I proved 1.3 million Earths DON'T fit inside the Sun!

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  • They say you can fit 1.3 million Earths in the Sun... but according to sphere packing math, my own Python code, a scale model; that can't be true. Let's find out how many Earth's actually fit in the Sun.
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  • @volcryndarkstar3283
    @volcryndarkstar3283 Před 3 lety +20184

    This is the highest level "um actually" I've ever seen.

    • @muffy6519
      @muffy6519 Před 3 lety +165

      Not saying this isn't good, but you should watch YMS's "Kimba the White Lion" that "um, actually"s the claim that Lion King ripped off Kimba.

    • @hexogramd8430
      @hexogramd8430 Před 3 lety +30

      @@muffy6519 the only good thing from yms the rest is smugness

    • @AlphahawkA25
      @AlphahawkA25 Před 3 lety +12

      Nerd clone would be proud

    • @OkieDokieSmokie
      @OkieDokieSmokie Před 3 lety +16

      Ummm...actually it's more like 1.3million " actually's"

    • @godlyvex5543
      @godlyvex5543 Před 3 lety +17

      Eh. The "um actually" thing is annoying, this is more like a fun thought experiment that won't annoy anyone.

  • @mikebaker2436
    @mikebaker2436 Před 2 lety +6634

    People: "You can fit 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun."
    Nick: "Spheres make gaps."
    Galactus: "No one said that we weren't going to liquify the Earths first."

    • @CorelUser
      @CorelUser Před 2 lety +131

      Doesn't Galactus eat planets?
      What does he mean with liquify 😳

    • @youwantmyname9208
      @youwantmyname9208 Před 2 lety +384

      @@CorelUser diarrhea time

    • @mikebaker2436
      @mikebaker2436 Před 2 lety +166

      @@youwantmyname9208 Finally. Someone who understands me.

    • @ders972
      @ders972 Před 2 lety +26

      @@mikebaker2436 haha if you two want to grab pizza some time y'all sound pretty funny to talk to

    • @astrobullivant5908
      @astrobullivant5908 Před 2 lety +7

      Plasmify

  • @sandynoby
    @sandynoby Před rokem +13

    Brilliant work , I love people who explore , test , fail again check again , verify , understand ..too good . Never ever could have thought much into this until this video came up ...

  • @user-nt3sj5tv3o
    @user-nt3sj5tv3o Před rokem +5

    Just stumbled upon your channel the other day and I just wanted to say I truly appreciate just how much effort you put into all of your videos. Genuine entertainment. Keep up the great work!!

  • @DAMIENDMILLS
    @DAMIENDMILLS Před 3 lety +3360

    "What am I supposed to do with all these extra beads?"
    Answer is obvious.
    Make a solar system model, showing how many Earths fit in each planet.

    • @DAMIENDMILLS
      @DAMIENDMILLS Před 3 lety +6

      @MovieClips 🤔

    • @alfonsomacias1569
      @alfonsomacias1569 Před 2 lety +217

      How many fits in Uranus*

    • @jcrides1320
      @jcrides1320 Před 2 lety +13

      @@alfonsomacias1569 1:06

    • @sapphoenixthefirebird5063
      @sapphoenixthefirebird5063 Před 2 lety +46

      Naively calculating volumes,
      Jupiter: 1320
      Saturn: 760
      Uranus: 63
      Neptune: 56
      Earth: 1
      Venus: 0.86
      Mars: 0.15
      Mercury: 0.056

    • @FewVidsJustComments
      @FewVidsJustComments Před 2 lety +6

      @@sapphoenixthefirebird5063
      What about Pluto? Now I’m actually kinda curious what it’s volume ratio to earth would be. Can you add it to your list here please?

  • @andrewpak5035
    @andrewpak5035 Před 2 lety +2929

    conclusion: sun is still an absolute unit

    • @mr.blacktea7298
      @mr.blacktea7298 Před 2 lety +23

      In the battle field

    • @Osai1234
      @Osai1234 Před 2 lety +6

      about or close to 1.3 million times

    • @AngryMama52
      @AngryMama52 Před 2 lety +2

      The sun is 2018 ninja earth is 2021 ninja lol

    • @AnesSadikovic
      @AnesSadikovic Před 2 lety +9

      The Universe is large. You may thing the sun is large but it comparision to the Universe it is peanuts. Accoring to my quick match calculation, (ignoring gravitation) one could fit about 1.8*10^59 suns inside observable Universe.

    • @mr.blacktea7298
      @mr.blacktea7298 Před 2 lety +10

      @@AnesSadikovic compared to the earth and it’s solar system, yes it is a absolute unit.

  • @The_hot_blue_fire_guy
    @The_hot_blue_fire_guy Před rokem +8

    I will say I haven’t had this much fun watching a science video in years!! You definitely earned a sub from me!
    Also you sound very similar to a Pokémon CZcamsr that is also really funny and entertaining so that is a plus in my opinion!
    Now I can get both science and Pokémon content that I will enjoy! 😊😊😊

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před rokem +1

      Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for the sub 🤓

  • @steve_seguin
    @steve_seguin Před rokem +138

    Oddly, the sun only has a mass ~333,000 times that of the earth. You'd think with the gravitational crushing force of a sun, you'd get more density, but apparently not!

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před rokem +26

      Good observation! 👍

    • @graham1034
      @graham1034 Před rokem +21

      Lighter elements, but mainly outward pressure from fusion energy. The sun will actually get larger as it ages into an even lower massed red giant.

    • @GobbiLuiz
      @GobbiLuiz Před rokem +7

      The energy it creates with fusion makes it "inflate" and balance the gravity. It would be a lot smaller without all the inner pressure

    • @iain3713
      @iain3713 Před rokem +4

      Supermassive black holes have densities comparable to air

    • @Geokinkladze
      @Geokinkladze Před rokem +4

      The sun is made up mostly of hydrogen and helium. In a similar way the gas giants are huge but less dense than earth. Jupiter is about as dense as syrup is on earth.

  • @SteveMould
    @SteveMould Před 3 lety +4457

    I was like "I'm sure I've seen that spheres-in-a-cube derivation before. Oh, it was me!" My memory is terrible.
    This is the perfect hook for talking about sphere packing. Great video

    • @WillToWinvlog
      @WillToWinvlog Před 3 lety +49

      LOL how pleasant to see you here, Steve!

    • @chinmaykalkeri
      @chinmaykalkeri Před 3 lety +15

      Wating for many more Mould effects .

    • @Redditard
      @Redditard Před 3 lety +2

      Yo!!

    • @LeoStaley
      @LeoStaley Před 3 lety +22

      I watched this whole thing thinking, "ha, I already know all of this because Matt Parker explained this at Steve Mould's house."

    • @csforlife440
      @csforlife440 Před 3 lety +3

      Use your tiny metal balls from your other videos.

  • @svenelven138
    @svenelven138 Před 3 lety +1797

    In 1990 my earth science teacher always said that "almost a million" Earths would fit inside the area of the sun. I am glad to see that he was always right about that...

  • @maeday8839
    @maeday8839 Před 2 lety +35

    With all those beads you should do some stuff on grain boundaries between atoms!
    In your sphere I can see various 'grain boundaries' that formed which is neat!

  • @sigridmeyer9667
    @sigridmeyer9667 Před rokem +3

    Please more videos related to scalls of planets, stars, etc ....this video was very satisfying for me and answered a question laying on my mind...thank you

  • @williamgarcia1995
    @williamgarcia1995 Před 2 lety +1472

    That whole scene of you pouring the earths into the sun is such a powerful example of the monstrous size of the Universe. To think that the entirety of our civilization is on one of those little blue beads and you’re just pouring thousands of them per minute with some even scattered around the table making a mess. Really makes you feel something.

    • @MrExcessum
      @MrExcessum Před 2 lety +53

      I was looking at the spilled beads on the table, and thought to myself "hey, carefull with those, each one of those could be our planet" lol... Yeah, we're super small and super irrelevant.

    • @Forthro
      @Forthro Před 2 lety +45

      ​@@MrExcessum why does the size means anything in terms of relevance? The diversity of living forms on our planet, their complexity and especially the complexity of human brains and thoughts, our society and civilization pretty much dims the kind-of-boring balls of thermonuclear reactions and a vast spaces of mostly nothingness. Stars and other solar bodies are huge and impressive in their scales relative to us but literally your fingertip has more things going on inside it in a couple of minutes, than a star has during it's whole lifespan.

    • @MrExcessum
      @MrExcessum Před 2 lety +20

      @@Forthro "The only meaning in life there is, is the one we put there ourselves".
      I never said I didnt like what we have on our planet. I just stated the obvious.

    • @Forthro
      @Forthro Před 2 lety +14

      @@MrExcessum and neither was I talking about liking or disliking our planet. It's just the fact that there is even no concept of relevance without anyone to process it, pretty much as you said it. And that overall, the mere size has very little meaning in these terms. Despite our tiny physical size, with our complexity we are capable of understanding and precieveing all these huge celestial phenomena, which are actually quite simple comapred with what we have on our planet.

    • @therealinsanegamer
      @therealinsanegamer Před 2 lety +3

      @Mike Wazozki same bro 🤣🤣🤣

  • @mustnz998
    @mustnz998 Před 2 lety +3355

    "The best way of stacking balls depends on the shape of the base."
    There's a joke to be made here.

  • @user-fn2qm5dt7y
    @user-fn2qm5dt7y Před rokem +3

    i came here randomly but i rly liked your enthusiastic calculation and experiments. i subscribed!

  • @zerog5551
    @zerog5551 Před 2 lety +88

    Subscribed because of this video. I love the way the answers were verified; you didn't go looking for possible error first and figure you got it right when you couldn't think of any more sources of error, you did independent checking to look for errors you didn't think of, then searched for explanations. Just a beautiful example.

  • @bingchilling8384
    @bingchilling8384 Před 3 lety +1705

    As part of the order, we say to ourselves: "Hexagons are the bestagons!"

  • @Renaxula
    @Renaxula Před 3 lety +853

    This feels like this could've been an awesome science fair project for highschool me

  • @ReplicateReality
    @ReplicateReality Před 2 lety +2

    I love this, my dad told me about his school project where he did sphere packing stuff, and the program was so cool too

  • @Eirik3313
    @Eirik3313 Před rokem +1

    Love the conclusion/ recap in the end. Sums it all up and consolidates it

  • @jakem5037
    @jakem5037 Před 2 lety +388

    My dad mentioned this when I was a kid.. he said that "the sun's volume was equal to more than a million earths but that they could never all fit inside due to their packing density" his chemistry teacher told him that in high school back in the 60s👍 MATH!

    • @WiPri0371
      @WiPri0371 Před 2 lety +11

      I was thinking the same thing. It's like sand. Even when it's packed, water can still get absorbed because of the gaps as small as they may be.

    • @Kurayamiblack
      @Kurayamiblack Před 2 lety +8

      I always figured scientists were trying to prove that the volume itself could equates and the whole thing about "fitting inside" was a just a poor choice of words to express that to people who otherwise wouldn't immediately understand.
      That's what I always assumed

    • @nietur
      @nietur Před 2 lety +2

      @@Kurayamiblack but it's about volume, not mass

    • @Kurayamiblack
      @Kurayamiblack Před 2 lety +1

      @@nietur Thanks for the correction, I'll make the edit. I don't use these terms often anymore so I forget what means what these days.
      Hopefully you got my actual point though

    • @nietur
      @nietur Před 2 lety

      @@Kurayamiblack now it's clear

  • @JW-ql7jp
    @JW-ql7jp Před 3 lety +619

    New life goal. Become so rich that i have a personal mathematician.

    • @manatster
      @manatster Před 3 lety +13

      my life goal is to beat Space invaders in osu

    • @evannibbe9375
      @evannibbe9375 Před 3 lety +5

      That’s called a WolframAlpha Pro subscription.

    • @dreammoe2616
      @dreammoe2616 Před 3 lety +3

      @@manatster My life goal is to snipe mrekk and whitecat

    • @dreammoe2616
      @dreammoe2616 Před 3 lety +5

      @@manatster and why the fuck there's so many disgusting osu players XD

    • @AageKush
      @AageKush Před 3 lety

      Or buy an accurate scale model.

  • @JordanBeagle
    @JordanBeagle Před rokem +1

    So glad I found this channel, subbed

  • @DonutCoffee256
    @DonutCoffee256 Před rokem +1

    Including the code is an awesome idea! Please keep doing so!

  • @vj2891
    @vj2891 Před 3 lety +387

    "Hexagon (is the bestagon"
    cgp gray: Y E S

  • @samardeep1401
    @samardeep1401 Před 3 lety +330

    i was literally studying sphere packing for chemistry and this came out in right time. Thanks

  • @carlosmcmahon623
    @carlosmcmahon623 Před 2 lety +1

    That exames were awesome. Thanks for the math lesson, and answering how many earth's fit into the sun.

  • @fasfan
    @fasfan Před rokem +69

    TANGENT: The brass square used to keep the bottom layer of cannon balls on a ship is sometimes referred to as a brass monkey. When it gets really cold and the brass square contracts and becomes too small to hold the cannon balls any longer (because brass and iron shrink at different rates) is where we get the phrase, "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey."

  • @BlackHei711
    @BlackHei711 Před 2 lety +961

    "Have you ever thought this deeply about a simple question before?"
    I always pondered what would happen if you put a werewolf on the moon.

  • @brando3465
    @brando3465 Před 3 lety +184

    Oh, you thought this was hard? Just remember, the earth isn’t a perfect sphere: it is slightly squished! Have fun 🙃

    • @thebreadster1500
      @thebreadster1500 Před 2 lety +32

      Not only is it squished, but the southern hemisphere is slightly larger, making it also that little bit asymmetrical just for a little extra pain

    • @alexanderm.635
      @alexanderm.635 Před 2 lety +10

      @@thebreadster1500 it ok earth is still poggers

    • @flyingsky1559
      @flyingsky1559 Před 2 lety +2

      and wouldn't it all compress under the insane weight?

    • @brando3465
      @brando3465 Před 2 lety +5

      @@thebreadster1500 oh damn I didn’t know that

    • @antipoti
      @antipoti Před 2 lety +5

      Isn't it flat though? 🤔

  • @brianwaugaman55
    @brianwaugaman55 Před rokem +1

    New sub here. Love the content...
    Your missing the shackles for the monster on your shelf. That was an awsome 90s toy

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před rokem +1

      Yeah, the dog chewed them up when I was a kid.

  • @Machman4
    @Machman4 Před rokem +9

    I'm forever and a day late, but a roommate and I decided to calculate the resonance frequency of the dorm's fluorescent lights because they'd buzz when we watched movies with deep bass in the soundtrack on our entirely over-engineered sound system. So we did some number crunching, busted out the signal generator, and had to abort the experiment after the bulbs all nearly shattered.

  • @josephcline3652
    @josephcline3652 Před 3 lety +314

    I love how he is trying not to argue semantics with his "nerd" character, while arguing semantics with the original claim... ironic.

  • @dratrav
    @dratrav Před 3 lety +728

    You know, on the American accent part. That's a good point, I've never considered that maybe the English accent changed in England not in American

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před 3 lety +181

      To be fair, the American accent changed too. All accents change over time. It's just that the (stereotypical) British accent changed _a lot_ more than accents usually change.

    • @jensphiliphohmann1876
      @jensphiliphohmann1876 Před 2 lety +21

      @@ScienceAsylum
      I once heared about it and I find it really fascinating, even more if we consider that America was immigrated by many non-English people from which one could expect that they should have shifted the American English accent more.

    • @CemlynGriffiths
      @CemlynGriffiths Před 2 lety +28

      Heads up big comment
      Both have changed significantly but to say American English sounds more like how old English would have sounded isn't accurate at all.
      American English is rhotic whereas British English is non rhotic for the most part depending on region. Whilst yes old English was rhotic a more accurate representation of old English is what is spoken in the black country (look it up).
      The primary influence of American English would be Irish, Dutch & French not to mention the countless other nations and languages who would have had a hand in developing the accent.
      Irish gaelic is a phonetical/rhotic language much like Welsh, Alba gaelic (Scotland) and French a rhotic pronunciation would have been used as it would have been the natural progression in to English from their native tongue.
      So no old English sounded nothing like American English nor British English if not for the influence of other languages keeping rhotic pronunciation the progression would have been more similar just like the differing in accents between the North of England and the South.
      Sheesh that was long

    • @wittwashere
      @wittwashere Před 2 lety +6

      @@CemlynGriffiths great info but sadly irrelevant due to your opening line, because no one said anything about Old or even Middle English

    • @CemlynGriffiths
      @CemlynGriffiths Před 2 lety +15

      @@wittwashere when speaking of "old english" I'm merely talking about the era of that he states in the video mid 1500s

  • @numberIII-tc3im
    @numberIII-tc3im Před rokem +35

    The problem is that you are placing spheres into spheres and that’s the missed part, 1.3 million earths can only fit if some of them are sliced into minces that fill the blank spaces

  • @cabesav
    @cabesav Před 2 lety +2

    That was pretty cool! You should try it with orbies next time. I wonder if you get more if the earths could compress

  • @jurakarok3343
    @jurakarok3343 Před 3 lety +190

    5:09
    Nick: If you take the pattern and slice it into unit cubes, you get--
    Me: The weighted companion cube!

    • @Kamoto-Ohiko
      @Kamoto-Ohiko Před 3 lety +1

      Same thoughts

    • @bradleywhais7779
      @bradleywhais7779 Před 3 lety +3

      SHHHHHH, he doesn't know the cake is a lie yet!

    • @Speed001
      @Speed001 Před 3 lety

      No, it's the atomic packing factor.

    • @SonOfAFridge_
      @SonOfAFridge_ Před 3 lety

      More like a geometry dash cube

    • @J.07T
      @J.07T Před 3 lety

      I like the idea of Aperture making a cube by first making 4 spheres and cutting them up. Seems like the perfect waste of resources they're iconic for

  • @Sebastian20745
    @Sebastian20745 Před 3 lety +80

    3:25 "Hexagon is the bestagon" I literally watched Grey's video on that yesterday

  • @classifiedveteran9879
    @classifiedveteran9879 Před 5 měsíci +3

    8:44 I had similar experiences as well when emailing industrial manufacturers. 😅 Excellent comedy and science!

  • @NoobGamer-ew3yu
    @NoobGamer-ew3yu Před 2 lety

    Bruhh.
    1st video of channel i am watching
    Already loving it😍😍

  • @AlphahawkA25
    @AlphahawkA25 Před 3 lety +21

    3:28 “hexagon is the bestagon”
    Ah I see you’re a man of culture.

  • @andrewmat
    @andrewmat Před 3 lety +467

    Can we just stop and admire how far this man went to fill the Sun with Earths?

    • @scudder991
      @scudder991 Před 3 lety +6

      I was thinking the same thing. Math, code, detailed model... Nick really went the extra mile. Thanks!

    • @petercortens6019
      @petercortens6019 Před 3 lety +1

      Yea. Someone actually tried! If an arrogant alien species lands now and smirkly asks if we even tried we can say yes! with our chin up

  • @haroonrasheed3844
    @haroonrasheed3844 Před rokem

    Fantastic video. You know how to keep it entertaining throughout.

  • @AnmarkLLC
    @AnmarkLLC Před 9 měsíci +1

    I appreciate your effort in unraveling this perplexing puzzle. Initially, I found it difficult to comprehend the magnitude of 1.3 million Earths, in relation to the number of scale images illustrating the comparative sizes of the sun and the earth. These images seemed off. Nonetheless, I must commend you on the exceptional quality of the video you provided. It skillfully presented a genuine visual comparison, enabling me to grasp the enormity of the situation more effectively. The revised estimation is still an astonishing figure.

  • @CharlesBurnsPrime
    @CharlesBurnsPrime Před 2 lety +561

    I have always heard it stated as, “the sun has over a million times the volume of the earth”, which is accurate, even if many people would erroneously visualize this as a million spheres inside of a larger sphere.

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před 2 lety +90

      Yes, that statement would be more accurate.

    • @dominikmilien
      @dominikmilien Před 2 lety +18

      I only heard the masses compared, never the volume

    • @dzhellek
      @dzhellek Před 2 lety +30

      No on said the earths would be intact. He needs to take a coffee grinder to his beads.

    • @Nick9Three
      @Nick9Three Před 2 lety +5

      The human brain can’t imagine something that large

    • @gorisenke
      @gorisenke Před 2 lety

      @@dominikmilien same. The volume talk is new to me, and feels out of place.

  • @blargl121
    @blargl121 Před 3 lety +214

    When the theoreticist has to do deal with real world experiments, he really has to break out the bleeper

  • @joesmith7412
    @joesmith7412 Před rokem

    I never know the shell of the sun was the same thickness as your model.
    That's awesome!

  • @Muladeseis
    @Muladeseis Před rokem +8

    You can show that plastic Sun filled with Earths at a school, and amaze the kids with how relatively tiny we are.

    • @joadbreslin5819
      @joadbreslin5819 Před 4 měsíci

      Or just show a short clip from this video. You can reach many more students that way.

  • @qclod
    @qclod Před 3 lety +270

    For such a crazy guy, it's interesting that Nick's last name is Lucid. He's probably just on a higher plane than all the rest of us...

    • @Bassotronics
      @Bassotronics Před 3 lety +13

      Lucid dreams are the best!

    • @holandesvoador7683
      @holandesvoador7683 Před 3 lety +6

      Aren't all the physicists a little "higher" than us? haha

    • @user-iz8np3vv4i
      @user-iz8np3vv4i Před 3 lety +6

      "You can't see the forest for the trees." If you get up
      high enough you can see the forest. The higher you
      get the more you see. Can you see what I'm saying?

    • @DANGJOS
      @DANGJOS Před 3 lety +1

      I'm still skeptical that is his actual name haha

    • @seanreese3314
      @seanreese3314 Před 3 lety +4

      I always assumed it was a pseudonym. Incidentally, last spring my Honors Physics class did a Google meet with him and it didn't occur to me that we should have asked him that until afterward...

  • @AndrewDotsonvideos
    @AndrewDotsonvideos Před 2 lety +271

    Can you prove you can’t fit 1,300,000 suns in the earth next?

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před 2 lety +102

      🤔

    • @Ben-iz9ud
      @Ben-iz9ud Před 2 lety +34

      Takes one, smashes earth. Video is 4 seconds long

    • @oai8028
      @oai8028 Před 2 lety +7

      Wait if u put 1.3 million suns in one place it will be so massive that it not only collapses it forms a black hole the size of 3 suns will have a mass of well 1.3 million suns. This black hole will be so massive it eats everything in the solar system and there's actually a star that actually CAN do this a quasi star

    • @oai8028
      @oai8028 Před 2 lety +1

      So U can't fit 1,3 million sun in earth

    • @Bubontent
      @Bubontent Před 2 lety +1

      @@oai8028 it was a joke

  • @victornewton1
    @victornewton1 Před 2 lety +1

    Man, you remember me very much of the Beakman acting. Nice job!

  • @Spawn303
    @Spawn303 Před rokem +2

    I’m a visual learner and the beads and ball was the best way I’ve seen to be able to process this in my mind! Thanks

  • @aknkrstozkn
    @aknkrstozkn Před 2 lety +437

    At the start I was like "why do you even bother, you can simuluate it by algorithm and you could find some one to write the code for you" and than I saw him writing the code by himself and I was like "This dude is full package!".

    • @westman8527
      @westman8527 Před 2 lety +7

      I did almost the same thing but I just thought "just use math" I'm sure there is some optimization problem out there that's asks this question

    • @messil100
      @messil100 Před 2 lety +12

      Lol this dude is really smart and loves what he does..

  • @michaelanderson4849
    @michaelanderson4849 Před 3 lety +155

    "I hate it when I don't understand something"
    That is a very good summary of my take on life.

    • @loy7163
      @loy7163 Před 3 lety +2

      seems a better version of mine "I am interested in what I don't understand"

    • @KatyaAbc575
      @KatyaAbc575 Před 3 lety +1

      On the bright side: You cant improve, if you never learn something new.

    • @michaelanderson4849
      @michaelanderson4849 Před 3 lety +1

      @@KatyaAbc575 one can always improve on alredy acquired skills.

    • @brandonhughes645
      @brandonhughes645 Před 3 lety +2

      If you don't understand something then you have the privilege of figuring it out.

    • @strebicux6174
      @strebicux6174 Před 3 lety

      @@michaelanderson4849 which still requires learning, even if it's subconsciously

  • @Kewbix
    @Kewbix Před rokem +14

    And then he thinks to himself… wait, the earth isn’t actually a perfect sphere…

    • @scottd7222
      @scottd7222 Před rokem

      👇 Flat Heads

    • @ooloncolluphid360
      @ooloncolluphid360 Před rokem

      Correct, it's an oblate spheroid due to rotational stretching.... and so is the sun actually. Complication level: extreme.

    • @snowthemegaabsol6819
      @snowthemegaabsol6819 Před rokem

      It's actually a remarkably simple calculation. By considering oblateness, you could fit a max of about 2100 extra Earths, which is inside the experimental margin of error

  • @Actinuon
    @Actinuon Před 2 lety

    You could have just scaled the amount of beads imo lol, Did you account for the inner volume of the plastic sphere? I'd be interested to see if a sonic bath could help settle it into max packing over a few days. Also also, I'd be interested to see that plastic ball barely filled with those beads next to one of those lighting globes or a van de graff. Something tells me that'd be interesting, they might need a ground source though.

  • @luminusprime
    @luminusprime Před 2 lety +1280

    Even ignoring the fact that these 1.3 million Earths would compact into a dwarf star... they still wouldn't stack like that because Earth isn't a spherical solid, it's an irregular liquid suspension arranged into the shape of an ovoid via gravitational and centripetal acceleration. If you put a bunch of them together like that, they would squish down into the shape of the container.

    • @sermuxify5415
      @sermuxify5415 Před 2 lety +31

      what

    • @BornNoU
      @BornNoU Před 2 lety +238

      @@sermuxify5415 basically earth isn’t actually a perfect sphere bc of mountains and valleys and being mostly water, so if you literally put a bunch of earths in the sun somehow it wouldn’t pack exactly like this video says either

    • @BornNoU
      @BornNoU Před 2 lety +4

      @Phill Zimmer I never would have even considered that without this comment!

    • @magoogam2
      @magoogam2 Před 2 lety +7

      You mean the earth is a geoid

    • @Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty
      @Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty Před 2 lety +22

      That's what I was thinking. Our core isn't solid, ONLY our CRUST is.

  • @BenjaminSteber
    @BenjaminSteber Před 3 lety +52

    "The static cling is ridiculous."
    Then for a moment he remembered that he knew the equations for that.

  • @LeLefti
    @LeLefti Před rokem +1

    Cool Video! Like your style and way of thinking.
    Next time just count up 10 or 50 or 200 beads and weigh them up. Then u got a pretty significant average mass. That should always be more significant than producer numbers or technical standards. Anyways, nice video, nice ideas

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před rokem

      *"Next time just count up 10 or 50 or 200 beads and weigh them up."*
      You know... I actually tried this and it was still too light for my scale. Tool-wise, I was under prepared for this project.

  • @spatulaboy1
    @spatulaboy1 Před rokem

    Absolutely love this. So smart and so funny.
    One level of added complexity. The earth isn’t a perfect sphere. I wonder how the slight bulge at the equator would affect this. Probably only minimally, but it may factor in to some extent. Or… could it be that as the non-spherical earths are packed in, the slight variations could all offset each other, some packing more tightly and others less efficiently?
    Ugh, hurts my head. Like packing the back of a car for summer camping trips. 😃

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před rokem

      The Earth is pretty close to a perfect sphere. That bulge is _very_ slight: czcams.com/video/jffQVdJdoKQ/video.html

  • @oscarrc2114
    @oscarrc2114 Před 3 lety +100

    Gotta appreciate when a CZcams physicist wears another CZcams physicist's merch (physics girl shirt) without mention, just pure support. Happy physics-ing

    • @Metal_Master_YT
      @Metal_Master_YT Před 3 lety +1

      physics-ing?
      *Nice.*

    • @Metal_Master_YT
      @Metal_Master_YT Před 3 lety

      (I'm not talking to you oscar)
      Hans-Joachim, don't be pathetic, and such a coward. you say something and then delete it and run away? why don't you get back here so I can smack you up-side the head. physics girl is a youtuber who makes good science videos, all it takes to prove that, is literally looking up her channel and checking peoples reviews of it. I have no idea what you are talking about oil, but that has nothing to do with her videos anyway.

  • @wakeup9357
    @wakeup9357 Před 3 lety +177

    "What percentage of women don't like you?"
    Me, a professional: 6:58

    • @IDMYM8
      @IDMYM8 Před 3 lety +6

      Good

    • @scarlet_soul4118
      @scarlet_soul4118 Před 2 lety +1

      @@IDMYM8
      Haha you're soooooo funny
      You must be one of those people who think making fun of people in the internet make you worth something, huh?
      Have a good life, boo 😘

    • @IDMYM8
      @IDMYM8 Před 2 lety

      @@scarlet_soul4118 How dare YA MOCK ME?!!!!

    • @kriss0214
      @kriss0214 Před 2 lety

      Lol

    • @w0omer
      @w0omer Před 2 lety

      Don’t put yourself down, keep high hopes up :D

  • @esmax3000
    @esmax3000 Před rokem +1

    3:46 i love the reference to hexagons are the bestagons

  • @shahzeelhassan2992
    @shahzeelhassan2992 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Glad to see that one of your video has 4.3M+ views

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před 9 měsíci

      Thanks. Easily my most successful video ever. I've very proud of it. Then, about a year ago, it just stopped being served to people for no (apparent) reason 🤷‍♂️.

  • @ShabadoobieVT
    @ShabadoobieVT Před 2 lety +171

    I saw that CGP Grey reference. Glory to the Hexagon, for it is the Bestagon.

  • @Terrarix
    @Terrarix Před 3 lety +13

    I LOVE the (is the bestagon) quote at 3:46. That CGPGrey episode was amazing 😂

  • @bobertblobert7812
    @bobertblobert7812 Před rokem +3

    I have to admit my favorite part of this video is "filling a volume with spears". I'm laughing so hard now I'm crying.

  • @sam08g16
    @sam08g16 Před 2 lety +1

    Man your voice would be perfect In a cartoon. I'd love you see you voicing a Futurama character!

  • @philswaim392
    @philswaim392 Před 3 lety +171

    When pedantry turns into an actual answer. Not the answer anyone cared about, but an answer all the same

  • @Izzmonster
    @Izzmonster Před 3 lety +212

    This video is 100% pedantic bullshit and I love it. I hope more of your vids are like this, because I think this is the first "Uhm ACKTUYALLY" real science channel I've found.

  • @4realGTFOH
    @4realGTFOH Před 2 lety

    What u do with the beads? I would love to make a model of my own. Very cool looking at those tiny beads representing our plant to the sun.

  • @00supremacy
    @00supremacy Před 2 lety +1

    this is very interesting and informative! and funny too!
    time to question my science teachers!

  • @jamesmosher6912
    @jamesmosher6912 Před 3 lety +24

    Liked the video!
    And honestly, as an engineer, I am so glad you left in the parts about questioning your results and verifying if they even make sense. A great lesson for anyone doing applied mathematics for science, physics, engineering, etc.
    Also, personally, I think the physical model would make a great desk or office ornament. Hope you keep it!
    Keep up the good work!

  • @Turnip420
    @Turnip420 Před 3 lety +244

    I just want to take a minute to appreciate all the effort and time you put to educate us. Amazing contents as always.

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před 3 lety +40

      Thank you for appreciating the effort. This video was so much work!

    • @SquirrelASMR
      @SquirrelASMR Před 3 lety +10

      He is a hero, getting people interested in science, experimente, theory and their education. He is so engaging, creative and inspiring. Sadly that is something that so many schools and teacher fail to do, which can really impact someone's future negatively. If only all teachers like were Nick Lucid, I really think humanity would've progressed so much faster and we would be technologically superior and wouldve probably terraformed mars and been living in cloud cities on venus.

    • @Lucky10279
      @Lucky10279 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ScienceAsylum Was it fun work?

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před 3 lety +5

      @@Lucky10279 Mostly. It was stressful too, but only because it took longer to make than I wanted and I was doing things I had never done before. I'm glad it's doing well and I'm glad the project is done.

    • @Lucky10279
      @Lucky10279 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ScienceAsylum What prompted you to do this topic?

  • @rogats
    @rogats Před rokem

    Great video! You should give away a prize for the best suggestion on what to do with the beads ;)

  • @davidgray3684
    @davidgray3684 Před rokem +2

    You're imagining the earth is left intact for this.
    Was I the only one messed up enough to assume we'd be hammering the 1.3m earths into putty to fit them?

    • @crash41596
      @crash41596 Před rokem

      I sorta figured gravity would do most of that work. This almost seems like a way to ignore the forces of nature. The larger scale the example the more mass you can fit inside due to gravitational forces. If you ignore gravity then this would be correct.

    • @snowthemegaabsol6819
      @snowthemegaabsol6819 Před rokem

      0:40

  • @frankroos1167
    @frankroos1167 Před 3 lety +41

    When I read the title I immediately went "Yeah, I need some crazy now".
    And I got my dose. Love it. Sanity is overrated.

  • @ecc8323
    @ecc8323 Před 2 lety +43

    Person: “I just found out I have cancer!”
    Nick: “Don’t worry, I wrote some code.”

  • @tjendenys5028
    @tjendenys5028 Před rokem

    Good that you put in that pedantry bit at the start, my comment fingers were already itching 😅

  • @Someone-yd3yt
    @Someone-yd3yt Před rokem +1

    This is a great video. I was thinking about this and the formula only takes into account the volumn of the earth and sun, so theoretically the saying would be correct if you were able to mold 1.3 million earths (like clay) into a collection of shapes that can slot together into a sphere, then the saying would be accurate because it never specified 1.3 million intact spheres. Maybe that idea is ridiculous, just a thought I had.

  • @centauriboy
    @centauriboy Před 2 lety +364

    So in a spherical nutshell:
    - 1.3 million squishable Earths, like air bubbles packing in a hexagon pattern of edges, can fit in the Sun.
    - ~900k+ jaw-breaker Earths can painfully fit in the sun.

    • @binny_y
      @binny_y Před 2 lety +24

      Well the second scenario would never occur. If we could conduct this experiment in with the actual sizes, the Earth's would just squish together. Bc gravity is a thing

    • @johnathanegbert9277
      @johnathanegbert9277 Před 2 lety +2

      And then BOOM from temperature increasing too fast and too little hudrogen

    • @johnathanegbert9277
      @johnathanegbert9277 Před 2 lety +2

      Hydrogen*

    • @binny_y
      @binny_y Před 2 lety +5

      @@Subt0nix no I'm just saying if we could actually conduct that experiment. The Earth's would all come together bc gravity

    • @iStillDontNow
      @iStillDontNow Před 2 lety

      the sun can fite 1.3000,000 eath

  • @Code_Machine
    @Code_Machine Před 3 lety +331

    "You can get really close to 74% if your balls are really small"
    Why did THAT, of all things, send me into a fit of giggles?
    Also, looks like this is comment #3,333

    • @readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444
      @readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444 Před 2 lety +14

      If I had a nickle for every time a teacher told me that!

    • @susten8684
      @susten8684 Před 2 lety +12

      @@readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444 hol up

    • @readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444
      @readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444 Před 2 lety +3

      @@susten8684 My women's studies teacher was the only one who said it over and over. The rest of my teachers would usually one say it once or twice.

    • @Blaketarded
      @Blaketarded Před 2 lety +5

      Man puts his balls in balls for 17 minutes straight.

    • @xaxcord2739
      @xaxcord2739 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Blaketarded hol up

  • @Hunter-jx8jl
    @Hunter-jx8jl Před 2 lety +1

    I love you brother keep up the good work 👍👍

  • @omsingharjit
    @omsingharjit Před rokem

    There's also Tiny lead ball available called BGA Recalling ball of some different sizes to choose ,so what was/is the price of that relative to that balls ??for same experiment ?? May be it would be cheaper !!

  • @Kowgan
    @Kowgan Před 3 lety +72

    I'll never pack hundreds of thousands of Earths inside the Sun, but I'm watching this anyway.

    • @laultimarebanada
      @laultimarebanada Před 3 lety

      But it's pretty fun, you should try it sometimes ;)

    • @IndigoGollum
      @IndigoGollum Před 3 lety

      @@laultimarebanada No don't that's where my dog lives

  • @thatguynamedgeorge9218
    @thatguynamedgeorge9218 Před 3 lety +47

    This guy really just went:
    "Imma go defy societal knowledge right now".

  • @warwagon
    @warwagon Před rokem

    Great content! You are running into the problem that the early Scotty Kilmer videos had, where you don't cut faster enough and you are left with a 1 to 1/2 second uncomfortable stare. Other than that great video

  • @sabinj6031
    @sabinj6031 Před rokem +1

    3:23 - CGP Grey reference....
    Good one.

  • @ffggddss
    @ffggddss Před 3 lety +21

    "Have you ever thought this deeply about a simple question before?"
    No, because I'M ONLY A LITTLE CRAZY!
    Another super video!!! Thanks!
    Fred

    • @Speed001
      @Speed001 Před 3 lety

      I like your pfp (profile picture).

  • @korrdavl
    @korrdavl Před 2 lety +33

    LOL I love how much extra effort you put into the CG balls in spite of the failed long long stacking

  • @JordanBeagle
    @JordanBeagle Před rokem +1

    Beat me to it, I didn't watch far enough! 0:42
    I was gonna say "Um actually"
    The Earth conglomerate would collapse into a red series star if it was 1.3 million Earth together and probably supernova quite quickly due the heavy elements it contains

  • @Ctomfly1
    @Ctomfly1 Před 8 měsíci +1

    If you added the dense mass of 900k Earths, they would cause the sun to become a black hole.
    Then it would be tiny and you could fit even more Earths.

  • @ericddoran
    @ericddoran Před 3 lety +27

    Asking why I can both see through glass and my reflection at the same time took me down a rabbit hole I never expected for sure, haha.

    • @ADAJ342
      @ADAJ342 Před 3 lety +1

      Well shit now im curious about that too. Did you figure it out?

    • @ahvavee
      @ahvavee Před 3 lety

      Check out the feynman lectures in new zeland

    • @pat5star
      @pat5star Před 3 lety +1

      I actually had a blind guy ask me to explain that to him once. I was utterly stumped!!!

  • @claykellogg5372
    @claykellogg5372 Před 3 lety +14

    Slick programming. Nice job with this whole video. Your face after spilling ping balls on the floor got an audible chuckle.

  • @DrumBum561
    @DrumBum561 Před rokem +1

    New here and loved this explanation
    Anyone know what those pictures are on his wall! I love those

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum  Před rokem +1

      They're diagrams from Nikola Tesla patents. I bought them on Etsy.

  • @SUN_Star
    @SUN_Star Před 2 lety +33

    Scientist: "You can fit 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun"
    Nick: "And I took that personally".

  • @DheerajBhaskar
    @DheerajBhaskar Před 3 lety +108

    I love the pedant clone. Just me?
    He clarifies so many nuances up, I'd just watch pedant clone videos they were made. Lol, this is probably just me 😀😀

    • @grovermatic
      @grovermatic Před 3 lety

      I got a soft spot for ol' Nerd Clone too.

    • @pouncingfoxes
      @pouncingfoxes Před 3 lety +7

      Pedant clone increases my enjoyment of Nick's videos immensely. I have a pedant clone running in my head non-stop. Example- this video, just as MY pedant clone was saying "Wait, that doesn't make sense because the Earths wouldn't maintain their shape..." Nick's Pedant clone says it for me. That way, Nick can shut both of them up and I can enjoy the video without a nagging voice in my brain!

    • @christophercharles9645
      @christophercharles9645 Před 3 lety +1

      Nerd Clone needs to cast off the yoke of Nick Lucid and start his own channel. To the NerdVision Studios!

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid Před 3 lety +2

      @@pouncingfoxes haha same. And even if the clone makes points that I wouldn't have made, I just know that half the comments section would've been "well, actually..." So it's a great way to pre-empt an overzealous comments section without going into the nitty gritty of everything right from the start.

    • @jamesharmer9293
      @jamesharmer9293 Před 3 lety

      I like the way that the nerd clone has his glasses fixed with tape. As a fellow nerd, I can totally relate...

  • @80jgifford
    @80jgifford Před 2 lety +233

    You should send the extra beads to Nick Zammetti! He has a great CZcams channel where he casts items in resin and then makes things out of them.

    • @walnutsandbeastiality866
      @walnutsandbeastiality866 Před 2 lety +3

      ,,A measly 26 grand? [Scoffs]
      Jesus, you're like Peter Minuit with the Indians. Throw in some **beads and shells** while you're at it."
      (Jimmy McGill, Better Call Saul, 2015)

    • @slavdog3180
      @slavdog3180 Před 2 lety +3

      @@walnutsandbeastiality866 If you were looking for someone to get that, you found them

    • @walnutsandbeastiality866
      @walnutsandbeastiality866 Před 2 lety

      @@slavdog3180 Nah: not unless they're @nal beads lol

    • @f1shyspace
      @f1shyspace Před 2 lety +1

      What da f r i c K

  • @adrianprice5724
    @adrianprice5724 Před rokem +1

    Nice vid,very interesting

  • @MrToxicB1izzard
    @MrToxicB1izzard Před 2 lety +95

    This is a huge video to explain a very basic geometry problem and I absolutely love it!