How To Count Past Infinity

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  • Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
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    Sources and links to learn more below!
    I’m very grateful to mathematician Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Harvard, for taking the time on multiple occasions to discuss this topic with me and help me wrap my (finite) head around it.
    I’m also grateful to David Eisenbud, the Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, for his help and for connecting me with Hugh Woodin.
    And of course, big thanks to Brady Haran who created the “mile of pi” seen in this video and connected me with all these mathematicians in the first place. His channel, Numberphile, is superb: / numberphile
    BOOKS related to these topics that I used:
    “The Outer Limits of Reason” by Noson S. Yanofsky: amzn.com/0262019353
    “Infinity and The Mind” by Rudy Rucker: amzn.com/0691121273
    “Roads to Infinity” by John C. Stilwell: amzn.com/1568814666
    “More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do Philosophy” by Eric Steinhart: amzn.com/1551119099
    “Satan, Cantor and Infinity: Mind-Boggling Puzzles” by Raymond M. Smullyan: amzn.com/0486470369
    classic book that helps introduce concept of axioms: “Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics” by Raymond L. Wilder: amzn.com/0486488209
    Hugh Woodin speaking about infinity at the World Science Festival: • Infinity: The Science ...
    Names of large (finite) numbers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_o...
    Geoglyphs:
    The biggest number: goo.gl/maps/7GWcpnzo7iG2
    Fovant badges: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovant_...
    Battalion Park: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battali...
    A mile of pi [VIDEO]: • Mile of Pi - Numberphile
    Wikipedia’s great visualization of ordinals out to omega^omega: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Om...
    as seen on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal...
    this is also a good page about ordinals: math.wikia.com/wiki/Ordinal_Nu...
    also: www.cut-the-knot.org/WhatIs/In...
    and: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_type and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-order
    Axioms:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom
    / have_there_been_axioms...
    philosophy.stackexchange.com/q...
    www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPA...
    www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPA...
    THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENSS OF MATHEMATICS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES
    [PDF]: www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/papers...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unr...
    Large Cardinal game based on 2048: cantorontheshore.blogspot.it/2...
    Other good resources:
    quibb.blogspot.com/2012/01/inf...
    plato.stanford.edu/entries/set...
    cantorsattic.info/Cantor%27s_A...
    cantorontheshore.blogspot.co.a...
    isomorphism.es/post/1078208142...
    lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2007...
    MUSIC BY:
    / jakechudnow
    www.audionetwork.com
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  • @Vsauce
    @Vsauce  8 років тому +10505

    listen to what I say at exactly 0:40

  • @ItzKernel
    @ItzKernel 5 років тому +32182

    -So can we count to Infinity?
    -ℵₒ

  • @AlvaroManiac1
    @AlvaroManiac1 5 місяців тому +515

    The seemingly random "post credits" scene was incredible.
    "Omega + one" indicates a number that is in order after the "last" of the natural numbers. Having that bit play AFTER the "end" of the video was absolutely genius and wonderfully creative.

    • @smallw1991
      @smallw1991 4 місяці тому +17

      Least genius vsauce moment:

    • @ShwappaJ
      @ShwappaJ 3 місяці тому +17

      ​@@smallw1991 bro had to use Aleph Null of his I.Q. to tell us that part lol

    • @POLARTTYRTM
      @POLARTTYRTM 3 місяці тому +12

      I always watched this video since it has been uploaded and never really noticed this aspect until I read your comment.

    • @sabhiyakhan9899
      @sabhiyakhan9899 16 днів тому +1

      The sound ❤ what he is talking about 💀

  • @Davsennn
    @Davsennn 2 місяці тому +318

    1:00 How to count according to Michael:
    40, 41, 42, 43, a billion, a trillion

  • @NoobHashtagPLS
    @NoobHashtagPLS 4 роки тому +15703

    9 year old me: *Infinity plus one.*

  • @vvvss-cx1vd
    @vvvss-cx1vd 3 роки тому +6700

    How to count past infinity:
    Dumb people: infinity+1
    Smart people: you can’t
    Top mathematicians: infinity+1 lmao

  • @rory704
    @rory704 3 місяці тому +354

    16:03 "we’re cooking now". I didn’t know people said this 7 years ago I thought that only came out last year?? How ahead of vsauce’s time was he?

    • @-SPACEBOY-
      @-SPACEBOY- 3 місяці тому +64

      He's Omega

    • @liam78587
      @liam78587 3 місяці тому +12

      @@-SPACEBOY- cleverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    • @toyfreddygaming
      @toyfreddygaming 2 місяці тому +23

      expressions related with cooking or eating have been around for quite a while, but it only now got real mainstream thanks to instagram and such. It was funny seeing michael say that tho lole.

    • @suspicioussand
      @suspicioussand 2 місяці тому +16

      He's ω+69 years ahead of all of us

    • @vogelvogeltje
      @vogelvogeltje 2 місяці тому +27

      😂😂 gen Z didn’t come up with “let him cook” or “we cooking now”. Your age is showing.

  • @Awais....
    @Awais.... 3 місяці тому +96

    This video is 7 years old yet still feels like it was uploaded yesterday

    • @SnakeArtsOfficials
      @SnakeArtsOfficials Місяць тому

      2017.....

    • @alexsummers691
      @alexsummers691 Місяць тому

      2016* ​@@SnakeArtsOfficials 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓

    •  Місяць тому

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    • @tr4inwr3ck.d
      @tr4inwr3ck.d Місяць тому

      @@alexsummers691 7 years, 11 months and 22 days ago currently☝🤓
      🤫🧏🤫🧏🤫🧏🤫🧏🤫🧏🤫🧏🤫🧏🤫🧏🤫🧏🤫🧏

    • @yepyepmusic
      @yepyepmusic 4 дні тому

      Yeah right?

  • @levithe2nd
    @levithe2nd 4 роки тому +1699

    God: how many years do you want to live?
    Queen Elizabeth II:

    • @kid_toucher
      @kid_toucher 4 роки тому +9

      Hurb

    • @ihavenoname1136
      @ihavenoname1136 4 роки тому +53

      God: how many years do you want to live?
      Queen Elizabeth II: Yes

    • @tricky6476
      @tricky6476 4 роки тому +3

      Cristina anduru that was my speech of spelling bruh backwards

    • @warrenlamont8233
      @warrenlamont8233 4 роки тому +1

      Inf

    • @kid_toucher
      @kid_toucher 4 роки тому +1

      @@warrenlamont8233 v

  • @liam78587
    @liam78587 3 місяці тому +89

    21:00 and this is why i absolutely love and adore mathematicians they're just like me "oh this is absurd that makes no sense but yknow what let's keep going anyway let's see how far we can go"

    • @santoi
      @santoi 2 місяці тому

      So true!

    • @jacobwiren8142
      @jacobwiren8142 Місяць тому +4

      "There was a point in time when we should have stopped, and we have definitely crossed that point, BUT LETS KEEP GOING ANYWAY JUST TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS!"

    • @thatpoemguy2083
      @thatpoemguy2083 Місяць тому +3

      That diagram is one of my favourite parts of the vid, mostly because of the names that they've chosen. Like, what the hell is "measurable" doing all the way up there?! 😂 And just above it is strong. Just "strong". And then there's huge and almost huge, which I get the sense were discovered in that order somehow.

    • @Alwayssmiling123
      @Alwayssmiling123 Місяць тому +1

      the fun part is it's absurd but it does make sense

  • @natalielewis5369
    @natalielewis5369 3 місяці тому +29

    Man, for some reason no matter how hard I try, I cant bring myself to stop watching. I ask myself, "When will i ever use this knowledge?" and my answer is never. But still its so entertaining to watch numbers over numbers of complexity and pretend i comepletely understand and I believe I understand too just because of his amazing teaching. Well Vsauce, you just gained another VERY big fan and subscriber. I got notifications going.

    • @yensinha
      @yensinha 3 місяці тому +5

      I think it's because he's everything that schools aren't; fun and we actually understand his explanations

    • @jacobwiren8142
      @jacobwiren8142 Місяць тому +1

      The beauty of math is that it invents tools that we don't need now, but MAY need hundreds of years form the now.
      The mathematician Euler did some finicky math hundreds of years ago and came to the conclusion that "the sum of all real numbers" was equal to "-1/12". It was a bizarre conclusion that he threw out...
      Now whenever a computer calculates infinity, we tell it to replace it with -1/12 and it works. Euler used math to invent a computer algorithm hundreds of years before computers even existed.

  • @Logicalpsycho2323
    @Logicalpsycho2323 5 років тому +5643

    Nobody:
    Vsauce: How to taste the color 7.

    • @XenoghostTV
      @XenoghostTV 4 роки тому +74

      MMMMM TASTY

    • @madkirk7431
      @madkirk7431 4 роки тому +52

      *_BANANA SUNDAE_*
      mr.beast reference

    • @1Squidd
      @1Squidd 4 роки тому +31

      I'm guessing strawberry

    • @katakana1
      @katakana1 4 роки тому +43

      It tastes like synesthesia..

    • @ganaraminukshuk0
      @ganaraminukshuk0 4 роки тому +18

      Took me a while to realise that's two different sensations and a number.

  • @brualdasil2
    @brualdasil2 8 років тому +2920

    "Mom, Vsauce glitched my brain again!"

  • @treecko7424
    @treecko7424 2 місяці тому +15

    Important note about the continuum hypothesis (CH): It's not just that it's unsolved, it's actually unsolvable. CH has been shown to be logically independent from the ZFC axioms of set theory - that is, you can show that CH is not a theorem of ZFC and that the negation of CH is also not a theorem of ZFC. This is ultimately a consequence of incompleteness - any set of axioms and system of proofs must contain propositions which are neither provable or disprovable

    • @Friendly-Neighborhood-Asexual
      @Friendly-Neighborhood-Asexual Місяць тому

      Unsolvable? That's annoying

    • @GalaxPVP
      @GalaxPVP 3 дні тому

      what the fuck i didnt understand any of that

    • @Friendly-Neighborhood-Asexual
      @Friendly-Neighborhood-Asexual 3 дні тому

      @@GalaxPVP Basically: we know that the amount of real numbers is more than the amount of rationals and integers, but we don't know _how_ much more.

    • @andrewpinedo1883
      @andrewpinedo1883 3 дні тому

      ⁠​⁠@@GalaxPVPThe continuum hypothesis is unsolvable because our logic and axioms are insufficient for defining the value of the power set of aleph-null.

    • @GalaxPVP
      @GalaxPVP 3 дні тому

      @@andrewpinedo1883 oh ok

  • @GalaxyToons
    @GalaxyToons 2 місяці тому +20

    “All we have to say is ‘Let there be Omega’, and it will be good.”
    Why does this sound like a quote from a fantasy movie lmao
    He would definitely be the cool wizard guy that guides the hero

    • @AndresFirte
      @AndresFirte 2 місяці тому +8

      It’s a reference to The Bible, in particular the book of Genesis, about god creating stuff like light.

    • @kzeriar25
      @kzeriar25 Місяць тому +2

      @@AndresFirte that's a great fantasy book (jk)

  • @smeerkaasfabrikant6721
    @smeerkaasfabrikant6721 7 років тому +836

    Person: what is your IQ?
    Me: θ

    • @ivantmv80
      @ivantmv80 7 років тому +4

      +G-Town Crew (GTC) i will respond to you so i can copy that swastika later on my computer ( i am now on phone )

    • @jpphoton
      @jpphoton 7 років тому +5

      He said person.

    • @IzichiUchiha
      @IzichiUchiha 7 років тому +5

      Ł

    • @simplecliche5833
      @simplecliche5833 7 років тому +2

      smeerkaas fabrikant don't you mean 1 😏

    • @lolickypeepee23xdd6
      @lolickypeepee23xdd6 7 років тому +3

      theta?

  • @DanielGonzalezL
    @DanielGonzalezL 6 років тому +3253

    "There are numbers bigger than 40.. 41.. 42.. 43..
    *A B I L L I O N*
    *A T R I L L I O N* "
    Man that escalated quickly

    • @SJNaka101
      @SJNaka101 6 років тому +117

      i mean, in the context of this video, those were puny jumps

    • @bernardcernea6792
      @bernardcernea6792 6 років тому +29

      not as fast as TREE(3)

    • @Scarlet_goose
      @Scarlet_goose 6 років тому +2

      Daniel Gonzalez do not

    • @Scarlet_goose
      @Scarlet_goose 6 років тому +3

      Daniel Gonzalez do not have to be able to get the Playstation the same time as the best way to get the best way to the $ 1356#585376 die , and the City of new York City new Zealand the same time as the first time in my opinion

    • @DanielGonzalezL
      @DanielGonzalezL 6 років тому +7

      Tanroop Singh Hey, how's the schizophrenia going?

  • @SARTHAK-xc9dk
    @SARTHAK-xc9dk Місяць тому +18

    00:03 Infinity is not a number, but a kind of number.
    02:41 Aleph null is a big amount, bigger than any finite amount, but we can count past it using supertask.
    05:05 Ordinal numbers are used to label an infinite collection beyond the naturals.
    07:30 The order type of sequences and different infinities explained.
    09:56 Diagonalization method creates new subsets beyond infinity
    12:20 Mathematics is based on axioms and is unreasonably effective in natural sciences
    14:53 Axiom of replacement allows construction of new ordinals without end
    17:13 The continuum hypothesis is an unsolved mystery.
    19:15 Inaccessible cardinals represent a number that cannot be reached from below.
    21:25 Infinities may exist beyond the physical realm.
    Crafted by Sarthak Naithani *i understand everything albert einstien*

  • @skitthebagel
    @skitthebagel 17 днів тому +6

    we had dimensions in objects (e.g. 2D, 3D), and the way vsauce described infinities, i think we also found them number dimensions

  • @HyperionStudios
    @HyperionStudios 4 роки тому +3275

    "0=1"
    Yup, I've had enough of math today.

    • @HVLLOWS1999
      @HVLLOWS1999 4 роки тому +67

      You noticed that too!

    • @DembaiVT
      @DembaiVT 4 роки тому +41

      It makes sense though!

    • @haniyasu8236
      @haniyasu8236 4 роки тому +60

      hey now, if you consider a Field of characteristic 1, then 0 necessarily equals 1. It's just that the only field with characteristic 1 is the trivial field and well... no one actually cares about the trivial field :(

    • @sirbillius
      @sirbillius 4 роки тому +187

      So 0=1 being there is not stating that 0=1 is a true statement. The hierarchy is shown in the order of the strength of the axioms. 0=1 is at the stop because it is so strong that it is inconsistent with our rules of math and therefore anything can be explained using it because at that point everything equals each other. It isn't a true axiom that is actually accepted it's just a cap on the strength of the axioms declaring the existence of larger cardinals. All other axioms lower than it and are weaker than it and, therefore, they remain consistent with math.

    • @owengette8089
      @owengette8089 4 роки тому +65

      Sir Billius So, is it kind of like a math black hole, where there is so much matter that the laws start to shift?

  • @wolfemooney7188
    @wolfemooney7188 4 роки тому +1934

    40: exists
    41: I'm about to end this man's whole career

    • @galaxypl7756
      @galaxypl7756 4 роки тому +75

      42: *growling*

    • @Radithor
      @Radithor 4 роки тому +35

      @Silk0 Gaming 1,000,000,000: come again ni**a

    • @crooser64
      @crooser64 4 роки тому +41

      1,000,000,000,000: *laughs in the distance*

    • @andymackiewicz7299
      @andymackiewicz7299 4 роки тому +27

      *Octillion:* aaghh stoop

    • @justasec5894
      @justasec5894 4 роки тому +20

      42 : am i a joke to you

  • @Torontodude20000
    @Torontodude20000 6 місяців тому +15

    Talk to Chuck Norris. He counted to infinity twice before his first birthday.

    • @basedkhajiit
      @basedkhajiit Місяць тому +2

      Chuck Norris can also pick limes from a lemon tree and make the best orange juice you've ever tasted.

  • @ZRex92
    @ZRex92 6 місяців тому +5

    Ima make my own inaccesible ordinal and call it “this is the last inaccesible ordinal stfu and live with it”

    • @MikeRosoftJH
      @MikeRosoftJH 6 місяців тому

      Sure. ZFC + "there exists an inaccessible cardinal" is consistent, if and only if ZFC + "there exists exactly one inaccessible cardinal" is consistent. (However, some large cardinal axioms imply that there exists a proper class of inaccessible cardinals, and that's equivalent to the assumption that there isn't a maximum inaccessible cardinal. But if you have a model with a proper class of inaccessible cardinals, you can produce a model of set theory with a maximum inaccessible cardinal, by cutting it at some appropriate place in the von Neumann hierarchy.)

  • @bryanrosa27
    @bryanrosa27 4 роки тому +3327

    Michael: “how to count past infinity”
    6 year old me: *_infinity and one._*

    • @ansems3309
      @ansems3309 4 роки тому +157

      22 year old me: *_infinity and two_* ?

    • @D4rkker.
      @D4rkker. 4 роки тому +115

      10 year old me: *infinty and infinity*

    • @Sharkee-us9kp
      @Sharkee-us9kp 4 роки тому +77

      80 year old me *omega + omega*

    • @lolnotwoody1
      @lolnotwoody1 4 роки тому +19

      Infinity x infinity

    • @asfadanny
      @asfadanny 4 роки тому +16

      0÷0

  • @meestyouyouestme3753
    @meestyouyouestme3753 3 роки тому +2226

    “I love you infinity +1.”
    “I love you 40.”
    “Damn”

    • @joggie.
      @joggie. 2 роки тому +54

      I love you first letter of the hebrew alphabet 0

    • @locvide898
      @locvide898 2 роки тому +12

      Underrated comment

    • @kreckdem_7340
      @kreckdem_7340 2 роки тому +4

      I dont find aluf nol in my keyboard

    • @datonerussiandood
      @datonerussiandood 2 роки тому +3

      then love them to infinity and beyond

    • @cinnamonrolls7234
      @cinnamonrolls7234 2 роки тому +3

      @@kreckdem_7340 aleph null

  • @andreasalucci8603
    @andreasalucci8603 2 місяці тому +5

    I'm in tears (I exaggerated. Actually, better than in tears) and with thrills (shivers? I don't know English) each time I watch this video and the Theta is reached. Really big thanks to you, Michael, for having brought me joy, having brought me sense, after I discovered that atoms are not so tiny, galaxies not so big, the universe not so old (recent history is comparable with the history of life and Earth), that anything material is not surprising but that there are things, actual logical things (don't know how much this counts), that can go even way beyond what satisfies me, my hunger for the greatness and the epicness, and Sense. Sense of life to me is merely complexity. I discovered the magnitude if Graham's number and felt shocked. I discovered these "numbers" in the video, in respect to which Graham's is totally nothing (actually infinitesimal) just in comparison with the first one, the numeral infinite, aleph_0. I will take refuge in the ideal world. Mathematics, with its total rigor, the minimal starting points and its complexity, hasn't disappointed me much, yet.

  • @tabbairl
    @tabbairl 21 день тому +2

    Something cool to mention is that is that there are TWO infinite sets and 0 is a transfinite gateway keeping positive/negative omega times/power/root of whatever as the same set but anyone that disagrees, I am entitled to my opinion and same for you.

  • @memzlord8600
    @memzlord8600 5 років тому +751

    Mom: take a break
    Me: Do you even exist?

  • @BhanuPChauhan
    @BhanuPChauhan 8 років тому +20424

    Never discuss infinity with a mathematician, they can go on about it forever.

    • @GabeAF
      @GabeAF 8 років тому +211

      W

    • @Lolcontract
      @Lolcontract 8 років тому +639

      I see what you did there

    • @alfae7771
      @alfae7771 8 років тому +89

      ayyy

    • @zymbia
      @zymbia 8 років тому +21

      +The TropicDolphin K Q wat

    • @propper-g7725
      @propper-g7725 8 років тому +67

      like a neverending argument

  • @TheNapoleon82
    @TheNapoleon82 2 місяці тому +4

    Michael, i must thank you, enytime i have a test, i watch your videos and my head suddenly starts to hurt.

  • @lubomirkubasdQw4w9WgXcQ
    @lubomirkubasdQw4w9WgXcQ 2 місяці тому +7

    i remember, this was the first ever Vsauce video i watched, at my Grandmas house on a laptop. i came back here to say that. ok bye

  • @zeuxis9169
    @zeuxis9169 4 роки тому +2416

    Fun fact: infinity+1 is bigger than infinity.
    Source: 7 year old me arguing with my siblings

    • @thatdboyy74
      @thatdboyy74 4 роки тому +13

      lol 😂

    • @contender5
      @contender5 4 роки тому +28

      Hahaha I remember that “yeah infinity and one is bigger than infinity” *me arguing with my mum while I’m 8

    • @sophiegraham6174
      @sophiegraham6174 4 роки тому +25

      Infinity+infinity b*tch

    • @caydenm1989
      @caydenm1989 4 роки тому +29

      DOUBLE INFINITY HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

    • @ladolancea.garcia5569
      @ladolancea.garcia5569 4 роки тому +10

      Infinity×Infinity×Infinity

  • @Khanaltai
    @Khanaltai 3 роки тому +1444

    When you look away for 1 second in class:

    • @NautsuJJR
      @NautsuJJR 3 роки тому +55

      k Im gonna try this. Im gonna look away for one second next time in my math class, and if michael isnt there youre stinky poo

    • @MintylLilGuy
      @MintylLilGuy 3 роки тому +14

      @@NautsuJJR so what happened?
      Did he appear or not

    • @JqAnimateshello
      @JqAnimateshello 3 роки тому +2

      LMAOOOOOOO THIS IS UNDERRATED

    • @MintylLilGuy
      @MintylLilGuy 3 роки тому +10

      @@NautsuJJR i've been waiting for a week for godsake DID HE APPEAR OR NOT?

    • @riymeep6708
      @riymeep6708 3 роки тому +8

      @@MintylLilGuy It's Michael. He appears everywhere, yet also nowhere. *Or did he?*

  • @XaiverXD
    @XaiverXD 3 місяці тому +1

    I watched this video a while back. Brings back good times.

  • @mr.voidroy6869
    @mr.voidroy6869 3 місяці тому +2

    5:00 the infinate hotel explains how an infinste hotel has infinate rooms and if they are fully booked, you can simply just move everyone down one room to open up a slot

    • @sock1
      @sock1 3 місяці тому

      the short infinite hotel video also explains how the infinite hotel could get full. watch that whole video.

  • @ScientiaFilms
    @ScientiaFilms 8 років тому +1329

    ah finally a way to measure your mom's weight

  • @averagejoe7472
    @averagejoe7472 4 роки тому +4295

    Me explaining my parents that u cant pause an online game:

  • @Goblinking-ps7fs
    @Goblinking-ps7fs День тому

    This is the one that started it all for me, the first vsauce video I ever saw

  • @calypso0523
    @calypso0523 4 місяці тому +4

    3:34 that drop hits HARD

  • @LTrains999
    @LTrains999 4 роки тому +1549

    How to count past infinity:
    *40*

  • @jchung0510
    @jchung0510 3 роки тому +6905

    The largest number is “error” you can ask the calculator

  • @charlieborchardt2066
    @charlieborchardt2066 4 місяці тому +1

    I think a set of all naturals is N1 because you could divide N by N to get 1. Then 2^1 is 2. Multiply that by N again and that is N2.

  • @Denialisaheathen
    @Denialisaheathen 3 місяці тому +1

    There will be a finite number of atoms in the uni verse timeline there will be a practical biggest number in terms of the universe but to calculate it you would need to know 1. The approximate death date of the universe, and two the universes current size meaning that it is theoretically impossible to answer this question.

  • @Wolfy-hu5hy
    @Wolfy-hu5hy 2 роки тому +5283

    "I like your funny words magic man."

  • @Poleily
    @Poleily 4 роки тому +673

    short answer: No
    long answer: Yes

    • @hexagon8899
      @hexagon8899 4 роки тому +26

      Vsauce answer: what is answer

    • @ashaydwivedi420
      @ashaydwivedi420 4 роки тому +4

      Wow 😂

    • @meowcat7124
      @meowcat7124 4 роки тому +10

      Because yes is longer than no

    • @QwertZero
      @QwertZero 4 роки тому +5

      well yes but acctualy no.

    • @ionisator1
      @ionisator1 4 роки тому

      @@hexagon8899 answer is maybe, or not

  • @Shparky
    @Shparky Місяць тому +2

    I love coming back here year after year, just for the exhilarating and visceral vertigo.

  • @Fennaixelphox
    @Fennaixelphox 2 дні тому

    I like the symbolism of θ being used to represent the inaccessible cardinal. It looks like a "no" sign, but it also looks like a corrupted 8, in the same way that infinity is a sideways 8. It's also the first letter in "Thanatos", meaning "death."

  • @1nf1n1tenoob8
    @1nf1n1tenoob8 4 роки тому +722

    Therapist: So how much stress are you dealing with.
    Me:

  • @datonecaleb860
    @datonecaleb860 4 роки тому +2390

    Michael: well, there's 41
    Me: ok
    Michael: then there's 42
    Me: yea
    Michael: and then 43
    Me: mhm
    Michael: a billion
    Me: now I'm not sure about this, but I think you skipped a few
    Michael: a ᵀʳᶦˡˡᶦᵒⁿ

  • @Owen_loves_Butters
    @Owen_loves_Butters 2 місяці тому +2

    23:19 Similarly, ω*2 is not the same as 2*ω. (2*ω is just ω)

  • @ethanwhite1949
    @ethanwhite1949 12 днів тому +1

    10:40 you just wrinkled my brain man

  • @marcogarciamedina8933
    @marcogarciamedina8933 8 років тому +3047

    Vsauce videos
    Title: Is fire hot
    Answers:Yes
    Talks about birds for the rest of the video

    • @fjukinorge6278
      @fjukinorge6278 8 років тому +21

      fat

    • @aspebb
      @aspebb 8 років тому +13

      So very true.

    • @insaincaldo
      @insaincaldo 8 років тому +16

      +John Chaser At least they only waste little time and space, while others act entitled and take time to be hurtful.

    • @filipmajewski8382
      @filipmajewski8382 8 років тому +71

      +Marco Garcia More like
      Is fire wet?
      No... or is it?

    • @doktawhawee9870
      @doktawhawee9870 8 років тому +10

      +John Chaser Amazing. Hey! listen! Not everyone has to agree with you! They aren't a specific thing because of that. Imagine saying that in real life. "If you don't agree with me than you are this". That would NEVER happen! I know you didn't say this exact words, but that is the message you are giving. Please just get out of this mindset, and it may effect you in real life. And finally, comment back. I dare you. You will describe how, because I disagree with you, I am a terrible person and brain dead and retareded. But look. Think about it. It is extremely, EXTREMELY stupid! It would be like going into a court room and saying that, even if all the evidence is against a murderer: " You brain dead idiots! I think he is not guilty AND THEREFORE I AM RIGHT!" Again, that would never happen! Take a step back, and look at what you said. Same goes for the guy you were replying to! It's their opinion! DON'T call them fat for it! I swear, the youtube comment section is becoming more and MORE like DEFFOCATION!

  • @who502
    @who502 3 роки тому +1148

    “Why didn’t you do your math test?”
    *”I don’t believe in numbers.”*

    • @speeder.x9983
      @speeder.x9983 3 роки тому +50

      “Numbers are a hoax made by the schools to make me use a pencil! Pencils are know to kill people and they can’t fool me, you sheep”

    • @Aden068
      @Aden068 3 роки тому +3

      @@speeder.x9983 true

    • @GoldDukes
      @GoldDukes 3 роки тому +1

      @@speeder.x9983 ummm okay XD

    • @thomasgarcia8118
      @thomasgarcia8118 3 роки тому +2

      🙏🏽

    • @Qaptyl
      @Qaptyl 3 роки тому +3

      infinitist

  • @m.a.t.a.s
    @m.a.t.a.s 5 місяців тому +2

    Axiom = I made it the f up
    My source: Axiom of axioms

  • @Lucid_Kitty
    @Lucid_Kitty 6 місяців тому +5

    I think the universe is audacious enough that it does contain the infinities described by math

    • @we-must-live
      @we-must-live 6 місяців тому +1

      an audacious universe! a grand and intoxicating universe!

  • @dam7196
    @dam7196 8 років тому +2826

    This confused me, then pissed me off, then made me feel so relaxed

    • @dam7196
      @dam7196 8 років тому +54

      +dam7196 i'm pissed again

    • @dam7196
      @dam7196 8 років тому +18

      +dam7196 it's so cool that we have the technology that allows for presentations like this. I'm currently studying the physics of sound (sound itself, the perception of sound, and applications to musical instruments). It would be almost impossible to do learn it with the technology only a few decades ago. this is all so crazy

    • @frisby850
      @frisby850 8 років тому

      +dam7196 lol

    • @johntitor1619
      @johntitor1619 8 років тому +12

      +dam7196 welcome to Vsauce.

    • @heners3423
      @heners3423 8 років тому

      +dam7196 same

  • @irenejavelosa2945
    @irenejavelosa2945 4 роки тому +1835

    This literally, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, chronologically, theoretically, socially, psychologically, metaphorically, and exactly hurt my brain.

    • @Chasta1n42
      @Chasta1n42 4 роки тому +17

      Lol same

    • @jacobbishop8067
      @jacobbishop8067 4 роки тому +41

      Well, thank god that it wasn’t hurt literally

    • @irenejavelosa2945
      @irenejavelosa2945 4 роки тому +44

      @@jacobbishop8067 thanks for the reminder. I forgot that.

    • @Heyejen
      @Heyejen 4 роки тому +3

      Ha

    • @hi-wu7ju
      @hi-wu7ju 4 роки тому +7

      I currently have no brain left and am still getting hurt in all those ways

  • @iyla3742
    @iyla3742 5 років тому +2970

    Here's how you count higher than infinity:
    *Infinity one, infinity two..*

  • @samjuli6393
    @samjuli6393 4 роки тому +3374

    Omega+1 isn't bigger than Omega, it just comes after Omega.
    This was when my brain really broke.

    • @curiouslad6390
      @curiouslad6390 4 роки тому +257

      -2 comes after -1 (counting from Zero) *but that doesn't make -2 bigger than -1*

    • @reddddy
      @reddddy 4 роки тому +30

      Omega Flowey

    • @curiouslad6390
      @curiouslad6390 4 роки тому +59

      @@MrAnthonyMarchal Start counting in ascending order from -∞ to -1 *All the best*

    • @Vulpilux
      @Vulpilux 4 роки тому +43

      Well, if you think about the bananas... it does make sense... I think. These bananas are all equal in form, shape, size and color but they're still different bananas but ordered.

    • @noobium5333
      @noobium5333 4 роки тому +4

      @Gavin DeYager ew ur not supposed to use grammar like that in youtube comment sections

  • @Jayshiver
    @Jayshiver 5 місяців тому +1

    3:27 written out I believe that would be [((10^10^100)!)^((10^10^100)^(10^10^100))]^2 x Graham’s Number
    (Sorry if some of the parentheses were redundant)
    Graham’s number alone is so big there literally isn’t enough space in the universe to write it out in any normal algebraic capacity. Even googolplex, as gigantic as it is, can be written pretty easily as 10^10^100. Graham’s number might as well just be infinity, but if it’s multiplied by all that, it would get even MORE incomprehensibly big somehow. Even that incomprehensible number Michael named, however, might as well be 0 compared to Aleph Null, which is just the first of a number of infinite infinities which go on forever just like the cardinal numbers did before them.
    My head hurts

  • @Holafishyguy5
    @Holafishyguy5 3 години тому

    19:04 The first apperance of a
    *legend...*

  • @Lundmunchkins2000TV
    @Lundmunchkins2000TV 3 роки тому +4178

    Mathematicians: “Now... reality can be whatever I want”

    • @csicee
      @csicee 3 роки тому +110

      math is similar to meth

    • @packediceisthebestminecraf9007
      @packediceisthebestminecraf9007 3 роки тому +86

      @@csicee "Bro... I just saw past infinity..."

    • @aivo9941
      @aivo9941 3 роки тому +17

      @@csicee COINCIDENCE !? I THINK NOT !!

    • @user-ib1dx4dh3n
      @user-ib1dx4dh3n 3 роки тому +9

      @@packediceisthebestminecraf9007 yeah bro it's coooool

    • @L9-7240
      @L9-7240 3 роки тому +15

      My goals are beyond your understandings

  • @kamidesuka
    @kamidesuka 3 роки тому +2137

    waiting for myself to have a son, then I will wait for my son to say “I love you times infinity” and I pull up with the “I love you times Inaccessible Cardinal”

  • @Sean-of9rs
    @Sean-of9rs 6 місяців тому +10

    It has been proven that it is completely impossible in standard set theory (ZFC) to prove the continuum hypothesis even with large cardinal axioms, but it may be provable in other set theories.
    If we were to find a proof of the continuum hypothesis (in ZFC), we would have proven that our usual set theory itself gives us contradictions. That is bad news, so let's hope we don't!

    • @MikeRosoftJH
      @MikeRosoftJH 6 місяців тому +2

      Sure, for example continuum hypothesis (and other propositions, like the axiom of choice and generalized continuum hypothesis) can be proven in the following theory: ZF + axiom of constructivity.

    • @misteraskman3668
      @misteraskman3668 Місяць тому

      I never expected to see an update on this subject. I screamed when I read your comment. Awesome.

    • @holzmaurer1319
      @holzmaurer1319 Місяць тому

      @@MikeRosoftJH It's called the Axiom of Constructibility, known as "V=L" (Gödel around 1940). Unfortunately this axiom is widely considered false: V=L fails somewhere around the existence of 0# (21:00). As set theorists consider the mathematical universe to not suddenly stop but to contain arbitrarily large sets (as long as they are not contradictory), V=L must be wrong. In fact only countably many reals are constructible.

  • @sadaharu5870
    @sadaharu5870 Місяць тому

    The video I always come back to when I think about infinity

  • @madkirk7431
    @madkirk7431 4 роки тому +657

    teacher: the test isn't that hard
    the test:

    • @soos4719
      @soos4719 4 роки тому

      I pretend to know the answers although I actually don't

    • @osmarfreitas8646
      @osmarfreitas8646 4 роки тому

      Easier to understand than during class

    • @JoshuaTanzil
      @JoshuaTanzil 4 роки тому +1

      there is 666 likes!!!

  • @andreivezeteu6077
    @andreivezeteu6077 3 роки тому +555

    Dad:From a scale of 1 to 10, how hard did your brother hit you?
    My brother:

  • @mihalex1999
    @mihalex1999 Місяць тому +1

    I am a CS student and your content is absolutely priceless. I took a course about this subject and you helped me to understand infinity better. Complicated and interesting topic. Love your work

  • @navilandinator4479
    @navilandinator4479 3 місяці тому +2

    "What's your favorite number?"
    *proceeds to fully break down the quantum physics of þe universe*

  • @wusshygt9194
    @wusshygt9194 4 роки тому +746

    What they teach in class:
    12*5
    What they ask for exam:
    (This Video)

  • @yalldancer
    @yalldancer 5 років тому +1138

    Random Guy : How to kill a brain without using any weapons?
    Me :

    • @abdulrahmanghanem8226
      @abdulrahmanghanem8226 5 років тому +2

      LOL😂😂

    • @galactic7458
      @galactic7458 5 років тому +8

      But you didn’t put what you would do to kill a brain without a weapon
      Yes I know it was a joke so don’t try to woooosh me if u do you will be the one getting wooooshed

    • @givencci9997
      @givencci9997 5 років тому +1

      @@galactic7458 woosh omega w

    • @dominicgabrielpresno9127
      @dominicgabrielpresno9127 5 років тому

      Use Math And Science And Even English!

    • @cannonrangeryt1740
      @cannonrangeryt1740 5 років тому +3

      Galactic Banana Capsule R/Woooooooosh
      U can't woosh me either cuz I wooooooooshed you not woooosh you and in ur comment u said woooosh and not woooooooosh

  • @Gordon_whyiseveryhandletaken
    @Gordon_whyiseveryhandletaken 3 місяці тому

    4:19 zoom in those numbers are actually in order idk why but it’s cool

  • @arottenmango8505
    @arottenmango8505 5 місяців тому

    This might be the coolest video on UA-cam

  • @Rx-ee3rt
    @Rx-ee3rt 5 років тому +1457

    Nobody
    Vsauce: How to disable fall damage in real life

    • @lamaosama9342
      @lamaosama9342 5 років тому +55

      Lmao idot just do /gamemode 1 hahahahaha

    • @strikersuckysnipee8940
      @strikersuckysnipee8940 5 років тому +14

      if you jump from a 86 floor apartment you can fly thanks to the spirit of shaggy

    • @goundz857
      @goundz857 5 років тому +9

      Caboose /gamerulefalldamage false
      You need cheats enabled just to let u know

    • @gocommitdie8653
      @gocommitdie8653 5 років тому +2

      Just use creative mode smh.

    • @minecrafter-gameplaystopmo4193
      @minecrafter-gameplaystopmo4193 5 років тому

      I know this isn't related but how did you get the infinity symbol.

  • @michamikoajczak9070
    @michamikoajczak9070 3 роки тому +1469

    "there's always a bigger fish"

    • @NetheriteMiner
      @NetheriteMiner 3 роки тому +23

      Ah yes, good old Qui Gon

    • @Jacob-zk1jy
      @Jacob-zk1jy 3 роки тому +10

      AND THE BIGGEST FISH
      *IS ME*

    • @speforarexiztmi9736
      @speforarexiztmi9736 3 роки тому +3

      Good quote.

    • @andsalomoni
      @andsalomoni 3 роки тому +2

      "Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water..."

    • @howardty2733
      @howardty2733 3 роки тому +3

      111511116614inches 1415feet 18151541411415815195526288258627285251614151551851711415144 miles

  • @501BG
    @501BG 5 місяців тому +1

    Vsauce you were in the Australian academy of science for this video!!!

  • @andresfriant-hm2ot
    @andresfriant-hm2ot 2 місяці тому

    dude the end is always the best part

  • @jesses.3554
    @jesses.3554 8 років тому +1135

    My brain broke when he said "Hey Vsauce"

    • @zacchon
      @zacchon 8 років тому +5

      +Chiseled Knucklez This time he didn't start the video by "when do you die?", though.

    • @MK7JORGE
      @MK7JORGE 8 років тому

      hah

    • @Hotrodd48
      @Hotrodd48 8 років тому +5

      My mind was blown before I even clicked the video

    • @abitofpaprika
      @abitofpaprika 8 років тому +1

      same

    • @YostPeter
      @YostPeter 8 років тому +5

      I had to cry in a corner 3 minutes in.

  • @reese.6521
    @reese.6521 4 роки тому +451

    "How much do you love your homies?"
    Me:

  • @tuminhthien8074
    @tuminhthien8074 5 місяців тому +1

    So actually not thing bigger than infinity, just arranged differently. And to create a larger infinity we must "multiply" the two infinity together (create an infinite sequence arrangements with infinite elements in a spreadsheet format and reason that there is always an unlisted sequence arrangements). I personality don’t think we can even do that cause how can we list end less thing and arrange them end less time? Or just imagine? In fact, infinity is already INFINITE. Creating something larger than infinity is just a recognized concept that speaks to human imagination (although I think people still haven't imagined what exactly infinity is) but they still want to get over it.

  • @RB_Universe_TV
    @RB_Universe_TV 3 місяці тому +2

    Wait.... what about..
    Replace the "0" in "aplph null" with another "alaph null" and continue the process for a 'alaph null' times

    • @farrankhawaja9856
      @farrankhawaja9856 2 місяці тому

      yep, that exists. Its the first number to satisfy x = omega_x

  • @ivankoshan5104
    @ivankoshan5104 4 роки тому +658

    "infinity is not a number"
    8 year old me : impossible...

    • @Prawnz
      @Prawnz 4 роки тому +10

      Xander Shrive hey. not everyone is as smart as you, and he was making a joke. just laugh

    • @ImNotEpix
      @ImNotEpix 4 роки тому +1

      More like me yesterday XDD

    • @LostDevTT
      @LostDevTT 3 роки тому +1

      T~T

    • @RongDMemer
      @RongDMemer 3 роки тому +1

      @Xander Shrive me an angry bird player with mod inf: yes

    • @TheAimirak
      @TheAimirak 3 роки тому

      Yep, I same way :p

  • @danman6716
    @danman6716 5 років тому +1052

    Micheal: What is the biggest number?
    1 billion! INFINITY! A googol!
    Micheal: No its just 40
    Oh

  • @keijimorita1849
    @keijimorita1849 4 місяці тому

    Love this so much! It's a blurring of math & myth.

  • @hamtonvideos
    @hamtonvideos 2 місяці тому

    He just makes me question my existence and then says "and as always... thanks for watching"

  • @lukescott6123
    @lukescott6123 8 років тому +904

    In high school I was telling my friend about omega and I got a detention for drawing "balls" on my paper ....

  • @lordbrain5263
    @lordbrain5263 6 років тому +713

    **opens video**
    “Ok ok numbers I understand this.”
    **a few minutes in**
    “I am confusion...”

    • @gabrieltorres6633
      @gabrieltorres6633 6 років тому +8

      DeathStar14 explain vsauce explain, what do you mean past infinity

    • @photonic083
      @photonic083 6 років тому +3

      DeathStar14 is confused!
      DeathStar14 used Death laser!
      The laser turned 180° and hit DeathStar14!
      DeathStar14 exploded!
      Wat

    • @KingSchlopus
      @KingSchlopus 6 років тому +1

      same

    • @missystephenson8806
      @missystephenson8806 6 років тому +2

      So I am confusion.
      Why is THIS ONE **points to Kansas** called can-sas but THIS ONE **points to Arkansas** called ar-can-saw? AMERICA EXPLAIN

    • @somethingsomething8751
      @somethingsomething8751 6 років тому

      Yeah in the first 3 minutes I was totally confused. And after that I thought holy f##cking sh#t I am so f##cking dumb compared to this guy.

  • @caspermadlener4191
    @caspermadlener4191 Місяць тому +1

    Ordinals *do* appear in a natural way, since they are basically the hierarchy of deepness.
    For example, you can think about a table.
    Well, now you are thinking about thinking about a table.
    Are you now thinking about thinking about a table? No. You are thinking about how this could go on.
    This thought has a depth of ω.
    But it is really fundamental to mathematics when you consider that mathematical is build from itself, you can order the assumptions.
    Getting infinite ordinals is equivalent with using induction in a proof.

    • @d-star491
      @d-star491 14 днів тому

      This guy gets it. This defines all recursive ordinals directly and then all ordinals thereafter, if you just accepts a few hypercomputational operations as axioms.

  • @Shsgamerz20023
    @Shsgamerz20023 Місяць тому +3

    Bro really said to infinity and BEYOND

  • @danieljuncos244
    @danieljuncos244 4 роки тому +844

    My niece: "I've figured out that the biggest number is 983!"
    Me: "Haha. What about 984?"
    My niece: "Argh! I was so close!"

  • @stephskia
    @stephskia 2 роки тому +4752

    I’m so simple-minded that I can come back and watch old Vsauce videos and still be absolutely mind boggled as if I’m learning it for the first time

  • @CoderBoiBiteSized
    @CoderBoiBiteSized Місяць тому +2

    WARNING, Long comment ahead!
    Going back to what he had said about an unreachable number after the unreachable numbers, if there is something above everything, then the only way to reach it would be to create true infinity, a number or creation that NEVER stops and has no unreachables above it.
    But then again, perpetual things only exist in theories and ideas, not in the physical realm, and yet they do exist.
    Schroedinger's cat is an example of this. It is something that until viewed is a paradox, it both exists and doesn't, if we ever view both sides we will have reached a new unreachable.
    Just like how there is only 1 universe, at the same instant, there are infinite universes, if there is something in one universe then there could be that same object EVERYWHERE at the same time, if it's everywhere at the same time then it could be every time in the same universe.
    Math, science, and even human nature all say different things,
    Like how human nature is to search, science is to experiment, and math is to solve. All have their uses, but they can never agree.
    A paradox is something that cannot exist yet it does, there are many, Many, MANY unexplained phenomena from humankind's recorded history that are shelved and collecting dust, which is what they both should and should NOT be doing.
    Every time a new unexplained thing happens, we try to figure it out and then stop. What we should be doing is trying to create the EXACT same thing and keep the knowledge we'd learned.
    Think about all of the technological advancements of human history, all of them were from something outside of human control or knowledge giving or showing us something, I'm not being religious about this, if things can exist in each dimension (1D, 2D, 3D) then why can't there be another dimension we can't see?
    Perspective, that is why. If a 1 can't see a 2, and a 2 a 3, then why could a 3 see a 4, or a 4 a 5? It's all perspective, when you learn to slow down and feel (not see, think, or even know), you can notice a lot more about the world around you than ever before.
    Few people have done it by true calm. Most go through rigorous training and mental struggle to learn more about themselves and the world, and that is the problem.
    Let yourself go and fall into the rooms inside your head because the first step to seeing more is to see less, close your mind's eye to all things and just start to focus on what you can visualize around you, don't think about what you had seen before hand, just visualize what your mind feels.
    Once you have learned to visualize what can't be seen, you will notice more about the world than others before you.
    If you've read this far then congrats, you've learned more than most other people would. If you just scrolled to the end and didn't read it all, then you have proven to be an impatient person who fears to learn.
    Thank you for reading this, and I hope you've learned to visualize more of the hidden world around you before you see the opinions put before us😌

    • @karlmudsam2834
      @karlmudsam2834 7 днів тому

      Dude, get some definitions for the things you're talking about it's impossible to understand what you're saying, like what exactly is a "perpetual thing" and what about them makes them only "exist in theories and ideas, not in the physical realm", and for that matter what do you mean by "physical realm" and "theories and ideas". Not to be mean, but it's just vibes and talk, no real work has been done here with this text.

  • @juke37024
    @juke37024 3 місяці тому

    If people who are dealing with insurmountably large sets are getting 0=1, I think its important to note that it doesnt suggest its true. It may be that its a sign they're wrong, or something they assumed, concluded after large amounts of work to be incorrect.
    Take for example the expression 3x = 2x. You can try to reduce it by removing the x from both sides, or dividing one side by the constant then the other by x, but either or you will be left with 3 = 2, 2/3 = 1, or 3/2 = 1. This doesnt mean that 3 is equal to 2... It simply means the expression I initially wrote is in its entirety, incorrect. 3 does not equal 2. Excluding 0 as a solution, 3x will never equal 2x for any real number x.

    • @isavenewspapers8890
      @isavenewspapers8890 Місяць тому

      For your purposes, I think something like x = x + 1 would've been a better example to use. I guess it's true that, excluding x = 0, the equation 3x = 2x has no solution for x. But if you chose to make that exclusion, then you should've mentioned it from the get-go.
      Dividing both sides by x isn't really how you're supposed to solve stuff like this; after all, there's the possibility of x being 0, in which case dividing by x gives you nonsense. Here, the correct method is to subtract 2x from both sides, yielding x = 0. It's easy to see how dividing by x went wrong here, but more insidious is a case like x^2 = x; here, dividing both sides by x gives x = 1, which is indeed one solution, but the solution x = 0 has vanished.

  • @thomasbryant1628
    @thomasbryant1628 7 років тому +1140

    Why am I so obsessed with watching videos that make my brain dissolve itself

    • @hellothere-rr7kc
      @hellothere-rr7kc 7 років тому +6

      because of the natural occurrence of any animal having curiosity in something that interests or sparks their mind, creating a mental 'explosion'.

    • @NotisSenju
      @NotisSenju 7 років тому +4

      Because you are a human

    • @justclosing
      @justclosing 7 років тому +2

      I like the pictures

    • @duck3892
      @duck3892 7 років тому

      Notis Senju agreed

    • @robertdicke7249
      @robertdicke7249 7 років тому +2

      No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.... for infinity. When I have reached the an infinite number of "No" then I will say yes to this logic.

  • @junncali1573
    @junncali1573 5 років тому +1172

    "that means that an infinite amount of people finished the race... And then, YOU did."
    :'(

    • @ryan2-518
      @ryan2-518 5 років тому

      Junn Cali lol

    • @BladeTheGabite
      @BladeTheGabite 5 років тому +24

      #relatable

    • @landroveraddict2457
      @landroveraddict2457 5 років тому +20

      But they are all winners if it's a school race :-P

    • @ryan2-518
      @ryan2-518 5 років тому +3

      Land Rover Addict 😂 this is so true

    • @wadealexander2429
      @wadealexander2429 5 років тому +1

      me: hey mom ok ready
      Mom: ok son
      me: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • @daniildekterev5821
    @daniildekterev5821 3 місяці тому

    Every time I scare myself with the grin I am having when rewatching and realising unlimited power of axioms and infinities

  • @bradleyconway1124
    @bradleyconway1124 3 дні тому

    these vids are such great background vids even though i dont understand any of it

  • @donenod9991
    @donenod9991 4 роки тому +823

    It makes sense that 40 is the biggest number. It's extra large (XL is 40 in Roman Numerals).

    • @ishantyadav5532
      @ishantyadav5532 4 роки тому +27

      Oh man!!!!
      Then what's XXL or XXXL or XXXXL or M or.........
      omega + L :P

    • @saysikerightnow3914
      @saysikerightnow3914 4 роки тому +6

      That's actually cool.

    • @owl1095
      @owl1095 4 роки тому +28

      @@ishantyadav5532 There is no XXL Roman number. X means 10 and L means 50. Placing a smaller number before a bigger number means substraction, so therefore XL means 50-10=40. XXL would mean 30 by that logic, but that slot is taken by XXX, which means 10+10+10. Note that you can't put more than 3 of the same number next to each other and make things like XXXX, that's is where XL comes in place.

    • @leo17921
      @leo17921 4 роки тому +2

      @@owl1095 roman #'s are weird like how do you write 100k without writing M 100 times

    • @gluckmac
      @gluckmac 4 роки тому +2

      Good one!

  • @coldsun1
    @coldsun1 8 років тому +2714

    rip brain

  • @Vobacoach
    @Vobacoach 4 місяці тому

    What an super-interesting video, thanks a lot!! My comment to the last thing said in this video: Humankind had created something outside this physical universe some 2.5 thousand years ago: Euklid discovered the square root of 2. Not anywhere in our physical (!) universe is there anything, that has the physical amount of the square root of two. (and many more, of course)