The universe's biggest gear reduction! GOOGOL to 1

Today at 14:52 I will be exactly 1 billion seconds old. To celebrate I build this machine that visualizes the number googol. That's a 1 with a hundred zeros. A number that's bigger than the atoms in the known universe. This machine has a gear reduction of 1 to 10 a hundred times. In order to get the last gear to turn once you'll need to spin the first one a googol amount around. Or better said you'll need more energy than the entire known universe has to do that. That boggles my mind. ⁣
The version in the video is a prototype and cannot run for to long BUT I'm making a version that could run for years/decades. If you are interested don't hesitate to contact me via email.
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This work is inspired by the work of Arthur Ganson. Machine in concrete.
Music by Brendon Moeller
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[@danielbruin]

Let me know if you would like to see a one hour video of this thing spinning! (EDIT: its live on my channel!)

[@Keremmsii]

danielbruin yes please

[@ieradossantos]

one hour? go for 7 days or something and become a legend

[@Derek-cb9lx]

Time lapse, something like this though people will watch for decades haha

[@nickr7437]

Can you explain how this gear system works to cause this process to take so long?

[@klex3905]

Um.. IF we want to see the hour long? Of course we do.. The climax is what we all look for!

[@sellosqueez6278]

When the last gear makes one full rotation, Half Life 4 will be released.

[@JohnDoe-xo2yf]

No

[@David39861]

Gta 6

[@jeron9272]

and gta 6, maybe in 2 rotations

[@MrDamo34]

Underrated comment.

[@prohz9129]

It’s gonna be another rotation for Bloxburg Nonbeta to get released. Edit: This didn’t age well

[@GlennC789]

The first gear takes about 3.5 seconds to turn. The second gear takes about 35 seconds, or 3.5x10^1. The fifth wheel will take around ten hours to turn once. In a month, the seventh wheel will have almost one rotation. The eighth will take a little over a year. If you watch this machine from the time you are born until the time you die, you will probably live to see the tenth gear make most of one rotation. The eleventh will take over a millennium to turn, the twelfth considerably longer than all of recorded history, and the fourteenth wheel would take about as long as humans have existed. In the time since the dinosaurs went extinct, the sixteenth wheel would turn a little more than half way. Earth's existence has been long enough to get the eighteenth wheel half way around, and in the entire history of the known universe the twenty-first gear would move by just over one tooth.

[@danielbruin]

Thanks for that! Nice comparisons!

[@GlennC789]

@@danielbruin No, thank you. This is an amazing representation of compounding orders of magnitude that are mind-bending just to think about, and now we can actually see them in an operating, physical object.

So, nobody would be able to see the 100th gear turning once?

[@espectador-]

@ i don't think so...

[@kiiistreak8748]

Very nice deduction

[@CSGhostAnimation]

spin the opposite side: achieve the speed of light

[@petrjanos5316]

yeah, let's try... the torque needed to do so would be something between insane and infinite :-D

[@petrjanos5316]

@ExalyThor this scenario would be more likely for a real mechanism, but that's just because the gears cannot withstand applied power. If the gears were capable to transfer enough power, you would never have enough torque to move it. Either way, spinning opposite side will not lead to speed of light (or any speed at all).

[@ArchangelExile]

There is no known material in existence that can withstand the force necessary.

[@adh_4351]

We must apply tons of force for it.

[@dkis8730]

Not possible because of physics and real world loss

[@championarrow8505]

*accidentally plugs the motor into the wrong end and creates a black hole*

[@arstotzka6520]

lol

[@E_se_Endrick_fosse_assim]

You could put a ship engine in there but you wouldn’t be able to overcome the torque

[@thatoneguy611]

The motor wouldn’t turn. It takes far too much force to set it in motion from the other end

[@DhirC35]

@@thatoneguy611 im sure if i tried to turn it before it moved it would break

[@ryanotte6737]

Yes, gentlemen. The original poster was indeed being serious when saying that the electric motor would be capable of driving this gear arrangement at the opposite end and create a black hole. Warp speed, Mr. Sulu.

[@CSGhostAnimation]

This can lift Thor's hammer.

[@ayushrai2057]

Hey dude i have seen your vids great editing idea feels nice

[@Zuion_Art]

*Exactly*

[@vurbin]

Imagine if you could have enough torque and gear strength to spin it from the other side.... if it was feasible, one turn would probably equal to light speed of the input gear being used now, lol

[@Mikasks]

@@vurbin even the energy in the entire universe can’t spin it 0.0001 degrees. But if we somehow have the energy and an ideal world, I guess you can reach the speed of light. But tbh in an ideal world, you wouldn’t even need that much energy to go lightspeed.

[@kingstonjames8477]

Yes. But it would probably take more than solar system's lifetime.

[@kg_canuck]

This thing should legitimately be in a museum or art gallery, always on

[@jarovanduren5641]

Such a thing already exists, its slowly drilling into a wall as we speak

[@eliteslayer66]

@@jarovanduren5641 source?

[@ialamm]

@@eliteslayer66 sure

[@wiktor3727]

Actually it is, it just looks different but I saw it in Copernicus Science Centre. Although its not a machine but you can spin the first cog by your hand as long as you want

[@mel816]

That would be like the mechanical version of the pitch/tar drop experiment 😄

[@teemurantala4765]

step 1. turn the gears at the other end to receive the speed of light

[@jmarkula]

it wouldnt last very long.. .-P

[@just_noXi]

wow this is just wrong in so many ways

[@LilKata]

@@just_noXi what would happen?

[@andrewalberico6177]

@@LilKata you wouldnt be able to turn it

[@karlopena882]

That is what I wanted to see! 😂

[@samuelavila6606]

I think you will get a lot of attention from this masterpiece. This can be displayed in a museum, running forever.. Amazing Work!!

[@danielbruin]

Thank you!

[@alanau111]

yeah right, or on the tonight show or science channel!

[@samuelavila6606]

@@alanau111 High chance

[@RuLeZ1988]

It will not run forever, cause at some point it will wear itself out and then probably the first gear has to be replaced :D

[@draco_2727]

I thought just the same, leave it running on a museum. but probably the gears up front should be replaced every N months because they would wear quicker.

[@gabenicholson6949]

Time traveler here. Watching the final gear complete it's final rotation was incredibly underwhelming.

[@kennylukito7280]

Yo, tell us your home's year

[@-Askar-]

GTA 6 released

[@-Askar-]

@@kennylukito7280 ah fuck nvm another delay

[@JonMcG]

hahahaha brilliant

[@rogerwilco1777]

..I'm sorry to tell you this, but the final gear was at the OTHER end of the Universe

[@michaelfarrell8962]

The last gear STILL does more than Congress.

[@parkertheprophet]

Fr

[@galenmarek8287]

Christian Burns at they’re accurate shots though.

[@DIZAZZO]

The last one does more than Brazilian supreme court...

[@peterklein1347]

@@DIZAZZO Brazilian supreme courts works hard, it just doesn't make useful or productive things but still

[@pacifist11]

Lets be honest . Given congress' track record. Do we want them to do more?

[@benlee5039]

car dealership: so how much torque do you want? me: *yes*

[@ilikeanimals5015]

What is torque?

[@phenry5083]

@@ilikeanimals5015 measurement of bald eagles

[@TobsterStrudel]

@@ilikeanimals5015 force applied when twisting something.

[@jokunimi5625]

They'll give you a brochure for Wärtsilä RT-flex96C. 7 million Nm of torque. 100 000 HP.

[@makosen]

And he already blows a multiverses by accident

[@williamblueshirts4947]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR 500 LIKES! THIS HAS BEEN MY MOST POPULAR COMMENT ON KZbin! I AM STILL DECENTLY HAPPY, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS NOT A SHARP GROWTH, LIKE OTHER TOP COMMENTS ON POPULAR VIDEOS (like the one that reaches 1k likes in 1 day or so) The expanded version of Glen's (events in the age of the universe) 1st gear: 3.5s (actually it's 3.48 seconds from frame checking, but I won't update as this will require rewriting which takes tons of time) 2nd gear: 35s 3rd gear: 5'50" 4th gear: 58.3 minutes 5th gear: 9.7 hours 6th gear: 4.05 days 7th gear: 40.5 days 8th gear: 13.3 months 9th gear: 11.09 years 10th gear: 110.9 years 11th gear: 1109.84 years 12th gear: 11098.4 years 13th gear: 110984.27 years 14th gear: 1.11 million years 15th gear: 11.1 million years 16th gear: 111 million years 17th gear: 1.11 billion years 18th gear: 11.1 billion years (Solar system ends) 19th gear: 111 billion years 20th gear: 1.11 trillion years (galaxies darken) 21st gear: 11.1 trillion years 22nd gear: 111 trillion years(end of star formation) 23rd gear: 1.11 quadrillion years (Planets fall or are flung from orbits by a close encounter with another star) 24th gear: 11.1 quadrillion years 25th gear: 111 quadrillion years 26th gear: 1.11 quintillion years 27th gear: 11.1 quintillion years (Stellar remnants escape galaxies or fall into black holes) 31st gear: 111 sextillion years (Possible ionization of matter) Future with proton decay: 43rd gear: 11.1 decillion years 49th gear: 11.1 duodecillion years (All nucleons decay) (Begin of Black Hole Era) 76th gear: 111 Unvigintillion years(protons might decay on higher-order nuclear processes) (10^68) 80th gear: 1.11 Trevigintillion years (10^72) 90th gear: 11.1 Sexvigintillion years (10^82) 100TH GEAR: 1.11 Nonvogontillion years (10^92) That's 1 and 92 ZEROS after it! GETTING TOO LONG. MORE INFO AT docs.google.com/document/d/13025ngegsKlc2Pk8N78o6vrN4VwjtZiJoSQ5UlBsS6E

[@alexILMN]

🤯

[@matthewsaints350]

Oh my!

[@prosperidadeparajovens1152]

UP!

[@Demidar665]

where is tredecillion and undecillion ? its not there

[@THEAGGERGAMES]

Мы русские - с нами бог!

[@Vort2k]

And if you attach a 101 gear to this mechanism? It will Google+ ?

[@GameShowFan9001]

It would only be a googol once that 101th gear is attached; at 100 gears, it would take only 10^99 revolutions of the first gear to cause the last gear to rotate once EDIT: Apparently I wasn't thinking when I wrote "101th"; that should've been "101st" instead lol

[@bredrunner]

good one dud

[@anSealgair]

The mechanism will stop due to lack of interest

[@antimatter4733]

Too soon

[@bobbyjones-uv5cn]

@@josh.rice_ this isn't Reddit.

[@smartaIec]

I didn't know you could put gears together in a way that gives me an existential crisis

[@FREE_WILL_DEFENDER]

Same haha finding these type of videos blew my mind

[@MrSK8ORDIE69]

HAHAHA

[@yamondakawazuki8941]

they're all waiting for their turn

[@Quonzer]

Step 1: Remake it all out of steel. Step 2: Lubricate all the gears. Step 3: Hook it up to a powerful engine. Step 4: Try it out.

[@gagd7351]

step 5: tow an entire continent

[@vape80]

@@gagd7351 step six: money shift

[@robertnagy3942]

@@vape80 step 7: generate enough power for your entire city

[@warandpeace8535]

@@robertnagy3942 step 8 : split earth into 2 equal parts

[@BaxterCash]

@@warandpeace8535 step 9: create a singularity

[@Bramon83]

Me, being a man of culture: Put the motor on the other end. Me in 2 seconds: what dimension am I in.

[@carlosgaldames681]

Hahahaha

[@linkenparis9562]

reddit moment

[@igggoshastudios7802]

Imagine how much torque you would need

[@jegr3398]

@@igggoshastudios7802 yeah, something would break for sure

[@Sharpless2]

@@igggoshastudios7802 idk maybe like 146 billion foot pounds?

[@StickerWyck]

Kinda weird to think that in abstraction, there's this impossibly long "infinite" route between the first gear and the last one even though it's all just a few lumps of steel that can't weight more than a few kilos. When you turn the first gear and the subsequent gears move slower and slower still, it's like watching your effort disappear down an endless hallway.

[@CptnMango9108]

Kinda horrific to think about. I love it

[@flashdimenson]

Basically an energy sink with infinite capacity. I wonder if there are applications for this in armor or shielding things from impacts.

[@brunosarramide572]

kind of Kafkaesque or Borgean

[@bigmack70]

Just turn the last gear around one time to create a new universe worth of energy 4head

[@monsesh1316]

That's galaxy brain stuff right there

[@hubleauxhuijsschendonck]

You cannot turn it unfortuanetly

[@spiritualgrowth3424]

@@hubleauxhuijsschendonck too much force would be required right?

[@TTGTanner]

Best comment

[@pfc9769]

Unfortunately energy is conserved so it would take the same amount of energy to turn the last gear one revolution as it would take to turn the front gear one googol times. Even if you had a magic machine to enter the required force to get the last gear moving, the gears would just break due to a limited amount of force they can endure.

[@adrianortega1431]

And when the last gear has been turned once, the first second of eternity will have passed. You might think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a gear.

[@anderstermansen130]

I dont remember writing this comment.

[@doooofus]

the first second of eternity passed a long time ago bruh

[@octamaster5000]

There isn't enough energy in the universe to keep this contraption running until the last gear makes a rotation

[@ch1ckenphat514]

Not this universe anyways.

[@Oli4Post]

So, this machine is a huge black hole.

[@michaelandersen4433]

Lol yes there is ?

[@benjamin7114]

@@Oli4Post Black holes fear this machine.

[@jtg2525]

@@michaelandersen4433 no. You’d need to rotate the original gear more that a quadrillion times the number of photons in the entire observable universe. A googol is just a ridiculous number

[@marcelocolletti]

Awesome! This machine got me thinking so much about time, space, speed, energy, the size of the universe and a lot more! I would most definitely love to have one of this spinning around at home.

[@danielbruin]

It does that to me as we'll! Have fun having that strange feeling in your stomach. ;)

[@frankjones43]

When you look over and the last gear twitches *everything goes black

[@infinitevirus4826]

when the last gear makes one rotation, your 5 minutes on the treadmill will be complete.

[@Batman-qd1sr]

?

[@literallyDH]

Wat

[@sophiahuang7388]

@@Batman-qd1sr he means that 5 minutes in the treadmill feels so long

[@AlexEdimensionz]

Shut it off.. I need that power to mine bitcoins

[@SnazzySMM]

That is the miner

[@albertliao9015]

Time comparison for the first 30 gears to rotate once Gear #1: 3.5 seconds Gear #2: 35 seconds Gear #3: 5.8 minutes Gear #4: 58.3 minutes Gear #5: 9.7 hours Gear #6: 4.1 days Gear #7: 40.5 days Gear #8: 1.1 years Gear #9: 11.1 years Gear 10: 110.9 years Gear 11: 1109.1 years Gear 12: 11,091.1 years Gear 13: 110,910.6 years Gear 14: 1,109,105.8 years Gear 15: 11,091,058.5 years Gear 16: 110,910,584.8 years Gear 17: 1,109,105,847.7 years Gear 18: 11,091,058,477.4 years Gear 19: 110,910,584,773.8 years Gear 20: 1,109,105,847,738.4 years Gear 21: 11,091,058,477,384 years Gear 22: 110,910,584,773,840 years Gear 23: 1,109,105,847,738,400 years Gear 24: 11,091,058,477,384,000.8 years Gear 25: 110,910,584,773,840,008.4 years Gear 26: 1,109,105,847,738,400,083.8 years Gear 27: 11,091,058,477,384,000,837.6 years Gear 28: 110,910,584,773,840,008,376 years Gear 29: 1,109,105,847,738,400,083,759.7 years Gear 30: 11,091,058,477,384,000,837,596.7 years

[@8_x_9.]

So it's not in a hurry.Time it's on your side.May you live long.😇🤗

[@MaskOfCinder]

Imagine having a life span so long that the 30th gear would only be half of your life.

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

Assuming that the gears are made of anything heavier than iron, the gears will radioactively decay before the back half of the system even moves. Even the zinc galvanizing if it's steel isn't safe.

[@HANuNID]

Gear 30 : 11 Sekstilion 91 quintillion 58 quadrillion 477 Trilion 384 billion 837 thousand 596

[@Siapawak]

Last gear?

[@Justin_Leone]

Make sure there are no atoms jammed between the last 2 gears, because they will eventually get crushed with devastating results!

[@TB-vr8hy]

Now that has to generate some serious torque on the exit :D

[@Djakkennaia]

If you had some way to 'tether' all of the mass in the universe to that final gear, this machine would have no problem flipping the universe even with that tiny motor, if you were to live long enough. Even with a motor capable of spinning 100,000 rpm, with a reduction of magnitude in each set, the final gear would have a revolution of 1×10^-95 rpm. Thats a decimal, 94 0s, and a 1 way down on the very end

[@trexmidnite]

Enough torque to take you no where..

[@gemhunter616]

The force from the end is only as strong as the build. Plastics aint gonna hold

[@miguelelias3744]

@@Djakkennaia none of that matter... what matters is: how fast will it go on the quarter of mile?

[@southern_merican]

As much torque as it has, i wonder if the teeth can even handle it. Whether u scale up OR use metal gears.

[@wittypiddy4974]

turn the last gear 1 revolution in 1 second and a black hole will appear.

[@dddd-yo5wh]

@@pqr2673 who told you such crap.

[@michaelnapper4565]

I just finished watching paint dry and I thought to myself, "I need a much slower hobby".

[@cellscribe]

so, ideally, although some are very slow, all the gears are moving.

[@neonexus7144]

Not necessarily; if there are air gaps between the teeth, there are probably gears that aren't having any force applied to them (yet)

[@cellscribe]

@@neonexus7144 Yes, that certainly wouldn't be ideal.

[@TraumaER]

David Logan you obviously don’t know how a car transmission works.

[@cellscribe]

@@TraumaER Enough to know, it would be more accurate to compare this to a watch and you need to reread my initial comment, do it again, find a dictionary, try it again. While you're at it also look up the word obvious.

[@jasielrivera1193]

@@cellscribe r/iAmVerySmart

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

Can we make a version of this that can last 22 billion years ( age of the universe) and make it from the strongest possible material and store it in a vault deep inside the earth and supply it with energy. Just for the hell of it.

[@pesopurbs]

The universe isnt 22 billion years old tho..

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

@@pesopurbs it is not but it is estimated to last up to 22B. But yea maybe I should have used a different word than"age"

[@pesopurbs]

@@user-hh2is9kg9j True

[@TheNyanShadow]

or put it in the middle of the desert and use solar energy

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

last shadow That is the estimation if "The big rip" will happen, but it is highly unlikely.

[@pintaridergaming]

I bet when this is close to being one full rotation, itll be treated like the mayan calendar and people will think one full rotation will be the end of the world lmao

[@Roxfox]

I mean, the universe will probably have stopped existing before then, so that's fair.

[@earwigs1125]

Never been so fascinated by things not moving

[@thejman5552]

wym it is moving

[@PedroVencore]

wow, I really had to stop and try very hard to grasp the scale of this, this is huge but tiny at the same time, Im having a rollercoaster of thoughts with a video of just 1 minute, math surely can be beautiful

[@TheAzraf123]

This isn't only simple engineering, it's art.

[@PressTube]

Wow dit is vrij indrukwekkend!!! Groetjes vanuit België !

[@danielbruin]

Dankjewel!

[@PressTube]

Daniel de Bruin Het is wel een beetje slecht te omvatten wat nu precies een 1 met 100 nullen is :) Welk tandwiel zou bv 1x rond gaan bij 100.000.000 omwentelingen van het eerste?

[@danielbruin]

Gewoon de nullen tellen, Dus tandwiel 9 in dit geval :)

[@PressTube]

Daniel de Bruin Damn !

[@meteto7489]

Sorry i dont speak noodles

[@skewbmotorsport9299]

Primer engrane -3.5 segundos Segundo engrane -35 segundos Tercer engrane -5:53 minutos Cuarto engrane -58:33 minutos Quinto engrane -9:43 horas Sexto engrane -4.05 dias Septimo engrane -5.7 semanas Octavo engrane -13.31 meses Noveno engrane -11.09 años Décimo engrane -110.98 años Decimo primer engrane -11.09 siglos Decimo segundo engrane -11.09 milenios Decimo tercer engrane -110.98 milenios Decimo cuarto engrane -1.1 millones de años (Edad del sistema solar 4.5 mil millones de años) Decimo quinto engrane -11 millones de años Decimo sexto engrane -111 millones de años Decimo séptimo engrane -1,111 millones de años Decimo octavo engranaje -11,111millones de años (Edad del universo 13 mil millones de años) Decimo noveno engrane -111,111 millones de años Vigesimo engrane -1,111,111 millones de años ( y eso solo son 20 engranes de 100

[@thejugador225]

Kevin F18 por favor termina de hacer este cálculo a ver qué resulta

[@wotblitzlatam5883]

WTFFF , es imposible

[@EJVR1184]

TE RIFAS PAPS ... PULGAR ARRIBA

[@carloshernandez2700]

¿Por qué se obtiene ese tiempo? ¿Por qué tanto?

[@ShaahzaadKaleem]

somebody please translate this

[@MrWayneOfficial]

With the last gear, you can pull anything out of a black hole

[@FREE_WILL_DEFENDER]

Technically yes "maybe"

[@brendanstanford5612]

This thing makes my brain go wild. So much is going on, it's hard to fathom

[@markallen1711]

So, for the last gear to turn once, 3.5*10^100 seconds will have passed. To grasp that number, think of this. You have 3.5*10^100 seconds set on a timer, and you press "start." What you have to do to pass the time is: Every second, buy a powerball. Every time you hit the jackpot, pick a blade of grass. Once the world has no more grass, roll 100 dice. Then, plant all the grass back, and repeat. Once all of the dice land on 1 simultaneously, go skydiving. Every time both parachutes fail, take a drop of water from the world's oceans. When the Earth is dry, remove an atom from the Andromeda Galaxy, refill the oceans, and repeat. Repeat this 1900000 times, and your timer will have run out.

[@infinitevirus4826]

huh. well ima go back to sleep.

[@theherrdark4834]

@Rays Through Trees, Summer Breeze Also the power of time. It is a great way to teach history and put it into perspective. This could get many kids interested in history

[@nssherlock4547]

Ir's all over the first time both your parachutes fail.

[@justincharles6585]

@@nssherlock4547 🤣🤣

[@boogiewoogie450]

i would like to solve this , But can i use watermelons as reference

[@kuzickin]

Let me know please when the last gear makes full rotation. I promised my girlfriend to propose then

[@우왁굳2만조광년]

1.11 nonagintillion years later

[@LogiForce86]

I think this device will rust solid before the 15th gear starts to move.

[@zhangruoran]

Theoretically, we don’t know if the 100th gear is actually rotating.

[@MeTurtlesLike]

It's not.

[@telescopicS627]

It probably hasn't taken up the slack yet. But I wonder, when it does take up the slack, will the motor stop?

[@thepoweroftheweed2215]

In a purely theoretical and ideal system, aren't all the gears rotating? They would be just rotating at an infinitesimal speed

[@dorusie5]

@@thepoweroftheweed2215 Yes, if the gears would have been machined perfectly, and installed without slack, they would all be moving, the last one just very very little. I wonder though, if the amount of rotation in the last gear per second would be less than the plank length (and so immeasurable within that time frame). If the gear before that would be moving less than that, we could say the last gear is acually not moving within that time frame. I'm not a physicist, but that would make sense to me. Boggles the mind.

[@RedSkyHorizon]

@@dorusie5 I was thinking the same with regards to the planck length. Interesting.

[@Mr_Chaos24]

How about 1:1000 connected to a 1000:1 it would end up being 1:1 with style ;)

[@Everfalling]

i'm curious: did you eliminate all the backlash/slop/play in the gears as you assembled it? because otherwise a lot of that time is gonna be taking up that instead of moving the gears.

[@TKMaster02]

Aqui esta el comentario en español que buscas Vengo de UPDT

[@arthurmorgan7891]

Holaaaa

[@Jesus-qv5sw]

Hey.

[@espectador-]

@Edgar Nava C veintidos xd

[@DanielCruz-vp7mg]

:v

[@AmauryChihuahua]

Igual

[@술덕후]

슈카형 영상봤다고 이게 뜨냐.... 알고리즘님 어디까지 나를 꿰뚫고 계신건가요...

[@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney]

At first I thought, 'huh, this might be kinda cool, I'll take a look'. After thinking about it for a little while, this gearset is actually pretty much incomprehensible. Some other commenters have done the math, and even with it explained it's kinda baffling to even think about. Crazy, crazy stuff, just by meshing some gears together.

[@martinstedtler]

There is a science exhibition in germany where the last wheel of a giant gear reduction is just welded to the ground....because it won't matter for the next hundred years XD

[@EngineeredCuriosity]

Good stuff to observe though, if the weld breaks then the whole gear train actually works and would be a proof that somehow the last gear at least moved just for a very little amount.

[@ShaahzaadKaleem]

Hundred years? Millions of years bro

[@ChainingDeer0]

Run it... backwards..... speeeeeeed gear

[@Lichnaya_pravda]

Lifting term "useless machine" to the new level.

[@RennieAsh]

Boogie Man80 it’s not useless; you can turn a planet with a small electric motor!

[@ELValenin]

@@RennieAsh or the universe, just wait long enough.... jk

[@jekesan4221]

@@ELValenin Maybe if it's built from the same materials Thor's axe is made from.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

@@jekesan4221 Yes! The famous Thor's axe. :P

[@D3adP00I]

spin it from the other end, watch the last gear kill someone 🤣😂🤣

[@davidk7529]

Not even Thor could spin that.

[@santhoshmeche3431]

The torque required to rotate that would be so much high

[@pfc9769]

You can't spin the other end. The energy required to spin the last gear one time is the same no matter which end you start from. The gears would break before you could apply enough force.

[@JackobsnN]

someone ? .... Everyone ,everywhere

[@davidbranchal6576]

I think with quantizing the everending idea of time with something like this, it really helps with existentialism to scale it down. I love this

[@ostrove4694]

This is absolutely fascinating in so many ways. I would actually buy one of these at a smaller size just to have it home and show everybody lol. Great work!

[@yashbansal1414]

Please reply me, what happen if we start rotate it from other side

[@AsjadSS]

Not possible.

[@agent8699]

even if you were to assist the device by adding a motor to help from the other end it would still run out of power to turn enough gears to do the job. The first motor will be lucky to get through five or ten gears before it run out of ability to turn more. The torque required to turn more would require a larger motor and the materials used would have to be far stronger as they would fatigue from torque assuming you had a motor powerful enough to overcome the mechanical drag. Yeah you can build such a contraption and even start it, but sooner rather then later it will stall. But it makes a great video for a few seconds to make it look like its fully working.... It's not.

[@TigruArdavi]

@@agent8699 you're wrong. You cannot ever start it from the other end. Because all gears are connected, you would need to overcome the torque of the whole set, which is just not possible. Even if you moved the last gear merely by one atoms width (~10^-10 m) would mean to put in the energy for turning the fist gear 10^90 times. It doesn't work like the last gear will move a bit. That works only from the front end, but not from the rear end. It will not move at all because of the reverse ratio, because it would mean to move every single subsequent gear 10 times as fast as the one before instantaneously. If a motor strong enough is atttached, it will just break the whole thing or else do nothing.

[@anonydun82fgoog35]

I'll come back in a couple decades and see how far the gears closer to the end have moved... You totally should livestream this 24/7 lol

[@pratyakshparashar2623]

Bro 3 years have passed.

[@alvarogdc]

The guy that did this with legos: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!

[@Roger-xs8yh]

Please please please set up a live stream where it runs 24/7!

[@alanau111]

That's a great idea!!!! and have a standby motor when that one fails after 15 years..lol

[@MagnumDB]

Just so I understand what I’m looking at, each gear has to make its white sprocket do a full 360 degree rotation for the next gear to move its white sprocket one sprocket over? EDIT: 10 rotations on the first gear for the next to rotate once.

[@Slenderbanana880]

Alright I have a question: Assuming we hook this thing up to a fictional infinite energy supply, If we run the first gear at light speed how long would it take to get the last gear to turn?

[@Xx32123]

@@Sci_X1 that's like 1.617 hundred sexvigintillion years (1.617^10E83)

[@monsesh1316]

And also breaking all laws of science, how fast would the 1st gear turn if you can move the last gear to turn at exactly 1 full rotation a second. How many plank instant has passed for the 1st gear to complete a rotation?

[@Xx32123]

@@monsesh1316 omg my brain hurts just thinking about it

[@zeptaxis]

@@monsesh1316 well it would have to spin a GOOGOL times per second, so 1/GOOGOL sec per rotation, which should give if i'm not mistaken something like 1.8 * 10^-57 planck time per rotation :)

[@jacekeller4128]

When you realize someone has made this same gear reduction with legos

[@Matoro342]

Finally, the mechanical advantage I need to overcome depression

[@MisterSavage777]

It's okay, I can wait. I've got time.

[@richardhead8264]

_The time required to take up all the backlash is greater than the age of the universe._

[@Mathiasisneat]

The fact that I can't see any movement passed the 3rd gear makes my brain angry

[@knownas2017]

0:14 This shows the 2nd and 4th gear closest to furthest. You can see the 4th gear move.

[@CosmicCitiZenOfficial]

Daily Dose Of Gears 😉😄

[@finnwestenhaver849]

Can you physically turn the final gear because this is a representation or is it physically impossible?

[@Svitojus]

If it was indestructible you could, but since you need all the energy in the universe to complete the final rotation - you would need all the energy in the universe to turn the final gear as well.

[@FoxTheProducer]

@@Svitojus and if you could spin the last gear, the first one would spin over a googol times per second. lots of times faster than the speed of light

[@Svitojus]

Fox The Producer yes :)

[@jhgrc]

Well everytime first gear has gone one full round, then final has moved 1/googl rounds, so last one is contantly moving if we assume there is no play/gap on all gears. AFAIK this is not digital trip meter where more significant digit moves just when other is going from 9 back to 0. This is constant gear box, meaning all the gears are theoretically moving all the time. If first gear has moved 100cm, second has moved 10cm, third 1cm, fourth 0.1cm, fifth 0.01cm etc. So it is very hard to see the movement but it happens if not play in the system..

[@ccricers]

Some of the gears would eventually get close to light speed and you need an infinite amount of energy to move them that fast

[@bosshoss14]

So is the last gear relatively standstill? In the lifespan of a human life, can you say that the last gear did not turn at all? Or is the amount superbly minimal that it can’t even be measured.

[@WaitWhereAmEye]

What happens when you spin the last gear? Does it spin really slow? Does it make the first one spin really fast, or does it even spin at all?

[@nathanj4194]

Don’t @me on this (basing this off of playing with lego gears) but my guess is that it would spin the first gear insanely fast, but neither the material of the machine nor any realistic amount of force would be able to make the last gear spin on its own

[@shadesilverwing0]

Turning the last gear would turn the adjacent gear 10 times faster, the one after that 100 times faster, ect... The machine would break before you could move it even a micrometer.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Robert Brown Trying to move the last gear is like trying to move Mt Everest, except harder.

[@MrWeddingPhotography]

Very thought provoking especially with the great choice of music. A visual representation of time.

[@gnarlock3927]

If My Calculations Are Correct, When This Baby Hits 88 Miles Per Hour, You're Gonna See Some Serious Shit!

[@aswayalmao]

By the time it reaches googol, gta 6 still won’t be released

[@pauldavis1583]

I would love to see the whole video where the last gear roates fully, maybe you could upload a longer version?

[@gexkiller5028]

There is no video long enough to see the last gear even moving one mm, since it will take trillions (or even more) of years.

[@Zannyy7]

Paradoxically I think that both of the two following statements could be true (depending on the rate of timeflow experienced by the observer): All the gears are moving at the same time. All the gears are stationary and only clicks or moves into position when it's due. The explaination as to why all gears move at the same time is that we humans experience the flow of time at a rate that is too fast to see the constant movement of all gears. The explaination as to why all gears are stationary and only move when they are due is that we experience time at a rate that is too slow to percieve the small timeframe in which every gear is stationary. I want to add that this is nothing else than an interesting train of thought that this clip produced. And it is verry possible that it is completely wrong. If so please let me know why.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

1st statement is false. There is so much slag in the system that there is not enough energy in the known universe to remove it.

[@mohammadgagat7589]

That represents how long my crush answering my 'hi' chat.

[@angelikamerker4006]

So it' clear: revers mooved the last, means first wheel, reaches multiple light speed. That's the god machine.

[@TalonMerlin777]

BREAKING NEWS Underground room discovered with reduction machine running inside! Scientists say it's been here since the year 2020! This makes it 5,000 years old!

[@telescopicS627]

Theoretically, would the motor even have enough power to turn the gears once the slack was taken up in the first 10 or so?

[@anderstermansen130]

Gear lag*

[@pfc9769]

You should make a video showing how the gear reduction works. Unfortunately I can't see how the motion is translated between gears. I don't know much about gear science so it would be a great to see how you did it to learn more about gears.

[@mikkey1877]

I know this is old but just ran across this video and have the exact same question.

[@abhisheksatapara8495]

The last wheel moved the moment the first rotated

[@MaclaneGamer]

One billion years later: Final Gear: Moves one millimeter.

[@kake52]

probsbly much less

[@n00bularbacon64]

Finally, a gear ratio large enough to handle the power of the new Supra

[@cyanus7347]

Hahahahahaha

[@vysteriousal1]

It takes 1 last gear rotation to : 1. Roblox release tix back 2. Bloxburg is free 3. Minecraft Furniture Update is coming 4. Aldous get a buff again (Mobile Legends)

[@ieorlich]

If I turn the last wheel with my hand, it will make plasma appears in the first one xD i mean, it will spin faster than speed of light xD

[@otakuxgirl6]

Is it even possible to do that

[@우왁굳2만조광년]

Even assuming that the gears do not break, it is impossible because the energy required to turn the last wheel is greater than the total amount of energy in the whole universe.

[@nicknicker1401]

Вот бы с другой стороны покрутить, с этой стороны уныло

[@Hpzel1]

Only the last blackhole in the universe would be able to see the last wheel turn completely & immediately after that the last blackhole which would be the last object in the observable universe would’ve evaporated ❗️

[@FPSPARKER]

There's a guy that made one of these with legos also. Pretty neat.

[@raafmaat]

if you were to connect this up to some miracle device that can let it spin at 300.000 RPM (obviously at that speed anything would break) and you would let it run consistantly for 50 years at that speed... you would still only have arrived at a number of rotations that has 12 zeros........ just to illustrate how rediculous it would be to even try... if we would multiply everything we have just done(for 50 years) by a million, it would still only be a number with 18 zeros.... so a million devices that would run at 300.000RPM for 50 years, is still nowhere near the ammount of energy it would require to get the googel ammount of rotations, woah

[@danieljackson7971]

you do understand that building this put you about 4 seconds from insane? right>?

[@raafmaat]

@@danieljackson7971 im just commenting, i didnt build it

[@him050]

Is there even enough energy in the universe to make the last gear turn?

[@FREE_WILL_DEFENDER]

I dont think so

[@him050]

Lucid Dreamer I meant a full revolution

[@joefarina9266]

I’d love to have one as an art installation in my home! Is there such a thing available? Maybe even and app that runs on your phone.

[@peoplez129]

You don't have enough energy in the universe to run it. Literally.

[@babajaiy8246]

@@peoplez129 Yes the universe has enough energy - it is infinite in both time and energy

[@just_noXi]

@@babajaiy8246 no, energy is constant.

[@babajaiy8246]

@@just_noXi Of course it's constant. But it's not limited - there is an infinite amount of energy available. Infinitely constant.

[@LilKata]

@@babajaiy8246 how can there be an infinite amount of energy with a limited amount of matter?

[@-johnny-deep-]

So, 100 gears, each with a 10 to 1 reduction ratio. Pretty cool to realize that last gear is moving *so incredibly slowly.*

[@marcusfilangi]

It may be slow, but think of the torque that last gear would have...

[@MrBradshawbenjamin]

Use it to carve neutron star matter

[@bairtcybikov9167]

Довольно жутко осознать, сколько времени потребуется для оборота последней шестерни

[@katarzynarek5268]

You mean that "it's pretty creepy to realize how long it takes for the last gear to turn" right?

[@SFYRl]

Fun fact: literally EVERY gear is moving, even though its going at microscopic speeds.

[@MichaelHenderson59]

The teeth probably haven't even engaged yet. Seeing as they're laser cut out of wood the play and tolerances between them is retty loose. The last few gears would move from the sound vibrations from your voice if you talked near them than the mechanical torque applied by the power system.

[@Octalion]

Not all, after the 25 they're probably not even moving at cellular level maybe a few atoms per day

[@MichaelHenderson59]

@@Octalion nothing is perfectly stationery. That would mean they are 0' Kelvin. Nothing to our knowledge is absolutely true 0' Kelvin because at a quantum level it still has energy.

[@K-Effect]

I wonder how much electricity it will use by the time it turns the final gear one tooth? Also in average indoor conditions how long would this contraption run tell it decomposed if it was powered by magic and did not rely on the electric motor?

[@gameryusic825]

Why would you do this? "Because I can."

[@tristmist717]

You could cast the end of it in stone and it would still take longer than the known universe has existed for it to all come to a stop.

[@gavincurtis]

Conversation piece for sure. Have the last gear trip an alarm bell so we know when the next innovative Apple product arrives.

[@chasith4498]

It’s sad that any of us won’t live to see the last circle spinning.

[@toxicgamertm7227]

It Takes 1 googol years for the Last gear to make 1 roation.so we won't see even past the 20th

[@spiderwings1421]

Maybe if immortality is achieved before we die? Cryopreservation? Then our consciousness is uploaded to the cloud? Then after thousands or millions of years humans figure out how to transfer things between universes to avoid the black hole era. And then we basically live on forever and see the 100th gear turn. That would just be amazing.

[@chasith4498]

@@spiderwings1421 dude, you trippin

[@spiderwings1421]

@@chasith4498 lol

[@spiderwings1421]

@@chasith4498 doing anything to procrastinate from completing my homework really