Neil deGrasse Tyson Breaks Down Big Numbers

How much money does Jeff Bezos have? By the end of this video, you'll realize it's not as much as you previously thought. How many grains of sand are on a beach? How many molecules exist in the universe? All these things are quantifiable, if not hard to wrap your head around. Still, Neil deGrasse Tyson, in his trademark way, makes it easy to comprehend.
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[@giancarlocrumps7564]

Everyone gangster until Tyson starts throwing numbers at you 😂

[@Agent-Cooper]

The original longer video is one of my favorite Startalk videos. I want a Part 2! You can bring up Rayo's number, TREE(3), etc.

[@ben_spiller]

And the busy beaver! I wish he would have Scott Aaronson as a guest.

[@oaguilera81]

Yeah, on that episode Chuck was on 🔥 😂😂😂

[@kxqe]

I thought this looked familiar. 🙂

[@QKlilx]

So close to a "sextillion on the beach" joke! We need more sand! Step it up, beaches!

[@gekylafas]

Underrated comment

[@kingnick6260]

Man, I lost it at the Yahoo joke 😂

[@eha11oran]

I have been observing billion second milestones in the lives of friends and family since before I turned a billion, way back in the last century - it is much more significant than years - a year is earth-centric and subject to change over time, but a second is a universal constant. Thanks for the exploration of big numbers!

[@Xer0neman1a]

This whole video is literally a "this escalated quickly" meme.

[@DanielKolbin]

fr

[@Suoh27]

1:28 I can clearly hear Avenged Sevenfold banging in my head when Neil says: "...sounds and words ever uttered by all humans...". I love Neil so much for that and wish deep in my heart that he would talk about the experience of being in that masterpiece of a music in a short video, it would be perfect in this channel. Thanks for everything you taught us.

[@jrussino]

Neil's "billionth second" celebration made me realize - I could probably come up with so many arbitrary milestones to celebrate! I'd be having a little sip of champagne practically every day!!

[@ogelsmogel]

Cheers! 🥂

[@marinalomanova8077]

Star Talk is the best😀😀😀

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

Neil and Chuck for 2024!

[@JazAcrossTheWorld]

That would be crazy cool haha

[@LucianBlack]

Thank you! Finally someone said it other than me!

[@larryroyovitz7829]

Don't destroy good men, by making them politicians. I like them right where they are. 🤣

[@chloevassallo6288]

Their fine as too

[@voltmatrix1250]

“We are deeply connected in the fluids we consume”- Neil DeGrasse Tyson, 2024

[@labanjohnson]

Proud to be Star Talk + subscriber number 42,200 and something. Speaking of big numbers!

[@enexprod]

Amazing episode..

[@paulgar8]

Great Vid, as usual. (Love Ya, Chuck!)

[@clbcl5]

Why does my head hurt after watching one of these?

[@terrakamino]

editing?

[@lemongavine]

It’s called “mind boggling”

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Ok. If 1 Quintillion is the number of sand grains on a beach. Then 6.24 Beaches. Or 6.24 × 10^18 of electron beaches flow through a copper wire/second. Equalling 1 Ampere!

[@AdrianaVRodriguez06]

Mind blowing I’m going to drink to this video,. While looking up at the night sky 10 to the 81 power.

[@smartbutuneducated8637]

Interesting breakdown. It might be great to explain things to like perceptions but how does this conceptualization function if you sub out base 10 and try base 2 or base 12 or base 16?

[@dawnhansen7886]

Educational Entertainment to the MAX ❤

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

Time to ask a hypothetical question I first came up with years ago: If you had a printer that could magically print an infinite number of pages, And you set it to print in 12-point font, let’s say with double-spaced lines consistently, How long would it take to print out a googolplex in standard notation? I’ve waited to ask this for years. Give me the answer, Neil!

[@at4371]

So interesting!😀

[@xanderxavage]

Im just over a billion seconds old and god does it feel like it lol

[@raphaelfrancis3225]

Love the Dark Souls reference...

[@larryroyovitz7829]

Question: If there was a black hole, the size of the observable universe, could the particles in it, be big enough to write out a googolplex?

[@ray_ray_7112]

Being that the Earth being squeezed down to a black hole would be about half the size of a golf ball, I would think that a universe-sized black hole would contain much more than a googolplex particles. That's a good question though. I hope Neil can answer it.

[@swistedfilms]

If there was a black hole the size of our observable universe then yes, that would likely contain enough particles to write out a googolplex. Given that our observable universe contains numerous black holes then a black hole the size of our universe would be more massive than we could probably comprehend.

[@ray_ray_7112]

I have always thought about this ever since I learned the value of a googolplex. I had figured that number would be close to the arrangements of matter in the universe, but I guess I was wrong. It is too mind-boggling to conceive, being that you can write out a huge number such as a googol within a minute but it would take billions of years just to write the number of zeros in a googolplex.

[@abdulla_mathew]

There isn't enough matter in the universe to make the ink for writing it.

[@PremiumYtube-kt6dm]

Make part 2 of big numbers video on main channel

[@holly7869]

Thank you! I turned sixty-eight yesterday. Thank you for putting that number into context.❤

[@markastoforoff7838]

My favourite number is nonillion. It's 1 with 30 zeros behind it. I just find the name of it interesting considering the prefix non.

[@victorro8760]

The prefixes are intuitive in metric. 1 million = 1 000 000 = 1 set of 6 zeros. 1 milliard = 1 000 000 000 = 1.5 sets of 6 zeros. 1 billion (bi means 2) = 1 000 000 000 000 = 2 sets of six zeros. 1 billiard = 2.5 sets of 6 zeros. 1 trillion = 3 sets of 6 zeros, etc. Nonillion (non means 9) = 9 sets of 6 zeros. In imperial, 1 million = 1 000 000 = 2 sets of 3 zeros. 1 billion (bi means 2) = 1 000 000 000 = 3 sets of 3 zeros, which means that the prefixes are offset so you have to think "nonillion is 9 sets of 3 zeros + 1 set of 3 zeros".

[@tullimonstrum52]

Always a bigger fish/ number

[@merickful]

One... Millllllllion.... Dollarrrrrs. **holds up pinky to corner of mouth**

[@nathanlawson313]

Fact: No one has ever worked hard enough to "earn" a billion dollars. To earn $1B, in hourly wages, you would need to: -make $4,808/hour -work 80 hour work weeks -from the day you were born, until you turn 50 ...Yes, I realize how "net worth" works. My point is still the same though. 🤷‍♂

[@tombondcrispy6585]

Tax the rich

[@tombondcrispy6585]

Being a billionaire should be illegal

[@LeoTheMageWarrior]

I’m beyond my billionth second by about 300million seconds. But if I had known that there was such a thing as a billionth second celebration, I would have totally wanted to celebrate it.

[@operator2549]

When he says "particle" does he mean atom? Or subatomic particles like electrons as well ?

[@FarCrySource]

You forgot to mention Graham's number

[@JasonB808]

Every kid knows the largest number is one Zillion 😂.

[@MysticBliss]

Dayum 😊

[@user-rp1lq9ws5l]

Damn

[@Leftyotism]

4:17 Whoah he said mathematician and pronounced the e in Mathe!

[@stephenschroeder6567]

Next Thursday I reach my 2,049,840,000 second (65 years).

[@zeeb6853]

Not sure of my favorite number, but 3,000 is always tasty 😋

[@kxqe]

There's a number bigger than Skewe's number -- the number of ad breaks a had to watch during this video.

[@wade1419]

Can you just figure out this week's California SuperLotto numbers, please dear sir?

[@denisebledsoe8836]

Oh wow... interesting fact about "Google".. !

[@AndiRAin1]

Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos. Must read for humanity.

[@swistedfilms]

This reminds me of the time I tried to figure out the number of possible photos I could make in a 64 megapixel (8 megapixel square) arrangement. I think I eventually found out that it was !64,000,000, or factorial (64000000), which is basically infinity. I still think it would be pretty neat if someone figured out an equation to solve for a unique instance of !64M, hand that equation off to various computers around the world, and have them randomly generating unique iterations of photos. Sure, most of them would probably be visual gibberish, like the snow on an old TV set. But imagine the amazing photos that could be generated...or the eldritch horrors that await us! But I think it would take a quantum computer to do that, and that would not be the best use of that kind of power right now. By the way, if I've gotten the math wrong on how to figure that out please let me know. I'm still curious as to how that plays out.

[@willrose5424]

I forgot why I clicked until the end.

[@HellsKitchenMichelle]

What's fizgig?

[@sadeghsadegh3761]

Neil please give me a tip of 1B seconds celebration 🎉

[@patrickwilkerson1728]

Infinity is the biggest number.

[@Keloide-yd3vv]

I remember learning about googols and plex from Dr.Sagan and his paper roll of zeros 🥲

[@jeremycoleman8995]

Don't forget Graham's number 🧐😉

[@soapy42]

I wonder what the count of 1's and 0's that have ever been transfered on the internet, since it became a thing... is...

[@dresmat72]

i miss the times when a quintillion was a 1 followed by 30 zeros.

[@ZappaBlues]

my brain hurts.

[@kcsnipes]

Give Niel Tyson a billion dollars and he uses them to see how far they can stretch out in the universe 😂 couldn’t be me

[@EldenRink]

Bezoz may have 100B, but that doesn’t mean he’s worth it.

[@tombondcrispy6585]

Being a billionaire should be illegal

[@gene8172]

Maybe. But he did indeed earn it.

[@kindnessisfree89]

My brain hurts 😂😅

[@estarszak]

1.5 sextillion molecules in a drop of water

[@davidevans3227]

how big is a glass of water

[@kxqe]

Smaller than an Olympic pool.

[@babakpersian]

Neil, you have Fans in Iran. #FreeIran

[@thomasprince4992]

pick up line , hey baby i am one in a sextillion

[@HellsKitchenMichelle]

I'd open a rescue for animals

[@Miroslav_Bulgaria]

Once you break the the Absolute zero and small numbers it is absolutely necessary to discuss big ones too! 😂

[@marvhollingworth663]

I've heard of a googol with 100 zeroes before, but he (I think it was Matt Parker) pronounced it more like "goo-gol." I didn't know that's where Google got their name, my guess was that came from "go ogle."

[@marianagyorgyfalvi3659]

😂That's why I don't believe in combinations with 0, it gives unreal possibilities! There would be laws in nature that do not allow the achievement!

[@MuneerAlrabadi-lq5oq]

My boy don't play me dont star bild it right

[@josephdonais4778]

What is the number of 31 comas?

[@OO-un8ks]

And everything and nothing is everywhere and nowhere because maths left side exponents and their derivatives into endless square rooting patterns and deviant undefined numbers as well as the "typical paradoxes or suchlike" then the possibilities from these unknowns from undefined paradoxes and defining fun graphing data and doing cool overly complex just because geometry tricks and making a circle from a serious of endless undefined into the infinite expanse of non secuential "butterfly effect"

[@StevenWebb]

Imagine if Voyager 1, launched in 1977 and traveling at 61,200 km/h, was earning $61,200 every hour since launch. Even after nearly half a century speeding through space, its earnings would just surpass $25 billion today. Now compare that to Elon Musk's staggering net worth of approximately $230 billion. It's as though Voyager had to speed around for almost 500 years to match what Musk has amassed. The scale of his wealth is not just immense-it's nearly otherworldly!

[@tombondcrispy6585]

Being a billionaire should be illegal

[@yeoldeone8650]

С У В Е Н И Р

[@troybrown2802]

A million million is a billion USA. Says the rest of the world.

[@Tenraiden]

What's with the clickbaity thumbnails?

[@joaomarques5790]

Instead of googol... Why not a centilion?

[@jancsotamas3891]

Is math related to science?🤔

[@SevenArt-en6ss]

When I saw the thumbnail title to this video.. I said.. "AWWWW man... Startalk has jumped the shark" Then I watched the video.. My mind was blown.

[@nzrockboi]

3:29 guy is peeing with the seat down EWWWWW

[@HellsKitchenMichelle]

I stink at math

[@austindickey1372]

Stop the scooby doo sound effects please.

[@vinit.khandelwal]

Started with thinking, Jeff Bezos has hellotta money. Ended with Meh! Jeff has nothing

[@anonymous_1122_]

Please don't add those weird sounds into the video ever again.

[@JosephLamb1989]

Not enough to fix his eye

[@infinitekid4612]

i wanna be a googol-are🤑

[@susanwangari3753]

Am almost that number 10.01.. With plus am 2.. with Minus am out.Am the last and and will be the first.God creation🤷🏾‍♀️

[@tombondcrispy6585]

Tax the rich

[@MtDuckford]

And the only number bigger than that, is the one yo mamma sees on the scale😛

[@DRC2060]

🥱🥱🥱

[@Rainyman63]

How I explain a billion: Imagine you won a million Dollars in the lottery this week and how you would spend it. Then you‘ll win another million next week. Try to spend it. Then you win again and again. Every week. For ( almost ) 20 years. Then you‘ll have a billion.

[@ray_ray_7112]

It would take 1000 weeks or 83.3 years to have a billion.

[@Rainyman63]

@@ray_ray_7112 You‘re right that it take 1000 weeks, but since 1 year has 52.179 weeks it‘s 1000 / 52.179 = 19.165 years. Or app. 19 years and 2 months.

[@ray_ray_7112]

@@Rainyman63 Uh Oh! I divided by 12 months instead of 52 .179 weeks. I think I had a little to much to drink last night.

[@Rainyman63]

@@ray_ray_7112 I just thought you wanted to prove that the fastest way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post a wrong one. :D

[@defenderofwisdom]

Not enough for me to care.

[@MightOfOgun]

Hey, where is the "science in 'hesus'" Neil? 😑

[@rxibot]

I mean seriously who really cares? The fact that we allow garbage behavior like this to occur in the first place is literally the definition of the dark side of capitalism. For somebody to take advantage of their employees to the point that they are screwing them over and we allow that shows the dark side of capitalism. The fact that we allow someone to use money to be little the entirety of a nation shows the dark side of capitalism. There is nothing worse in this world then the dark side of capitalism, not even communism. To allow the wealthy to do whatever they want by harming themselves with their behavior and other people by not paying them the appropriate money that they have worked for by making them wealthy in the first place is exactly the dark side of capitalism. And the longer we allow it to happen and pretends that these guys are great for making all this money and harming other people including themselves is just destroying capitalism at its fundamental meaning. There is nowhere that capitalism is there to ensure that the wealthy stays wealthy and the poor stay poor. But if we want to keep worshiping these m************ for some reason that's on you. The fact that we allow companies to get tax breaks because they give to a cause that they feel is important which usually is a cause that they are a part of in the first place shows all you need to see about how f***** up the United States is at the moment. I could educate you all so much on how your skewed towards believing that the wealthy person is a good person to follow but they would have me assassinated :-)

[@merickful]

I love who you ask "Who cares?" Then proceed to write a novella detailing the reasons who you care.

[@rxibot]

@@merickful If you consider that a novella then I feel sorry for your wife.

[@merickful]

@@rxibot Wooosh.

[@13thAMG]

Awesome facts. Here's one more, Neil: Jesus never existed and you damned well know that!! You're a scientist. Please stop invoking mythical superstition characters. Love your work. Love this channel.

[@Jimmyni-kk4em]

Just lose the chuck guy. He is not funny and boring to watch add no value at least have someone who ask questions instead of just making bad jokes all the time

[@humanform5354]

Said the wet blanket...

[@Jimmyni-kk4em]

@@humanform5354 my blanket is dry. Don't tell me u laugh at his bad jokes. Then u need to watch more comedy

[@humanform5354]

@@Jimmyni-kk4em Fair enough, but just remember. There's far more of us who find Lord Nice quite humorous and think he's an excellent addition to Star Talk than those of you who do not.... Just saying....

[@Jimmyni-kk4em]

@@humanform5354 is he funny honestly.

[@humanform5354]

@@Jimmyni-kk4em He doesn't always "hit it" but then again, what comedian does?... Most of the time though, he has me in stitches...