Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Big Numbers

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

[@daddoesthings9461]

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

[@joshuageorge7997]

Easily among the best scientific illustrators to exist

[@BlakeGibbons]

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

[@irenaveksler1935]

@@BlakeGibbons okay?

[@SqaurebearSqaurebear]

@@joshuageorge7997 Amongsus

[@mgrootemaat]

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

[@thelants8569]

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

[@imadetheuniverse4fun]

He wasn't wrong.

[@nebtheweb8885]

Reminds me of the Cosmos segment where Carl Sagan explains a GooGOL Plex. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zp2pgoKjl5ugjNU

[@animationspace8550]

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

[@JoeMarine]

1 with as many zeros...lol

[@Speed001]

The biggest number is the biggest number.

[@theinterruptedlife1783]

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

[@larrycurrycarpediem]

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

[@ianmikael3019]

well said!

[@theinterruptedlife1783]

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

[@StaticBlaster]

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

[@Varrik159]

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

[@carealoo744]

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

[@NathanY0ung]

Can I drink you?

[@Varrik159]

@@NathanY0ung Yes. Yes you can.

[@Robo-xk4jm]

Especially since they were only at quadrillion

[@Puppy_Puppington]

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

[@365er]

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

[@reallymysterious4393]

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

[@polat__]

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

[@unnamedchannel1237]

What about buzz liteyear?

[@matt4787]

I must have missed the comedy.

[@MonsieurDrobot]

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

[@burnout_2017]

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

[@sreenathc]

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

[@bitcores]

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

[@evo2542]

uh.... his genes?

[@frocat5163]

Giggity. Or would it be Genghiggity?

[@Purrfect_Werecat]

uwu?

[@Wikidspidr]

@@frocat5163 lol, underrated

[@xxx-js9go]

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

[@ericson0504]

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

[@timkremer6329]

Leak on me

[@Turn420]

Yeah, watching these are not really a cure for headaches

[@Sejal001]

@@timkremer6329 😂

[@chasemiller7974]

Well atleast your headache is gone.

[@benjackson9299]

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

[@urieowrjdf]

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

[@The-binge_710]

I love your content 😁 great work

[@lukeh2379]

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

[@rravitejamavr6650]

Woow great perspective!

[@Drinnan]

The universe is smaller than it is larger

[@apolicum]

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

[@st.clairbij9208]

@@apolicum How do you mean?

[@jordanlong00]

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

[@gigifox9004]

“A yahoo” 😆 He wins

[@ollinalvarez8555]

can't like your comment bc the like count is perfect

[@whatskrakin37]

@@ollinalvarez8555 But now you can

[@KpLam3lasa]

🤣🤣

[@bradarmagost1541]

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

[@evanhdez]

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

[@nataliamoore7389]

I love all the notations and stuff we use now

[@RamsesTheFourth]

Knuths arrow notation blew my mind as well.

[@RandallStephens397]

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

[@TheDisorganizedNerd]

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

[@69erthx1138]

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

[@MadScientist267]

@@TheDisorganizedNerd Not even close

[@TheDisorganizedNerd]

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

[@MadScientist267]

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

[@Explorer724]

chuck.exe has stopped working 15:03

[@naysayer8772]

Ghost In The Shell 😂

[@M1w2a3n4s5a]

😂😂😂

[@theduder2617]

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

[@jeffreyfahie1502]

🤣🤣🤣

[@youpratter]

you must be a millennial :)

[@andrew1072]

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

[@bluerain9104]

I love these explainer videos!

[@originalhazelgreene]

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

[@TAYGETAnguyen]

He’s a fraud

[@Jay-Kaizo]

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

[@cordellsenior9935]

He annoys me.

[@808KauaiKai]

I love chuck

[@Jay-Kaizo]

@@808KauaiKai Does he have his own YT channel or anything like that?

[@rottenpoet6675]

dude he is annoying.....

[@Franklyfun935]

He makes the show so much worse

[@zachc.1923]

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

[@ShinyGroudon]

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

[@M_Alexander]

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

[@nebojsanikolic254]

You too huh 😶

[@No1_Inpa_Ticular]

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

[@phil7218]

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

[@moeschajackson5326]

a. Me too lol😂

[@M_Alexander]

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

[@Chartovar]

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

[@rottenpoet6675]

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

[@donrico8212]

I find Chuck corny

[@vihashah5975]

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

[@THEronleon1]

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

[@donrico8212]

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

[@SuperiorWare]

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

[@shanewright4650]

So I've heard about skews number and Graham's number, but how far does it go, which of these values and functions are the biggest?

[@trevorflensted3233]

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

[@trevorflensted3233]

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

[@DFord301]

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

[@theanglohouse601]

LOL!

[@petergriffin8767]

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

[@MadScientist267]

@@petergriffin8767 lame

[@treborironwolfe978]

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

[@JimLigon]

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

[@PixelPhobiac]

Or any pain killers for that matter 😉

[@nothisispatrick6832]

clever very clever

[@davidfarrall]

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

[@FranciscoJNarez]

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

[@andrewm000]

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

[@maxbell9723]

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

[@omegagaming7865]

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

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

♡

[@voidremoved]

I am new here can u explain 2 to me?

[@Mikemfm666]

Learnt so much? Except how to spell.

[@Kornelius.1228]

voidremoved 2=too or to

[@JasonWW2000]

Mike Miller, Not everyone is a native English speaker. Try to be understanding. :)

[@michaell.8938]

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

[@Muhahahahaz]

12:41 10^81 = 1 sesvigintillion (Viginti- is a Latin prefix that corresponds to the number 20, with sesviginti- corresponding to the number 26)

[@drcraby356]

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

[@Einyen]

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

[@Sparkz147]

einyen1 Did numberphile send you too? 😆

[@moosemoomintoog230]

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

[@matthewwargo6266]

Hey, what’s up my numberphile guys

[@MajdFreiji]

The universe will reset itself.

[@2br]

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

[@DarkSkay]

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

[@EarlHare]

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

[@shared29]

@@DarkSkay r/cursedcomments

[@Competitive_Antagonist]

There's probabably a serious market for that.

[@Rob-gr4yl]

I have a question. Do we have the computing power and memory to write down a google plex? and if so, how many pages of let’s say a word document would it be?

[@RoosterMontgomery]

Doc Brown uses the term googolplex in Back to the Future III (1990).

[@spidaxtreme]

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

[@joltster109]

That's one way to make a mathematician laugh 😆

[@ariyanmiah54]

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

[@evanhdez]

@@ariyanmiah54 that's a googolplex

[@nekojtamu6065]

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

[@martonheidl8349]

First of all I love your show, I listen to it every day, however I searched up Skewes number, and it is used to somehow calculate primes(I don't know how, it is far beyond my understanding). So the real number ( looked for it, and it might be wrong) is estimated around 10^(10^182). I am a little confused, so can someone help me out?

[@davidnemirow5476]

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

[@rossdatwelder]

Neal’s laugh is so wholesome.

[@halinalane1426]

Chuckles like a dream. So contagious!

[@rossdatwelder]

Halina Lane it’s so innocent and adorable..

[@halinalane1426]

Go Ross!

[@diphenhydramine6072]

Chuck's laugh is too.

[@rosiesullivan9150]

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

[@voidremoved]

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

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

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

[@damyr]

@@XtreeM_FaiL No. It's called zillion.

[@rosiesullivan9150]

@@XtreeM_FaiL 😂

[@TheStarlightKing]

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

[@JustLeftLeg]

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

[@Krisztian1941]

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

[@JustLeftLeg]

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

[@metaltyphoon]

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

[@donsmith3167]

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

[@chrishodgson5430]

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

[@alvaroq2024]

Or the Beatles of science.

[@floridafan561]

Or the Beetlejuice of science

[@abdullahemad9457]

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

[@jpdemer5]

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

[@alexlocke178]

Or Rayo's number.

[@psychachu]

This is one of my favourite ones.

[@Emily_M81]

I have some "idle timer" games from a company called Deuski Games. Atm one game has accumulated 2 novemquadragintillion lol. I actually like these sorts of games just for the ridiculously humongous numbers they calculate and throw out. I never knew numbers in this way. Thanks for sharing!

[@kepler1175]

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

[@hatebreeder999]

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

[@keithjohnson6765]

Nice use of chemistry examples but no room for AU? The distance to the moon was used, and total partials is a great concept to tie into the explanation 👌

[@ruimoreira-jc7sb]

I have a question to you all When the universe was formed for the first time through the supposed "big bang", multiple universes, planets, stars, black holes and much more appeared as well, but if we have in account the 10^googleplex number, if black holes did not exist would there be enough particles to write 10^googleplex "on them"? Bcs since black holes destroy and absorb any type of mater that even light cannot escape from it would it be right to say that without the existence of the black holes we would be able to write the 10^googleplex number on all the particles on the entire space?

[@I-VisiBomb-I]

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

[@PafMedic]

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

[@dheerajrao2179]

4:31 here

[@PafMedic]

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

[@aliciawiley6479]

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

[@johnmcclain610]

Would a googolplex to the googolplex power be bigger than skews(sp?) number?

[@OtakumaVII]

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

[@hafsasj]

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

[@jakeportolese4031]

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

[@spysmile123]

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

[@alanhehe4508]

Fun and informative!!

[@DizzNutt93]

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

[@Radiant_OWL]

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

[@lorgnetteify]

😂

[@anshumanmajumdar4700]

Is there something called an infinity number? And by that are we referring to a number that is unimaginable or are we just adding a zero indefinitely till time exists?

[@nijapp]

Great explainer guys.

[@Brockthedog315]

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

[@sciencewizard8805]

Not the first time I've heard about extraordinary numbers, but it was more interesting than I expected. I love that I think I'll always remember what a Google plex is, and how it compares to all the particles in the universe.

[@mike814031]

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

[@ankitsarkhel1750]

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

[@alvaroq2024]

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

[@chriswebster24]

Nah, he just didn't know that.

[@Kevin-ul8ux]

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

[@Derenze11]

Its Googol

[@HiR0SHi.the.D0G]

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

[@renatoigmed]

try save air companies from bankruptcy maybe?

[@cryptid1925]

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

[@insane_troll]

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

[@cryptid1925]

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

[@GetFunnied]

enslave the world

[@marcelo.n]

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

[@user-of5lw4oy3c]

Well done gents. Very informative.

[@bourkey07]

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

[@matt4787]

I wish he would have talked more about Knuth's up-arrow notation more.

[@manny011]

Wonderful video !

[@jazzabighits4473]

So does that make Skewe's Number 10^10^10^34 is equal to (10^81)! To figure out combinations of possible states (i.e. permutations) you use the ! function so something with 3 states that can swap with all other states has 3! or 3x2x1 or 6 "results", 4 would have 4! or 24 "results" and 10^81 (the number of particles in the universe) would have 10^10^10^34 "results"?

[@johnny_veritas]

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

[@Thetruthiscosmic]

🤣😂

[@aaronnalder4177]

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

[@FangKingg]

What is the biggest number possible using digits 1-9? I’m asking out of curiousity since at some point it looks like we just have to default to using an nearing infinite number of 0’s for notation purposes but I want to know at what point do we just throw out the other numbers and just go with 0’s. I’m assuming at some point we just round things up to the next big zero but when is that?

[@bmcmillantx]

9^infinity

[@KesselRunner606]

_A Googol plex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number One._ I can remember Sagan saying this in Cosmos back when I was about 12 years old, and it blew my little mind back then, and it still does now.

[@cobraman90]

This is just mind blowing! Side note: I love how the ads for his videos are of him 🤣

[@droniholland7185]

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

[@jlnger149]

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

[@SmileFlame3]

@@jlnger149 yes

[@brooklynbarber8946]

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

[@carbonwolf3865]

6:08 this reminds me of the story of Gauss' teacher in primary, apparently wanting to get him to be quiet, tasked him to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 and tell them what the sum is. It's 5050.

[@lifecoachanant]

Amazingly informative and entertaining.

[@anthonygruner2670]

I had to go back and double check and he did actually say “if you counted one number per second” - to a trillion.........it would take 31 thousand years and that would be somewhat accurate but if you literally counted/spelled out the numbers (two hundred and forty seven billion, four hundred and thirty one million, nine hundred and sixty two thousand, three hundred and fifty five etc.) all the way to a trillion, it would probably take closer to a million years

[@blowc1612]

That’s why he said if you can count a number per second. Words!

[@MadScientist267]

@@blowc1612 The example given IS a number. Words!

[@theguywhoisaustralian1465]

@@blowc1612 Clearly not a fan of math huh?

[@blowc1612]

@@MadScientist267 you seem to don’t understand it still 😂.

[@blowc1612]

@@theguywhoisaustralian1465 clearly you have no brain huh?

[@thebeyonder8814]

Incredibly well done 👍

[@ianwomer6637]

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

[@xHyperElectric]

Continue this with a part two and go into Graham’s number and TRE3 and other massive numbers

[@kapilshenviamonkar4641]

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

[@LauraTenora]

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

[@vids2see4me]

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

[@Mike504]

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

[@jdderew1]

15:49 ''That's insane'' Yep xD This bit had me laughing for a while, thanks for the video!

[@JangaLangaBanga]

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

[@ssbothwell]

Yes! Yes yes! YEEEESSSSS!!!! 😁

[@mikes.7545]

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

[@silvja8868]

How great are these videos?! 💗

[@JMS-to3xb]

Mine was Jan 28th 2017. There is a video on the why files that talks about this through a deck of cards. If you like this definitely check it out.

[@WordUnheard]

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