How Metric Paper Works & The Whole of the Universe

[@QuarterLifeCrises]

Normal people: "hey A4 sheets fold in half and maintain the exact ratio. Cool!" CGPGrey, having his fifth existential crisis this week: "Everything is mostly nothing."

[@oliverhumphreys8141]

why

[@sheeloesreallycool]

@@oliverhumphreys8141 Who knows? Why have we done anything? Why do we focus so much on this size of paper when there are planets that must be discovered? People to meet? We could’ve done so much, but our own limits we have created have stopped us.

[@oliverhumphreys8141]

@@sheeloesreallycool ah

[@alamrasyidi4097]

"It all~ returns~ to nothing~"

[@dethor6251]

@@sheeloesreallycool human knowlage and curiosity what else

[@NintendoNerd64]

“look at this sheet of paper” *8 minutes later* “we are now at the edge of the universe”

[@mariatpena7638]

*mind blown*

[@richard6196]

We got taken for a ride for sure.

[@simon-pierrelussier2775]

And that happens to be how long it took photons to leave the photosphere of the sun and reach earth.

[@dahscreamingeagle3473]

well that escalated very quickly

[@Mrityunjay7]

@@simon-pierrelussier2775 If that was intended then I believe Grey is the best story teller I have seen

[@The-Rest-of-Us]

I came here for light entertainment. I left with an existential crisis.

[@atchaaa]

yep

[@rovsea-3761]

You need not fear an existential crisis such as this. Personally, I find it almost more freeing that we may be utterly insignificant in the scale of the universe, observable or otherwise. I think it allows us to set our own limits, our own expectations, rather than trying to find some sort of universal expectation of what should be.

[@YouTubeGetsWorseEveryUpdate]

Well, there is mostly nothing to worry about.

[@blagoevski336]

Lol

[@AMA-Online]

Part of me agrees with you but the other part is left infinitely hopeful.

[@juancuelloespinosa]

I always find it interesting that there are more subdivisions down than we have doublings up. the planck length is at 226, where the observable universe ends at 184

[@bioemiliano]

Yeah, we are in the larger part of the middle of everything.

[@zanorok5896]

Well I mean it's based off a piece of paper so that doesn't really mean much tbh

[@Qaptyl]

proportionally, our cells are in the middle

[@TheBswan]

@@zanorok5896 sure it does; it means that on a log scale from planck length to observable universe, a piece of paper is on the larger half of that scale. Many people might find that surprising, as the person who commented that did.

[@soup_herb]

226-184=42 2^42=4 trillion😳 2^226=107 unvigintillion 2^184=24 septendecillion

[@Moj1989]

"Hey Grey, look at this sheet of paper for a second." Grey: (transcends reality)

[@Altrantis]

CHIM

[@Shaymin0]

there is no reality to transend for there is nothing. in the smallest virtues of reality we see nothing and from the farthest reaches beyond our comprehension, there is nothing.

[@Shaymin0]

@Luís Andrade That is true! our current understanding of nothing is the lack of existence there is if there is a theoretical measurement of nothing and emptiness then that nothing becomes an ever-expanding ball of something in the distance of what we perceive as the reaches that our lights can't even see. So therefore in nothing, there is always the possibility of something so something will always exist in our existence.

[@mariusdesu1633]

doctor: what you see in this picture Grey: a sheet of paper, to be exact a metric paper on which is everything that is made of nothing...

[@rrezonkrasniqi]

@@Shaymin0 Why do you assume that in nothing is always the possibility of something, maybe there is true nothing but you can't comprehend it?

[@the-sands-of-time]

Normal people: "Hey, could you hand me a sheet of paper?" CGP Grey: *​contemplates life, existence, and nothingness​*

[@abhishekaggarwal6473]

CGP Grey is on steroids

[@skeeter.1017]

How can a piece of paper give me stress I never felt befor

[@MrMischelito]

Epic and philisophical

[@bloodnivel70]

No such thing as nothingness, please drop this facile cynical nihilism mindset.

[@Ushankan]

yeah about that i still have a question nobody can answer: Why is i? why is us? why is existence?

[@91thewatcher23]

Grey 10 years ago: "So this is why we should get rid of pennies" Grey now: "After studying a sheet of paper, I've been reminded that everything is nothing, everything we've ever known and loved is all foggy shapes in the ethereal."

[@benjaminzerr6708]

Grey 10 years from now: "....

[@NN-mh4bj]

@@benjaminzerr6708 "hovers above ground ominously"

[@obsideonyx7604]

@@NN-mh4bj **speaks in reverse**

[@moxsedai]

Grey 4 months ago: hexagons are the bestagons

[@Drake00075]

I bet reading a book upside down is a simple enough challenge for him now.

[@EmC5133]

Paper getting infinitely small: Has an existential crisis Paper getting infinitely big: *Has an existential crisis*

[@jsblacksmith858]

man i watched this high

[@ChadrickNurn]

"I need a way of describing reality" *looks down at blank paper* "I've got it!" -CGP Grey, overcoming writers block by embracing it

[@geordonworley5618]

Writers block...metric paper...metric block!

[@Fosifar]

great

[@user-yc3tf4wz2x]

‎

[@BatCostumeGuy]

Batman

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

A blank sheet of paper has always been inspiring, but it takes a certain kind of mind to see it in a different way.

[@samueloconner1482]

I've seen many scale of the universe videos but never one that was filled with such a sense of cosmic horror

[@sarah12232]

try the video on size of black holes by kurzgesagt

[@jinxyjangle]

And paper.

[@eg_manifest510]

same, he perfectly encapsulates that feeling of innate, inescapable dread he should be a horror writer

[@1989Nihil]

Indeed, this video was soo deep I got a paper-cut from it.

[@lorrainewilliams7896]

This was positively uplifting compared to Kurzgesagt.

[@FetenWuWa]

Came for cool paper facts. Left with existential dread.

[@chriku]

now imagine looking at A4 every single day!

[@Spartan-Four-Twenty]

Dido

[@edvardsauzins7041]

I don't think living is important anymore... maybe it's all... maybe everything we do is for nothing.. maybe there's no point in living at all.

[@GreenFoxLuama]

@@edvardsauzins7041 , but however, you only live once. You only get to experience your own existence for only one time, so try to live happily, make the most of it and don't be an asshole to anyone around you

[@dahemac]

😆

[@MCjossic]

What I liked most about this is that a) I learned that A0 paper exists, b) it is a satisfying, perfect 1m^2

[@agumon1605]

Yeah usually used in huge posters and architecture working drawings

[@Delibro]

I thought you learn that as a small kid when you ask: "Why is it called A4 and not A37?" :)

[@blakksheep736]

It is also made of mostly nothing.

[@gabrielkind2970]

1m x 1.41m akchully

[@Delibro]

@@gabrielkind2970 No! A0 has 1 m² area. That is 0.841 × 1.189 m

[@lucystarlight8887]

I'm not sure what this video was supposed to teach me but I'll be more careful around paper from now on

[@AmphiStuG]

Be afraid, for the forever lost consciousness of a tree now has the infinite power of the metric system, it’s forever expanding laws and space seek for either the simple destruction of our very existence, or the complete replacement of all matter that exists or ever will exist. Be afraid... be afraid.

[@aura_flower3385]

@@AmphiStuG, uhh what? Explain in simpler terms please?

[@aura_flower3385]

@laith, nope, I got nothing srry

[@aura_flower3385]

@laith, oh wow. Ok then

[@matthewhale1572]

@@aura_flower3385 it was a joke

[@kpatch410]

"What are you watching?" "...mostly nothing."

[@tydev2305]

He isn’t wrong

[@HideFromIt]

dont let this distract you from the absolute fact that bungee gum has both the properties of rubber and gum

[@proild]

This statement is true regardless of what exactly you're watching.

[@oliverhumphreys8141]

why

[@Xnoob545]

@@HideFromIt in Lithuanian rubber and gum is the same word

[@LGR]

...so I'm honestly impressed metric paper folds in half to the same ratio.

[@vilmarmoccelin]

Welcome to the magical world of metric thinking... They're trying to connect everything.

[@Melesniannon]

That one is pretty common knowledge for anyone who's worked with any kind of office supplies, you'll typically see A4 all over the place, A5 a fair bit, some A3. What made me go "Wha, really?" is that A0 is exactly 1 square metre.

[@_.luminosity._]

very cool

[@Vivian-Pulido]

Fibonacci Fibonacci Fibonacci

[@Vivian-Pulido]

I know it's not the Fibonacci sequence exactly but it looks similar enough

[@chughes156]

Love the re-use of "Illusion of something solid" at two completely different scales: A4 x 2^(-76) and 2^140

[@dorol6375]

And "the reality of x, it is made of mostly nothing."

[@thonatmo]

If you didnt have an existential crisis in the first half, don't worry, CgpGrey got you in the second half

[@JustaGuy12347]

nah

[@user-rc8bb7yb1e]

nope i don't have existential crisises on any video

[@grabthecrucifixband4203]

Yeah you’re just weak minded.

[@Lafayette-hk2gd]

He hits you with the double whammy

[@grabthecrucifixband4203]

@@onxiaftw you don’t use big words with small words in the same sentence that’s just stupidence.

[@stormninjabros025]

"You can only fold a sheet of paper in half 6 times. No more than that." CGP Grey: ...and now we're at the Planck length.

[@IncredibleMD]

A perfect example between the difference between practical and theoretical mathematics.

[@zypity]

True, though you could also make the argument he cuts them in half, which is - as docincredible remarks - theoretically (near) infinitely possible.

[@Shockblade95]

I just folded it 7 times sure it doesn't have its ratio anymore, but still

[@definitelynotjustasquirrel8319]

The world record is twelve. Its a myth that the size and thickness don’t matter.

[@davidmartensson273]

@@definitelynotjustasquirrel8319 Exactly, its just that halving the thickness only gives you one more fold, and a paper is so thin that its hard to make it thin enough to fold it many more times. If you make it larger you can do it, but still, if its to thin it will break instead of fold, so its a matter of physics and material. I think aluminium foil should be foldable more times since its thinner than most paper but I have not tried it.

[@donatoliotino1872]

It's sad CGP Grey had to leave the observable universe to make this.

[@LeoStaley]

Ya but he came back

[@xnob_1670]

His rocket must have been huge

[@devaorios5793]

this is gold wooosh bait

[@uknownada]

Yet he didn't tell us what he found there. He told us mostly nothing.

[@thegreatestchigone5813]

@@uknownadait’s cause he discovered the universe aren’t hexagons

[@fredthepenguin6539]

This video makes me realize how much of a giant I am, bigger than so many things, but it makes me realize how tiny I am, and how earth is basically a quark inside an atom inside a grain of sand in a desert the size of a galaxy

[@agnetalykins7564]

Going further, that galaxy-sized desert is itself but a quark within the grain of sand that is our galactic cluster. Within the great desert that is the observable universe. And beyond, as the video states, for who knows how long.

[@BaronRodney]

@@agnetalykins7564 Terrifying is not what there is to be afraid of but is instead the inability to comprehend the unknown.

[@botston]

Smallest metric: here is something that is actually nothing The largest metric: here is nothing that is actually everything

[@jcxz983]

Also, mostly nothing.

[@GodSpeedx0]

Damn...

[@keithdolderer8391]

** The largest metric: here is nothing that is actually something

[@ethanwalsh5441]

🙌🏻

[@sarthaksharma4816]

@Noah H most likely. I guess.

[@Tay-tt2gy]

Teacher: Okay, class, please take out your A4 sheets of paper and fold them in half. CGP Grey: ...this A4 is a door... to the exponential spiral of everything...

[@WallaceBreenFromKentucky]

that will A5 mr

[@ธนาเดชศุภนัทนพร]

A5 then A6 And so on The Spiral Of insanity continues

[@republicofgamers9842]

Sadly we only have 8 proper sizings, A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, and A7.

[@SoloJazz69]

I find it fascinating how this channel can turn an ordinary piece of paper into an existential crisis for so many people

[@thesaltybeard1793]

If you think about it, this is evidence that we may live in a simulation. In 3d re dering we only render what is necessary. We don't fill the inside of a 3d object with data points to make it an object. We just use triangles to construct its shell.

[@thesaltybeard1793]

That is to say: the illusion of matter when most of what is being interacted with is nothing.

[@MrMichiel1983]

Why would this make you feel empty? It inspires me with awe.

[@MrMichiel1983]

@@thesaltybeard1793 How is this evidence of a simulation? All those particles in a nucleus interact with each in a combinatory way. This ensures any calculation using less particles than the original situation is also slower, because it can't sustain the same level of complexity. Although the speed doesn't matter for a simulation hypothesis using a Zenonian argument (Achilles and the Tortoise), the nucleus itself still counts like a multi-dimensional polyhedron; a multi-particled system. So even though matter looks empty it most certainly doesn't model with the complexity of nothing. Just because we use triangles in simulations, and nature uses triangles in real-life; doesn't make real-life a simulation.

[@wiseguidedmissile]

Kurzgesagt: *Im four parallel universes ahead of you*

[@las_r]

Man really explained the entire universe and nothingness with a piece of A4 paper.

[@Juan308]

I clicked on this video thinking how on earth could there be 9 minutes of content about metric paper. I was not disappointed.

[@blendyboi5023]

After all, it's CGP Grey

[@otterstream1263]

Thanks for this, grey, now I can’t look at a sheet of paper without having an existential crisis.

[@CGPGrey]

[@edmundthespiffing2920]

@@CGPGrey damn you

[@XxBallsLover69xX]

@@CGPGrey Grey i have a question. When is it too late to say “Yeetus to the fetus”?

[@Adam-zt4cn]

@@CGPGrey Wait, is that a PICTURE? In a KZbin comment section?!

[@sparklerabbit33]

@Mek_T ඞ

[@chessplayer6632]

**Starts zooming out from the plank length** “Ok, maybe he will stop making me have a crisis” **Starts doubling paper** “Oh no”

[@rawtoast7719]

Same I feel like I am going to cry

[@mmagnenat]

Just wait until he does a video on the C and the B formats...

[@emmanueltidor1996]

Anyways.

[@Polarthief]

If you didn't expect him to go the other way, idk what to tell you

[@graceoartyo]

the crisis only got worse

[@mfbfreak]

The speed of light being described as heartbreakingly slow really speaks to me. There is so much cool stuff in the universe, but even at the fastest conceivable speed, almost all of it will forever be out of range.

[@veritasium]

I mean you *think* it takes a second for light to reach the moon...

[@hobogrifter]

I didn't expect to see you here

[@Infinatus25]

What's your point? Edit: Ok ok I get it people, we don't "actually" know the speed of light, just how long it takes to get from point A to point A after bouncing off of point B.

[@russianacorns8080]

@@hobogrifter you didn’t? These channels are both sciencey channels that explain things that are very hard to understands lol

[@hobogrifter]

@@russianacorns8080 lol, I didn't think he was a cgp Gray fan. I thought he just watched smarter every day and vsauce

[@Max-oi9zm]

But there is no moon

[@vlogbrothers]

Now THIS is my kind of party. -John

[@evanpearson2612]

factually frustrating though, for ex. his inaccurate description of Planck length.

[@askplays]

wow

[@HasanSawan]

Existential angst party!

[@Univarman]

@@evanpearson2612 What did he say that was incorrect?

[@amanatee27]

+

[@Weazle13XIII]

Fun fact: the house Grey is in doesn't exist. That location has a building holds a gas company and a telecommunications provider.

[@peaceheis]

That’s interesting!

[@birbthetopicman2851]

How did you find this out?

[@Weazle13XIII]

@@birbthetopicman2851 Zoomed in on maps to the rough area in England based on the river shown in vid, found the location based on the streets and buildings shown. biggest clues were the trident shaped road to the south-east, the two circular roads in the north corners, and the blobby shaped building next door to Grey

[@Yorie1234]

I was wondering that, i couldn't imagine he'd use his real house

[@vale.antoni]

@@Yorie1234 The place he used was in the kind of borough called "City of London" (It's not technically part of the UK's capital city called London) It's one of the densest built, and has the tallest skyscrapers in the region Also has been around for so long, noone actually knows how long it has been around for.

[@jacksonritchie7672]

I don’t think I’ll be able to look at a sheet of paper again without having an existential, gut-wrenching reality check

[@Venotix]

So what you're saying is.. this perfectly-shaped rectangle... is the bestangle?

[@pinkneko13]

No such thing, hexagon is bestagon.

[@tomrogue13]

@@pinkneko13 not bestagon. Bestangle

[@Jai_moss07]

You may multiply multiple hexagonal bits to tile t-wards infinity as well

[@lourdthebluefoxie]

Lol

[@gaboversta2.423]

it has the one thing the bestagon doesn't, it divides into itself. So it should be the bestangle

[@derinedala5032]

Me, an Australian who grew up with this kind of paper: yeah our paper system is the best, I know exactly what this video is going to be about. CGP: The organs of the bee... Me: Whelp, I was wrong.

[@Neojhun]

It was at Reality Pixel aka Planck Length I realized we got duped. This was going to be an existential crisis ride.

[@Nalehw]

...Wait, you mean not every country uses the A4 system?

[@Neojhun]

@@Nalehw Huh Letter is still very popular. I thought both was still a thing.

[@mymoomin0952]

@@Nalehw America is always the exception for metric Plus sometimes Canada, a few other countries in the Americas, and the Phillipines

[@derinedala5032]

@@Nalehw Americans have a bunch of weirdly shaped paper sizes with no relation to each other.

[@shaunhurst2595]

Psychiatrist: What do you see when you look at the A4 paper? CGP Grey: Folding the paper make the same size ratio as its original...we're all lambs to the cosmic slaughter.

[@J4WURSED]

Ha i got that reference

[@Banana_boat]

@@J4WURSED I don't. Care to explain.

[@PatricioHondagneuRoig]

@@Banana_boat Rick and Morty's "true level"

[@Substance2020]

Psychiatrist: If you're not screaming in terror then you are insane. Those who aren't screaming are the insane ones.

[@ruthstewart5242]

I wasn’t aware I was about to go on an existential journey guided by a piece of paper but there it is…

[@Spritesuit]

Beginning of the video: A paper ratio that easily scales! End of the video: Existential dread!

[@ddcc5560]

Exactly correct

[@cindynguyen4516]

Precisely

[@DrDrake-kz7js]

Exactly

[@dshapiro2518]

But why is this an existential crisis?

[@evanjohnson1299]

Grey is what you call a lateral thinker.

[@giosanpedro]

I... just became an A4 convert. It's been nice letter size 🙋‍♂️

[@abemulligantralz8806]

why are you here

[@Glace1221]

I converted after the Hexagonism video

[@user-yc3tf4wz2x]

‎

[@tech99070]

Yeah that's... not how life works? Like, are you planning to move? Buy your office a new printer? What exactly do you mean by "convert"????

[@peacewalker3344]

@@tech99070 it means he'a gonna use metric paper for printing purposes from now on i guess which is great, metric system makes everything better

[@lancelotofsadblackwolf_yt6222]

I'm impressed that a piece of paper would give someone an existential crisis.

[@skelpix5449]

Ok???

[@favioferreira8921]

This is CGP Grey, the guy who became fixated with hexagons for a while, and who went on a crusade to find out who owns Staton Island.

[@MCRailRoader]

I feel like CGP Grey can have an existential crisis over anything.

[@Jawsomest]

Yo Mama!

[@benjaminpainter378]

I read this comment before and after watching the video. It didn't make sense before, but boy did it hit hard after.

[@Quartz512_]

3:45 if I'm right, if we would fold a paper to that little, it would be taller than the observable universe

[@Elesarr]

A video titled "Metric Paper" is the last place I thought would give me an existential crisis

[@prakharmishra3000]

Same dude I just came here because I thought that he was going to roast imperial measurements 😭

[@noahjordan6761]

Trust me... there are much... MUCH further places

[@eeeeeeeee9381]

The original title was “Metric Paper and Everything in the Universe”

[@tomhall3669]

“A reality pixel, which is best not to think about”. That one hit me hard, but so true

[@pallandoromestamo8861]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how well the voice is synced with the zooming?

[@fisheatsyourhead]

If you haven't listened to HI, he used to practice his scripts in an office with thunderstorms as background noise pacing back and forth and I know this one was at home but I can just imagine how strange this one would sound especially

[@DorianC]

At 3:55?

[@cuberman5948]

ok

[@duckles426]

The speed of the zoom also changes a bit to sync up with his speech.

[@THEFIRE360]

Technically more so the other way around. Video is synced to audio

[@NoahRamseysGhost]

If I had a dime for every time Grey changed the title or thumbnail of this video, I’d be able to afford a channel membership. Oh wait!

[@H3Vtux]

1:07 it's happening. He's finally snapped. We love you grey, thanks for everything.

[@KingAgniKai]

L

[@KingAgniKai]

I mean F

[@azahel542]

It was only a matter of time.

[@goruu]

Squaragon is the bestagons.

[@AkaSwvy]

I’ll miss his psyche

[@Talik13]

CGP Grey: "In conclusion, I like A4 paper."

[@YALMSL]

I like A999 paper

[@Jay_Johnson]

@@YALMSL I like A-140

[@Robstar0]

Maybe he should study a course about brevity 🤣

[@marcolinosalgarone9442]

the end is not true, if we can't see out we can' t tell what there is out: could be other universes less than a centimeter from our universe

[@kkTeaz]

Paper

[@leemsvg]

Conclusion: "damn that is a large sheet of paper"

[@Uarehere]

And apparently, the universe should be called A^-184.

[@guilhermesartorato93]

@@Uarehere Now I'm thinking of how many A-184 cardboard walls a box should have to contain it, since a six-walls box won't do the job - for being just tridimensional.

[@Derpy-qg9hn]

@@guilhermesartorato93 There is the change from 1 to 6. Six times. 36 walls for a four-dimensional box, perhaps?

[@No.1_Ulynona_Fan]

@@Uarehere your galaxy should be called A4x2144

[@No.1_Ulynona_Fan]

Yes I’m at a different galaxy rn okay just don’t question it

[@wolfrock04]

“Sir this is a Wendy’s.”

[@ShamelessFNGRL]

I thought this was going to be a cute video on paper and how the metric system is superior but here I am dealing with my umpteenth existential crisis instead. A hell of a way to wake up! I have never felt this empty before.

[@jameswest6161]

My head hurts and it's In the afternoon for me so uh... ya.... being fully awake Don't help

[@distinctloafer]

Death

[@carlosbulao495]

spin

[@heikkipaasi1279]

Though it is not the reason why you feel so, you still are mostly empty.

[@MsPhillip93]

Hahaha same

[@knightshousegames]

*About a minute in*: "Oh hey, I remember learning this in drafting class in high school." *At the end*: "What else did they neglect to tell me......?"

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I've seen a lot of KZbin videos about things I learned in science class, or history class... never would have guessed drafting class would bring one of the most interesting of them all.

[@sunnyday6133]

This just made me reaize that we live at the most exciting scale. Go smaller and it gets incedibly empty, go bigger, the same happens. I’m thankful for our insignificantly small scale in the universe.

[@un7n0wing85]

Well, yes, as far as we know, but what if it's the same as you go up and down? If you think about it, the same forces are at work on all levels so what if it just starts over at the top? What if, above us, is a scientist studying our star as an atom, looking at all the emptiness between the planets and saying that it's made of mostly nothing? It could be the same below and we'd never know because our perception is limited. I have literally nothing to back this point up but I like that idea better than the infinite nothing.

[@uhuju1]

This is such a beautiful comment, thanks for sharing that thought

[@aniusers]

@@un7n0wing85 the boundaries of observability being effectively a mirror is terrifying in its own right.

[@Shivas-cj7vr]

Fore sure! Irrespective of time and space being relative, it's trully a remarkable thing!

[@digitig]

It's pretty much inevitable that we'd be at a scale where there tends to be something rather than nothing, of course.

[@loststylus7641]

This video is very powerful for understanding everything we are as far as scaling goes, but also just goes to show how our own scale, where we live and observe, is really the most important to us because it fits us. The rest of this stuff we know exists, but will never truly observe or understand, at least for a very long time. The things on our scale are explained with our communication, using the senses that are tuned for this level of understanding. Look what we’ve done with the scale we’ve been given, the scale we are bound to. We have limits, but do we really know where they are? The limits haven’t stopped our own expansion of understanding, and unlike a lot of other levels, our scale is full of life, compared to the vast nothingness on both ends. If nothing matters on both ends where nothing happens, I wanna stay where things do happen and I can bring myself to comprehend, but I think that’s more easily said, and I’m probably pretty ignorant compared to what things could be but I just wanna say to those who are having existential crises that it’s not a concern and will never be a concern, in our lifetime. And if it is we can cross that bridge when we get to it.

[@suddenstorm8]

Congratulations CGP Grey, you have now joined "Kurzgesagt - in a nutshell" on the list of KZbin channels that can fill me with a sense of existential dread.

[@Kriae]

Vsauce is pretty much the king of that

[@jtbk7199]

We have found the holy trinity of mind fuckery

[@saraqael.]

You forgot the most important one: exurb1a

[@rafliavriza3651]

@@saraqael. the depression turtle can either fill you up with an existential dread so terrifying that death itself isn't enough to put it out, or a sense of unity for the better future of humanity that is yet to come

[@StarsInYourMultitude]

exurb1a causes the most existential dread

[@SquillyBR]

"This is a normal sheet of paper." "-Or is it?" *Vsauce music plays*

[@teainnit27]

Ngl CPGray doing a collaboration video with Michael Stevens would be so cool.

[@exxelsetijadi5348]

"what defines something as a sheet ?"

[@intelligent1964]

HEY VSAUCE MICHAEL HERE

[@skiller5034]

Or "This is just a normal sheet of paper, right? WRONG! it contains the key to the universe, from the smallest things, to the largest." (@FurretWalc Kurzgesagt)

[@gvc7314]

Props ro the camera man who tool a picture of the observable universe and the milky way last to the guy in 3021 who found a another part of observable universe trillions of light years away

[@grassguy1154]

*"S-Sir... All I wanted to know is if you wanted the receipt..."*

[@grim1044]

Oof

[@mayberus7612]

This made me lohle

[@kilianfirebolt]

Sir this is a wendys >:I

[@cadainn3718]

this made me chuckle

[@lux5164]

A cvs receipt is longer than the width of the observable universe

[@devilish8130]

Is it just me, or would anyone else love to experience this in VR

[@daanstrik4293]

This is a sheet of paper *3 minutes later* We have now reached the edge of human understanding

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Isn't that what paper is for? Creating ideas as far as the mind can imagine?

[@catlikearcher9955]

I never realised how poetic reality is. At the smallest and largest scales, things are dotted in the nothing so as only to create the illusion of solid matter.

[@s1lverp3nguin]

wow, i love “dotted in the nothing”

[@nathanielwilliams3891]

At all scales, really.

[@thelocalnecromancer1224]

ruined 666 likes

[@marcvesper]

And they're not even dots as much as vibrations - more like musical notes than hard points.

[@Aaron.Reichert]

Interesting how that is worded. I'll have to think on that.

[@koldkilla777]

"... so anyways, welcome to Kinkos. What size paper did you want me to copy this onto again?"

[@Qwertytsuna]

The size of the observable universe

[@micobob2883]

@@Qwertytsuna I accidentally folded it, it’s now half the observable universe.

[@Mikeological]

"Yeah, can I get that in A184 please?"

[@koldkilla777]

@@micobob2883 congrats, you've just folded space time and created a wormhole!

[@wesleymays1931]

A -184 please

[@Nilaneth]

Obrigado!

[@FlavorLab]

This is such a great updated version of powers of 10!

[@JohnGottschalk]

Was looking for this, I remember this so vividly, that although this video a quirky way of showing the same, I still like powers of ten because of the retro aesthetic. It is nice that we go a little deaper, and a little further out, and that the emptiness is extra acknowledged. But then again I would maybe rather not think about the illusion of life and material, and focus more on the privilege and scarcity of it.

[@FlavorLab]

@@Mrpersonman0 I think it's because verified people get higher placement on the comments section of YT videos. Sorry! But glad to hear I wasn't the only one thinking of this!

[@kennarajora6532]

@@Mrpersonman0 yeah, mine's 23 hours old, and also talked about the powers of 10 documentary, but it's not got any either.

[@knowthink1245]

Hello

[@foozballguy]

That was by UChicago right?

[@get_a_grip_4209]

POV: your philosophy teacher when you ask for another piece of paper

[@doapin6240]

Lmao

[@Jawsomest]

Lmao

[@toivowelling]

Lmao

[@rjpaderayon]

and i thought the only way a paper could harm me was a papercut. turns out it can give you a never ending, yet somehow equal exsistential crisis.

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

You called?

[@motifity3416]

@@eyeballpapercut4400 Your paper cut is so horrifying, I wouldn't wish that upon my enemies.

[@duskyracer8800]

That is 1000% every English major's entry essay thesis.

[@aosper4350]

The most fascinating thing about his videos is that they are so mind blowing and amazing that it makes you less regret on watching KZbin videos.

[@Leidon00]

i thought this was gonna be about how brilliant Metric Paper design is. Still glad tho

[@MrPercolator9000]

it wasn't not that

[@sp_1029]

Its still that

[@duckmasterflex]

I thought it was going to aim for the golden ratio

[@comradedogma4957]

It does

[@comradedogma4957]

It does all of that

[@saims.2402]

Moral of the story: the fastest known object is the camera zooming away from CGP Grey’s desk.

[@estiaanj8425]

It’s both the slowest moving object, fastest moving object and fastest accelerating object in different parts of the video

[@rashkavar]

Grey has quite an arm, doesn't he.

[@BatCostumeGuy]

Lies, my batcopter is faster.

[@5daboz]

Technically, problem of space-"travel" is a problem of space-"time" and if you can just switch places (like with quantum entanglement) then you arent faster, but you are timeless. Then there is a bored teenager that just wants to watch his latest spaceshow from the other side of the galaxy but cant because his device is broken and he/she is pissed why the hell it wont do that one job it is designed for, worthless.

[@staticcactus6029]

@@5daboz actually photons themself are timeless. they experience all of time at one time, from the moment of there creation to the moment they cease, all is as one moment for them. the interior of black holes is more apt, as time becomes space itself, and space becomes time as we know it.

[@EagleGames95]

"But the humble bumble has an engineering problem." "Everything and everyone he loves is just an electron cloud."

[@tristanbrewer4523]

No, it’s the fact that he’s using rectangular paper and not hexagonal paper.

[@TheChosenOne1_]

Hexagons are the bestagons

[@bloodykenshiro8218]

All hail A4, all hail the metric system! Seriously though. I don't know if this video is meant to be poetic or an existentialist piece, but I love it, for sure.

[@KaeYoss]

"Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside their head?" "If you fold a piece of paper in half this many times, you come to the Quantum Abyss"

[@uarthchylde]

This is why most telepaths don't make it past adolescence. He says sarcastically

[@johnsmith4630]

(White)Man stuff

[@cubfan]

Alternate title had to be, "Metric Paper & Nothing"

[@CockatooDude]

This is the only thing that can top how mindblowing your pyramid is.

[@MasterofBeats]

haha yes

[@redcan7931]

Hey cub

[@luckyblockyoshi]

Metric Paper & Existential Crisis

[@D4rkRCS]

Omg cub

[@CaitieLou]

Grey: "This magical paper is a gateway to every dimension of everything in the universe" "Sir, this is a Kinko's. We closed hours ago. Please, I want to go home."

[@maplemoths.]

What is a kinko's?

[@nightlight0x07cc]

@@maplemoths. A print shop run by FedEx

[@hindenburg2006]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@emberrein6670]

-Damn it Glen! We've done it! - stop staring at me

[@carel91]

Now! This should be played on school. Great content, thank you

[@MasterReset7]

Man, that was a ride!!

[@pacanaca2]

Im first c:

[@adrianafamilymember6427]

@@pacanaca2 Whom is last though the truth is we will never know.

[@jacketofseville]

Opa reset, você aqui? como vai?

[@moalyz6009]

@@adrianafamilymember6427 that is in fact through kinds of like a sheet of a4 paper the more we expand the more we want to see

[@capy9846]

@@adrianafamilymember6427 There is a 500 reply cap

[@whynachtsmann5796]

The most impressive thing is how fast exponential growth is. I mean u only have to double 400 times to get from the smallest thing that can possibly be to the size of the whole observable universe

[@andrius0592]

And then remember that diseases spread exponentally 😬 (although the exponent is not always 2).

[@saprogeist31]

Imo, the coolest thing about scaling the universe exponentially is that human neurons fall right in the middle. Human neurons can be about a hundred microns wide (1 x 10^-4 m). A micron is a millionth of a meter, so a hundred of them would be a tenth of a millimeter. If we convert the unit of measurement from one meter to one-tenth of a millimeter, then human neurons have an average length of 1. Make the same conversation to the planck length and the diameter of the observible universe, and you end up with 1.6x10^-31 and 8.8x10^30.

[@bigman25plus25]

'only'

[@lackingmaturity6631]

@@bigman25plus25 400 really isn't a lot when you think about how you're going from the smallest possible measurement to 8.8 × 10^26 meters. I mean, just compare 400 to 8.8 × 10^26 and you'll see what Whynachtsmann is talking about.

[@michaelklog]

@@andrius0592 not always some have a grow rate of ,5 meaning for new infection only a half new one gets infected this is how we removed the measles.

[@robertli3600]

Kutzergast: Our videos cause existential crises CGP grey: Hold my bees

[@marafolse8347]

Truly an admirable attempt at spelling curts-gay-socked

[@theyoten1613]

Pls don't hold bees.

[@Commandelicious]

@@marafolse8347 KURZ GESAGT ACHTUNG!

[@presidentbanana4536]

It's Kurzgesagt

[@Kingatje]

Why stop at that spelling! Go all the way: Kotsergast = puker guy in Dutch! (Yes, we left German behind)

[@NicoandIndy]

I think Grey went insane during quarantine, this scares me, and I don’t get scared unless it’s something like this

[@progamer1110]

The literal second you mentioned paper being halved, I could feel the oncoming existential dread

[@connoissuer_of_class]

You’ve already tried converting me to the church of the hexagonal king. I’m not falling into the House of our Lord A4.

[@dominicholder7323]

Well.. Hexagons are the bestagons

[@theunholysmirk]

Hexagons are the bestagon. Praise be the bestagon

[@metametodo]

Do it, A4 paper is magical

[@DehimVerveen]

Tetragons are the bestagons!

[@tomc.5704]

@@DehimVerveen Heresy!

[@cattibingo]

This is exactly the existential dread I needed

[@Tim_Small]

I like getting an occasional reminder of the scale of things. It helps to keep my day to day life events in the right perspective.

[@WillayG]

@@Tim_SmallYes. Me too. I actually find this kind of thing very relaxing

[@fredbeard7710]

Existential dread? Bro look how big things are, that’s cool!

[@whoknows7968]

The existential dread that doesn't give us despair but hope for the infinite possibilities of the known universe! Now just ignore that giant black hole coming for us.

[@kettei5408]

I like to think of it as "existential awe". Much easier to process and enjoy the universe in it entirety that way.

[@underthesurfacemovies]

This is the video, that convinced me to set up a Patreon account and join the Bonnie Bees. Absolutely outstanding!

[@Knewman7777]

"After 184 doublings, a sheet of A4 paper would span across the observable universe." CVS reciept: Hold my beer.

[@inevitable854]

Under rated

[@TuTiToo]

@SnakeLover836 ??

[@exotrrc1636]

@SnakeLover836 the bigger the number, the smaller the paper.. did, did you listen to the first part of the video

[@condoti]

In between the quarks and in between the galaxies is not nothing, but CVS coupons. Dark matter is not energy yet to be cooled into mass, but 30% off your next purchase of Colgate.

[@skelet8337]

@SnakeLover836 the number stands for doubling anyway so it will be A -180

[@TheSonicsean]

2:27 "where hexagonal arrangements..." Because of course they're bloody hexagons.

[@marinescu0511]

My heart jumped in fear, thinking he would go on another bestagons rant

[@CGPGrey]

[@Awkairo]

@@CGPGrey No words needed.

[@pikachu-jf2oh]

@@CGPGrey praise the hexagon!

[@capitalm417]

@@CGPGrey could not have been more true

[@ast8177]

00:00 me: "Just a fun video about paper befor bed" 08:38 me: "WHY ARE WE HERE?, WHAT EVEN AM I?"

[@talltomtube]

You are, "Star Stuff." But, no idea why we are here.

[@shoujahatsumetsu]

@@talltomtube Plastic

[@ahmadgames4u918]

0:00 doesn't work only 0:01 works click 0:01

[@ahmadgames4u918]

Also try 08:37

[@drakan4769]

as he said, mostly nothing is what we are

[@Norp-i7m]

This video is amazing. Thank you.

[@katjawindle1016]

Me: ah he’s probably gonna zoom back in and say something funny right at the end. Y’a know, lighten the mood? Grey: heh heh. No.

[@annadaranjannandi5952]

Yeah . So heart breaking

[@Fluvance]

"And if we keep going, at 250 doublings of a sheet of A4 paper, we reach the size of your mother." - Grey, probably

[@katjawindle1016]

@@Fluvance who am I to disagree with that joke, But I’d have to travel the world and the seven seas to reach grey and tell him. Everybody’s looking for something though, so perhaps the dark video is what someone wanted.

[@Ratigan2]

@@Fluvance please comment this.. i really want you to get 10 thousands likes for that.

[@thelastcube.]

"Everything physical you care about is an electron cloud creating the illusion of something over nothing" I can always count on CGP Grey to humble me to the extreme degree

[@vyl4650]

If you want to be humbled once more or alternatively have an existential crisis, go watch videos of the depression turtle aka exurb1a

[@adegboyegaojengbede1818]

True wisdom humbles.

[@charliesteiner2334]

It's also misleading. It's not that solidity is an illusion. You can't put your hand through the table just by knowing quantum mechanics. Solidity still works just fine, it's just not what you thought it was.

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

*This claim of Electron Cloud is disputed.* *There are robust safeguards in place to ensure the integrity of existence.*

[@aidenstubbs7142]

@@vyl4650 I would say yes to this aswell cause he’s mad sick videos. But apparently he’s being accused of some stuff atm that I don’t know the details of

[@human-tk2fo]

Light is heartbreakingly slow, and life is heartbreakingly short, the fastest thing we know and the longest thing we know we experience are simply not enough to explore the stars

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Unless we find a (feasible-to-implement-in-a-way-that-actually-produces-tangible-results-instead-of-hypothetical-thought-experiments) way to circumvent the speed limit of light. Perhaps not likely, but it's hard to say how unlikely that really is, and impossible to say for certain (at least so far) that we won't someday break into or stumble upon that knowledge.

[@manojlds]

It's interesting though as you travel faster you live longer (relative to others back home)

[@ulick1692]

Hopefully we can find irl cheat codes and find out about everything

[@silverpact1008]

That's quitter talk, simply obtain immortality.

[@prayforjoe6961]

That problem would exist no matter how fast we could travel or how long we would live (except for if speed was instant or life was eternal). If we were fast enough to explore neighbouring stars we would feel the same feeling towards not being able to explore neighbouring universes and so on

[@mmmmine5439]

The concept of the infinite rectangle ratio is huge in the Steel Ball Run manga. I recommend it to manga fans!

[@arjaxx2001]

You know, at least when kuercragzat gives me existential dread, they at least show me cute birds

[@SurnSensei]

maybe you meant kurzgesagt

[@Aminal321]

Kurzgesagt not "kuercragzat"

[@Morningstar_37]

@@Aminal321 Maybe he meant kuercragzat

[@Morningstar_37]

But CGP Grey has Bees

[@thunderboltpo]

@@SurnSensei kurzgesagt is very hard to spell, its resonable he spelled it wrong

[@TheeMiniCorndog]

Teachers be like: "You can use one double sided A200 notecard on the exam"

[@RGC_animation]

Double sided? Our teacher only let us use one quarter or one side.

[@globalwarrior16]

Me who writes in A300 font

[@JamesMiller-ex3ff]

@@globalwarrior16 You get to write notes when you do exams? Dam times have changed...

[@majorphysics3669]

@@JamesMiller-ex3ff depends on the class. I only had one high school class that we were allowed to do that.

[@JamesMiller-ex3ff]

@@majorphysics3669 Yeah that's fair enough, I think with most of the STEM classes you can only use the materials that are provided

[@flyingdiamonds8492]

The start of the video: just some fun education By the end of the video: EVERYTHING IS MADE OF NOTHING!!!!

[@chadwickposey7806]

Or as MIB 1 showed, perhaps, just maybe, our galaxy is nothing but a tiny marble in a much larger existence

[@tomikun8057]

@@chadwickposey7806 or maybe if we could see beyond plank length then maybe we would see universes or something

[@peppermine]

From nothing to nothing. Does that make even the word something nothing

[@CoDkiller1888]

Just came here to learn something about metric paper. Now I am having an existential crisis, thinking about reality pixels and the endless void.

[@theexchipmunk]

Yeah, and that everything we experience is mostly nothing with a very thin cloud of things that barely even exist masquerading as something.

[@ajpetrina86]

When you reflect on what you did with your day and come up with, "Mostly nothing", you are yourself, the truest reflection of the universe

[@michelangelobuonarroti4958]

Legend hahahahahah

[@nazarenosoto3557]

You deserve a philosophy major title

[@JustButton]

Needed this today

[@jm4981]

Appropriate profile picture

[@frankthetank2550]

This video is what would happen if Vsauce focused on one topic for more than a minute

[@82ayalaj]

Me thoughts exactly. Very reminiscence from the classic vsauce

[@geckowizard9058]

Content of video: if you made a really big piece of paper......... uuuhhh...... it would be really big! (it's sad that anyone could find this interesting)

[@savwaltz5187]

He forgot the most essential element of Vsauce..... But why? *Vsauce music intensifies*

[@gabevietor3685]

@@geckowizard9058 It's not the paper that we care about, it's the things we compare it to, and how easy it is to move so fast from something to nothing.

[@bbittercoffee]

@@geckowizard9058 It's sad anyone finds any marvel movie entertaining, it's all fake, really. Or that people find any games entertaining, it's all pixels, really. It's sad that anybody lives life, we barely matter in the bigger picture of the universe, really. It's sad that you try to make people feel bad about themselves for enjoying a video made to be enjoyed.

[@syafsanai]

Printer is displaying "Error: Paper Tray Has An Existential Crisis"

[@StrokeMahEgo]

pc load letter

[@MeppyMan]

@@StrokeMahEgo that’s the joke :)

[@smoothjazzfails]

Black hole toner is low on light

[@broxtt]

maybe my favourite yt comment ever

[@FrogFood8587]

Not very often does a video about such a mundane topic bring me such existential dread. Great video!

[@Beastintheomlet]

Hiring an animator was one of the best thing Grey did for this channel. It lets him focus on writing and let’s specialists do the animations. I really love it.

[@katurahreeve1379]

That was so hypnotic. I think Grey has created a new phenomena: existential crisis induced relaxation

[@khalilrahme5227]

It often gives perspective to realize how small and insignificant we look through certain lenses, looking at the right angles.

[@Sunsets5000]

This was spectacular. I pretty much love everything Grey does, but this was a new high for me. He managed to take something generally considered mundane and used it to explore the very limits of space, time and human knowledge without ever breaking from his central theme. Truly beautiful. I can see why he became a teacher now.

[@LeoStaley]

Fun fact, in a podcast he explained that he chose teaching primarily because no other career gives you that much time off. Also metric paper isn't mundane to Americans, but beautiful magic which those who learn of it are doomed to merely long for the rest of their days. I can't get even printer designed for it.

[@ashutoshsamantaray2572]

Ya he chose teaching cuz the holidays..

[@Anonymous-sb9rr]

A4/2^64 could also just be called A68. Not a very common paper size, but well defined.