of ice nine. Don't touch that." AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!! Dying now. I'm re reading Cat's Cradle now. I laughed way too hard at that. I'm a nerd. Well done.
That was a great touch!!
Could you explain that part to me
@@orange158 so yeah, don't touch it or you would instantly freeze as a human being. :-)
The real ice 9 isn't as cool as the fictional one.
Me: Wait, it’s all hexagon?
Grey: Always has been.
i love the attention to detail on the chess board. The realistic opening, the check with the bishop that was then blocked by the knight along with a early queen trade. this is already amazinf
Yeah, it is, but the chessboard is rotated by 90 degree, that's strange. In that orientation, queen never can be on her color at the start in the right order.
@@csongorkiss630 it is solely because the chessboard was using the terrible, hideous and deceitful square tiles that corrupt the laws of piece movement in chess, had the tiles been hexagons which are inarguably the bestagons, everything would've made perfect sense.
the kings moved
edit: nvm the corners dont match
@@aniusers i 100% had to scroll up to make sure you wern't the video poster as that comment was too top notch for a square like me
amazing. i love to play chess but i only even learn from my own games i don't practice or learn about it any other time. but i can tell your a vivid chess lover. its a pleasure to see this
These distinct hexagonal shapes aswell as Grey's history leads me to the conclusion that this is the long awaited settlers of catan video
We can only hope.
:o
or just bees
You don't know to what lenghts I would go to see the Catan video.
No, surely it cannot be? No, he would never...!
This is my fourth or so time watching this video 2 years later and I think it's still my favorite video Grey has ever done.
we all have that one nerdy friend that starts randomly ranting about how perfect a geometric shape is when all you wanted to do was play chess...
Oh don’t worry, it’s just a hologram.
yh i have one too
That's me
HEXAGIN IS THE BESTAGON
I wanna play that hexagonal chess.
"If your a game based on squares, I'm sorry"
Minecraft will remember this
minecraft is made of cubic blocks. when you rotate a cube such that a vertex is at the centre, the resulting shape is a hexagon - HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS
Minecraft have bees, bees makes beewax, beewax have hexagon. HEXAGON IS TEH BESTAGON
Sadly you can't make a euclidean 3d regular polyhedra with hexagons
mc got dissed
@@depufull actually the sprite doesn’t use any actual hexagons meaning you’re at a loss there.
Grey: "You know where else hexagons are the bestagons? Board games!"
Me: "OH MY GOD IS THIS THE AWAITED CATAN VIDEO?!"
I wish he wouldn’t toy with us
That’s the evilest thing I can imagine
Well Catan is fun and all but I hate it when the hexagons shift because it doesn’t really fit.
yes and the hype built when games where brought in, but swiftly dashed when hexagon chess was presented!
I jist want to know what other hexagonal boardgames there are...
i didn’t understand this video, but the fact that this guy has so much fun talking about shapes fulfills my faith in himanity
I've been enjoying these for a while, but my 6yo daughter recently discovered this video and is repeatedly telling the whole family "hexagons are the bestagons".
This morning she related the carbon structure of pencil lead to me.
Explaining something complex quickly and clearly to a 1st grader is some sort of major Achievement Unlocked in my book!
That's so cute! 🐝✨
Achievement Unlock: Enlightened Teacher
Imagine being that smart. Grey gives more grey... matter
OMG THIS IS AMAZING! I’m sorry but I was once that 6yo talking about carbon structures I learned from a RUclips video to anyone who would listen. Please if you would, tell your daughter to never stop learning and having fun doing so. There is an infinite amount of knowledge at your fingertips, just dig a little, and one day everything talked about in these videos will come to being and you will get to see it happen, or even participate yourself! Goodluck in your journey ^^
@@thedyslexicdemon9307 but this came out 2 months ago
The more he says “bestagons” the more it sounds like a cult
He was trying to say it in a cult-way in order to make it sound funny.
@4 and 9 and more! Waise the woof!
Yes
cult of hexagons is the best cult ever
It was a cult the moment you clicked on the video
Alternate title: Man express his insane love for hexagons for almost 10 minutes
Alternate title: Man expresses his sane love for bestagons for almost 100 hexaseconds
@@JeepnHeel oh how true that ist :D
@@nilsscheltwort8307 ich hasse dich weil du schön bist
@@pokesouls8258 :(
@@JeepnHeel a hexahectosecond almost
I hope Grey is aware of Boards of Canada. the scottish electronic music duo obsessed completely with hexagons. From their song “Turquoise Hexagon Sun” to their label simply named Hexagon Sun.
bees actually make circles, but they automatically turn into hexagons to make them stronger. Hexagons are the Bestagons, but cirkles is the path to Bestagons. Like bubbles, just as you said
Came here to say this... but you be faster. Nice jarb
The circle is the most stable individual shape, but the hexagon is the most stable shape when combined with other shapes
Hexagons are just circles that fill up the gaps they create
"Just for snow" "Just for show"
"Min wax" "Min max"
The off-puns are strong with this one
@Tim Evans WTF did I just read...
@Tim Evans he has a wife you know.
You meant: The puns are strong with this one, young pundawan
?
“Hexagons are the bestagons”
The rectangular screen that let me see this:
We should invest in hexagonal processors
Me using a hexagonal monitor:
Hexagon pixels:
@@thatweirdo2960 are they?
Lol
Viewers: Wait, it's all hexagon?
CGPGrey: Always has been
Fun thing to nitpick on, since it doesn't so much denounce the claim as reframe it, bees actually DO make their honeycombs as circles to start with. The raw wax forming in circular patterns as the bees work. It's just that, as the force of gravity acts on this half-shifted grid of circles while it hardens, the combs naturally coalesce into the most structurally stable, least chaotic tiling shape they can. Which, surprise surprise for all the reasons listed, happens to be hexagons!
Bees may not be following the true path, but that's fine. Because *physics itself* steps in to subtly correct them.
Double fun fact, hexagons being the most energetically stable state correlates to why basalt breaks in hexagons. As the structural stress the rocks are under while cooling seeks the most energy-releasing shape to break into by virtue of thermodynamic laws. And, thus, because they have the most surface area upon which to break into repeating patterns, these columns thus break into hexagons. Neat, right?
Hence the Giant's Causeway.
This fact makes this vid hurt a bit
+
Woah
I only just started the video and had a quick peek at the comments to see if he somehow missed that huge detail... I was hoping that was part of the video.
This is the worst oversight CGP has ever done as far as I'm aware. Makes this all deeply cringey.
This is as close we will ever get to the Catan video
Lol
This is part 0 of the Catan series
This is him setting up for it watch, he'll post all the points in separate videos
A story for another time. 😉
@@mkfivesix Six videos! Six LINES! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEXES!
Hexagons: exist
Grey: You could make a religion out of this!
“Try it”
“No”
“Tryyy it”
“Noo” (a bit softer)
And so the religion was put into place
Well, they already did, a hexagram are the diagonals inside a hexagon, and is used a lot by religions
@@elliotzhang2358 r/billwurtz
“No don’t.”
Is loving hexagons legal yet?
I love how happy with himself he sounds whenever he comes up with another reason hexagons are amazing
Missed an opportunity at the bit about the flexible honeycomb layers to say that Hexagons are the most Flexagon
I know! I was thinking that the whole time. Hexagons are flexagons.
and dont forget about hexaflexagons
@@gonderage Hexaflexagons? How is that different from Flexagons?
Flygon
@@TheSpiritombsableye What's that supposed to mean?
Much of the world population: "There are no straight lines in nature"
CGP Grey: "consider the following"
Pyrite says hi
When he said "If you are a game based on squares I'm so sorry" I thought for sure the chess board was going to change into a Catan board
I believe this is just the intro for Catan video lol
I had to google what that is bcz I'm an adolcent little 12 yr old and ur definetly right on that 1
honestly Yh it is #
so
funy
I thought he would show the jump between Civilization 4 and 5 where they finally switched to hexagons. That one has been bugging me for years and I was so glad when the developers finally switched it.
Catan is the best board game i know, so maybe he is on to something.
I switched to hexboards for RPGs. They take some getting used to, but they are worth it
1:57 The way Grey says "deltoid... tri... hexanoggles" gets stuck in my head like a catchy song
Civilization V: "I'm finally being vindicated"
Civilization VI will take a while, though.
Catan?
weed
Hexer, the xbox 360 game made by the guy behind tetris
Settlers of Cataan too.
"6 is bigger than 4 therefore it is better."
That sounds like 2 kids fighting over their ages.
Håhå
6 - 4 = 2.... 🤔🤔🤔
COINCIDENCE??? I THINK NOT!!
@Jim Jewers AE AE BANANA
plot twist: it was a coincidence *(not canon)*
@Anon *don’t*
It feels like this rant on hexagons is to distract from the chess game Grey's losing. White is down a piece, can't castle, and has some serious king safety issues should black decide to control the c file.
This is my headcanon now.
It's meaningless as the chessboard is misplaced 90 degrees
I think both sides don't have very developed pieces, since all the rooks are in their starting spaces, although white does seem to have the most vulnerable pieces.
Probably lost his queen, too
*w h a t d o t h i s m e a n*
*e d u c a t e m e a s i a m a m o r t a l*
i discovered your channel today and it's become one of my favorites. it's a treasure
Love the presentation of a lot of these videos where CGP Grey is just aggressively explaining things to people
CGP grey in a nutshell
Yup 😁
tisti
Aggressive explaining
"I'M GOING TO TELL YOU WHY HEXAGONS ARE AWESOME AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME"
I Think its just one guy as in the new video for airways at the beginning he trys to change seat away from him like hes tired of him
When your nerdy friend is telling you about the new thing they're really excited about
That hurt more than it should have:/
@@jayoz9583 no not like in a bad way, I'm that friend a lot of the time
What's a friend? I've never contacted one of these extraterrestrial beings
@@lacroyyy5642 *they're
@@albond k thx
CGP Grey: Human tribalism is incredibly damaging for our society...
Also CGP Grey: *HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS*
Is he wrong though?
Ok but this is tribalism that I can stand for
@Henry Grant "Purge the nonbelievers! They aren't even human." ~ someguy somewhere
SIIIIMPS
I'll let it slide..
2:43 Fun fact: Bees actually use circles, however when the wax is still soft, nature forms them into hexagons.
so nature literally forces circles out of the way in order to make room for the bestagons
yeah, and if you take a circles diameter, you can mark 6 marks around that circle, then connect those points, and you get a hexagon. Im not sure, but im pretty sure its also the same length as a circle, just more compact, that could be wrong though.
@@rosibalisong4403 Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean, but you can do that with any polygonal shape… if you evenly space four marks around the outside of a circle and connect them, for example, you have a square, and the diagonal length of that square is the diameter of the circle. You can make three marks anywhere on the perimeter of the circle and draw a triangle, and you can use that triangle to recreate the circle. Etc.
Even is that true how the hell is been hexa why hexa?
Came here to say this. Biology doesn't prefer hexagons, energy optimization does. It's all physics.
(If you look at a picture of a bee hive cut open you'll see there's an occasional 5 or 7+ sided polygon)
"You could make a religion out of this"
-CGP Grey's thoughts, clearly.
For real tho, loved this. I learned a lot. Hexagons are bestagons.
Edit: Wah, so many likes. Why is this my crowning achievement on the internet? Have I been blessed by the hexagons?
Actually they did make religions using hexagons. See Metatron's Cube and The Tree of Life.
Hexagons are the best-agons
Bill wurtz fan detected
Cue bill wurtz
The sunnn is a deadly laser.
Hexagons are the Bestagons
"Oh, using a pencil? Get ready to have your mind blown about the hexagon here to!"
Me: Okay, its shaped like a hexagon so wha-
"The *lead* ."
wait what.. pencils are cylindrical
@@xylowhite7063 Some are hexagons
@@Piikaachuu1203 because they're the bestagons
@@xylowhite7063 The worst pencils are. Hexagonal pencils are easier to grip
@@xylowhite7063 yeah, there's also square ones
When I was a math camp counselor I inspired my campers to start a hexagon fan club. This speaks to my soul.