Cursed Units by

[@1wayroad935]

At some point, someone is going to line up the right string of math equation nonsense and a magic portal will suddenly appear.

[@alexdefoc6919]

aight bet

[@rachit3981]

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[@4rch0711]

Homies on the recreational math magazines do be the most likely candidates 😂

[@gangrenekills1281]

the standard model roflmao

[@henrycgs]

pretty sure that's what physics is

[@tomevers23]

And yes, he does make the background music himself, he briefly mentions it in his second video :)

[@ericvilas]

You will _definitely_ want to react to the sequel he recently did, Cursed Units 2. It gets _very_ cursed and _extremely_ funny

[@MarcinP2]

Nobody: Department store: Kilowatt hours per hour.

[@xugro]

Even better: Kilowatt hours per thousand hour.

[@henrycgs]

@@xugro they could've gone with "kilohours" but guess fun isn't allowed...

[@AlexanderForsman]

Regarding 42: Douglas Adams just chose a random number. The fact that we notice 42 so much is simply psychological

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

Confirmation bias I think

[@hisupwassup]

to be fair, he later find an explanation. Apparently, it is a multiplication of 6 by 7 - combination of every bad and good things that comprise life

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

Just like how you notice everyone seems to be owning the same car you just bought.

[@masansr]

@@hisupwassup "combination of every bad and good things that comprise life" what the flying f does that even mean? They're just two numbers.

[@hisupwassup]

@@masansr in Western culture, 7 is commonly considered lucky number, beloved by many who believe in fortune (think of an infamous 777) therefore an overall positive. 6, on the contrary, is a rather negative number, especially when there's three of them - the Beast's number. Honestly, you could probably look it up yourself, it's 1 AM and I'm really not into numerology, but Douglas Adams did say that was the basics for the number 42, or at least that's what I heard.

[@tomevers23]

I was taught that SI meant "Standard International". French makes more sense in a sciency context though

[@alexdefoc6919]

France was the "inteligent people country" of Europe, where everything started and people went to become "inteligent"

[@MD-vs9ff]

International System of Units. The reason it's SI is because French has adjectives come after the noun instead of before like English does.

[@tomevers23]

@@MD-vs9ff yep, I heard the pronunciation. Lots of French big brains out there

[@luxrayever]

This never felt weird to me lol because in Spanish it matches the initials We say "Sistema Internacional"

[@EduardoEscarez]

8:12 He talks about those units in the second video about more curseder units 😆

[@CoolCatDoingAKickflip]

I like how you incorperated his music into your discussions when pausing.

[@Force2reckonVods]

19:55 The only hertz I'm measuring is how much this hurtz my brain but I'm makin it through!

[@someonelucas2688]

On the topic of unit conversions, the funniest one I ever encountered was that 1 year is about pi*10^7 seconds long. The error of that approximation is about 1.4 days, so less than 1%.

[@stingfiretube]

You should do more of these, wish you were my physics teacher. :)

[@AexisRai]

6:33 on this point about the music: I am reminded of the video by Owen Maitzen on the mathematical game "Hackenbush". (RIP Owen.)

[@KrasBadan]

Oh my god did he die? That's sad. What was the cause? Hackenbush is is my absolute favourite math video, I literally wrote a comment recommending it a couple of minutes ago.

[@AexisRai]

@@KrasBadan I'll let the reader google his name for that. It was 4 months after the video's release.

[@foxsotired3038]

The sequel to this is great aswell.

[@puffaliaz]

For something similar, you should check out "a joke about measurement" by jan Misali (the sequel to the video you reacted to mentions Misali's vid)

[@birb4415]

I love watching math videos that I know nothing about, just so that one day in the far future I can correct someone in a conversation. also, rizzin (raisin), lol.

[@FloatingAmongTheCosmos]

Nah Rizzin needs zero correction. Its the better word now lol

[@PlutoDarknight]

From what I have heard, the inverse Hubble constant being 14 billion years comes from the idea that, if the universe expanded uniformly at the rate the Hubble constant describes, it would have been 14 billion years old

[@RedUnit10]

My grandfather, a scientist and mathematician, would have loved this.

[@theobenavente4842]

Rizzins? In the dough??!

[@life.with.sabine]

There is a part two which is even more cursed😂

[@Sky_sus.]

Ah yes ... I remember watching this a few months ago . Amusing trivia imo

[@etatauri]

The inverse hubble constant kinda blew my mind. I know its with a big fat asterisk.

[@simonesposito9758]

The story of how mathematicians and physicists managed to keep busy all this time. XD

[@en-men-lu-ana6870]

I love the Goose Game-esque music in the background.

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

Watching this makes me so happy I'm a maths undergraduate and not a physics one😂

[@fmwyt95]

I don't know if you'll find this interesting, but here in the US we sort of have a unit of "Watt Equivalent" for light fixtures. Basically LED/CFL bulbs are advertised as the wattage of incandescent it shines as and then it's actual energy consumption is listed somewhere else on the packaging. It Works kind of like the EU's KWh/1000h thing from what it sounds like.

[@limbaksa]

now you should watch the second video, Curseder Units

[@SoMuchFacepalm]

The crossover I never knew I wanted but sorely needed.

[@IroAppe]

THe Untitled Goose Game soundtrack just fits so well to this video :D

[@4rch0711]

In our first year, it is hammered into us how mathematics is just an interpretation of our surroundings. It's always there, but most of the time, it's not obvious.

[@LivingShdw]

This video reminds me of the crazy equation for spherical aberration that came out years ago. From what I can tell, it is attributed to Rafael G. González-Acuña.

[@Magistrixification]

Random forest? My 12 year rusty physics brain is telling me that has something to do with thermodynamics? Or solid state physics?

[@john_paul_r]

11:30 I caught that you did the same thing with the music!

[@SinisterTea]

"Minstrels" by Debussy.

[@TheBismrk]

I blame the French and the English for this somehow

[@ferchrissakes]

With a name like theBismrk I would expect nothing less. But also: fair

[@leobitencourt4719]

Maybe it's 1AU instead of two for parsecs because 2AU means half a year, which means the object you're measuring is on the horizon during sunset and half a year later it's on the horizon during sunrise (with variance depending on how north/south you are), and that's not very pratical to observe

[@BrennoC_YT]

I actually didn't get what's wrong with kWh

[@sigpotato]

I understood maybe 20% of that, great video as always!

[@Electrified727]

There's a part 2 I want you to react to it

[@Hallebumba]

as always nice reaction! but you switched the channel and video links in the description ;)

[@theotherjared9824]

One of my favorite units is the cubit. A cubit is the length of the forearm to the tip of the middle finger of an average adult human. Cubits are most notably used in the bible to measure Noah's Ark and the ark of the covenant. I like it because it's like the prototype to all modern systems, as many european scientist based their own measuring systems around the cubit.

[@ferchrissakes]

Always like the unit for a rocket engine’s specific impulse: seconds. Just seconds. Or, Hz^-1 if you’re nasty. The space shuttle’s main engines were somewhat close to the inverse of standard pitch, or inverse musical A4. (A4 + 50 cents)^-1 to be precise. In vacuum.

[@hisupwassup]

who, in their wake, uses Hz^-1?! I know that s = 1/Hz and Hz = 1/s are both correct statements, but one of them is *clearly impractical*

[@ferchrissakes]

@@hisupwassup i think you missed the point, which was to have fun with, yes, impractical units that no one would use. Such as reciprocal music notation for characterizing rocket engines for no reason

[@hisupwassup]

@@ferchrissakes yeah, that makes sense. Thing is, measuring rockets in music notations is something that nobody seriously would do. Measuring time in Herz, however, could happen intentionally, and that might trigger a reaction, like me

[@nathanmorgan3663]

I would definitely recommend watching Reggie’s Kenshi videos.

[@alt_para]

nice video, you should watch part 2 next

[@mr.bixbox7672]

Math sure is overly complicated, sure am glad we don't subject kids to this sort of stuff.

[@kolyashinkarev7366]

Well, about that...

[@GrifGrey]

it's not overly complicated. it's just complicated enough to explain our absurd world.

[@tonylovesmusic6806]

curseder units please 😅

[@Braiam]

7:50 So... you have to watch the second video.

[@Hartahim]

Goose!

[@KrasBadan]

You are a great guy, hoping to see reaction of part 2 soon. I have a pretty big list of mathy videos I liked, I highly recommend watching "HACKENBUSH: a window to a new world of math". That one is my absolute favourite. Although it is 1 hour long, it is real good and really encompasses what I think is the essence of math, which is playfully coming up with rules and kinda watching what happens. I don't know if it is good content to make a reaction for, but at least watch it by to yourself, it is really worth it.

[@shadrsabirov6412]

Can light redshift so much that you stop seeing it? go beyond the visible spectrum

[@KrasBadan]

Yes, happens all the time

[@naphackDT]

That's the whole point of the James Webb space telescope.

[@fullfungo]

Yeah, for example the CMB (cosmic microwave background). As some point in history it was all visible.