How long will it take for the last gear to spin?

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  • What is the gear ratio of this gearbox? How long will it take for the last gear to spin?
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  • @NxAllie
    @NxAllie Před 2 lety +8758

    I just wanna see a gear box spin so fast that the first gear itself has a catastrophic structural failure and explodes, i dunno sounds like it'd be cool

    • @webbedtrader
      @webbedtrader Před 2 lety +450

      I support

    • @Poatatero
      @Poatatero Před 2 lety +374

      I also support

    • @gamingbuildingandcubing5644
      @gamingbuildingandcubing5644 Před 2 lety +286

      Well for us not to much fun for him

    • @AaaAaa-ds9cv
      @AaaAaa-ds9cv Před 2 lety +62

      catastrophic structural failure haha forged in fire line

    • @MrScorpianwarrior
      @MrScorpianwarrior Před 2 lety +52

      Which would then make the second-to-last gear the last one, which could then also spin faster and explode.
      Then the next one.
      Then the next one...

  • @DasAlbatross
    @DasAlbatross Před 2 lety +2197

    "It would take 25,000 years to get the last gear to spin just one time"
    I'll believe it when I see it.

    • @andrewmccormack4295
      @andrewmccormack4295 Před 2 lety +76

      Yep...and I'll be there right by your side as a witness.

    • @FirstnameLastname-hg5gt
      @FirstnameLastname-hg5gt Před 2 lety +46

      CZcams does not support videos of such length.

    • @GuyWithAHat
      @GuyWithAHat Před 2 lety +32

      @@FirstnameLastname-hg5gt Noooooo, really? I thought video lengths could be infinite!! My perception of reality is ruined!!!!!!!

    • @ArchangelExile
      @ArchangelExile Před 2 lety +12

      @@GuyWithAHat Remember when CZcams limited videos to 10 minutes maximum?

    • @DasAlbatross
      @DasAlbatross Před 2 lety +29

      @@andrewmccormack4295 I think if we both watch it'll only take 12,500 years. I think that math checks out.

  • @spencersivertson9321
    @spencersivertson9321 Před 2 lety +6388

    Approximating the gear’s radius to 5 cm, it would take around 21 hours for the last gear to rotate once if the first one was rotating at nearly the speed of light

    • @LadyAnuB
      @LadyAnuB Před 2 lety +458

      And this isn't accounting for relativistic effects.

    • @joshbrz8902
      @joshbrz8902 Před 2 lety +196

      Are you a math magician

    • @spencersivertson9321
      @spencersivertson9321 Před 2 lety +68

      @@LadyAnuB I don’t think relatively would affect it but I’m not sure about length contraction.

    • @jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735
      @jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735 Před 2 lety +35

      *brain explodes*

    • @ccibinel
      @ccibinel Před 2 lety +45

      @@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735 So will the gearbox once the first gear hits more than 10-20k RPM. Love the theorycraft but real world physics and material properties apply. It's plastic...

  • @EssaysInTheCommentsSection
    @EssaysInTheCommentsSection Před 2 lety +1348

    It's amazing how much time can be represented by such a small, straightforward machine. If you made one of these with just a few more gears, 30 total, to be exact, even at 10,000RPM, it would theoretically outlast the observable universe before the last gear turned once. You could create a physical representation of the entire remaining lifespan of everything that ever was, currently is, or ever will be with a hand full of spinning plastic disks.

    • @chrishate3983
      @chrishate3983 Před 2 lety +8

      czcams.com/video/F1CddzgVW14/video.html if you havent seen this yet I'd recommed it.

    • @esbernhawkins5912
      @esbernhawkins5912 Před 2 lety +36

      @@chrishate3983 Ayyy, cultured. I was just about to bring up the Universal Death Clock, myself. That video always manages to rear its head in the back of my mind whenever I hear or think about exponential growth.

    • @lutoph
      @lutoph Před 2 lety +1

      Profound AF. O_o

    • @glacuonie
      @glacuonie Před 2 lety +9

      Bruh it's Wednesday

    • @matthewfennell8283
      @matthewfennell8283 Před 2 lety

      Thank you for this amazing insight

  • @moriarty5649
    @moriarty5649 Před 2 lety +1206

    25,000 years for 1 spin? Well, that's a challenging live stream.

  • @bepeplia5086
    @bepeplia5086 Před 2 lety +3353

    Driving it from the other end must feel like moving a safe

    • @trailmakers_builds2901
      @trailmakers_builds2901 Před 2 lety +14

      Ikr

    • @chagmenlietons3606
      @chagmenlietons3606 Před 2 lety +248

      A safe the size of a planet, maybe.

    • @potworzgo
      @potworzgo Před 2 lety +180

      @@chagmenlietons3606 well, its funny couse nit even close. The energy needed to move such a transmistion is beyond imagination. Nome known material would whithstand such Force

    • @FelixHelix
      @FelixHelix Před 2 lety +294

      More like moving a celestial body. The force required to move the exponential gear ratio would be inconceivable. If you could spin the last gear a full rotation in 60 seconds, the first gear would break the speed of light.

    • @douglasharley2440
      @douglasharley2440 Před 2 lety +49

      lol, more like moving a universe!...a gear ratio of 70 trillion : 1 is impossible to move from the other end.

  • @renascence239
    @renascence239 Před 2 lety +672

    Last gear:
    RPM: *almost non existent*
    Torque: can pull the Sun towards the Earth.

    • @Mike-vo2rp
      @Mike-vo2rp Před 2 lety +12

      It would break that piece of plastic first

    • @namedless
      @namedless Před 2 lety +29

      @@Mike-vo2rp make em out of damsicus steel

    • @yeetusdeleetus
      @yeetusdeleetus Před 2 lety +1

      @@Mike-vo2rp Make thicker gears

    • @kingbrit4583
      @kingbrit4583 Před 2 lety +4

      @@yeetusdeleetus that would make them heavier, making it even harder to get the last gear moving.

    • @yeetusdeleetus
      @yeetusdeleetus Před 2 lety +1

      @@kingbrit4583 then use a stronger/faster motor

  • @RandomPerson-rt3sz
    @RandomPerson-rt3sz Před 2 lety +246

    Last Gear: "Moves 1 nm"
    The First Gear: *Speed Is Life*

  • @TheOdMan
    @TheOdMan Před 2 lety +1016

    Not really knowing anything about the physics or really anything involved in an experiment like this, I was at first "I bet it's going to take at least an hour" at the end of the video "Well, I was technically correct"

    • @embo7582
      @embo7582 Před 2 lety +111

      it's like saying, "did you know the observable universe is 93 billion light years, or 880 septillion kilometers in diameter? that's more than one football field!"

    • @stargazer7644
      @stargazer7644 Před 2 lety +23

      You were only off by a factor of 219 million.

    • @thesherlockhokage3046
      @thesherlockhokage3046 Před 2 lety +45

      @@stargazer7644 They were correct. They said atleast an hour. 25000 years is greater than an hour, so correct

    • @Lexvo-
      @Lexvo- Před 2 lety +12

      R/technicallycorrect

    • @FriedrichHerschel
      @FriedrichHerschel Před 2 lety +22

      Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

  • @IceGavel
    @IceGavel Před 2 lety +128

    "Then said the shepherd boy, in lower Pomerania is the diamond mountain, which is two miles high, two miles wide, and two miles deep. Every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over."

    • @dreamer7770
      @dreamer7770 Před 2 lety +26

      That's one hell of a bird.

    • @danbrownellfuzzy3010
      @danbrownellfuzzy3010 Před 2 lety +2

      A good reason for getting vaccinated. Dead takes forever.

    • @slowedreverb6819
      @slowedreverb6819 Před 2 lety +1

      Ngl, even I have heared this story but with different values and figures

    • @sparkfrog777
      @sparkfrog777 Před 2 lety +1

      @@slowedreverb6819 Yeah, though this is the original, it comes from the Brothers Grimm, though most people know it from Doctor Who

    • @alejandroc7357
      @alejandroc7357 Před 2 lety +2

      @@danbrownellfuzzy3010 😆 bring vaccines into this. You ok?

  • @nameofthegame9664
    @nameofthegame9664 Před 2 lety +172

    I’d love to see some numbers on the torque needed to spin the last gear and make the first one spin faster than the speed of light.

  • @Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots
    @Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots Před 2 lety +240

    Imagine hooking this up to a doomsday device that will go off when the 23rd gear does one full rotation. Lmao

    • @maxwilson7001
      @maxwilson7001 Před 2 lety +38

      That… actually sounds like a cool idea for a film or short story. Do you mind if I take that and write a script based on it?

    • @iameverywhere7
      @iameverywhere7 Před 2 lety +5

      @@maxwilson7001 we actually had the same idea... you take it lol

    • @Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots
      @Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots Před 2 lety +4

      @@maxwilson7001 Sure, link it and credit me though :)

    • @maxwilson7001
      @maxwilson7001 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots Can and will do, although I'm not sure how I will credit you. Maybe in the credits of the film if it ever gets made?

    • @maxwilson7001
      @maxwilson7001 Před 2 lety +2

      @@iameverywhere7 Ya know that gives me another idea. How about we collaborate on it? We could write it on Google Docs so we can both work on it.

  • @budderbro1395
    @budderbro1395 Před 2 lety +2206

    I wonder, if you were somehow able to get the last gear to spin at 1 rpm (without the gears breaking) how fast would the first gear theoretically rotate?

    • @thepizzaguy8477
      @thepizzaguy8477 Před 2 lety +919

      It would rotate at 70,368,744,177,664 rpm, assuming that it's infinitely strong and won't warp under the extreme speed. The amount of torque you would need to do this will be astronomical, infact it is infinite, as the last gear would move faster than light.

    • @Dxm612
      @Dxm612 Před 2 lety +85

      @@thepizzaguy8477 damnn

    • @thepizzaguy8477
      @thepizzaguy8477 Před 2 lety +730

      @@Dxm612 btw, I'm nearly certain that it would be many times the speed of light. So yeah, rotating the last gear would destroy either the gearbox or reality

    • @miguelbaltazar7606
      @miguelbaltazar7606 Před 2 lety +78

      enough to make a black hole

    • @theoverpreparerlamenters3r436
      @theoverpreparerlamenters3r436 Před 2 lety +46

      @@thepizzaguy8477 I feel like that is an understatement.

  • @chetleonard169
    @chetleonard169 Před 2 lety +719

    old inkjet printers are a good source of ground polished axles, no need to buy new

    • @graaaby
      @graaaby Před 2 lety +31

      who has an old inkjet printer just laying around?

    • @hrtmoder
      @hrtmoder Před 2 lety +15

      @@graaaby me lol

    • @ariesleo7396
      @ariesleo7396 Před 2 lety +3

      Or a toner cartridge may work(it’s got a smooth steel rod inside)

    • @benis9635
      @benis9635 Před 2 lety +2

      oh ok yeah cool i totally got a bunch of those lying around thx 👍👍👍

    • @I_SEE_RED
      @I_SEE_RED Před 2 lety +3

      @@benis9635 eBay is a thing

  • @xXAlexOrWhateverXx
    @xXAlexOrWhateverXx Před 2 lety +30

    There’s this interactive science center near me and one of the things there is a machine set up similar to this, just larger. The goal is to knock over a glass with a bar on the last gear. But since most kids are too impatient and it would take forever to get the last gear to move, the glass has never broke when I’ve visited

  • @heisenburger8306
    @heisenburger8306 Před 2 lety +55

    Does spinning one time means moving 360 degrees or the tooth of the gear moving by a unit?

    • @GoPackGoBaby
      @GoPackGoBaby Před 2 lety +3

      One rotation or 360 degrees

    • @cdca1973
      @cdca1973 Před 2 lety

      Technically the last gear is spinning every time the first gear spins no matter how minute.

  • @kryger4840
    @kryger4840 Před 2 lety +80

    Really goes to show how incredible gears are!

  • @ShonowtH
    @ShonowtH Před 2 lety +82

    I can only imagine how this came into being. It's like they said "I don't know what to spend my time doing, let's make a thing that does nothing and hope it's fun."

    • @Your_Politics_Bore_Me
      @Your_Politics_Bore_Me Před 2 lety +5

      It’s the same principle behind clocks/ watches that keep track of days and months as well as hours, minutes and seconds. One gear moves at a speed relative to the next one and the next one and so on and so on.

    • @Vidchemy
      @Vidchemy Před 2 lety +1

      His choice of making an effort that gets little done was making this gears video or going fly fishing 😉
      (I hear guns being cocked, so I'll let myself out now 🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃)

  • @xtlm
    @xtlm Před 2 lety +10

    I like how this video keeps being made every few years.

    • @tman695695
      @tman695695 Před 2 lety +1

      and how it keeps getting recommended to us!

  • @seansean7814
    @seansean7814 Před 2 lety +2

    One of the most random and interesting CZcams videos I have no idea why I watched.

  • @carsonwiltink9613
    @carsonwiltink9613 Před 2 lety +130

    What if you start spinning both ends so that the gears in the middle start spinning at the same time?

    • @isaacj2410
      @isaacj2410 Před 2 lety +40

      You can’t spin the right end at all

    • @pinkiepie1656
      @pinkiepie1656 Před 2 lety +19

      We haven't discovered a material strong enough to support that.

    • @TheHomicidalTendency
      @TheHomicidalTendency Před 2 lety +13

      @@pinkiepie1656 Even if the gearbox was indestructible you'd need to burn all of earth's oil reserves to get it to spin at any noticable rate, and it still would be way under 1 rpm.

    • @victorkao1472
      @victorkao1472 Před 2 lety +1

      The gear isn't symmetrical.

    • @LYNXzTwist
      @LYNXzTwist Před 2 lety +16

      @@pinkiepie1656 no material exists, it'd take a force stronger than the nuclear bonds themselves to spin the last gear, its physically impossible, litteraly

  • @onecrazywheel
    @onecrazywheel Před 2 lety +82

    My mind still cannot wrap around this and how long it takes. Amazing!

    • @stargazer7644
      @stargazer7644 Před 2 lety

      And yet, the last wheel would have gone around 160,000 times since the Earth was formed.

    • @valkyrie941
      @valkyrie941 Před 2 lety +2

      @@stargazer7644 when you think about it thats not that much

    • @davidandrres
      @davidandrres Před 2 lety

      @@jairajsinghshaktawat6593 meth

    • @hushe3302
      @hushe3302 Před 2 lety

      @@jairajsinghshaktawat6593 Dont act like you can understand, even Einstein couldn't. Human imagination has limits, and those limits are very low compared to the extraordinary world we live in. You couldn't even imagine 0.01% the speed of light

  • @colinnixon7739
    @colinnixon7739 Před 2 lety +5

    Gear ratio is underrated. So fascinating

  • @JulianMcQueen
    @JulianMcQueen Před 2 lety +4

    "...and the gears, they turned for a thousand years, until the dark day that they stopped."

  • @bryancook148
    @bryancook148 Před 2 lety +31

    I love this series keep it up.
    I love 3d printing mechanical stuff.

  • @givrally7634
    @givrally7634 Před 2 lety +224

    If you wanted to make the first gear spin as fast as possible by hand, which gear should you spin ? The last gears are impossible and the first gears wouldn't spin very fast, so there must be an optimal gear.

    • @user-de4cq6uk6l
      @user-de4cq6uk6l Před 2 lety +8

      It’s at 1:30

    • @givrally7634
      @givrally7634 Před 2 lety +4

      @@user-de4cq6uk6l I'm not sure, the sixth gear may be too hard to spin. The fifth gear, or even the fourth, could possibly be better.

    • @user-de4cq6uk6l
      @user-de4cq6uk6l Před 2 lety +26

      @@givrally7634 well the optimal gear depends how hard you can push it

    • @OscarMartinez-cf1hq
      @OscarMartinez-cf1hq Před 2 lety +9

      there is no 'optimal' gear. Same as driving a car. You'd start low and work your way up. Engine power limited like arm strength limited. Terminal velocity when friction forces equal strength. @Givrally @f

    • @ArjunSharma-gy1eq
      @ArjunSharma-gy1eq Před 2 lety +1

      All are equal.

  • @therealshavenyak
    @therealshavenyak Před 2 lety +2

    Quick calculation, if the gears’ circumference is 8 inches, the maximum possible rotational velocity of the last gear is once in about 13 hours. That puts the first gear spinning at the speed of light.

  • @davidpaylor5666
    @davidpaylor5666 Před 2 lety

    Nice, I like that. Thanks for taking the time.

  • @Ziut0702
    @Ziut0702 Před 2 lety +138

    wait so theoretically........ if the other side is "stationary" and mostly the first 8 gears work... what will happen if we spin them on the other end at the same time... will they feel for example a counter-spin rotation at the middle gears if the friction/ratio is so far apart? will they get stuck/get blocked eventually?

    • @Super-Duper_Space_Goat
      @Super-Duper_Space_Goat Před 2 lety +17

      the gears would break from all the force needed to push the last gear (70,368,744,177,664x the effort to push the first one)

    • @imhappy._.
      @imhappy._. Před 2 lety +4

      Yeah, torque is a bitch.

    • @listen1st267
      @listen1st267 Před 2 lety +4

      @@Super-Duper_Space_Goat I don't think he's asking that. I think he's asking if you spin the two end gears contrary to each other, would you end up having two fast groups of gears separated by a handful of nearly stationary gears? Or would the gears just not work, getting locked up due to the contrary rotations just like you'd expect?
      I'd say it's possible that you'd have the two fast spinning groups of gears option dude to even the smallest imperfections and tolerances allowing the gear end gears to spin relatively freely for a while before the locking up starts to occur

    • @victorkao1472
      @victorkao1472 Před 2 lety +9

      It seems like you got the circumstances wrong. The gears aren't aligned symmetrically, but arranged with the same 4 : 1 ratio throughout the whole thing. This means that you can't spin the other end at all unlike the first gear where you can spin easily. To answer your question, no. It's not exactly "stationary." It rotates around 1/7 trillion revolution every time you spin the first wheel. He just said it's stationary because 1/7 trillion is almost negligible and can't be detected by human eyes. In gears, there's a thing, if it requires 70 trillion revolutions for the first wheel to spin the last wheel once, then the amount torque exerted by the first wheel is 70 trillion times stronger than when you exert the same force on the last wheel, ignoring friction of course. So if you exert equal force on both ends, the counter-spin rotation almost exerts no torque and will not be able to counter the original torque from the front end at all.

    • @mattc3581
      @mattc3581 Před 2 lety +2

      @@victorkao1472 Indeed the gearing means that the final gear will have it's large cogwheel connected to the smaller cogwheel of it's neighbour so it will drive that one four times as fast as itself, the one before that 4 times as fast again and so on. As Victor says the gearing is not symmetrical so you can't spin the other end as he showed.
      What might be interesting is considering whether 11 gears setup in a line from each end so they are going opposite ways, and both connected to the same 12th cogwheel in the centre but both trying to drive it opposite directions simultaneously would work. Is the movement of the 12th wheel so negligible that you could actually have the first few gears at each end going in opposite directions without it breaking, at least for a little while.

  • @Nanoscape30
    @Nanoscape30 Před 2 lety +6

    Probbaly one of the coolest experiments ive seen in a long time very creative stuff

  • @ShinkuGouki
    @ShinkuGouki Před měsícem

    Very interesting. There is so much meaning that can be extracted from this concept.

  • @garconlamest4666
    @garconlamest4666 Před 2 lety +6

    I’ve been told by many that I must be the most stubborn person alive. So I will harness that power and will live to see that last gear spin.

  • @oddish4352
    @oddish4352 Před 2 lety +27

    I've seen a gear system set up that was over 10^100 to 1. You could have spun it until the Big Chill, and that last gear wouldn't have visibly budged.

  • @puggumpus
    @puggumpus Před 2 lety +70

    Imagine the force if he managed to spin the last wheel as fast as he's spinning the first gear

    • @pietrociceri7845
      @pietrociceri7845 Před 2 lety +25

      It is impossible, he'd be spinning the first gear at much more than the speed of light, which requires literally infinite energy

    • @diogenes1351
      @diogenes1351 Před 2 lety +1

      @@pietrociceri7845 how black holes are created

    • @pietrociceri7845
      @pietrociceri7845 Před 2 lety +12

      @@diogenes1351 No, black holes are made when an object's radius is smaller than its specific Swartzchild radius.

    • @pietrociceri7845
      @pietrociceri7845 Před 2 lety +2

      @@diogenes1351 Or if you're talking about kugelblitz than yeah, sorry, I forgot about those

    • @HangTimeDeluxe
      @HangTimeDeluxe Před 2 lety +1

      @@diogenes1351 Yeah...but no...no...not even close. I'm guessing you are a gamer???

  • @jps99
    @jps99 Před 6 měsíci

    Very interesting print designs, earned my sub!

  • @aaronmays4355
    @aaronmays4355 Před 2 lety

    This video was amazing! Thank you!!!

  • @davidjames1684
    @davidjames1684 Před 2 lety +109

    4:1 ratio for each gear is very high. Imagine if it was 4:3 instead, then you COULD spin all 24 gears. Then your approx 70 trillion to 1 ratio would become only about 747:1, therefore spinning the slowest gear only 1 degree should spin the fastest gear 2 complete revolutions, plus a little more.

    • @larjkok1184
      @larjkok1184 Před 2 lety +2

      And?

    • @incenerated9385
      @incenerated9385 Před 2 lety +12

      @@larjkok1184 the gear can spin without waiting 25,000 years Larj.

    • @Bruski76159
      @Bruski76159 Před 2 lety +7

      The point of the video was to create as large a difference as possible between the speed of the first and last gear. Making the ratio less dramatic would be counterproductive

    • @davidjames1684
      @davidjames1684 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Bruski76159 I had some new countertops put it successfully recently... that was counter-productive.

    • @davidjames1684
      @davidjames1684 Před 2 lety

      @Stanky Pankey Yes, and sometimes they add extra weight to them as a counterweight.

  • @arthurmorgan8966
    @arthurmorgan8966 Před 2 lety +4

    Well it looks like you worked directly on the print bed. Kudos. I thought you were going to take it out after deburring holes with drill.

  • @Dani-it5sy
    @Dani-it5sy Před 2 lety

    That was so much more than I expected. Really cool experiment 👍👍

  • @rudycelaya
    @rudycelaya Před 2 lety +1

    Great video! I cannot wait to the speedrun version of getting the last gear to move.

  • @autoeverything8971
    @autoeverything8971 Před 2 lety +22

    Guy: spins the wheel from the opposite side
    The first wheel: *speed*

  • @chewy7073
    @chewy7073 Před 2 lety +6

    Can't wait to see this video recommended in 27021.

  • @grousetv8118
    @grousetv8118 Před 2 lety +1

    the amount of time it takes to spin the last gear blew me away .. wow! amazing video

  • @ClosestNearUtopia
    @ClosestNearUtopia Před 2 lety +7

    I wonder what the tolerance on the end gear means in terms of theorethical rotations on the input, must be insane to see how many spins it take to overcome the play in all gears.

  • @leonjacob8474
    @leonjacob8474 Před 2 lety +9

    I love how we can actually apply huge numbers to something we can interact with.

  • @joshuapatrick682
    @joshuapatrick682 Před 2 lety +7

    That is the most energy inefficient thing I’ve ever seen in my life!

  • @rickb_NYC
    @rickb_NYC Před 2 lety +1

    A great example with a real and simple mechanism to illustrate an imponderable.

  • @christophkuhn360
    @christophkuhn360 Před rokem

    Really interesting how the gears work, so fascinating with the different speeds, and in the colors red, blue & yellow,

  • @Corzappy
    @Corzappy Před 2 lety +27

    The question is if there was no friction, how many times would you have to slap the last gear for it to make a full rotation?
    All the other gears would slowly gain speed until the last gear spins.

    • @stargazer7644
      @stargazer7644 Před 2 lety +5

      If there were no friction and no inertia, any pressure on the last gear would cause the first gear to move.

    • @Corzappy
      @Corzappy Před 2 lety +2

      @@stargazer7644 That wasn’t my question though

    • @stargazer7644
      @stargazer7644 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Corzappy What did you intend to ask? The answer to your question, as stated, and as I clarified, is one. Any torque at all on the last gear would result in a full rotation. In fact, it would never stop.

    • @Corzappy
      @Corzappy Před 2 lety

      @@stargazer7644 Re read my comment if you don’t understand

    • @mattc3581
      @mattc3581 Před 2 lety +2

      Arguably once I guess, if you apply any force to it then it would technically set the final gear in motion, allbeit completely imperceptibly, and with no friction then it would continue forever and at some point have made a full rotation. Every additional time you 'slap' it would speed up the rotation and reduce the time it takes but assuming friction is the only force that would have been acting to slow down the rotation then once is sufficient.

  • @Mwillett1212
    @Mwillett1212 Před 2 lety +3

    Pretty Sweet! Thanks for the shoutout!

  • @triple_gem_shining
    @triple_gem_shining Před 2 lety

    this made me happy!

  • @theshrikantchandan2542

    Nice concept.

  • @thereinthetrees_5626
    @thereinthetrees_5626 Před 2 lety +60

    Imagine how much speed you could produce if you had a way to spin that last gear reliably

    • @leagueoflegendsplays9420
      @leagueoflegendsplays9420 Před 2 lety +26

      You can’t create energy only transfer it from one type to another. So the energy it would take to spin the last gear would equal the same energy as the first gear creates.
      But that’s in a perfect world without friction and noise among other things.
      Friction makes heat energy so you’d lose energy by spinning the last gear
      If you spun the last gear the first gear would have very little torque and probably wouldn’t be able to turn anything to create energy

    • @stargazer7644
      @stargazer7644 Před 2 lety +1

      You would get less energy out of the last gear than you put into the first gear.

    • @thereinthetrees_5626
      @thereinthetrees_5626 Před 2 lety +5

      @@leagueoflegendsplays9420 I didn’t mean like, electrical energy or whatever, I was more or less talking about turning a wheel on a vehicle, plus I really don’t care about all of your physics shit, it’s a hypothetical

    • @GalaxyStudios0
      @GalaxyStudios0 Před 2 lety +1

      -say if you were orbiting around a black- -hole and you built a hypothetical- -penrose sphere to- -harness- -the energy with radiant scattering- -of ligh- -t, (might have gotten some names a bit- -mixed- -up) then you might be finally able- -to spin the last one within a lifetime- check my other reply to see a reworded version.

    • @thereinthetrees_5626
      @thereinthetrees_5626 Před 2 lety +1

      @@GalaxyStudios0 I think you misunderstand how that system would work if it was real

  • @shable1436
    @shable1436 Před 2 lety +4

    So in other words the last gear moves as fast as a clock on Friday at 4 when you get off at 5?

  • @admuralcainpegasus664
    @admuralcainpegasus664 Před 2 lety

    The ball bearing gadgets at the end were pretty cool too. Love that you can print all kinds of things nowadays.

  • @TheThirdGerman
    @TheThirdGerman Před 2 lety +1

    That would be a really nice thing to have on the shelf, continously running.

  • @pietrosmusi6348
    @pietrosmusi6348 Před 2 lety +29

    0:52 he unlocked the TRUE JEDI trophy
    (Lego reference)

  • @SikConVicTioN
    @SikConVicTioN Před 2 lety +27

    When someones engineer school application gets denied, they make a 3d printing channel and make the same videos over and over again for the rest of their lives. Here we see subject number 217,559 bringing up the same concepts of gear reduction yet again. Truly fascinating they continue this behavior pattern for such a prolonged period of time

    • @kemalsorucuoglu3689
      @kemalsorucuoglu3689 Před 2 lety +1

      Nature works in mysterius ways brother

    • @karl810
      @karl810 Před 2 lety +2

      blame the viewers not the creator, they get 1m views a video over the year for doing the same thing repeatedly, thats a good work to pay ratio that works, unlike these gears.

    • @SikConVicTioN
      @SikConVicTioN Před 2 lety

      @@kemalsorucuoglu3689 ever see the movie Idiocracy? We are getting closer to that day by day

    • @yourresume373
      @yourresume373 Před 2 lety

      I see we have a lot of people in this comment section with IQs high enough to fully grasp Rick and Morty

  • @Raitzen97
    @Raitzen97 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for showing me the transmission of a car ahead of me on a red light.. I finally do know why it takes so long for them to get moving

  • @CLAYMOR916
    @CLAYMOR916 Před 2 lety

    I didn’t know I needed this in my life

  • @thewolfgamer0056
    @thewolfgamer0056 Před 2 lety +18

    Try an air compressor and spin the first gear for like 30 minutes with it

  • @hamsandwich9024
    @hamsandwich9024 Před 2 lety +8

    "I'm using silicon oil to make it spin easier"
    "Yeah SOOOO turns out it'll take 25000 years for the last one to spin"

  • @nixonfernando82
    @nixonfernando82 Před 2 lety

    I liked that mini like metal ball roller coaster at the end

  • @BlackJeepConvertible
    @BlackJeepConvertible Před 2 lety

    This is incredible

  • @BrendanMoonHotCheddar
    @BrendanMoonHotCheddar Před 2 lety +4

    You should set this up and then place it in a glass box as a time capsule, it would be a crazy art piece.

    • @epicn
      @epicn Před 2 lety +2

      A time capsule no one will live to uncover. A great way to give everyone an existential crisis in an educational way.

  • @kalu7655
    @kalu7655 Před 2 lety +19

    If there are 23 gears in the machine and the gear ratio is something that takes effect between every two gears, then the final gear ratio would be 4^22

    • @victorkao1472
      @victorkao1472 Před 2 lety +5

      Exactly. I feel oddly insulted that he said it's 4^23 instead of 4^22
      Edit: nevermind I counted, there are 24 gears in total in the video.

    • @verv6454
      @verv6454 Před 2 lety +3

      That's why he said there are 23 *pairs* not gears

    • @stargazer7644
      @stargazer7644 Před 2 lety +1

      There are 24 gears.

    • @rudy_4ier
      @rudy_4ier Před 2 lety +4

      @@victorkao1472 "I feel oddly insulted that he said" Lmfao. It doesn't take a genius to see that there's an even number of gears with a quick glance. The second gear is the yellow on the left, and the last is the blue, also on the left.
      Maybe what you should feel oddly insulted about is yourself for being in a rush to take the opportunity to look smarter than the uploader.

    • @jonahblaymires3482
      @jonahblaymires3482 Před 2 lety

      @@stargazer7644 the teeth on the outside of the first gear and the teeth on the inside of the last gear do no work so you have you -1 gear

  • @beefymcskillet5601
    @beefymcskillet5601 Před 2 lety +1

    Gear rations are in of things I always Marvel at. It’s so simple yet you can get things moving so fast with little force.

  • @digitalchameleon1884
    @digitalchameleon1884 Před 2 lety

    Came across this vid by random nice little nugget of info there thanks for sharing. Have a nice day.

  • @Constable_Bob
    @Constable_Bob Před 2 lety +4

    Rest In Pieces Mr. Last Gear, maybe one day...

  • @pls_mesempai2198
    @pls_mesempai2198 Před 2 lety +12

    My thought on this was. First one is four times the second and everyone of the 23 after it too. So: 4^(23)=70.368.744.177.664 Rounds from the first one to make the twentythird spin once

  • @blymark83
    @blymark83 Před 2 lety

    Nice example of properties of exponentials!

  • @dominicfong6341
    @dominicfong6341 Před 2 lety

    Something so simple and yet so mind boggling.

  • @skullbreakercustoms
    @skullbreakercustoms Před 2 lety +7

    You should add a flywheel to keep the speed in the gears, maybe that would help?

    • @royfinegan8006
      @royfinegan8006 Před 2 lety

      Fly wheel would only help maintain speed if the input speed suddenly decreased

  • @LuisPereira-bn8jq
    @LuisPereira-bn8jq Před 2 lety +15

    He did a really good job condensing 25000 years of footage into a 5 min video.

  • @joshsamvellangkasa5162

    This is so cool no cap

  • @jmalley9936
    @jmalley9936 Před 2 lety

    Thought this would be boring but actually very interesting.

  • @lololveryfun2588
    @lololveryfun2588 Před 2 lety +13

    When the last gear finally spun for the first time, we ended the video and never used it again lol that’s why the last gear would wait till 25k years to spin

  • @laplace2190
    @laplace2190 Před 2 lety +3

    Welp, I’ll see you all in 25,000 years once he finally uploads the video of him spinning the last gear once.

  • @soupbone10olgathecat45

    That's really amazing, I thought this would be a ridiculous video, but that's incredible 25,000 years! Mind blown!😵

  • @pzakkly3976
    @pzakkly3976 Před 2 lety

    Wow that’s amazing

  • @kasparisdead
    @kasparisdead Před 2 lety +5

    this is basically how gears on a bicycle work. Very cool!

  • @randomdamian
    @randomdamian Před 2 lety +6

    What if you would spin the last gear 1x in 1s... the other end would reach 2x light speed and warp back in time?

  • @adamowen5982
    @adamowen5982 Před 2 lety

    Mind blown at that figure 😳🤯

  • @GuyMahoney
    @GuyMahoney Před 2 lety

    definitely need this but in 1.2:1 format

  • @Vonconic
    @Vonconic Před 2 lety +9

    so when is the 25,000 year live stream coming out can't wait to see the last gear spin from the after life.

  • @xXlURMOMlXx
    @xXlURMOMlXx Před 2 lety +3

    Idk, just by looking at it I feel like it wouldn't be completely impossible to spin. Maybe this is how we achieve beyond light travel hehe

  • @Jimmy___
    @Jimmy___ Před 2 lety

    Cool video, would have liked to see a time lapse of it running with a motor to see some of the slower gears turning.

  • @pal-espenandersen7635
    @pal-espenandersen7635 Před 2 lety

    Great choice of background music :)

  • @killerdoxen
    @killerdoxen Před 2 lety +3

    For the last one to spin one rotation, the first would have to spin 70,368,744,177,664 times.
    Posted just before you said it.

  • @MarkUKInsects
    @MarkUKInsects Před 2 lety +9

    As a software tester, I love this. Clients expect me to spin that last gear. I do my best, but like this example, we run out of millenniums

  • @LeonBerrange
    @LeonBerrange Před 2 lety

    Lol this is so funny. It's absurd. Well Done.

  • @sparkiekosten5902
    @sparkiekosten5902 Před 2 lety

    That is a lot of torque!

  • @TheStarTrekApologist
    @TheStarTrekApologist Před 2 lety +5

    The last gear is spinning just so slowly that you can't notice it.

    • @armanuts2849
      @armanuts2849 Před 2 lety

      but how long will it take for it to complete one rotation was the question, which was also answered in the video.

    • @davidharpley2573
      @davidharpley2573 Před 2 lety +2

      @@armanuts2849 No! It says, “how long for the last gear to spin”.

    • @armanuts2849
      @armanuts2849 Před 2 lety

      @@davidharpley2573 dont be a smartass, im talking about IN the video, not what the video is titled.

    • @OblivionGate
      @OblivionGate Před 2 lety

      Well actually it's not

  • @arandomcat382
    @arandomcat382 Před 2 lety +4

    if mark rober tried to make a machine thats gonna spin the last gear then the video would probably be like 30 mins

    • @brod7173
      @brod7173 Před 2 lety

      And the world will end

    • @anathos0369
      @anathos0369 Před 2 lety +1

      Actually sincethe gear ratio is 4 To 1 for face le the 23 gears. The first gear need To turn 4 To the 23th times To makethe last gear turn 1 time. (Basically 1 million billion times)

  • @georgelionon9050
    @georgelionon9050 Před 2 lety +2

    What would happen if you put another 23 gears pair in the other direction attached to the last gear? Would then the first and last gear turn 1:1.. or would it break due to the forces?

  • @100Wilbur999
    @100Wilbur999 Před 2 lety +1

    Can you upload the full video where you spin the last gear one time?
    A 25,000 year length vid would be great to watch before I go to bed

  • @waynecampbell9714
    @waynecampbell9714 Před 2 lety +7

    This is insane to think about! 25,000years to get one spin out of the last gear, mind-blowing 🤯🤯
    EDIT: LOOKS SO SIMPLE BUT THE THINKING BEHIND IT IS AMAZING!

  • @easywaytolearnchemistry4700

    Calculate one by one how much force required to spin each gear from 1st to Last 23rd.

  • @lodgecav490
    @lodgecav490 Před 2 lety +1

    Its a good job you oiled up that last gear, you wouldn’t want it to prematurely wear out.

  • @thomasbotts5815
    @thomasbotts5815 Před 2 lety

    Now that's some torque.