What are the Odds of Quantum Tunneling your Hand through a Table? [Long Short]

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  • @rescyy2235
    @rescyy2235 11 месяцев назад +11442

    Studies show that most people give up right before tunneling their hand through a table

    • @w1llyboi248
      @w1llyboi248 11 месяцев назад +136

      LMAO

    • @Mark-Wilson
      @Mark-Wilson 11 месяцев назад +122

      Motivation

    • @Hobbicollector
      @Hobbicollector 11 месяцев назад +217

      This is the problem with young people nowadays. They give up very early and too easily.

    • @nise6699
      @nise6699 11 месяцев назад +68

      ​@@Hobbicollectorare you slamming your hand hoping to quantum tunnel as you were typing this?

    • @quandaledingle2107
      @quandaledingle2107 11 месяцев назад +15

      ​@@Hobbicollectorare you backrooms entity cuz you seem like you want us to noclip into the backrooms 😮💀

  • @Catmint309
    @Catmint309 11 месяцев назад +8625

    If it has happened, it’s gotta be so sad being the one person who tunneled. You’re trying to convince others your hand really went through that table and then this guy pulls out the math equations.

    • @pastawater
      @pastawater 11 месяцев назад +628

      honestly, this whole video SCREAMS victim blaming. I am not on board with this.

    • @JmKrokY
      @JmKrokY 11 месяцев назад +18

      Yeah

    • @-thanawat-8296
      @-thanawat-8296 11 месяцев назад +76

      @@pastawaterhow

    • @brightblackhole2442
      @brightblackhole2442 11 месяцев назад +591

      @@pastawater i agree. it's truly, truly horrible to all those 10^-797025 people who have quantum tunnelled, for nobody to believe them

    • @MathemadicaPrinkipia
      @MathemadicaPrinkipia 11 месяцев назад +109

      True. Even if the chance is extremely low doesn't mean it's impossible. You could get really really lucky placing an object on the table and it went down through the table. but nobody's gonna believe you, and that sucks😢

  • @lietpi
    @lietpi 9 месяцев назад +2295

    "The worst she can say is no"
    She:

    • @RedfiveClassified
      @RedfiveClassified Месяц назад +44

      "It's just not gonna happen"

    • @Yousif_637
      @Yousif_637 Месяц назад +3

      😂😂😂

    • @ThemeMusicz
      @ThemeMusicz Месяц назад +16

      Her*

    • @nezzled
      @nezzled Месяц назад +4

      ​@@ThemeMusicz Both are correct

    • @ThemeMusicz
      @ThemeMusicz Месяц назад +3

      @@nezzled The difference between "she" and "her" is that "she" is a subject pronoun, while "her" is an object pronoun:
      She: A subject pronoun used to refer to someone who might identify as female
      Her: An object pronoun used to refer to a woman, girl, or female animal, and is also a possessive determiner
      Learn your English

  • @greensalad_1205
    @greensalad_1205 10 месяцев назад +613

    Imagine if your hand DID pass through, but you forgot to press record 💀.

    • @doge_69
      @doge_69 Месяц назад +25

      People would say it's edited.

    • @Gigachad-mc5qz
      @Gigachad-mc5qz Месяц назад +2

      But then its being observed which collapses the wace form

    • @jamesYValley
      @jamesYValley Месяц назад +8

      @@Gigachad-mc5qz *Wave Form, and we still don't know exactly when a wave form collapses, so in theory it might not collapse, as we don't know what the universe defines as a measurement or observer

    • @macbethhm
      @macbethhm Месяц назад +13

      Happened to me yesterday

    • @Noorthia
      @Noorthia Месяц назад

      ​@@jamesYValleyIt defines it as touching the atoms. Don't try to mystify quantum physics when we know exactly what it means

  • @SunnySJamil
    @SunnySJamil 10 месяцев назад +40

    I didn't hear "Hey, Vsauce. Michael here." before the music started.

  • @sporksto4372
    @sporksto4372 11 месяцев назад +5271

    Even if it somehow happens, you're more likely to get your hand stuck inside the table halfway through.

    • @venteex
      @venteex 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@themightycxzeriallordmala tuya

    • @orangemonks894
      @orangemonks894 11 месяцев назад +489

      @@themightycxzeriallordbruh backrooms cannot be real

    • @cybertar
      @cybertar 11 месяцев назад +158

      ​@@themightycxzeriallord oh yea that could happen too. Imagine man...

    • @oberonpanopticon
      @oberonpanopticon 11 месяцев назад +45

      ah, Philadelphia experiment style

    • @domesticgoos5817
      @domesticgoos5817 11 месяцев назад +23

      I'm pretty sure it always appears on the other side when quantum tunneling, don't quote me on this though

  • @Heteroslayer666
    @Heteroslayer666 10 месяцев назад +584

    Hey,Vsauce,come take your son back before he’ll completely turn into you!

    • @recon_leech4
      @recon_leech4 Месяц назад +3

      Wut is your name and WUT is your channel 😂

    • @verticallychallenged1816
      @verticallychallenged1816 Месяц назад

      Your name sucks

    • @RichieBre
      @RichieBre Месяц назад +3

      @@recon_leech4I just read the name, lmao

    • @14yrweightlifter
      @14yrweightlifter 23 дня назад +2

      Heterosexual SUPREME✝️✝️

    • @MilkGlue-xg5vj
      @MilkGlue-xg5vj 19 дней назад

      No, we gotta protect him from VSauce so he doesn't become like him.

  • @TheRepublicOfUngeria
    @TheRepublicOfUngeria 11 месяцев назад +1154

    Not only is it not going to happen: but when it starts getting close to happening, your whole hand isn't going to quantum tunnel through the table intact, but spontaneously dissolve, and you will have no hand left, because it is far more likely that if and when freak events of multiple atoms quantum tunnelling that much in the same locality, they will do so in a way that doesn't maintain the larger, complex chemical order of the larger, local object itself, but instead all separate from each other in a chaotic mess.

    • @pixelmace1423
      @pixelmace1423 11 месяцев назад +94

      What if that’s what happened to D.B. Cooper

    • @lucidnode
      @lucidnode 11 месяцев назад +44

      ​@@pixelmace1423 What if Siddhartha Gautama had such pure concentration he was able to consistently walk through walls unscathed and was able to perfectly relay how to develop this ability to others?

    • @lucidnode
      @lucidnode 11 месяцев назад +23

      ​@Zargabaath Always great to meet another flat mooner

    • @lucidnode
      @lucidnode 11 месяцев назад +3

      ​@Zargabaathwait-

    • @ivoryas1696
      @ivoryas1696 11 месяцев назад +19

      @@pixelmace1423
      "Man, this high-height heist _sure _*_did_* go well! I _sure _*_hope_* I survive this landi- 🤯💀💥✨✨✨"

  • @Raxvier
    @Raxvier Месяц назад +80

    0:18 Vsauce jumpscare

  • @Magic-3154
    @Magic-3154 11 месяцев назад +27

    Vsause music goes crazy

    • @samuelhba8720
      @samuelhba8720 6 месяцев назад +1

      Music is called Moon men.

  • @severeon
    @severeon 11 месяцев назад +1151

    Technical impossibility vs practical impossibility demonstration. Love it

    • @ckq
      @ckq 11 месяцев назад +21

      It's technically impossible too. Too many factors he's not accounting for

    • @gigamad1729
      @gigamad1729 11 месяцев назад +27

      Nothing and really nothing in the universe is impossible, the chances of them happening are so close to zero that we deem them impossible. For example, the chance of you teleporting from your house to a random part of the universe may seem sci fi, but in reality, there is an incredibly small chance that a wormhole opens up in your location even if that takes longer than the heat death of the universe, because something that experiences time forever, will experience pretty much everything. To put it in simple words you or a remaining part of you, is bound to teleport eventually. Just like quantum tunneling. It’s bound to happen simply because there’s infinite time for it to happen.

    • @godlyvex5543
      @godlyvex5543 11 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@gigamad1729The thing about the wormhole is suspect. It's more plausible to suggest that the atoms would just so happen to collide in the perfect arrangement to construct your body, mind and memories and all.

    • @someonestupid6385
      @someonestupid6385 11 месяцев назад

      anything that can happen will happen if wormholes are actually possible then what he said is going to happen because time is infinite it never runs out @@godlyvex5543

    • @sebastiangudino9377
      @sebastiangudino9377 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@gigamad1729There literally it isn't infinite time. Remember, heat death of the universe and all
      You maybe need to watch the short again, i am not gonna type a whole comment explain again what the video already explained better than i ever could

  • @sagearias969
    @sagearias969 11 месяцев назад +1593

    Am I the only one that's super curious on how he researches for these videos??
    Keep on educating us!

    • @homomorphichomosexual
      @homomorphichomosexual 11 месяцев назад +7

      banged his hand against the desk a good few times i think

    • @JmKrokY
      @JmKrokY 11 месяцев назад +6

      Same

    • @justanidiom5232
      @justanidiom5232 11 месяцев назад +133

      maybe... he went... to school?

    • @Fr00stee
      @Fr00stee 11 месяцев назад +7

      learning math equations

    • @Sir_Isaac_Newton_
      @Sir_Isaac_Newton_ 11 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@justanidiom5232maybe he didn't skip high school

  • @kylebroussard5952
    @kylebroussard5952 11 месяцев назад +422

    *Explain this to all the socks that quantum tunnel out of my drawer to the other side of the universe*

    • @lashlarue7924
      @lashlarue7924 11 месяцев назад +30

      Gnomes, bro. Gnomes.

    • @nrxtfwd
      @nrxtfwd 11 месяцев назад

      Always the damn gnomes​@@lashlarue7924

    • @janthran
      @janthran 6 месяцев назад +16

      it's because of mass manufacturing and machine washing of laundry. since there are a huge number of people who have the same socks as you all using a washing machine / dryer with similar specs to you, occasionally the chaos of that system (closed, behind a door) can cause a temporal pair o' socks that entangles two socks in entirely different locations together.
      Big Laundry is actually doing this on purpose while running their own machines just full of currency so they can pull a bunch of money through worhmholes

    • @douglasauclair3086
      @douglasauclair3086 3 месяца назад

      EXACTLY! 😤

    • @jamesYValley
      @jamesYValley Месяц назад +1

      little did you know, your socks are entangled and are linked by ER=EPR Correspondence, therefore the smallest size of the particle is the size of the Einstein-Rosen Bridge, if in theory your sock gained negative energy cause by an unknown event of the drawer, and was shrunk faster than the bridge can collapse, your sock has now teleported to its entangled pair.

  • @DeemIsTaken
    @DeemIsTaken 11 месяцев назад +28

    The odds are low.. but never zero...

  • @Kozkayn
    @Kozkayn 3 месяца назад +15

    The one man who does quantum tunnel will be deemed clinically insane once he tries to tell people

  • @toothlessblue
    @toothlessblue 11 месяцев назад +2334

    Still, the idea that the chance of it happening is > 0%, is an incredible thought.

    • @w1llyboi248
      @w1llyboi248 11 месяцев назад +12

      True

    • @замучалигачимученика
      @замучалигачимученика 11 месяцев назад +38

      Possible, but with odds like this it's not 🙃

    • @Pickled_Poet
      @Pickled_Poet 11 месяцев назад +147

      Anything in life is possible. Reach for the stars, then quickly pull your hand back because the stars are hot

    • @sploofmcsterra4786
      @sploofmcsterra4786 11 месяцев назад +131

      I almost guarantee that 99% of the things you think are impossible are as likely as this. By any meaningful definition, it's impossible.

    • @EdKolis
      @EdKolis 11 месяцев назад +22

      ​@@Pickled_Poet But if you touch a star you'll be invincible! Then you can kill turtles just by touching them. Why would you want to do that, though?

  • @MrXerios
    @MrXerios 11 месяцев назад +595

    It is worth noting that the odds are probably way smaller even, because the atoms in your hand are bonded to each other.

    • @bobbirdsong6825
      @bobbirdsong6825 11 месяцев назад +55

      Also have to account for radiation, probably throws things off even more

    • @user-en5vj6vr2u
      @user-en5vj6vr2u 11 месяцев назад +44

      No. . . Including that would INCREASE the odds since you can think of the hand as something that isn’t N independent bodies, but it’s not 1 cohesive body either, so it’s somewhere in between. But even then, the odds of a single atom teleporting through the table is pretty low too

    • @meyes1098
      @meyes1098 11 месяцев назад

      @@user-en5vj6vr2u it will be less, because think about it as a lattice, it will decohere itself the bigger it is.

    • @GodplayGamerZulul
      @GodplayGamerZulul 11 месяцев назад

      @@user-en5vj6vr2u If they're independent they lose the ability to do it all together, so no, the odds do decrease... to 0.

    • @gee3591
      @gee3591 11 месяцев назад +3

      For some reason I remember as a kid that if something was going fast enough it would go through another object. It’s like a Mandela affect and I remember learning how to make coins go through a table.

  • @c.jishnu378
    @c.jishnu378 11 месяцев назад +24

    Bro is a Vsauce substitute.
    Now your hand will have to go through multiple atomic layers.

  • @mitchmill28
    @mitchmill28 7 месяцев назад +61

    0:17 bro hit the vsauce eyebrow raise

    • @alien3200
      @alien3200 4 месяца назад +1

      One kid has to say it 😶

    • @MultiMusicMan
      @MultiMusicMan 2 месяца назад

      As well as the Vsauce background music.

  • @Fun_Time87
    @Fun_Time87 Месяц назад +6

    So what you're telling me is that my entire hand won't be able to do quantum tunneling but the socks I put in my washer can do quantum tunneling

  • @Jeb.07
    @Jeb.07 11 месяцев назад +800

    "So you're saying there's a chance" 👀

    • @futurecuber24
      @futurecuber24 11 месяцев назад +11

      this made me laugh out loud, nice one bro

    • @mathboy8188
      @mathboy8188 11 месяцев назад +14

      I came to read the comments looking for this. I knew there'd be someone who couldn't resist.

    • @Skipper-w6b
      @Skipper-w6b 11 месяцев назад +9

      Fuck. I said the same thing. Now I have to delete my comment

    • @Cast-Carnival
      @Cast-Carnival 11 месяцев назад

      do it, @@Skipper-w6b.

    • @MaoZedowner
      @MaoZedowner 10 месяцев назад +7

      I LOVE GAMBLING!!!!!

  • @andysabur4966
    @andysabur4966 11 месяцев назад +208

    I love the number of multiverse times universes times galaxies thing. Such an apt way of describing how improbable something is. Kinda reminds me of another vid that showed how insane that minecraft speedruning thing was

    • @andysabur4966
      @andysabur4966 11 месяцев назад +4

      Also love how youre into languages and physics. So down for whatever type of content you wanna do, the passion is nice to watch

    • @ZqTi0
      @ZqTi0 11 месяцев назад +1

      Could you expand about that Minecraft thing? Which video are you talking about

    • @andysabur4966
      @andysabur4966 11 месяцев назад +16

      ​@@ZqTi0 ok so I kinda looked it up to refresh my memory.
      The channel name is Stand-up Maths, video titled "how lucky is too lucky" at 29mins if you wanna watch it.
      Context: Several years ago, person named Dream speedrun Minecraft. People accused him of cheating. Their proof was math, showing how insanely lucky he would have to be for the run to go his way. Internet drama as usual etc. The vid I remembered was some outsider(not even a gamer) making a math video to explain it

    • @ecksdee9768
      @ecksdee9768 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@andysabur4966yoo i also watched that!

    • @sleha4106
      @sleha4106 11 месяцев назад

      Yeah I remember(actually not) that dream internet drama

  • @ElitheSnowFox
    @ElitheSnowFox 11 месяцев назад +241

    Man you’re so smart it’s crazy you know so much about languages and now this I’m crying

    • @nalat1suket4nk0
      @nalat1suket4nk0 11 месяцев назад +43

      He is literally a physics student at university lmao
      Language is like a side thing

    • @therealgaben5527
      @therealgaben5527 11 месяцев назад

      @@nalat1suket4nk0he’s the Asian your parents compare you to, but if they weren’t Asian

  • @Apachebruv7
    @Apachebruv7 Месяц назад +8

    We like to talk about how we could slam our hand through a table, or jump through a wall, but nobody ever realizes that there is a non-zero chance of literally falling through the earth at any second of the day.

    • @corporatecapitalism
      @corporatecapitalism Месяц назад

      There’s a nonzero percent chance of every piece of matter in the universe quantum tunneling to the same exact location

    • @victorjohnson5646
      @victorjohnson5646 Месяц назад

      @@corporatecapitalism in your mom

  • @thatidiotoverthere6311
    @thatidiotoverthere6311 9 месяцев назад +2

    If your hand was to quantum tunnel, given the chances, only a single electron would pass through the object.

  • @parthkothari1756
    @parthkothari1756 11 месяцев назад +718

    I think the odds of that happening are 50%. You either pass your hand through the table, or you don't.

    • @imincent1767
      @imincent1767 11 месяцев назад +114

      Yh idk why he is overcomplicating it

    • @OO-bh8jg
      @OO-bh8jg 11 месяцев назад +15

      Nice bait

    • @IiiiIiiIllIl
      @IiiiIiiIllIl 11 месяцев назад +19

      This is how alien believers think. Like sure there is definitely aliens out there, but they aren't here. LOL.

    • @AD-wg8ik
      @AD-wg8ik 11 месяцев назад

      @@IiiiIiiIllIlyou’re awfully confident about something you couldn’t possibly know.

    • @actuallyrat
      @actuallyrat 11 месяцев назад

      As if we are the only ones in the universe

  • @ItsGamein
    @ItsGamein 11 месяцев назад +121

    Sounds like an awesome ability to give a character who can manipulate luck

    • @ananas_6029
      @ananas_6029 11 месяцев назад +4

      Exactly what I was planning to do lol

    • @xislomega242
      @xislomega242 11 месяцев назад +21

      If a character can bend luck to allow themselves to pass through objects, they'd need one hell of a downside to such power to keep them from becoming uninteresting and essentially godlike.

    • @grav8455
      @grav8455 11 месяцев назад +8

      Always bet on hakari

    • @_quixote
      @_quixote 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@grav8455I don’t think his luck goes that far

    • @Mark-Wilson
      @Mark-Wilson 11 месяцев назад +2

      Well they'd be able to do anything

  • @quokka_yt
    @quokka_yt 11 месяцев назад +54

    Linguistics and physics, two of my favorites!

  • @happyyt266
    @happyyt266 Месяц назад +4

    Gamblers: So you're sayin theres a chance?

  • @FacetiousEnigma
    @FacetiousEnigma Месяц назад +9

    So you're telling me there's a chance?

  • @Bossman50.
    @Bossman50. 11 месяцев назад +309

    I doubt anyone will ever truly understand the scale of just how unlikely that is.

    • @mystify_raider9923
      @mystify_raider9923 11 месяцев назад +6

      Ey just gotta believe

    • @GodplayGamerZulul
      @GodplayGamerZulul 11 месяцев назад +1

      People are bad with big numbers. People who aren't used to big numbers are TERRIBLE with big numbers and only like 5% of the population (if that) is interested.

    • @elquesohombre9931
      @elquesohombre9931 11 месяцев назад +1

      It’s not really possible for any living thing to do that, not with numbers so out of the way small anyway.

    • @freddytheshadowninja
      @freddytheshadowninja 11 месяцев назад +3

      Let's just say "practically 0%". It's not 0% but it's about as close to 0% as one could possibly get, aside from the calculations concerning infinitely small numbers. I now truly understand just how unlikely that is.

    • @MysticMicrowave
      @MysticMicrowave 11 месяцев назад

      It's impossible for us to fathom Googl, or values way less crazy than even that.

  • @OptimusPhillip
    @OptimusPhillip 11 месяцев назад +73

    When you need to use orders of magnitude to express how many orders of magnitude you have... just walk away.

  • @urinstein1864
    @urinstein1864 11 месяцев назад +611

    It's amazing how much can be explained with just some knowledge in linguistics.

    • @humanteneleven
      @humanteneleven  11 месяцев назад +296

      i used so much linguistics in this video

    • @quito0567
      @quito0567 11 месяцев назад +20

      @@humanteneleven fr fr

    • @sebaschan-uwu
      @sebaschan-uwu 11 месяцев назад +15

      ​@@humanteneleventhe power of linguistics knows no bounds

    • @simont390
      @simont390 11 месяцев назад +8

      The language of numbers

    • @Souler5z
      @Souler5z 11 месяцев назад +9

      Physicists treat math as a language, so, yeah

  • @figlego
    @figlego 11 месяцев назад +1

    Imagine being able to rig the universe's RNG to get this to happen whenever you want.

  • @InceptDev001
    @InceptDev001 Месяц назад +1

    "I hate to break it to you but it's just not gonna happen" that's not gonna stop me though

  • @dapperdinosaurus
    @dapperdinosaurus 11 месяцев назад +48

    Could you imagine if the chances were higher? Like you’re just walking around your house thinking about what to have for lunch and then you just quantum tunnel through the freaking floor

    • @JmKrokY
      @JmKrokY 11 месяцев назад +4

      Oh no 💀

    • @enguerranvandenbossche2447
      @enguerranvandenbossche2447 11 месяцев назад +10

      Well you would probably also quantum tunnel through the floor, being stuck inside of it forever so I prefer my world with its physics tbh

    • @FarranLee
      @FarranLee 11 месяцев назад +2

      I guess that by natural selection this universe proceeded because everything in it didn't keep dying from random quantum tunnelling events

    • @suspiciouslyBee
      @suspiciouslyBee 11 месяцев назад +2

      going to the backrooms

    • @PraviLukijanJC
      @PraviLukijanJC 8 месяцев назад

      Backrooms

  • @HaiderAl_Ameed
    @HaiderAl_Ameed 11 месяцев назад +69

    This was amazing, love watching your videos! Keep up the interesting videos!

  • @A_Glad
    @A_Glad 11 месяцев назад +35

    “But how likely”
    VSause music intensifies

    • @nemo-x
      @nemo-x 7 месяцев назад

      Michael got to him before he could finish the sentence 😔

    • @samuelhba8720
      @samuelhba8720 6 месяцев назад

      Music is called Moon men.

    • @Uchqunbekuz
      @Uchqunbekuz 4 месяца назад +1

      Or is it

  • @tonchimatta
    @tonchimatta 10 месяцев назад +2

    THE VSAUCE MUSIC I MISS IT AAAAGH

  • @ketomine.
    @ketomine. 11 месяцев назад +1

    imagine if instead of your hand, you quantum tunnel through the earth when you jump

  • @uzairname
    @uzairname 11 месяцев назад +14

    Never would I have expected to see a video called a "long short"

  • @DerexArchives
    @DerexArchives 11 месяцев назад +10

    Your video will make a fine addition to my "RUclips algorithm strikes again" collection

  • @bazingaswine424
    @bazingaswine424 11 месяцев назад +20

    yo this was actually really cool, you should do more stuff like this time to time

  • @ZoveRen
    @ZoveRen 7 месяцев назад +1

    Don't worry, he will break his desk in a few months or so

  • @JamesMcCullough-lu9gf
    @JamesMcCullough-lu9gf Месяц назад +1

    100% of desk slappers quit slapping desks before ever going through

  • @rhyemir
    @rhyemir 11 месяцев назад +4

    this is my new excuse for why the tennis ball went through my racket

  • @johndrewno2219
    @johndrewno2219 11 месяцев назад +9

    Stanley Clark proud!!! and don't listen to the people saying stick to linguistics, physics and linguistics are both immensely interesting, I can't believe you're into both! Your channel is incredible keep up the good work!

  • @Aabil11
    @Aabil11 11 месяцев назад +7

    Come for the linguistics, stay for the, whatever this is

  • @libsh5684
    @libsh5684 Месяц назад +1

    Don’t blame me when you do this and accidentally see some yellow rooms

  • @wiisportswithtea.3736
    @wiisportswithtea.3736 11 месяцев назад +2

    Imagine you get halfway and your hand just gets stuck in a table

  • @francegamer
    @francegamer 11 месяцев назад +9

    Don't let this nerd distract you from the fact all it takes is believing in the heart of the cards.

    • @Irreverent_Radiation
      @Irreverent_Radiation 7 месяцев назад +1

      If you really believe, and with the power of friendship!

  • @JosszzoL
    @JosszzoL 11 месяцев назад +11

    So you’re saying there’s a chance

  • @driesvanheeswijk1633
    @driesvanheeswijk1633 11 месяцев назад +6

    I study maths and this is my calculation:
    It can either happen or not happen so it's 50/50. In other words, slap the table twice and on the second time you will always go through. That's just the facts man, I'm sorry

    • @aryanjain6948
      @aryanjain6948 11 месяцев назад +3

      As a nobody, i 100% agree with your thinking. Even i dont understand the need of bringing equations. It is simple math 50/50

    • @Poland4life
      @Poland4life 11 месяцев назад +4

      there's a 50% chance every child is actually a horse, so 1 in 2 children are horses

    • @asheep7797
      @asheep7797 7 месяцев назад

      @@Poland4lifein my personal experience, it's actually 1 in 1.18.

    • @Twoopoint0-h4b
      @Twoopoint0-h4b Месяц назад

      well it is 50/50 but that doesn't mean it'll go through in 2 attempts. Even if you did it as many times as it said in the video, it still might not happen, or it might happen first try. So yes, it's 50/50 but bent toward one of the 50's

  • @0Bennyman
    @0Bennyman Месяц назад +1

    If it ever happened it would be the worst thing that could ever happen to you because people would just call it fake and edited and no one would believe it, only you would know you and only you have pulled off the most impossible feat ever imagined that will never be replicated again.

  • @isaaclegate7541
    @isaaclegate7541 11 месяцев назад +1

    Imagine your hand only tunnels halfway through the table and then your hand is just stuck inside the table

  • @kmnffc42
    @kmnffc42 11 месяцев назад +7

    My Earth Science teacher in 7th grade would always tell us that if we could run through a wall, we would get 100s on our quizzes. Safe to say it didnt happen

    • @NuLuumo
      @NuLuumo 11 месяцев назад +3

      That one kid in the back of the class: *literally becomes Danny Phantom*

    • @joeligma4721
      @joeligma4721 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@NuLuumo im goin ghost

    • @asheep7797
      @asheep7797 7 месяцев назад

      do it in china, much better chances with tofu dreg!

    • @kmnffc42
      @kmnffc42 7 месяцев назад

      @@asheep7797 darn I should've known

  • @Z3N0gl1ch3r
    @Z3N0gl1ch3r 8 месяцев назад +3

    Bro is vsauce

  • @gui18bif
    @gui18bif 11 месяцев назад +7

    The thing about statistics is that, even if the odds are 1/10^(shitload), you could slap your hand on the table 5 times and it could happen in one of those 5 times.

    • @basedcheese1
      @basedcheese1 3 месяца назад

      99.999% of beings quit before quantum tunneling

  • @aiexzs
    @aiexzs 11 месяцев назад +1

    that's the statistical chance, it could happen any moment

  • @282mmmmm
    @282mmmmm Месяц назад +1

    i feel like this guy knows everything

  • @egotist-ical
    @egotist-ical 10 месяцев назад +3

    The fact that it IS possible to get it first try though...

    • @wilsonvfx
      @wilsonvfx Месяц назад

      The fact that it is way more likely that thanos and the avengers were real and they came to your house to have wild intercourse

  • @excancerpoik
    @excancerpoik 11 месяцев назад +6

    imagine if he gets lucky and no one belives him

  • @KenikoB
    @KenikoB 11 месяцев назад +7

    The thing is, it's not that you have to do it X number of times for it to work, it's that you have an X chance of it working every single time you do it. So you could do it in 5 tries, or you could do it 10 times the probability number and still not do it.

    • @David_Apollonius
      @David_Apollonius 11 месяцев назад

      Or you could get it right on the first try.

    • @remains2246
      @remains2246 11 месяцев назад

      yeah but there is a number of times you can do it after which it's expected to have happened

    • @KenikoB
      @KenikoB 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@remains2246 if you roll a die over and over until you get a 6, it feels like eventually it should roll a 6, but probability states that each roll has to be considered separately. You always have a 1 in 6 chance of rolling a 6 regardless of what the other numbers before were.

    • @remains2246
      @remains2246 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@KenikoB well, firstly, the die will eventually land a 6 with 100% chance. And intuitively rolling the die twice yields higher odds of landing a 6 than rolling it once
      But I don't think what you replied has relevance to what I replied. Im saying there is an expected number of times you have to hit the desk for your hand to go straight through. In the case of a 6-sided die, the expected number of rolls it takes to get 6 is 6
      Otherwise I agree with you

    • @AutokickOff
      @AutokickOff 11 месяцев назад +7

      @@remains2246​​⁠​⁠ The probability that you will eventually roll a 6 over the course of infinite rolls approaches 100%, but never actually reaches it. It is theoretically possible that you could just get unlucky and never get that 6. The expected values are never guaranteed, only expected.

  • @someguy2819
    @someguy2819 11 месяцев назад +1

    Gambling addicts: So you're telling me there's a chance?

  • @mud5391
    @mud5391 11 месяцев назад +2

    "anything is possible" mfs been real quiet since this dropped

  • @advaitkamath8442
    @advaitkamath8442 11 месяцев назад +6

    Thats the thr entirely true probability. Since your hand molecules could pass through the tables molecules, the chance of that separate from the quantum tunneling result would be 1/(5.2^61), which the quantum tunneling result could be comparatively neglected

  • @q7b663
    @q7b663 11 месяцев назад +12

    It's the best kind of possible imo
    Theoretically possible!

  • @landerbogers2031
    @landerbogers2031 11 месяцев назад +13

    How did you get this number? The formula for transition probability through a finite potential barrier is T=exp(-2GL), If we say the effective size of a carbonlike atom (wood) is about 1nm = L. Average room-temp thermal energy of a “hand molecule” is about 0.01eV, If we say the potential barrier is about 1000ish eV at 0.001nm proximity then G = sqrt(2m(U-E)/hbar^2) = 10^14, such that the transmission probability is about on the order of 10^(10^5) or so (of one atom crossing). Still enormously small but nothing compared to your guess…

    • @Simon-wx4qy
      @Simon-wx4qy 11 месяцев назад

      ok now im genuinely curious what the chances are lol

    • @asheep7797
      @asheep7797 7 месяцев назад

      10^10^5 is such a small number that you can write it down in a week or two! (if you're lazy)

  • @GokuDrippedOut
    @GokuDrippedOut 10 месяцев назад +2

    It’ll pass through eventually once the hand smacks through the table

  • @mastermind-2011
    @mastermind-2011 10 месяцев назад +1

    Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee: "I don't get what's so hard about that, I can easily get my hand to pass through the table"

  • @austinsontv
    @austinsontv 11 месяцев назад +4

    Well not with THAT attitude! Someone didn't have Miss Frizzle as their teacher, and it shows! 😂

  • @Sr_Drip
    @Sr_Drip 11 месяцев назад +8

    So if It's just odds, however unlikely it is, it COULD happen at any time?

    • @mz8258
      @mz8258 11 месяцев назад +3

      The possibility is not zero. But if you listen to the video, it is in human terms of truth equal to say: "It is never going to happen."

    • @insertcreativenamehere492
      @insertcreativenamehere492 11 месяцев назад

      @@mz8258 But… it COULD

    • @Fr00stee
      @Fr00stee 11 месяцев назад

      it could happen, but the odds are so incredibly low it is essentially 0

    • @diemonder
      @diemonder 11 месяцев назад +1

      to put it in perspective, it’s even lower odds than you ever getting laid

    • @mz8258
      @mz8258 11 месяцев назад

      @@diemonder that burn was hotter than the sun

  • @AirKIng74
    @AirKIng74 11 месяцев назад +9

    I like to imagine this has happened exactly once in human history to some poor dude in Ancient Rome or something whose friends never believed him and whose life was forever changed by that time his hand just phased through a table for seemingly no reason

  • @azzaisme
    @azzaisme 11 месяцев назад +1

    It's odds, it could happen the first time

  • @nerd__698
    @nerd__698 11 месяцев назад +1

    "so according to Murphy's -"

  • @PresumedGecko20
    @PresumedGecko20 11 месяцев назад +3

    ok but what if I get _really_ lucky

  • @cc_snipergirl
    @cc_snipergirl 11 месяцев назад +9

    Reminds me of a story I saw on Reddit a while ago where a mom was living in her childhood home. They went to renovate their bathroom and found a hairbrush under the floor. The mom went pale white, and explained that she had dropped her hairbrush as a child and it just vanished before her eyes. She eventually dismissed it as her imagination until the renovation.
    Of course, it's Reddit and there could also be other explanations, but it just makes you think.

  • @khdur
    @khdur 11 месяцев назад +9

    Infinity.
    In spite of those incredibly huge numbers we can still add one.
    Let's just take a moment and appreciate that. Reality is so cool.

  • @korok6314
    @korok6314 11 месяцев назад +1

    Nah, I’m feeling lucky today

  • @jeffhernandez4099
    @jeffhernandez4099 11 месяцев назад +1

    and they said the worst she could say is no...

  • @Aoderic
    @Aoderic 11 месяцев назад +6

    10^100 is just an estimate of the average chance.
    You could still get lucky and do it in the first try 😁

    • @brightblackhole2442
      @brightblackhole2442 11 месяцев назад +1

      the chance is just a little bit smaller than 10^-100. it's only about 10^31 orders of magnitude off

    • @Aoderic
      @Aoderic 11 месяцев назад

      @@brightblackhole2442 Sure, that's why I said "estimate", and his estimate btw. not mine.

    • @professionalfurret
      @professionalfurret 11 месяцев назад

      I actually did it first try but I forgot to record it

    • @Aoderic
      @Aoderic 11 месяцев назад

      @professionalfurret7225 Oh, that was unfortunate, I hope you remember to record next time 😉

  • @schmidty4992
    @schmidty4992 11 месяцев назад +4

    The real probability would actually be a lot lower than this because 1) he didn’t normalize his Gaussian 2) he didn’t account for the near infinite potential wall that the table would create

  • @jasonsherman3708
    @jasonsherman3708 11 месяцев назад +1

    Lightly seasoned with some Vsauce

  • @Blanketflyer566
    @Blanketflyer566 Месяц назад

    He went from etymology to quantum mechanicals truly character development

  • @starhammer5247
    @starhammer5247 Месяц назад +1

    Theoretically possible, but statistically impossible in every conceivable universe imaginable.

  • @trieupee
    @trieupee 10 месяцев назад +1

    Instructions not clear, I had to amputate my hand 😢

  • @mattshu
    @mattshu 26 дней назад

    I know infinity can be hard to grasp but your description of the Googol multiverse immortals reeeally sort of puts it into some sort of digestible perspective for me!!

  • @DeemIsTaken
    @DeemIsTaken 11 месяцев назад +1

    100% of gamblers quit before winning big...

  • @KynneloVyskenon
    @KynneloVyskenon 11 месяцев назад

    i like how this puts things into a better perspective. sometimes it feels like quantum tunneling is something that is way more likely to happen than in reality

  • @eCtIman
    @eCtIman 6 месяцев назад +1

    "i hate to break it to you but it's just not going to happen"
    Not with that attitude

  • @sebi8642
    @sebi8642 11 месяцев назад +1

    Counterpoint: I could just get lucky

  • @BouncyFrog53
    @BouncyFrog53 Месяц назад

    Imagine raging and bashing your desk and suddenly your hand passes through

  • @pac2718
    @pac2718 2 дня назад

    As a physicist, a nerd, and someone fascinated by linguistics, I fully approve of the randomess and nerdiness of this video.

  • @Almn68-Shiro
    @Almn68-Shiro 6 месяцев назад +1

    This is the frieren 1% chance to get a magic book inside a mimic 😂😂

  • @2020Math
    @2020Math Месяц назад +1

    99% of gamblers quit before they hit big…
    Here goes nothing..

  • @yper8251
    @yper8251 11 месяцев назад +1

    The chance isnt zero man

  • @bowler7922
    @bowler7922 10 месяцев назад +1

    Those are the same odds of me ever getting a girlfriend.
    I'm sad inside

  • @brianbukenya7632
    @brianbukenya7632 11 месяцев назад +1

    "I hate to break it to you but it's not gonna happen"
    waits a moment
    "or is it🤨"
    starts playing Vsauce Musik again

  • @brawlingjosh112
    @brawlingjosh112 2 месяца назад +1

    "But those are just odds"

  • @charlespg3d190
    @charlespg3d190 Месяц назад

    What the main character does when trapped and threatened: