Making a GOOGOL:1 Reduction with Lego Gears

Building a long gear train using 186 Lego gears. Many different types of Lego gears are used. Enjoy!
Read more details of the Lego machine here:
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This was inspired by Daniel de Bruin's "universe's biggest gear reduction":
• The universe's biggest...
The finished gear ratio:
10341796308487334800992832804222885104773611498499997696000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000:1
or 1.0342e100:1
or 1.034 GOOGOL:1
Rotation time for the last gear:
52433879932503535381614991275498187972589101825233846406570841889117043121149897330595482546 years
or 5.2434e91 years
Formula for the gear ratio:
24/8 * 40/8 * 40/8 * 40/8 * 60/1 * 12/1 * 168/1 * (140 / 8 + 1) * 141 * 20/12 * (40/8)^20 * 20/12 * (24/1)^20 * 56/16 * (36/1)^10 * (40/1)^18 * 15/9 * 56/1
List of gears used:
27x Gear 8 Tooth [3647]
1x Gear Expert Builder 9 Tooth [g9]
6x Gear 12 Tooth Bevel [6589]
2x Gear 12 Tooth Double Bevel [32270]
1x Gear Expert Builder 15 Tooth [g15]
1x Gear 16 Tooth [94925]
2x Gear 20 Tooth Bevel [32198]
23x Gear 24 Tooth [3648]
10x Gear 36 Tooth Double Bevel [32498]
49x Gear 40 Tooth [3649]
2x Turntable Large Type 2 [48452cx1]
1x Turntable Large Type 3 [18939 / 18938]
8x Gear Rack 11 x 11 Curved [24121]
1x Gear, Hailfire Droid Wheel [x784]
1x Gear Worm Screw, Short [27938]
51x Gear Worm Screw, Long [4716]
For those wondering, the visual effect I used in the end montage is called Find Edges, comes with Adobe Premiere 14.
Music (used with permission):
Alpha Centauri B by Anders Enger Jensen
/ hariboosx

[@knifetoucher]

FUN FACT: If this machine was turned on at the birth of the universe 14 billion years ago, that lego angel still wouldn't even have turned 1% of 1 degree.

[@Thomas-ke7er]

Bruh moment

[@wfyamc]

Because the battery would've died right?

[@blongus]

@@wfyamc I really shouldn't be laughing at this as hard as I am

[@Gigadrig]

Долговато)

[@davidacosta193]

@@wfyamc yes big brain

[@ZzSlumberzZ]

See y'all in 5.2×10⁹¹ when this gets recommend again

[@spayrex_]

could u write the number down or how many 0 would it have?

[@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025]

@@spayrex_ He can't

[@spayrex_]

@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 ok

[@spayrex_]

@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 do u know hoe many E has 0 ?

[@79GOLDENBOY]

@@spayrex_ 520,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years this is the number

[@soprocrack7657]

Imagine how fast the initial gear would spin if the angel was manualy turned

[@Arthur00OO892]

I don't think anyone has the strength to do that lol

[@b2dmastersniper]

if friction and drivetrain losses didn't prevent you from doing so in the first place, it would literally create a black hole.

[@amp1195]

@@b2dmastersniper what if it would manually reverse time? spin the entire universe backwards

[@eto_kak_ego_tam]

жаль что этот червяк не крутится шестернёй

[@Chad_Thundercock]

I expect the middle part of the drive train would rip itself apart from rotating so quickly. That's if the gears withstand the forces acting on the linking teeth. Those would probably break off much closer in the chain.

[@TonyBMan]

This is like some ancient, epic machination that Leonardo da Vinci would conceptualize/build, but never live to see it do the thing.

[@wasabi1363]

I don't think the universe could see it spin even just once.

[@Yentzie]

It’s such an absurdly long time that if it had started spinning at the beginning of the universe then when the sun dies it would have spun an imperceptible amount.

[@ChristophKustler]

Because he had no Lego.

[@vanzyl2547]

I need this to turn my shower handle just enough so It doesn’t burn or freeze me

[@neo1754]

I M P O S S I B L E

[@neo1754]

@TurretBox its really hard to get the right temperature ok

[@fireball2275]

@TurretBox you ruined the joke

[@Woah_SlowM5]

Lol

[@neo1754]

@TurretBox so you did

[@QuarkGamingLLC]

>turns the opposite end >first gear flies off at light speed >knocks the moon out of orbit

[@nickmotsarsky4382]

The gears would shatter way before that.

[@thatguynamedpaul9990]

Can someone calculate how much HP u need for that to be possible?

[@doublefalcon2]

@@thatguynamedpaul9990 because of coefficient of friction with a worm gear it wouldn't work with literally infinite torque

[@then00brathalos]

God : haha good idea NO FUCK YOU HUMANS

[@lovro1239]

Interstellar music starts to play

[@andysim232]

The torque on that last gear could lift a planet. Assuming you made the gears out of some exotic materials

[@kooldude_m8734]

Everyone's talking about how long this clock takes to turn but no one is talking about what a legend this dude is for willingly putting his thumbs through that for us. I'm filled with awe!

[@FatYoshi504]

Its more painful than stepping on a lego

[@kooldude_m8734]

@@FatYoshi504 On the nose

[@atiradeonhd6350]

Mini Mario Toy🤑🤑🗣️🔥🔥

[@atiradeonhd6350]

​@@FatYoshi504Mini Mario Toy🤑🤑🗣️🔥🔥

[@atiradeonhd6350]

​@@kooldude_m8734Mini Mario Toy🤑🤑🗣️🔥🔥

[@timondimare1976]

23.000

[@bradleyfelschow1270]

I'd actually like to see that Haha but it wouldn't work. Imagine 37 gears on a push bike and trying to pedal going up hill from a stand still.... Now imagine that times 100000000000000

[@spint7109]

Also it would take the motor to start turning from the gear ratio, it’s be too much for it to turn

[@chrisw4997]

It wouldn't work with the worm gears

[@spint7109]

Chris W how would it not work with them, just curious

[@joseluz5731]

Absolute mad lad

[@RylanStorm]

Last dial rotates one every 5x10^91 years. 25 minutes later "Can you get all this shit off the table please? I'm trying to serve dinner"

[@eliaswilliamsson8553]

"Just wait 5.2x10^91 years! I'm almost finished!"

[@blackhat2385]

LMFAO

[@spamdaspam]

Who serves dinner on a coffee table?

[@burakoshimazaki]

@@spamdaspam fair enough. However, have you ever served anyone or yourself coffee at your dinner table?

[@Nate-9797]

@@spamdaspam probably a lot of people who live in smaller houses

[@adrianlisseman]

Sobering thought - it would take approximately 4.092 x 10^89 years just to take up all the gear slack in the system.

[@The_man_himself_67]

That's what I was thinking. But once backlash is taken up, in theory the little man starts to move. But in a discrete quantum universe, how does that work if his atoms can only move by the Planck length. 'Fascinating Captain!'

[@eekee6034]

@@The_man_himself_67 And here I was wondering whether it would complete a rotation before the heat death of the universe.

[@ricardo_original]

What fascinates me most about this kind of thing is how something perfectly calculated, where you know exactly how it's going to move, will never be seen in practice. Think about the resulting torque, what something like that could move, or if the system were unbreakable, and an infinite force could make the last piece turn, how insanely fast the first gear would turn. Just as we know the laws of physics, perhaps we could witness events that rip it apart if they happened. Really powerful video, thank you.

[@NoThankYou-qr7kz]

It would have enough speed to rip apart the entire galaxy we live in, and form a black hole.

[@fairfeatherfiend]

nothing a bit of lard can't fix.

[@sadeepweerasinghe]

let’s be real bro, the last wheel won’t move a bit

[@UnrealOG137]

KZbin is gonna recommend this to us when it completes 1 full rotation.

[@ManoloElCerdo]

There's not enough energy in the world for it to make it as far as I know

[@joshuamichael3411]

Think the world would have ended by that time

[@jazzy_jake]

@@ManoloElCerdo, energy isn’t lost, it’s just transferred. The electric energy from the motor will transfer into kinetic which will turn all the gears.

[@JoeBillera]

Well, it must have completed a rotation because you're recommended.

[@mcmonkey26]

@@jazzy_jake the energy is lost to friction

[@casualsleepingdragon8501]

"It will rotate every 5.2x10^91 years" Queen Elizabeth ll: won't that be fun

[@tobortine]

Boris thinks we might be out of lock down by then.

[@specific78]

i laughed way too hard at this

[@Kesiif]

*Laughs in betty white*

[@David-io5fz]

How many years is that

[@adamsfabuloustime5561]

For torturing you can say to a person sit here until this turns

[@sstrick500]

Who's here in 5x10`91 years later?? Hi.

[@mrpoltergeist1412]

The most disturbing part about this is that the final gear is still moving but like, it’s just

[@krzysztof-michalak]

Its probably not moving at all due to the give in materials

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

It will not move, now or never.

[@annabellaandrewkingdon7972]

The plastic material would decompose before the wheel had a chance to turn 1 degree.

[@skyrien]

@@LiliaSammer78 I too am curious (just to know) but too lazy to do the math :p Will put some numbers down to help make progress and crowdsource it. - Seconds in a year = 31556736

[@KiLLJoYYouTube]

@@LiliaSammer78 Shut up.

[@nighter7074]

fun fact: all those plastic parts will decompose before the last gear even think about moving

[@MasterMind75427]

Also fun fact: if we ignore the fact that it will decompose, last gears can never move becouse of energy loss due to friction.

[@itsbpa8123]

Fun Fact: The battery is gonna explode before the last gear will even move

[@TrolleyMC]

The universe will END before that even happens

[@leggodeggo1685]

Fun fact: he’ll take the contraption apart before the last gear moves

[@seanrimada8571]

fun fact: you can actually go to sleep and dream about the last gear having a full spin. Wake up to realize it didn’t but now you believe in the holy architect who’s watching.

[@FurryEskimo]

Gear 51 slips* “This little maneuver’s gonna cost us 51 years.

[@fadaksm.s.g8612]

*interstellar song starts play*

[@nasifn2015]

10^51 years in fact lol

[@oingoboingo8577]

Area 51 some freaky things gonna happen in 51 years hahaha

[@nomantaurus]

Nah you kiddin 🤔 It took just under 10 min 😏 Believe it or not but this guy is a genius. Don't know how many other experts design's he has built till now, but not everyone can do such stuff. Just brilliant 👨‍🔬👏

[@thischannelwillbedeletedve460]

the comment above me deserves a friendly reminder that they missed the joke

[@dadarkweb2794]

this is incomprehensible in every way possible. Love it!

[@ounsa1705]

Fun fact: even if the first gear was spinning for literally forever the last gear will never spin because the heat death to the universe will occur and even if it occured and survived it'll still have to take another

[@vitalik38815]

At this point he's just flexing with all those Lego gears he's got

[@stephenives6138]

And I thought I had a lot of Lego gears

[@popularparzy2116]

So anyways, I started flexing...

[@Zalidia]

Eh. I like it.

[@LetoPartizan]

Lol yeah. Nice Money pfp btw :D

[@davidmay9956]

I struggle to find those small thick black gears this one www.toypro.com/us/product/29727/technic-gear-12-tooth-double-bevel/green

[@mysticmarbles]

This quickly went from “I see what you did there” to “what the hell is happening.”

[@sloopy5672]

MysticMarbles lol yes

[@marcuzzandreilbelarmino5843]

Yeah i felt that too

[@Fridays__]

I thought he was making some type of clock

[@safutora7778]

Bro i thought it was a clock too

[@youlovejoe]

Where he get these Lego peices

[@killroy9628]

Total acid trip at the end 👍🏾

[@IPUTCROISSANTSINBLENDERS]

This explained gear ratios better than any video I’ve seen so far

[@DemolisherFrog]

Me: Finishes homework Minifigure: *rotated once*

[@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7]

Rotated the same amount of times as the reduction

[@deformedwaluigi9592]

Corona: *goes away* minifigure: *rotates 3 times*

[@lotsacraziness]

haha

[@arushworld8931]

SynexiaSaturnDs • 69 years ago it didn’t work I know you commented a week ago not 69 years ago

[@pseudocivvy8247]

@@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7 R U A TIME TRAVELUR

[@LeoCoot]

dude, you gonna crash the server ...

[@giraffon5487]

lol

[@BlazeFuryburn]

This is how Rick should've crashed the Zigerion's network.

[@bodbyss]

The server is culling all calculations after the 20th gear

[@tiktokclock2545]

No way!

[@floodescape2pro675]

@jacknjellify I disinterested know you commented on here

[@junekazama4578]

When this "angel" has managed one rotation, I would like to see the electricity bill for the small electric motor.😂

[@WibleWobble]

I love how you showed all the action shots of the gears while they are just chilling there being slow

[@VodkaVodoka]

Feels like the Lego man sitting there is experiencing some mythological torture. He will be free after he has rotated once, and has to watch the quickly rotating gears in front of him while the ones behind him are barely moving at all.

[@Rose-yx6jq]

Dude. That is messed up. I like you.

[@StreamChill]

thanks, satan

[@antoniol.9340]

who says freedom comes after just one rotation?

[@ithaca2076]

@@antoniol.9340 ☹

[@SpaceLivingNL]

I accidentally read mythological torque

[@orppranator5230]

“I will rotate once per universe”

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

If the machine has infinite Power, no friction and is immune to decay and enthropy, it will rotate over a gogol times per universe until the universe resets itself

[@versedbridge4007]

Me: oh ok

[@TheOfficialCzex]

The heat death of the universe would take about a billion times longer, 10^100 years.

[@marsaeolus9248]

@@The360MlgNoscoper it is very unlikely that the universe will last 1x10^91 years, and if it happens everything would be black since billion years...

[@reahs4815]

@@The360MlgNoscoper Well legos are that strong so that would be no problem

[@AlldayIshid]

I was way too baked for how this ended

[@JayZoop]

That just made the concept of clock making so easy to understand.

[@mioszstudzinski2957]

Everyone: *talking about how long it will take, universe decay and resetting itself, entropy, etc* Me: Imagine the torque at the end.

[@mioszstudzinski2957]

Ok, I did some math so the input torque is the torque of the motor, to get the output torque we need to multiply this by the gear ratio which is 1x10^100. So we have: LEGO Medium Motor torque: 40mNm = 0,04Nm Gear ratio: 1x10^100 (rounded for the sake of simplicity) The formula is: IN torque x gear ratio = OUT torque 0,04Nm x 1x10^100 = 4,0^98Nm [400 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Nm] So we have 40???Nm... We are WAAAAAY beyond metric prefix [yotta is max (10^24)] In comparison to "normal things": 5.7x10^91 times more torque than most powerful ICE [Wärtsilä RT-flex96C] 1.1x10^96 times more torque than average car ICE I think you can see a pattern here... There is no way to compare this to "everyday" things... Still, it would take wayyyyy too long to move anything with this (even without backlash)

[@TopGear25S]

Yeah, it almost has as much torque as a 1.9 TDI

[@lumikkiharthri6658]

im wondering if we made one out of the hardest material known to man, could we do the impossible and finally break the godamn nokia phone?

[@overlordsmashalot3891]

@@lumikkiharthri6658 the hardest material known to man? We all know what that means. To destroy the nokia, we must use the nokia

[@lumikkiharthri6658]

@@overlordsmashalot3891 they must be gone. reduced to atoms.

[@SixArmedSweater]

He's got a clock with a minute hand, millenium hand, and an eon hand, and when they meet it's a happy land, powerful man, universe man

[@samtricks1966]

They might be giants

[@McScuzzy]

Close down the comments. This is as good as it's gonna get.

[@bjarnivalur6330]

It's been so long sens I've heard this but I still remember it like it was yesterday

[@jacopolattanzio8790]

person man, person man

[@samtricks1966]

hit on the head with a frying pan

[@johnhofmann2828]

Such a cool build. I wonder if the last gear is actually moving. Even if we ignore stuff like the legos themselves warping/decaying, even idealized pieces, I wonder if you run into Planck length stuff or other quantum considerations that make “movement” meaningless at that scale.

[@KingdaToro]

It's not. It'll take longer than the remaining lifespan of the Sun for all the slack in the gears to be taken up and for everything to start turning.

[@rydergolde3169]

​@@KingdaToro taking a page from the 52 factorial website- considering *only* the time it'd take for the gears to turn, and disregarding outside forces/decay, I don't think it's that far-fetched to say it might be possible to figure out

[@SAAAMTV]

Good question. If there was zero give or gap between the gears, how long would it take the final gear to rotate just a single Planck length

[@SolidSonicTH]

It's due to the inherent inefficiency that exists in any closed system. The motor powering this is can't impart enough energy to transfer anywhere remotely close to the last gear. There's a loss of energy every time you transfer energy to another object so each gear down the line will get less energy than what it took to spin the gear previous to it. Given what I understand you probably couldn't get close enough to spin the last gear even if you had the power of an entire nuclear facility behind you. You're certainly not going to find that much energy on Earth no matter how many Hadron colliders you build. I think there's probably some energy threshold in play where we're MAYBE talking supernova levels of energy output could do it but it's unknowable.

[@thombern]

@@SAAAMTV yes i wondered about the same to..lol

[@dougcarlson1369]

Once the build was complete and we see all the relevant maths, I thought, what could possibly take up another 2 min of video? Then, the epic montage!! That was just as impressive as the build!

[@subsnovideos-ur4cn]

The universe won't exist when this thing finally does one full rotation

[@dxutube]

It will likely still exist but in a dramatically different form. It is still 110 orders of magnitude until the lower bound of proton decay.

[@subsnovideos-ur4cn]

@@dxutube we'll have to wait and see

[@boxman_two3047]

Bruh you only have 135 subscribers oof

[@ultimadragonlord6764]

We will just have to watch from the spirit relm

[@randomcrapstudios8398]

Too bad for battery life

[@oskar8048]

Me after every new gear section: Ok, so now it's pretty slow right? This guy: But wait, there is less

[@thedigitallabrat]

underrated comment

[@TheAbsol7448]

DEAR GOD. *NO.*

[@MiniMechStrong19]

@@TheAbsol7448 tf2!

[@sandiseferp352]

@@MiniMechStrong19 now we just need to use this to make a bread teleporter

[@dimsumboy22]

@@thedigitallabrat underrated? It has over 1k in likes.

[@janschneidereit3144]

my 3 year old son and i just started exploring lego technic and he already has fun with gears and stuff. And my hope is that when he is old enough i can explain the principle of gear ratios to him. Just so he can grasp an understanding that the end of this mechanism will never until the end of time even get a chance to even slightly move. This is so incredible.

[@foxtrotwhisky4061]

If you were to attach a very very very very very very long ruler to the Angel, how long would the ruler have to be to see movement at the end of it? Say snail’s pace?

[@jackcaesar2596]

For the end of the ruler to move at 1 millimeter per second, the stick would have to be 1.05e+72 light years long, which is larger than the observable universe

[@onionman8160]

@@jackcaesar2596 To say it's merely bigger than the observable universe is really selling it short. Pun not intended.

[@alongal407]

@@jackcaesar2596 that's larger than 2 football fields!

[@asterisk3522]

@@LiliaSammer78 So, given that we know the gear reduction, we can say that 1.034 x 10^100 RPM will produce 1 rotation of the angel per minute. Let's start there! There are approx 525600 minutes in a year, so 1 / 525600 = 1.90 x 10^-6 gives us the slower target RPM for the angel to make 1 rotation in a year. Using that target RPM, we need to multiply it by the gear reduction to get the RPM of the motor: 1.97 x 10^94!!!! For kicks, the diameter of the lego axle is 4.8mm. The motor's output shaft's surface speed at the farthest surface from the point of rotation (the end points of the cross axle) would be 4.94 x 10^90 m/s. The speed of light in a vacuum is approx 3 x 10^8 m/s. The surface speed of that poor axle must moving at 1.65 x 10^82 TIMES FASTER than the speed of light, just to rotate that angel one time per year xD

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

@@jackcaesar2596 In maths maybe, but in reality (this is an oxymoron) even an infinity long ruler won't be enough.

[@wobaguk]

"...and when the bird has worn away the diamond mountain, the first second of eternity will have passed. But the minifig will still not have bloody rotated once."

[@psychnuts]

peter capaldi moments

[@rozmarinideas5340]

@@modoc8664 that's kind of the point of the saying.

[@freedomfighter9582]

Voted YT community official rising star 2020. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHXMoXV-mdWbiM0

[@Nivexity]

Heaven Sent arguably best Doctor episode.

[@dr.fr3yn134]

@@psychnuts ah i nearly forgot that quote was from the doctor

[@benlanglois4923]

"Give me a gearbox large enough and I shall spin the Earth" - Archimedes, probably

[@AIEmporium700]

News flash. The earth’s already spinning.

[@theguywhoisaustralian1465]

@@AIEmporium700 psst, he was making a joke

[@prinz_e]

@@AIEmporium700 all thanks to Archimedes (and LEGO)

[@vulkris]

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

[@frnnzy_]

Ben David DONT delete your comment I need it for the wooosh

[@JawwadHafeez]

incredible amazing beautifully filmed

[@OfficialBleplandsRepsesentive]

bro is smart af to do all this

[@crusaderanimation6967]

Output specyfication RPM: NO Torque: YES

[@rj7250a]

This lego machine have more torque than one ship or one train engine. Lol

[@jeremymcadam7400]

@@rj7250a this would technically have more torque than every engine ever made combined

[@johannesbohm6458]

This thing has enough torque to theoretically stop the earth from rotating...

[@adriangarcia5293]

@@jeremymcadam7400 could you explain?

[@robotdude4377]

@@jeremymcadam7400İ even think it has no torque because it will not even make a 1 degree without burning all fuels in Earth.

[@coreybuchanan776]

Just to think that those lego pieces at the end, while constantly moving, are decaying far faster than they are moving.

[@magusperde365]

Are they actually moving ? How much is the plank unit of distance?

[@duffelpuffelmcduff1181]

@@magusperde365 I REALLY hope somebody replies to you, man!

[@KormonBlack]

@@magusperde365 That piece will rotate one time every 1.034*10^100 seconds. One Planck is equal to 10^-43 seconds. So no, for all intents and purposes, it is not moving if we accept that a Planck is the smallest division of time/space. Furthermore, there have only been 4.35*10^17 seconds since the big bang. This means that if you were to even start that rotation at the beginning of the big bang, it still would not have even rotated a little bit. Don't have time for the angular motion, but it's tiny, like less than a Planck.

[@rashiro7262]

@@magusperde365 I did the calculations: So 1 plank time is: 5,39*10^-44s. 1 plank distance is: 1,61*10^-35m. It takes 1,65*10^99s for the final gear to do a full rotation. Which means it will rotate 1,72*10^-140° during 1 plank time. Let's assume that the Lego gear piece has a diameter of 0,04m (40mm). When the gear rotates the circumference (i.e. the point furthest away from the center) moves the most, so we take that into account. So that means for the last gear to move just 1 plank distance you will have to wait 2,12*10^65s or 6,74*10^57 years. In other words it will stay stationary for 6,74*10^57 years.

[@absobel]

@@rashiro7262 Thank you for doing the calculations

[@user-to3jq5lv2k]

Last background music is so nice, which is like to suitable to the Googol.

[@dhrvanvliet]

Love the editing!

[@nikobaston8089]

It is amazing, reassuring, and terrifying to know that Eternity can be depicted so casually

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

I never knew that I can get existential crisis from legos

[@andysim232]

It's like the Babel Library. I cant stop thinking about it. Bizarre thought experiment indeed

[@YiannisANO1911]

To be fair, this is nothing compared to Eternity

[@jagossone]

@@YiannisANO1911 I might be wrong but I heard that the heat death of the universe would occur before that last piece makes a full rotation

[@andrewsauer2729]

Keep in mind, this machine is nowhere near Eternity. It's not possible to make even a 3^^^3 reduction.

[@fbihorse]

He’s almost approached the speed at which things happen in congress

[@philhand5830]

Ain't THAT the truth!! I've heard it said that getting things done in congress is a lot like mating elephants. First, it's always done on a high level, second it's never done without a great deal of screaming and yelling, and thirdly it takes about nine months to see any results... Heard that from mom, years ago...

[@mickhowie3012]

There’s a great video by the onion about republicans trying to slow down Congress by moving in slow motion

[@enoughisenough3618]

Almost ... almost ...

[@GamingGuruXD]

You kidding, he is clearly way WAY faster lol

[@kaminari1927]

The byproducts of a democratic system. We just gotta live with it. It is what it is.

[@devinclark4611]

You earned my like. I hope this is the new Antikythera Mechanism.

[@minecraftslegacycommunity486]

Legends says that after a couple of universal ages, that Lego dis is still doing it's first complete spinning

[@luckyc4t110]

It's crazy to think that someone can use a children's construction toy in their living room to create a process that would take longer to complete than there is in all of eternity.

[@CrummyJoker]

Except that eternity would contain an infinite amount of time by definition, right? So you could keep adding googols on top of each others and still not reach the end of eternity...

[@luckyc4t110]

​@@CrummyJoker When I said eternity, I was referring to the length of the universe's existence.

[@CrummyJoker]

@@luckyc4t110 that's not eternity though... That's just all of time as far as we know.

[@jeltje50]

@@CrummyJoker no one cares dude.

[@eduardodionisiobenedetti8846]

I like how that discussions are taken so seriously lol i love see it

[@andrewcheng1948]

"Rotates the last gear" "Breaks light speed"

[@timacorn2536]

wait a minute would that work? 😂

[@makotomiyamoto5249]

@@timacorn2536 worm gears cant go in the other direction ):

[@claytonjohnson3268]

The amount of force required to turn that last gear manually would be incomprehensible.

[@maynkrajora1848]

Won't be possible. It just self lock in opposite direction

[@iterumconare4258]

@@makotomiyamoto5249 yeah but r/whoosh

[@fxaris]

Smart and creative

[@-_lIl_-]

honestly mad respect to the camera man. not only he can spin the camera 10 times a second, but he can multiply numbers so big we can't even visuallize

[@KaleBennett]

Imagine watching this for thousands of centuries and suddenly discovering there was a miscalculation

[@Niyvee]

Or one gear isnt Set corectly

[@ordinaryfellow9093]

Or the electricity stop.

[@Niyvee]

@@ordinaryfellow9093 but that you would notice if you watch it for centuries like kale said we should Do

[@efrembuttner4465]

O dear

[@Niyvee]

@@efrembuttner4465 thats what you would say to yourself after noticing

[@charlied3189]

“Dramatisation, did not actually happen” Thanks, for a second there I thought 2.08e+92 years had passed

[@zippyparakeet1074]

Time sure flies don't it? One moment you're sitting and watching a silly KZbin video and, before you realise, 2.08e+92 years have passed 😔

[@rkpyi8616]

9.99e+99 years to go

[@blocc0]

You mean 10^10^10^10^10 squared ^10^10^10^10^10^11000000000000000000000000000^73863774643764827847284472837837573648872846733568488374377482748728864727482784277426746346737457367724882382918838277?

[@user-uj2jf4uu2w]

666th like

[@robertsjames2002]

He states it'll take 5.2x10^91 years.....

[@SuperQuesty]

dude explained science with this. 💯💯💯🗣️🔥

[@SystemicCreative]

Insane and brilliant!

[@Calthecool]

It turns out this is a timer to the heat death of the universe.

[@Da_Shark]

When the little Lego man reaches one full rotation he shall speak and say "THUS IS THE END OF ALL THINGS" followed by all matter becoming those little things that are money in the Lego games

[@samlarsen6706]

It’s certainly more reliable than the Mayan calendar.

[@Beregorn88]

Actually it is ten times. The order of magnitude. Of the age of the universe.

[@uggranpops8442]

@@Da_Shark get morgan freeman to make a recording of that right now

[@nikitakazovski9619]

@@Beregorn88 U wot M8?

[@adrix5521]

Now do it opposite direction The smallest gear gonna break time-space

[@tinnguyen5055]

Challenge: break the speed of light

[@terrastalker8189]

@@tinnguyen5055 destroy time itself

[@ceebee8711]

opens a portal to the goddamn end dimension

[@fghsgh]

Worm gears are very hard to revert.

[@ryukireii]

Ｒｉｐｓ ｓｐａｃｅ Ｔｉｍｅ ｑｕａｎｔｕｍｎｉｕｍ

[@kipchickensout]

"I'll go on a date with you as soon as that final gear has spun once"

[@Memophillia_Official]

Most satisfying sound is the ''click'' sound producing from joining of two Legos

[@Brandoon296]

LEGO store employee: “What can I help you find today sir?” BEC: “You’re gonna need a pen”

[@svis6888]

And 5 refills

[@itzmeavery9854]

How many gears will you need? Bec: yes

[@mitchinatr7093]

Just let me clear out the technic section, fam

[@boeriumanuela1328]

BEC: i want the full stock of everything you have and 100000 pieces extra

[@SimielBlack]

I see it more like a Ron Swanson thing where he replies "I know more than you" and walks off.

[@thechazz3230]

>That feeling when you need enough torque to rearrange the position of several Galactic clusters but you're on a budget.

[@fireboat9063]

Would this really be enough torque tho-

[@Hahahahaaahaahaa]

@@fireboat9063 yes. But the universe will end before you move them.

[@negativerainbow]

Is it even "on a budget" with this many legos?

[@mikaelsongameofwar2360]

@@negativerainbow probably not I'm sure he spent over a few billion dollars 🤷🏻‍♂

[@jessISaRicePrincess]

If you're using lego you're not on a budget my friend

[@spoonclaymore]

You got me. Bookmarked and I'll add a reminder to check back in a few dozen millennia to see if there is any discernible movement, as long as someone didn't already book that time. Some things you just can't control.

[@Adam-cr8qe]

My goodness, that is incredible 👍👍👍

[@IDoAdultGood]

You should add "landmarks" as you go down the gears. "This gear will rotate every 1000 years." "By the time this gear rotates once the sun will go red giant." "Before this gear finishes its first rotation, it's atoms will be ripped apart by the expansion of the universe."

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

More likely decay.

[@wybo2]

I actually did that and placed it in a comment back when the video came out. Ill paste them below: By the time that: -The grey gear (1:55) made 11 rotations: the Quatar 2022 football world cup will be held -The yellow planetary wheel (3:12) made 1/8th a rotation: A person born when the machine was turned on will die after living a average 72-year life (world average) -The 3rd large gear of the gear rack (3:56) made 2 rotations: A under-water vulcano near Hawaii will rise above the surface, creating a new Hawaii-an island -The 7th large gear (4:01) made 3 rotations: The coast of California will collide with Alaska due to tectonic plates -The 9th large gear (4:02) made 2.3 rotations: The Andromeda galaxy will crash into our Milky Way -The 10th large gear (4:03) made 0.8 rotations: The sun explodes and forms a red-dwarf, engulfing earth -The 12th large gear (4:07) made half a rotation: All the galaxies beyond our local group will have travelled beyond the cosmic light horizon. People living then will only be able to see a handfull of galaxies nearby. If our knowledge of the winder universe is lost by then, there will be no way for them to find out the universe is more than their local group. -The 18th large gear (4:11) made 1/4th a rotation: The last stars are born. There is no more material in the universe left for new ones -The 10th worm-wheel on the first set of worm-wheels(4:52) made 1 rotation: 90%-99% of all stars in the universe will have fallen into a black hole -The 3rd worm-wheel on the 3rd set of worm-wheels(6:12) made 4 rotations: A black hole of 1 solar mass decays into subatomic particles by Hawking radiation -The final gear (6:54) makes 1 rotation: The largest black hole ever observed dissipates by the emission of Hawking radiation -The final gear makes 100 million rotations: The estimated largest black hole that could ever possibly form dissipates by the emission of Hawking radiation. There are no more sources of energy left in the universe, life becomes impossible.

[@edsnotgod]

Lol Wayne will learn to play a second note on guitar soon

[@smokey04200420]

What is he trying to do though? Move a galactic nucleus a Planck length to the left by this time the next age of the universe?

[@DlSASTERCHlLD]

@@smokey04200420 What do you mean with "trying to do", haha. They're playing with Lego, it's fun to build stuff for the sake of making something.

[@RandyCivilized]

Get a motor powerful enough to spin the other end and you've got yourself a lego time machine

[@XnoobSpeakable]

Wait If you tried spinning it with your hand, it wouldnt move at all?

[@Adriendeblou]

@@XnoobSpeakable Nope, nothing would move

[@jeidun]

Xnoob Speakable you technically can, if everything was metal and you had a lever the length of your house to the power of 100

[@patricktho6546]

@@XnoobSpeakable Because of the wormgears nothing would move.

[@patricktho6546]

no, because of relativity :)

[@jackpomeroy5855]

You should put a buggy motor in the beginning of the reduction and see if the end of the reduction spins a bit faster

[@maschinenschraube]

thats the best explanation for the advantage of multistage transmissions, thank you! on a one stage transmission with gooogol:1, the big wheel would have a diameter as big as the infrared visible universe (+/- 150 lightyears).

[@periwink.l]

this mans is the only man who can find the lego pieces he needs when he needs them

[@NilesBlackX]

A superpower beyond any other

[@bramd4423]

Yo wtf you doing outside the Plaguelands

[@twistedlogic9739]

SIVA Splicer Dreg Will you make an appearance in future Destiny 2 content?

[@sir.squishy6830]

Brandon Kusnirik wut

[@Matt_10203]

Pretty sure I killed atleast 5000 of you.

[@Hubertverse]

This is amazing! I never thought that you could put legos together in a way that would create an existential crisis.

[@osamabinladen824]

Genius comment

[@TheLifeSpot]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MuriloMendesG]

LoL

[@steil289]

There also another it's god making you

[@StormCatsu]

Lol

[@sgtpluck8344]

I want the plans for this so I can build it myself. It's a work of art!

[@greensylveon1099]

3:08 In case you're wondering, that mechanism is called a harmonic drive.

[@timorieseler276]

"Kevin, please take this away from the couch table!" "But Mum! Only one rotation, please!" "OK, but only one..."

[@dervadveirzundluni]

I demand 10000000 souls for one rotation

[@foxfoxy5490]

One rotation is one bilion bilion bilion bilion bilion bilion of bilions of years thats more than age of the universe

[@sorcc0]

fox foxy im pretty sure more than that. to be more exact, in the novemvigintillion of years.

[@foxfoxy5490]

@@sorcc0 yeah thats more sorry that is 100000⁴³²⁴ or more

[@sixmint2904]

fox foxy yes because we don’t use 10 to the (x) power in the case if we want a googol, not like we use 10 to the 100th, according to you, we use 10000000000 to the 10th power. I didn’t want this to be taken as rude, just saying, and it’s technically not wrong, but most people just use 10 followed by their power to represent a large number like a googol, represented by 10 to the 100th. Sorry if it sounded mean, it just kinda annoyed me, anyways, back to my intergalactic conquest! I mean, being chancellor of the republic? errr, yeah, definitely not making the republic an empire, I wouldn’t do that.

[@wiggy5209]

That feel when you create a system that lasts longer than the existence of the universe.

[@richardleeskinneriii9640]

When the first rotation is complete, the protons in the gears are about to decay

[@Awesomeguy-kr8kv]

When the first rotation is complete the sun will have exploded

[@Shahmane666]

The universe will go dark before 1 full rotation

[@squareeyes1117]

Essentially this is a machine that will have most like consumed all the energy in the universe before a single rotation.

[@Micha-fg9iq]

@@squareeyes1117 Bruh, that's deep.

[@williamcompitello2302]

This is the best video I've ever watched on KZbin!

[@user-ge5mi6iv5p]

This is amazing

[@SpecialEDy]

Today, we'll be restarting the rotation of the Earth's core with Legos

[@royrequireswifi488]

Special EDy I wouldn’t be too surprised

[@josh-vb4ne]

@@royrequireswifi488 it's 2020, nothing is impossible anymore

[@Whitiss]

Lol

[@gamerscience9389]

Yes epic

[@khryszlermarcial344]

Lol

[@forgotmyself9205]

Scary thought : He can make it Longer.

[@theend2105]

Thats Purrreee Feeeaaarrr

[@yourock3794]

Just one more 10:1 gear would make it so much longer lol

[@Stan_1204]

oh god! oh no! oh fuck! oh shit!

[@xkryde]

Thats what she said

[@T4REK]

he could make another one AND attach it to the end

[@yosefsl30]

This is epic

[@captainzeppos]

I'm equally impressed by the fact that there is such a thing as "Lego Gears".

[@Tyler_Not_Taylor]

Man didn’t even make the video 10 minutes. Mad respect.

[@maximo48.]

2 secs away

[@kieranmaxson5269]

abuhurairah amjad yeah, but I’m pretty sure that you can get as revenue of the vids are ten minutes

[@shadic187]

Ads still exist yo

[@kieranmaxson5269]

abuhurairah amjad true but it’s cool that he doesn’t even want it.

[@RizLazey]

Googol : 1 gear ratio Speed: *... no* Torque: *_yEsSs_*

[@benlindquist3302]

you could literally rotate anything with that much torque. I personally would rotate the whole universe

[@fakewararchitect6234]

yes, it has got torque, but its is extreme slow...

[@TheRadioactiveBanana32]

ROTATE THE EARTH HAHAHAH

[@flamu9183]

@@TheRadioactiveBanana32 Uh, it’s already rotating.

[@carcharoclesmegalodon6904]

Now we just gotta somehow create a material able to withstand such torque... xD

[@jmairenaa]

let's just admire the cinematic masterpiece at the end. ✨glorious✨

[@erickt8184]

With all that being done could build a clone in reverse and comnnect it so its end moves normally?

[@nobodygoodfr9556]

Imagine some immortal being makes this and sits there, waiting for it to make one full rotation because it has nothing better to do.

[@ericspecullaas2841]

If I were immortal then yeah I would do that.

[@batmansdad4978]

@@ericspecullaas2841 I second that.

[@leandrog2785]

There's a lot of things more worth doing.

[@zelvage1959]

well yeah if im an immortal, i had done all the things that will entertain me in the universe. This will be a great time killer

[@ShippoFoxD]

Just keep it near me at all times as I goof off doing other things. It'd be interesting to have as a background piece

[@TrainTsarFun]

He’s got a watch with second hand, a millennium hand, and an eon hand

[@thany3]

And a Universe Heat Death hand

[@WukongTheMonkeyKing]

And when they meet it's a happy land

[@leowatley]

...[flourish] universe man.

[@glazedfaith]

Powerful man, Universe Man

[@Sonicbolt456]

@@glazedfaith Person man, Person man

[@Micaelas]

You're a genius man!! Damn

[@stevemoppett2759]

Beautiful!

[@bombiegaming]

Me procrastinating: "yeah sure I'll start when this last gear made a full spin"

[@joseangelmonterroza9364]

Omg, that made me laugh

[@eclips4638]

Or you can tell your off-spring to start on behalf of you.

[@alialsafaar6147]

I'm fk procrastinating by watching this video

[@gui18bif]

I still wouldn't haha :D

[@Tombsar]

*later* Oh shoot, I missed it. Better wait for the second full rotation.

[@witmilk6527]

Friend: "It's not rotating" Me: "Just give it a little while"

[@Ren-xd4jr]

Little while, maybe if we’re lucky your descendants might see the day it rotates

[@jakx2ob]

@@Ren-xd4jr probably one of those heat death of the universe type of deal.

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

jakx2ob nope, too late, already claimed that one.

[@Michaelonyoutub]

@@jakx2ob Literally, the heat death of the universe is defined as the amount of time for all things to break down and completely equal out evenly, like a lake of a pool returning to a smooth calm surface after someone jumps in, with the jump being the big bang in this analogy. Since the universe is so huge and there are so many things, guessing when "exactly" is the end is difficult so scientist just use a googol number of years as the date to mean "ehh, it must have happened by that point" and consider the universe as officially dead, one of the most famous practical usages of the number.

[@thecodewarrior7925]

@@Michaelonyoutub Actually no, it just happens that galaxy-mass black wholes would decay on timescales of around 10^100 years. They don't know when, but they don't just guess "a really big number" (there's a lot more info on the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe)

[@liquid_dihydrogen_monoxide]

I cannot grasp the concept of the final gear not moving for about 10^57 years (for one planck length) when everything theoretically should move, even a little bit. Like how does that work?

[@hqt00]

very little is moving, the small gaps between each thing adds up a lot and friction will stop it from ever work with that small of a moter as well. Also a planck lenght is the smallest possiable mesurment known to man. its 1.6x10^-35 this is a mesurement of time and a very long one at that. And plank time (the time it takes light to move one plank lenght in a vacume) is 5.39x10^-44.. Again, a very small number. 10^57 is a very huge number.

[@BryceDoesLife]

this is beautiful

[@jolly3257]

Me rotating the viking: The first gear about to experience light speed:

[@Sundara229]

Either going boom like the CD in that one Slow Mo Guys video or ripping an extradimensional portal in his room.

[@jackbarsotti6124]

@@Sundara229 the first gear would make 3877500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 turns per minute if you hooked up the Viking to the motor

[@a.9216]

And one more, you must have the Hulk^Thanos^Thor^Hela power to rotate this Viking at least once. (Distance = 1/torque power)

[@rubiks5659]

It's unfortunate that there are worm gears in this otherwise you atleast try and it might work

[@bobbysk8456]

The first gear is gonna melt hahaahaha

[@charlesschneider7798]

Imagine falling asleep, and when you wake up, the Lego Man is upside down.

[@Da_Shark]

WHAT YEAR IS IT?!?!

[@thenecromancer7487]

well... I am not even sure if the universe can survive long enough for that

[@user-ng4sb5nl2o]

@@Da_Shark 26000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002020

[@ivoturi]

Hey, you're finally awake

[@kavkazboi8139]

Australia

[@Jasmixd]

I'm kinda curious where exactly in that chain of gears does it stop moving at all because of all the dissipative forces. Would it be possible to approximate?

[@truemonetarytheory]

Thanks God !!! I was wondering if someone would write the smart point. Actually, that small engine, if this were real (which is not) very soon will stop working (less than 10 minutes). So, the interesting thing is that this kind of videos reflect the fact that 50% of humans are below 100 IQ. The post with 16K likes with 381 replies proves this assertion. All of them miss your point.

[@castonyoung7514]

@@truemonetarytheory Excuse me are you trying to tell me that this is all CGI trickery? He never ran the electrical engine for 10 minutes so everything shown (except for the end part where things go black and the colors go whacky) fits in with your theory of what should happen, therefore you have no reason to claim anything was fake.

[@aristosachaion_]

​@@truemonetarytheory Local man thinks basic engineering is fake.

[@hanstheexplorer]

Impressive!