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
I love how Neil genuinely goes back and forth from hysterical to dead serious explaining something in a matter of seconds
Easily among the best scientific illustrators to exist
It's called fake laughing so the other person will just shut up and let you finish your point.
@@BlakeGibbons okay?
@@joshuageorge7997 Amongsus
Likewise I hate how the other guy is or pretends to be as smart as a 6 year old.
"You don't know inconceivable yet" It was such a throwaway comment but I love it XD
I happened to skip ahead through the video, and landed right where he said that :)
Can I drink you?
@@NathanY0ung Yes. Yes you can.
Especially since they were only at quadrillion
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.
If you cant express it simply, you have not learnt it yet. How beautifully Mr.Tyson potrays this.
That's one to grow on. I tip my hat to you sir!!!!
well said!
@@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
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.
you guys have the best dynamic of knowledge and comedy in your shows. great content
Only to be rivaled by a press conference featuring Fauci and Trump ...
Indeed, simple, funny and educational by high-degree astrophysicist
What about buzz liteyear?
I must have missed the comedy.
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.😹😹😹🌍🤾🏻♂️🗑
6 year old me: Dad, what's the biggest number? My Dad: It's a big number.
He wasn't wrong.
Reminds me of the Cosmos segment where Carl Sagan explains a GooGOL Plex. kzhead.info/sun/Y9B_gbOlmWijias/bejne.html
My dad said it's a trillion, and I wondered what happened to a trillion and one.
1 with as many zeros...lol
The biggest number is the biggest number.
Neil is one seriously brilliant educator….his explanation with analogies, and giving Aha moments is just amazing!
These videos are so fun and interesting and educational all at the same time. Please keep them coming
"There are air molecules that were breathed by Genghis Khan" That's not the only thing I have from Genghis Khan.
uh.... his genes?
Giggity. Or would it be Genghiggity?
uwu?
@@frocat5163 lol, underrated
@@frocat5163 uh family guy, I see you're a man of culture
It’s cool that he showed the universe is not only incomprehensibly large but also incomprehensibly small.
Woow great perspective!
The universe is smaller than it is larger
@@Drinnan Everything by definition is smaller than it is larger
@@apolicum How do you mean?
@@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
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!
I love these explainer videos!
I had a headache before I started watching this, now my brain is leaking out of my ear.
Leak on me
Yeah, watching these are not really a cure for headaches
@@timkremer6329 😂
Well atleast your headache is gone.
Search: Neil deGrasse Tyson meets Post Malone It’s hilarious! 😂 😆
“A yahoo” 😆 He wins
can't like your comment bc the like count is perfect
@@ollinalvarez8555 But now you can
🤣🤣
I love your content 😁 great work
This has officially become my favorite thing ever watched on KZhead in the last 7 years.
I love how you make this information understandable by the common person. But not talking down to us in the process. Thank you ❤️
He’s a fraud
chuck.exe has stopped working 15:03
Ghost In The Shell 😂
😂😂😂
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
🤣🤣🤣
you must be a millennial :)
of all the episodes i have watched. this one absolutely blew my mind further open, than the rest.
I just love how enthusiastic they are about big numbers. Chucks face when he is told about a Google plex is excellent.
"It's a googolplex. It's a big number." - Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2020
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
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."
@@TheDisorganizedNerd Not even close
@@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.
@@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 🤣
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
He annoys me.
I love chuck
@@808KauaiKai Does he have his own YT channel or anything like that?
dude he is annoying.....
He makes the show so much worse
I love this show. I always get introduced to a new way of looking at something.
This is the first video I have seen of these two. Probably one of my favorite shows ever now!!
My advice to you is to binge Neil DT. Search for the video of "What keeps Neil up at night"
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”.
you know I tought the opposite...Neil make it funny enough....I dont need a comment hussar for his explanations
I find Chuck corny
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..
@@donrico8212 I agree. No offense, but I can't get a laugh out of his attempts.
@@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
Neal’s laugh is so wholesome.
Chuckles like a dream. So contagious!
Halina Lane it’s so innocent and adorable..
Go Ross!
Chuck's laugh is too.
The chemistry between these two is even more amazing than the most complex star in the sky. Great video!
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!
This blows my mind and somehow I really do understand big numbers better. Neil is like the Led Zeppelin of science.
Or the Beatles of science.
Or the Beetlejuice of science
"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
You too huh 😶
And I thought all the combinations of possible winning lottery numbers was big...
Which means that given enough time the combination of matter that makes up you could happen again and you would exist again!
a. Me too lol😂
@@phil7218 there would be uncountable iterations where you exist exactly as you do now but literally everything else is every possible kind of different
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.
I love all the notations and stuff we use now
Knuths arrow notation blew my mind as well.
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
its an honor for all coming generations to breath molecules from you Mr.Tyson 🙌
And to drink water molecules that went through Marilyn Monroes kidneys ;)
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@@DarkSkay r/cursedcomments
There's probabably a serious market for that.
How lucky must we be to live in this century and be able to grasp new knowledge this easily...
First time hearing about Skewes' number. I was always told that a googolplex is the largest number.
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"
It's the largest that has its own name, other than "someone's number".
@@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.
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.
No, Infinity is the Biggest number, and it's so big that a googolplex is just as far from infinity as the Number 1
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?
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
♡
I am new here can u explain 2 to me?
Learnt so much? Except how to spell.
voidremoved 2=too or to
Mike Miller, Not everyone is a native English speaker. Try to be understanding. :)
Neil has always been the reason why I am interested in science. Though having Chuck there really helps getting things easily !
this blew my mind. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanation and charisma so much.
This is one of my favourite ones.
When I read the title I thought you were talking about big numbers like 7 or 14
@Sagenth the amount of between when this was posted and you replied is bigger than all the numbers he said in this video
@@trevorflensted3233 Actually 3 months have passed since u posted this so that's 7,890,000 seconds (googled it 😁) Jeff Bezos still wins
LOL!
@@DFord301 how many 1^-9999999999999 seconds? checkmate loser
@@petergriffin8767 lame
"Is that called a Yahoo?" - Chuck 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 This was an amazing explanation. Thank you for continuously educating me, Neil! Thanks for the laughs, Chuck!
No number big enough to measure my yahoo baby. What about YOUR number, sugar?
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.
@@XtreeM_FaiL No. It's called zillion.
@@XtreeM_FaiL 😂
Gives new meaning to the googelaphonic speaker system. Great Steve Martin routine. And don’t forget your moon rock needle for the record player
Fun and informative!!
This episode of *StarTalk* was unofficially sponsored by the makers of *Advil*
BAHAHAHAHA! I literally laughed aloud when I read that. Hilarious. Thank you.
Or any pain killers for that matter 😉
clever very clever
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!
Excellent. Speechless. Mind boggling.
Incredibly well done 👍
Skewes Number: _BIG_ . Graham: Im bouta end this mans whole career
TREE(3): Graham worry about your own career Rayo's number: Hello guys!!!
einyen1 Did numberphile send you too? 😆
@@Einyen Rayo's Number for the win. It's so big it's just a concept.
Hey, what’s up my numberphile guys
The universe will reset itself.
“and is that called a Yahoo?” Just found this series and I’m deeply in love with the combination of these two
Great explainer guys.
Ron Graham : Hold my beer. TREE(3) : Hold the combination of things in the Universe raised to Graham's beers.
I almost became a math major in the 1st minute of this
Glad he didn’t mention grahams number Now that would’ve taken an hour to just say how big of a number it is
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.
Or Rayo's number.
These videos are underrated.. It just blew my mind and my ego destroyed.
10^10^10^56 years: the amount of time you need to wait for the next big bang :) but hey, it's not forever.
Friend: How did you know the answer to that problem? Me: I just 10^100ed it.
That's one way to make a mathematician laugh 😆
Me: I just 10^(10^100)ed it
@@ariyanmiah54 that's a googolplex
My favorite part about about Neil is how easily he is amused. Probably why he has gained so much knowledge.
Skew's Number : I'm Big. Graham's number in the corner : Hold my funny notation.
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.
He didn’t forget to mention it, it just didn’t come up.
Nah, he just didn't know that.
I will be using this in my Algebra class next year when we talk about exponents. Awesome!
Amazing. This was much needed. Do something similar for extremly small numbers too
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!
Wonderful video !
No one: me at 4am: its a big number
I VisiBomb I ,I Just Woke Up,Its 0315😂😂😂😂
4:31 here
Dheeraj Rao 7:56 PM Now,Sun Is Just Setting,Im Getting My Telescope and Camera Set Up
9:44 “But let’s keep goin....I’m not done witchuu” Preach Neil...preach.
😂
How great are these videos?! 💗
This is my favorite Star Talk episode of all time. 👌
You can’t find amazing content like this anywhere else! Love it!!
I love Neil deGrasse Tyson. He really does help make this pandemic a little more bearable.
Well done gents. Very informative.
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!
"This is in conceivable." Neil deGrasse Tyson: "We're getting there. You haven't seen inconceivable yet." 😍😍
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
I had no idea what Jeff Bezos can do with 1$-bills.
try save air companies from bankruptcy maybe?
he can go around the earth 200 times and then to the moon and back 10 times
He can't because there aren't that many dollar bills.
@@insane_troll If you listened to the whole video carefully, you would know there are enough bills.
enslave the world
If I would of known about Neil when I was a kid, I would of probably have a major in science. Man this guy just makes me want to learn more and ask more questions
Basics first, young Grasshopper: It's *would've, as in would have. Would of doesn't mean anything. Your second part there even becomes weird because of this mix up, "I would've probably have a major in science", instead of "I would probably have a..." It's never too late to pick up the books. Of a nice day!
@@bitspacemusic When idle time tempts one to correct the grammar of strangers on the internet, you know it's too much. Don't go getting carried away now! Many of us are familiar with the basics of proper writing and yet somehow end up neglecting them in favor of phrases we compose without thought. It's a commonplace occurrence, but hey, it’s the internet, Go Nuts!
@@jonalthehost3232 I love you, if that means anything on the internet.
Doc Brown uses the term googolplex in Back to the Future III (1990).
You guys have awesome chemistry, I love the show! And I could listen to Neil talk about absolutely anything for hours on end 😂
I always get a tingling in my spine when Neil gets to the number of stars in the universe.
🤣😂
So a googol is 10 quintillion times more than all the particles in the universe
One of the best 👌
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.
this is absolutely incredibly unconceivable. learning what a googolplex really is, absolutely blew my mind. thank you, Neil.
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. 🤯🤯🤯
@@jlnger149 yes
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!
Great stuff
"...you have 10 to the google power." "Is that called a yahoo?"- the wittiest joke I've heard Chuck make to date.
Its Googol
Amazingly informative and entertaining.
I started shouting when Neil said there ain't enough room for googleplex😭😭
I recommend you watch numberphile video on Graham's number. It will blow your mind
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?
This is just mind blowing! Side note: I love how the ads for his videos are of him 🤣
Tyson never ceases to amaze. Love it!
“That’s a googleplex, it’s a big number” 😂 dead
THANKS!!
Neil, I love the art
Joe, are you being sarcastic or just mean for no reason?
Neil has a godly explanation for everything, like he can make you understand how a baby crawls in a satisfying video 😂
He is just such an amazing communicator, that he can take even a relatively boring subject matter, in this case numbers, then blow your freeking mind by giving it all perspective, in a way you can understand. Hes the teacher for the world, anyone who will listen he will gladly interrupt you and talk all day about the universe lol
you poor poor gullible thing
it's that enthusiasm he has- it's contagious! I was just imagining how vastly different school would have been for me if ANY of my teachers had had even HALF the love of knowledge and passion for learning as this man does....SO glad I stumbled across his channel!!
@@levelplanet3841 ? who is gullible
Keksi can you?
There are so many times in this video that I go to hit the Like button and realize I’ve already hit it.
Niel explains really big numbers. Ronald Graham: hold my beer.
15:49 ''That's insane'' Yep xD This bit had me laughing for a while, thanks for the video!
A googolplex of likes for this episode... :-)
Google's server doesn't have enough processing power for this many likes
Even that is as far from infinity as one is....
john tracy infinity is not a number
Amazing ❤️🔥🔥🔥☮️
I love these!!