Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Big Numbers

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  • čas přidán 23. 04. 2024
  • 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s the estimated number of stars in the universe. That’s a pretty big number. But, how did we get here? And, can we go bigger? You bet we can go bigger. In this video, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice are here to help you understand how big some numbers truly are.
    We have to start small. Neil takes us from a simple million to a billion and then way beyond anything you’re imagining. You’ll learn how many stars are in our galaxy. And, how many galaxies are in our universe. What does the number really mean in the scale of everything?
    How long would it take you to count to a billion? How long would it take you to count to a trillion? Then, we cross the point where numbers get so big that you have to start using words to describe them. Discover more about a mole, a googol, a googolplex, and Skewes’ number. After this video, you’ll look at numbers a whole different way!
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    0:00 - Introduction
    0:46 - Exponential Notation
    2:01 - Billions
    2:41 - How Much Money Does Jeff Bezos Have?
    4:16 - How Many Hamburgers Has McDonald’s Sold?
    4:33 - Trillions
    5:10 - A Billion Seconds in Years
    5:41 - How Long Does It Take To Count To A Trillion?
    6:30 - Quadrillions
    7:36 - Quintillions
    8:50 - Sextillions
    9:48 - Moles
    12:41 - The Sum of All Particles
    13:05 - Googol
    14:09 - Googolplex
    16:35 - Skewes’ Number
    17:55 - Closing
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  • @daddoesthings9461
    @daddoesthings9461 Před 3 lety +807

    I love how Neil genuinely goes back and forth from hysterical to dead serious explaining something in a matter of seconds

    • @joshuageorge7997
      @joshuageorge7997 Před 2 lety +22

      Easily among the best scientific illustrators to exist

    • @BlakeGibbons
      @BlakeGibbons Před 2 lety +19

      It's called fake laughing so the other person will just shut up and let you finish your point.

    • @irenaveksler1935
      @irenaveksler1935 Před 2 lety +4

      @@BlakeGibbons okay?

    • @SqaurebearSqaurebear
      @SqaurebearSqaurebear Před rokem +2

      @@joshuageorge7997 Amongsus

    • @mgrootemaat
      @mgrootemaat Před rokem

      Likewise I hate how the other guy is or pretends to be as smart as a 6 year old.

  • @thelants8569
    @thelants8569 Před 4 lety +339

    6 year old me: Dad, what's the biggest number?
    My Dad: It's a big number.

    • @imadetheuniverse4fun
      @imadetheuniverse4fun Před 4 lety +11

      He wasn't wrong.

    • @nebtheweb8885
      @nebtheweb8885 Před 4 lety +3

      Reminds me of the Cosmos segment where Carl Sagan explains a GooGOL Plex. czcams.com/video/0lFQOmb6mVs/video.html

    • @animationspace8550
      @animationspace8550 Před 3 lety +2

      My dad said it's a trillion, and I wondered what happened to a trillion and one.

    • @JoeMarine
      @JoeMarine Před 3 lety +1

      1 with as many zeros...lol

    • @Speed001
      @Speed001 Před 3 lety +2

      The biggest number is the biggest number.

  • @theinterruptedlife1783
    @theinterruptedlife1783 Před rokem +50

    If you cant express it simply, you have not learnt it yet. How beautifully Mr.Tyson potrays this.

    • @larrycurrycarpediem
      @larrycurrycarpediem Před 11 měsíci +4

      That's one to grow on. I tip my hat to you sir!!!!

    • @ianmikael3019
      @ianmikael3019 Před 8 měsíci +2

      well said!

    • @theinterruptedlife1783
      @theinterruptedlife1783 Před 8 měsíci

      @@ianmikael3019 it has helped me in my work life. I am a hardware engineer and technical stuff is really important. I keep digging unless I understand it simply
      Luckily I also have a mentee and therefore I have someone to explain things to

  • @sreenathc
    @sreenathc Před 2 lety +104

    Neil is one seriously brilliant educator….his explanation with analogies, and giving Aha moments is just amazing!

  • @365er
    @365er Před 4 lety +2046

    you guys have the best dynamic of knowledge and comedy in your shows. great content

    • @reallymysterious4393
      @reallymysterious4393 Před 4 lety +39

      Only to be rivaled by a press conference featuring Fauci and Trump ...

    • @polat__
      @polat__ Před 4 lety +9

      Indeed, simple, funny and educational by high-degree astrophysicist

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 Před 4 lety +1

      What about buzz liteyear?

    • @matt4787
      @matt4787 Před 4 lety +14

      I must have missed the comedy.

    • @MonsieurDrobot
      @MonsieurDrobot Před 4 lety +2

      It’s sci fi babble at it’s finest. Neil gets paid a dollar for ever idiot that still believes humans exist in the opposite direction below them on “the other side of the world.”🙃😹🥂 Needless to say, there’s a ton of sci fi programmed retards that still think they exist on the exterior of an infinitely ballerina twirling lava filled dirt ball that gracefully moves with nearly ZERO turbulence as it whizzes around the sun in the air we are all breathing.😹😹😹🌍🤾🏻‍♂️🗑

  • @gigifox9004
    @gigifox9004 Před 3 lety +530

    “A yahoo” 😆 He wins

  • @StaticBlaster
    @StaticBlaster Před rokem +9

    You should do a part 2 to this and talk about Graham's number, Tree(3), and countable/uncountable ordinals, Rayo's number, and absolute infinity. And the Hilbert Hotel paradox.

  • @hatebreeder999
    @hatebreeder999 Před 3 lety +4

    Amazing. This was much needed. Do something similar for extremly small numbers too

  • @Varrik159
    @Varrik159 Před 4 lety +398

    "You don't know inconceivable yet"
    It was such a throwaway comment but I love it XD

    • @carealoo744
      @carealoo744 Před 3 lety +2

      I happened to skip ahead through the video, and landed right where he said that :)

    • @NathanY0ung
      @NathanY0ung Před 3 lety +4

      Can I drink you?

    • @Varrik159
      @Varrik159 Před 3 lety +5

      @@NathanY0ung Yes. Yes you can.

    • @Robo-xk4jm
      @Robo-xk4jm Před 3 lety +2

      Especially since they were only at quadrillion

    • @Puppy_Puppington
      @Puppy_Puppington Před 3 lety

      In my peripheral vision, ur profile picture looked like that little ninja people have... it’s so Trippy looking at it directly and realizing it’s not.

  • @bitcores
    @bitcores Před 4 lety +397

    "There are air molecules that were breathed by Genghis Khan"
    That's not the only thing I have from Genghis Khan.

    • @evo2542
      @evo2542 Před 4 lety +24

      uh.... his genes?

    • @frocat5163
      @frocat5163 Před 4 lety +58

      Giggity. Or would it be Genghiggity?

    • @Purrfect_Werecat
      @Purrfect_Werecat Před 4 lety +3

      uwu?

    • @Wikidspidr
      @Wikidspidr Před 4 lety +8

      @@frocat5163 lol, underrated

    • @xxx-js9go
      @xxx-js9go Před 4 lety +7

      @@frocat5163 uh family guy, I see you're a man of culture

  • @burnout_2017
    @burnout_2017 Před rokem +7

    These videos are so fun and interesting and educational all at the same time. Please keep them coming

  • @urieowrjdf
    @urieowrjdf Před 3 lety +5

    You make your shows seems so simple and that it just popped into your head...but you obviously put in a lot of effort into these shows and I would just like to say that I appreciate it very much!

  • @ericson0504
    @ericson0504 Před 3 lety +503

    I had a headache before I started watching this, now my brain is leaking out of my ear.

    • @timkremer6329
      @timkremer6329 Před 3 lety +11

      Leak on me

    • @Turn420
      @Turn420 Před 3 lety +3

      Yeah, watching these are not really a cure for headaches

    • @Sejal001
      @Sejal001 Před 3 lety +3

      @@timkremer6329 😂

    • @chasemiller7974
      @chasemiller7974 Před 3 lety +2

      Well atleast your headache is gone.

    • @benjackson9299
      @benjackson9299 Před 2 lety +2

      Search:
      Neil deGrasse Tyson meets Post Malone
      It’s hilarious! 😂 😆

  • @Explorer724
    @Explorer724 Před 4 lety +188

    chuck.exe has stopped working 15:03

    • @naysayer8772
      @naysayer8772 Před 4 lety +4

      Ghost In The Shell 😂

    • @M1w2a3n4s5a
      @M1w2a3n4s5a Před 4 lety +3

      😂😂😂

    • @theduder2617
      @theduder2617 Před 4 lety +6

      Core system dump. He should be scanned for errors, then restored to his latest recovery point. I suspect an over-clocking issue based on how long it took to write the dump file and restart.
      lol

    • @jeffreyfahie1502
      @jeffreyfahie1502 Před 4 lety

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @youpratter
      @youpratter Před 4 lety

      you must be a millennial :)

  • @andrew1072
    @andrew1072 Před 2 lety

    I just love how enthusiastic they are about big numbers. Chucks face when he is told about a Google plex is excellent.

  • @The-binge_710
    @The-binge_710 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I love your content 😁 great work

  • @RandallStephens397
    @RandallStephens397 Před 4 lety +248

    "It's a googolplex. It's a big number."
    - Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2020

    • @TheDisorganizedNerd
      @TheDisorganizedNerd Před 3 lety +3

      It's 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
      Times
      10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 so I'm not typing that but Google might count a googolplex. Granted it would take a lot of time but still

    • @69erthx1138
      @69erthx1138 Před 3 lety +1

      I still remember as a kid watching the original Cosmos. and Carl Sagan explaining the googal by rolling out a scroll he carried for a long distance, then blowing your mind further by saying, "now take the one followed by one million zeros and raise it to the power of itself."

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 Před 3 lety +1

      @@TheDisorganizedNerd Not even close

    • @TheDisorganizedNerd
      @TheDisorganizedNerd Před 3 lety

      @@MadScientist267 when i said that i meant im not typing out the extended version of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
      to the power of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 thats what i meant by im not typing out a google plex and im not sure if google has the server space for it.

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 Před 3 lety +2

      @@TheDisorganizedNerd I suspected... But had to run with what was there... You used the word "times", indicating simple multiplication, not the exponential equivalent, that's all... So it came up horribly short 🤣

  • @lukeh2379
    @lukeh2379 Před 4 lety +115

    It’s cool that he showed the universe is not only incomprehensibly large but also incomprehensibly small.

    • @rravitejamavr6650
      @rravitejamavr6650 Před 4 lety +2

      Woow great perspective!

    • @Drinnan
      @Drinnan Před 3 lety +5

      The universe is smaller than it is larger

    • @apolicum
      @apolicum Před 3 lety +5

      @@Drinnan Everything by definition is smaller than it is larger

    • @st.clairbij9208
      @st.clairbij9208 Před 3 lety +1

      @@apolicum How do you mean?

    • @jordanlong00
      @jordanlong00 Před 3 lety +2

      @@st.clairbij9208 I'm not sure I'm correct, but given that the smallest any given object could be is a single point in the universe, and there is no upper limit for volume given the infinite size of the universe, everything is closer to the smallest that it can be than the largest

  • @zachc.1923
    @zachc.1923 Před rokem

    This has officially become my favorite thing ever watched on CZcams in the last 7 years.

  • @ianwomer6637
    @ianwomer6637 Před rokem +1

    “That’s a googleplex, it’s a big number” 😂 dead

  • @originalhazelgreene
    @originalhazelgreene Před 3 lety +174

    I love how you make this information understandable by the common person. But not talking down to us in the process. Thank you ❤️

  • @M_Alexander
    @M_Alexander Před 3 lety +197

    "The total number of combinations of how you could orient the matter in the universe."
    I got a little unsteady on my feet processing that sentence

    • @nebojsanikolic254
      @nebojsanikolic254 Před 3 lety +6

      You too huh 😶

    • @No1_Inpa_Ticular
      @No1_Inpa_Ticular Před 3 lety +6

      And I thought all the combinations of possible winning lottery numbers was big...

    • @phil7218
      @phil7218 Před 3 lety +7

      Which means that given enough time the combination of matter that makes up you could happen again and you would exist again!

    • @moeschajackson5326
      @moeschajackson5326 Před 3 lety +2

      a. Me too lol😂

    • @M_Alexander
      @M_Alexander Před 3 lety +3

      @@phil7218 there would be uncountable iterations where you exist exactly as you do now but literally everything else is every possible kind of different

  • @bluerain9104
    @bluerain9104 Před 2 lety

    I love these explainer videos!

  • @TheStarlightKing
    @TheStarlightKing Před rokem +26

    First time hearing about Skewes' number. I was always told that a googolplex is the largest number.

    • @JustLeftLeg
      @JustLeftLeg Před rokem +4

      dude, you can always +1 to any number to get a bigger one, theres no such thing as "the largest" number. Thats why there is a term "infinity"

    • @Krisztian1941
      @Krisztian1941 Před rokem +2

      It's the largest that has its own name, other than "someone's number".

    • @JustLeftLeg
      @JustLeftLeg Před rokem

      @@Krisztian1941 so now we actually talking. By "largest number" you mean the furtherst you can comparably count something and name it. Cuz as I said, there are always a bigger number and also, there are "big" numbers on the other side of the spectrum. Just use not positive but negative powers of 10. But not many people talk about it cuz theres nothing to count with these numbers.

    • @metaltyphoon
      @metaltyphoon Před rokem +5

      Graham's number. Is much larger than Skewes thats is actually applicable to a problem. There is even a notation, the arrow notation, used to write down the last few digits of the number.

    • @donsmith3167
      @donsmith3167 Před rokem

      No, Infinity is the Biggest number, and it's so big that a googolplex is just as far from infinity as the Number 1

  • @Jay-Kaizo
    @Jay-Kaizo Před 4 lety +445

    I like hearing what Chuck has to say in between Neil's explanations. He's very valuable to this show in my opinion. Love Chuck. :D

  • @trevorflensted3233
    @trevorflensted3233 Před 3 lety +135

    When I read the title I thought you were talking about big numbers like 7 or 14

    • @trevorflensted3233
      @trevorflensted3233 Před 3 lety +4

      @Sagenth the amount of between when this was posted and you replied is bigger than all the numbers he said in this video

    • @DFord301
      @DFord301 Před 3 lety +5

      @@trevorflensted3233 Actually 3 months have passed since u posted this so that's 7,890,000 seconds (googled it 😁) Jeff Bezos still wins

    • @theanglohouse601
      @theanglohouse601 Před 3 lety

      LOL!

    • @petergriffin8767
      @petergriffin8767 Před 3 lety +1

      @@DFord301 how many 1^-9999999999999 seconds? checkmate loser

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 Před 3 lety +1

      @@petergriffin8767 lame

  • @evanhdez
    @evanhdez Před 3 lety +15

    Once I learned about Graham"s Number, Tree(3), and Rayo(10^100) all these numbers seem really small to me. In fact once I learned about Knuth's Up Arrow notation I was blown away by the size that numbers can become.

  • @ShinyGroudon
    @ShinyGroudon Před 2 lety +1

    of all the episodes i have watched. this one absolutely blew my mind further open, than the rest.

  • @Chartovar
    @Chartovar Před 4 lety +93

    Whomever came with the idea of pairing Neil with Chuck is a genius. Neil’s topics can be, at times, really tough to follow, but having Chuck there to offer a more playful way to approach those topics is what I call “a winning combination”.

    • @rottenpoet6675
      @rottenpoet6675 Před 4 lety +4

      you know I tought the opposite...Neil make it funny enough....I dont need a comment hussar for his explanations

    • @donrico8212
      @donrico8212 Před 4 lety +3

      I find Chuck corny

    • @vihashah5975
      @vihashah5975 Před 3 lety +5

      I like Chuck cuz he’s normal and if he doesn’t understand then probably an average person would not understand as well so I guess it helps Neil for like when he need to simplify more or not..

    • @THEronleon1
      @THEronleon1 Před 3 lety +1

      @@donrico8212 I agree. No offense, but I can't get a laugh out of his attempts.

    • @donrico8212
      @donrico8212 Před 3 lety +3

      @@THEronleon1 agree. I have never laughed at anything he has said and alot of times I find he takes away from something interesting NDT is saying

  • @rossdatwelder
    @rossdatwelder Před 4 lety +53

    Neal’s laugh is so wholesome.

  • @OtakumaVII
    @OtakumaVII Před 2 lety +1

    this blew my mind. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanation and charisma so much.

  • @michaelschwartz9485
    @michaelschwartz9485 Před rokem +1

    Chuck Norris can write a googolplex on one sheet of paper.

  • @treborironwolfe978
    @treborironwolfe978 Před 4 lety +185

    This episode of *StarTalk* was unofficially sponsored by the makers of *Advil*

    • @JimLigon
      @JimLigon Před 4 lety +3

      BAHAHAHAHA! I literally laughed aloud when I read that. Hilarious. Thank you.

    • @PixelPhobiac
      @PixelPhobiac Před 4 lety

      Or any pain killers for that matter 😉

    • @nothisispatrick6832
      @nothisispatrick6832 Před 4 lety

      clever very clever

  • @2br
    @2br Před 3 lety +272

    its an honor for all coming generations to breath molecules from you Mr.Tyson 🙌

    • @DarkSkay
      @DarkSkay Před 3 lety +18

      And to drink water molecules that went through Marilyn Monroes kidneys ;)

    • @EarlHare
      @EarlHare Před 3 lety

      ...............

    • @shared29
      @shared29 Před 2 lety

      @@DarkSkay r/cursedcomments

    • @Competitive_Antagonist
      @Competitive_Antagonist Před 2 lety +1

      There's probabably a serious market for that.

  • @mike814031
    @mike814031 Před rokem +1

    17:03 oh yeah? Well what about skews number to the skews number, to the skews number? 🤔 I'm kidding, my brain hurts

  • @Mike504
    @Mike504 Před 2 lety +1

    Niel explains really big numbers.
    Ronald Graham: hold my beer.

  • @spidaxtreme
    @spidaxtreme Před 3 lety +67

    Friend: How did you know the answer to that problem?
    Me: I just 10^100ed it.

    • @joltster109
      @joltster109 Před 3 lety +3

      That's one way to make a mathematician laugh 😆

    • @ariyanmiah54
      @ariyanmiah54 Před 3 lety +2

      Me: I just 10^(10^100)ed it

    • @evanhdez
      @evanhdez Před 3 lety

      @@ariyanmiah54 that's a googolplex

  • @I-VisiBomb-I
    @I-VisiBomb-I Před 4 lety +64

    No one:
    me at 4am: its a big number

    • @PafMedic
      @PafMedic Před 4 lety

      I VisiBomb I ,I Just Woke Up,Its 0315😂😂😂😂

    • @dheerajrao2179
      @dheerajrao2179 Před 3 lety +1

      4:31 here

    • @PafMedic
      @PafMedic Před 3 lety

      Dheeraj Rao 7:56 PM Now,Sun Is Just Setting,Im Getting My Telescope and Camera Set Up

  • @michaell.8938
    @michaell.8938 Před rokem

    I love this show. I always get introduced to a new way of looking at something.

  • @SuperiorWare
    @SuperiorWare Před rokem +3

    5:15 When you deal with physics you can calculate so many things you had questions about. Like how many heartbeats gave done so far.vAll this can be calculated

  • @maxbell9723
    @maxbell9723 Před 3 lety +76

    I almost became a math major in the 1st minute of this

  • @nekojtamu6065
    @nekojtamu6065 Před 3 lety +57

    How lucky must we be to live in this century and be able to grasp new knowledge this easily...

  • @mike814031
    @mike814031 Před rokem +5

    At the end I would have asked Neil is there anything that blows his mind after everything he knows? I'd love to know what he tries to wrap his mind around, because he's got this vast amount of interesting knowledge, I really wish someone would have asked him that. And Incase you're reading this Neil, I've been a big fan of yours for quite a while!

  • @FranciscoJNarez
    @FranciscoJNarez Před 2 lety

    This is the first video I have seen of these two. Probably one of my favorite shows ever now!!

    • @andrewm000
      @andrewm000 Před rokem

      My advice to you is to binge Neil DT.
      Search for the video of "What keeps Neil up at night"

  • @drcraby356
    @drcraby356 Před 4 lety +136

    Skewes Number:
    _BIG_
    .
    Graham:
    Im bouta end this mans whole career

    • @Einyen
      @Einyen Před 3 lety +42

      TREE(3): Graham worry about your own career
      Rayo's number: Hello guys!!!

    • @Sparkz147
      @Sparkz147 Před 3 lety +14

      einyen1 Did numberphile send you too? 😆

    • @moosemoomintoog230
      @moosemoomintoog230 Před 3 lety +8

      ​@@Einyen Rayo's Number for the win. It's so big it's just a concept.

    • @matthewwargo6266
      @matthewwargo6266 Před 3 lety +7

      Hey, what’s up my numberphile guys

    • @MajdFreiji
      @MajdFreiji Před 3 lety +1

      The universe will reset itself.

  • @hafsasj
    @hafsasj Před 4 lety +75

    Neil has always been the reason why I am interested in science. Though having Chuck there really helps getting things easily !

  • @user-vt4bz2vl6j
    @user-vt4bz2vl6j Před 2 měsíci

    Skew's Number : I'm Big.
    Graham's number in the corner : Hold my funny notation.

  • @blizzbee
    @blizzbee Před 2 lety +2

    I almost died when i heard the "Yahoo" in this video 😂🤣😆

  • @rosiesullivan9150
    @rosiesullivan9150 Před 4 lety +188

    "Is that called a Yahoo?" - Chuck 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 This was an amazing explanation. Thank you for continuously educating me, Neil! Thanks for the laughs, Chuck!

    • @voidremoved
      @voidremoved Před 4 lety

      No number big enough to measure my yahoo baby. What about YOUR number, sugar?

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL Před 4 lety +1

      Rosie Sullivan I chuckled a bit, but the there is a logic error.
      Number: Googol.
      Company: Google.
      Company: Yahoo.
      Number should be Yahuu or something.

    • @damyr
      @damyr Před 4 lety +1

      @@XtreeM_FaiL No. It's called zillion.

    • @rosiesullivan9150
      @rosiesullivan9150 Před 4 lety

      @@XtreeM_FaiL 😂

  • @omegagaming7865
    @omegagaming7865 Před 4 lety +147

    Much love u 2. Hated Science when I was in school but since then you have opened my mind and ive learnt so much. Inspirational and educational... Can't go wrong

  • @alanhehe4508
    @alanhehe4508 Před 11 měsíci

    Fun and informative!!

  • @bradarmagost1541
    @bradarmagost1541 Před rokem

    Is that the U.S. Space Force logos @ 1:22 in the bottom the left of nice in the pic frame!? If so nice touch!

  • @chrishodgson5430
    @chrishodgson5430 Před 3 lety +38

    This blows my mind and somehow I really do understand big numbers better. Neil is like the Led Zeppelin of science.

  • @DizzNutt93
    @DizzNutt93 Před 3 lety +51

    Absolutely amazing! Neil DeGrasse Tyson said that you should always have your mind blown at least once a day, and it's really wonderful seeing him contribute to that and help others achieve that goal with facts that once blew his very own mind. Truly inspirational!

  • @marcelo.n
    @marcelo.n Před rokem +7

    The chemistry between these two is even more amazing than the most complex star in the sky. Great video!

  • @theodore8595
    @theodore8595 Před 3 lety +1

    learned a lot, thank you!

  • @Radiant_OWL
    @Radiant_OWL Před 3 lety +36

    9:44 “But let’s keep goin....I’m not done witchuu”
    Preach Neil...preach.

  • @kepler1175
    @kepler1175 Před 3 lety +22

    “and is that called a Yahoo?” Just found this series and I’m deeply in love with the combination of these two

  • @PopeLando
    @PopeLando Před 3 lety +2

    Ron Graham : Hold my beer.
    TREE(3) : Hold the combination of things in the Universe raised to Graham's beers.

  • @jonalthehost3232
    @jonalthehost3232 Před rokem +17

    If I would of known about Neil when I was a kid, I would of probably have a major in science. Man this guy just makes me want to learn more and ask more questions

    • @bitspacemusic
      @bitspacemusic Před rokem

      Basics first, young Grasshopper: It's *would've, as in would have. Would of doesn't mean anything. Your second part there even becomes weird because of this mix up, "I would've probably have a major in science", instead of "I would probably have a..." It's never too late to pick up the books. Of a nice day!

    • @jonalthehost3232
      @jonalthehost3232 Před rokem +3

      ​@@bitspacemusic When idle time tempts one to correct the grammar of strangers on the internet, you know it's too much. Don't go getting carried away now! Many of us are familiar with the basics of proper writing and yet somehow end up neglecting them in favor of phrases we compose without thought. It's a commonplace occurrence, but hey, it’s the internet, Go Nuts!

    • @bitspacemusic
      @bitspacemusic Před rokem

      @@jonalthehost3232 I love you, if that means anything on the internet.

  • @abdullahemad9457
    @abdullahemad9457 Před 3 lety +33

    Glad he didn’t mention grahams number
    Now that would’ve taken an hour to just say how big of a number it is

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Před 2 lety +4

      Even if you use a stack of exponents, there aren't enough particles in the universe to write down Graham's number.
      And then there's TREE(3), which makes Graham's number look insignificant.

    • @alexlocke178
      @alexlocke178 Před 2 lety +3

      Or Rayo's number.

  • @Brockthedog315
    @Brockthedog315 Před 3 lety +80

    My favorite part about about Neil is how easily he is amused. Probably why he has gained so much knowledge.

  • @Flaeren
    @Flaeren Před 3 lety +4

    10^10^10^56 years: the amount of time you need to wait for the next big bang :) but hey, it's not forever.

  • @psychachu
    @psychachu Před 3 lety +1

    This is one of my favourite ones.

  • @theodores.johnson7734
    @theodores.johnson7734 Před 4 lety +9

    An 18 minute Neil Degrasse Tyson video has more ads than the sun has hydrogen molecules.

    • @ninjafukwan7
      @ninjafukwan7 Před 4 lety +1

      Ads..? what Ads?

    • @theodores.johnson7734
      @theodores.johnson7734 Před 4 lety

      Joe Horn is still subscribed to Watch Mojo. It’s cute really, I remember my first you tube account.

  • @jakeportolese4031
    @jakeportolese4031 Před 4 lety +12

    You can’t find amazing content like this anywhere else! Love it!!

  • @sammichaels3757
    @sammichaels3757 Před rokem

    7:05 … my new phrase. “Say that again… because that was a weird thing you just said”

  • @spysmile123
    @spysmile123 Před rokem

    These videos are underrated.. It just blew my mind and my ego destroyed.

  • @droniholland7185
    @droniholland7185 Před 3 lety +50

    this is absolutely incredibly unconceivable. learning what a googolplex really is, absolutely blew my mind. thank you, Neil.

    • @jlnger149
      @jlnger149 Před rokem +1

      Next is a Googolplexian, which is 10^10^10^100 or 1 x 10^googolplex zeros. And don't get me started on TREE 3 and Graham's Number. 🤯🤯🤯

    • @SmileFlame3
      @SmileFlame3 Před rokem

      @@jlnger149 yes

  • @Kevin-ul8ux
    @Kevin-ul8ux Před 3 lety +8

    "...you have 10 to the google power." "Is that called a yahoo?"- the wittiest joke I've heard Chuck make to date.

  • @manny011
    @manny011 Před rokem

    Wonderful video !

  • @ibrahimjaleel5900
    @ibrahimjaleel5900 Před 2 lety

    Excellent.
    Speechless.
    Mind boggling.

  • @aliciawiley6479
    @aliciawiley6479 Před 3 lety +5

    I will be using this in my Algebra class next year when we talk about exponents. Awesome!

  • @WordUnheard
    @WordUnheard Před 3 lety +18

    I love Neil deGrasse Tyson. He really does help make this pandemic a little more bearable.

  • @davidnemirow5476
    @davidnemirow5476 Před 2 lety +1

    Gives new meaning to the googelaphonic speaker system. Great Steve Martin routine. And don’t forget your moon rock needle for the record player

  • @sphumelelesijadu
    @sphumelelesijadu Před 2 lety +1

    It's when Chuck said a Yahoo for me😂😂

  • @johnny_veritas
    @johnny_veritas Před 3 lety +22

    I always get a tingling in my spine when Neil gets to the number of stars in the universe.

  • @kapilshenviamonkar4641
    @kapilshenviamonkar4641 Před 3 lety +39

    "This is in conceivable."
    Neil deGrasse Tyson: "We're getting there. You haven't seen inconceivable yet." 😍😍

    • @LauraTenora
      @LauraTenora Před 2 lety +1

      America: "one billion"
      Rest of us: "One thousand million" (10 ^ 9)
      America: "one trillion"
      Rest of us: "one billion" (one million million) ( 10 ^ 12)
      America: "one quadrillion"
      Rest of us: "one thousand billion"
      America: " 1 quintillion"
      Rest of us: "1 trillion"
      America: " 1 sextillion"
      Rest of us: " one thousand trillion"
      America: " 1 septillion"
      Rest of us: 1 quadrillion
      America 1 octillion
      Rest of us: one thousand quadrillion
      America: 1 nonillion
      Rest of us: 1 quintillion

  • @eulersfollower7140
    @eulersfollower7140 Před 3 lety +2

    I started shouting when Neil said there ain't enough room for googleplex😭😭

    • @evanhdez
      @evanhdez Před 3 lety

      I recommend you watch numberphile video on Graham's number. It will blow your mind

  • @vids2see4me
    @vids2see4me Před 2 měsíci

    Most definitely one of my favorite mind blowing episodes... And you two have many mind blowing episodes.
    Thanks, yet again, for pushing my lazy brain to work harder!

  • @bourkey07
    @bourkey07 Před 4 lety +8

    You guys have awesome chemistry, I love the show! And I could listen to Neil talk about absolutely anything for hours on end 😂

  • @aaronnalder4177
    @aaronnalder4177 Před 3 lety +3

    I read once that there are more possible ways a standard deck of playing cards can be shuffled then there are atoms in the universe. Meaning, when you shuffled a deck of cards, it's very likely that no other deck of cards has ever been in that order, ever! Pretty cool stuff.

  • @brooklynbarber8946
    @brooklynbarber8946 Před rokem

    This is my favorite Star Talk episode of all time. 👌

  • @nijapp
    @nijapp Před 2 lety

    Great explainer guys.

  • @HiR0SHi.the.D0G
    @HiR0SHi.the.D0G Před 4 lety +62

    I had no idea what Jeff Bezos can do with 1$-bills.

    • @renatoigmed
      @renatoigmed Před 4 lety +2

      try save air companies from bankruptcy maybe?

    • @cryptid1925
      @cryptid1925 Před 4 lety +1

      he can go around the earth 200 times and then to the moon and back 10 times

    • @insane_troll
      @insane_troll Před 4 lety +2

      He can't because there aren't that many dollar bills.

    • @cryptid1925
      @cryptid1925 Před 4 lety +1

      @@insane_troll If you listened to the whole video carefully, you would know there are enough bills.

    • @GetFunnied
      @GetFunnied Před 4 lety +1

      enslave the world

  • @kingbooming2362
    @kingbooming2362 Před 4 lety +59

    Neil has a godly explanation for everything, like he can make you understand how a baby crawls in a satisfying video 😂

    • @ikitclaw7146
      @ikitclaw7146 Před 4 lety +5

      He is just such an amazing communicator, that he can take even a relatively boring subject matter, in this case numbers, then blow your freeking mind by giving it all perspective, in a way you can understand. Hes the teacher for the world, anyone who will listen he will gladly interrupt you and talk all day about the universe lol

    • @levelplanet3841
      @levelplanet3841 Před 4 lety +1

      you poor poor gullible thing

    • @janelwilliams9144
      @janelwilliams9144 Před 4 lety

      it's that enthusiasm he has- it's contagious! I was just imagining how vastly different school would have been for me if ANY of my teachers had had even HALF the love of knowledge and passion for learning as this man does....SO glad I stumbled across his channel!!

    • @janelwilliams9144
      @janelwilliams9144 Před 4 lety

      @@levelplanet3841 ? who is gullible

    • @rudy6222
      @rudy6222 Před 4 lety

      Keksi can you?

  • @marccaracal7443
    @marccaracal7443 Před rokem

    "The Yahoo?" 🤣 This one is gold.

  • @silvja8868
    @silvja8868 Před 2 lety

    How great are these videos?! 💗

  • @lordxtheth2634
    @lordxtheth2634 Před 3 lety +110

    I once got really bored in school, and tried writing out a Google. I had 100 pages of 0s before I gave up.
    It was an amazing waste of paper.

    • @SRC1923
      @SRC1923 Před 3 lety +4

      you weren't even close to a google tho

    • @Corn0nTheCobb
      @Corn0nTheCobb Před 3 lety +66

      A googol is a 1 with only a hundred zeros. You definitely went way way past that number because I'm sure you wrote more than one digit on each page

    • @TaiFerret
      @TaiFerret Před 3 lety +23

      A googol is 100100100100110101101001001011001010011000011011111001110101100001011001001111000010011000100110011100000101111110011100010101100111001000000100011100010000100011010011111001010101010110010010000110000100010101000001011101000111100010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
      in binary.

    • @Neidrahwow
      @Neidrahwow Před 3 lety +9

      Seems you just didn't understand what a google is, because you could write it on a single page of paper.

    • @Ken.-
      @Ken.- Před 3 lety +8

      A lot of people don't seem to realize that he wasn't trying to write out a "googol". He was trying to write out the entire internet.

  • @JangaLangaBanga
    @JangaLangaBanga Před 4 lety +19

    I would love to hear Neil's take on the art behind him. Why he chose it, what he likes about it. It'd be cool to hear the way he thinks about art.

    • @ssbothwell
      @ssbothwell Před 4 lety +1

      Yes! Yes yes! YEEEESSSSS!!!! 😁

    • @mikes.7545
      @mikes.7545 Před 4 lety +1

      Indeed. I just noticed them the on in the middle is the universe but the two on side look like doves representing some form of ying and yang dope af

  • @ankitsarkhel1750
    @ankitsarkhel1750 Před rokem +4

    Absolutely loved the explainer. Also, Dr. Neil you forgot to mention the fact that a 3X3 rubik's cube has approximately 43.252003 quintillion different ways to scramble it.

    • @alvaroq2024
      @alvaroq2024 Před rokem +3

      He didn’t forget to mention it, it just didn’t come up.

    • @chriswebster24
      @chriswebster24 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Nah, he just didn't know that.

  • @thebeyonder8814
    @thebeyonder8814 Před 2 lety +1

    Incredibly well done 👍

  • @zangorajura
    @zangorajura Před 4 lety +18

    Dayum, chuck does really need money judging from the amount of ads in this video lol, love the vid content anyway as always ❤️

  • @JoseCouto1234
    @JoseCouto1234 Před 4 lety +37

    A googolplex of likes for this episode... :-)

    • @vincentxu8217
      @vincentxu8217 Před 4 lety +3

      Google's server doesn't have enough processing power for this many likes

    • @johntracy72
      @johntracy72 Před 4 lety +1

      Even that is as far from infinity as one is....

    • @davidacosta9158
      @davidacosta9158 Před 4 lety

      john tracy infinity is not a number

  • @vassa1972
    @vassa1972 Před 2 lety

    Great stuff

  • @BriannasPlanet
    @BriannasPlanet Před 2 lety

    “And is that called a yahoo??” 🤣🤣💀 Dead

  • @bigchunk1
    @bigchunk1 Před 4 lety +19

    I'm still sitting here impressed by how large a billion is.

    • @vihashah5975
      @vihashah5975 Před 3 lety

      bigchunk1 same it’s amazing what 100 billion can do

  • @himanshugarg2001
    @himanshugarg2001 Před 3 lety +22

    "And is that called the Yahoo?"
    I laughed way too hard

  • @davidfarrall
    @davidfarrall Před 2 lety +2

    Thanks. That was very revealing. I’ve played around with big numbers and infinite Math in my head. I wonder about the Skews number though. If it means all the combinations of all components of matter being interchangeable, what does that mean in practice? Does it mean We can eventually re-design the entire Universe? And how far are we off achieving that situation? Maybe, in the New Age and New Order, We will be able to generate that condition fairly rapidly? It’s a wonder concept hopefully it should be stable and safe?

  • @LisaRamseyArt
    @LisaRamseyArt Před rokem +1

    There are so many times in this video that I go to hit the Like button and realize I’ve already hit it.