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

[danielbruin]

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

[GlennC]

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.

[sellosqueez]

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

[CSGhostAnimation]

spin the opposite side: achieve the speed of light

[championarrow]

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

[samuelavila]

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

[kg_canuck]

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

[teemurantala]

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

[benlee]

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

[michaelfarrell]

The last gear STILL does more than Congress.

[gabenicholson]

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

[williamblueshirts]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR 500 LIKES!
THIS HAS BEEN MY MOST POPULAR COMMENT ON YOUTUBE! 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.

[smartaIec]

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

[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.

[yamondakawazuki]

they're all waiting for their turn

[Vortk]

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

[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.

[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.

[Bramon]

Me, being a man of culture:
Put the motor on the other end.

Me in 2 seconds: what dimension am I in.

[albertliao]

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