Hexagons are the Bestagons

## Special Thanks

Professor Dave Explains
London Maths
David Sheard

## Crowdfunders

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## Music

[aidenzorn]

"because bees."

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what your english teacher means when they say to begin your essay with a strong hook

[jarrodfreeburg]

When he said “the humble bumble” and it had the bee with a hard hat and blueprints, I thought that was the cutest thing I ever saw.

[xaviermakesthings]

5:28 I’m actually surprised he didn’t talk about the wood on the pencil being shaped as a hexagon

[blokcy]

Organic chemistry teachers: *visible happiness*

[thebookworm]

I love how Grey is so obviously excited. I can only imagine him smiling all while recording this

[Ultrevolous]

Me at the start of the video: Oho, how cute, the bees make hexagons
Me at the endagon of the video: MY GODAGON, THE BESTAGON HEXAGON CAN NEVER BE GONEAGON

[noaha]

And thus one of my biggest neurodivergent hyper-fixations was born. Now I look for hexagons everywhere I go, every day. You would be shocked how common they are once you start keeping an eye open for them. Every time I see one I get a little happy boost of dopamine. Thank you CGP grey, thank you Hexagons :)

[unevenox]

I adore how this video really covers all the bases from literal atomic structure to "6 is more than 4 which is better"

[MarkRober]

This was delightful. I got a shirt to join the order.

[liamfoxy]

Apparently the 'No, don't touch that' when Grey was talking about the Ice9 is a reference to the book Cat's Cradle. From what I found online..

"In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle, a central plot element is called ice-nine. The substance, created in a lab, was made up of familiar H2O molecules, but they were locked in a novel crystalline structure that froze solid at room temperature. Because ice-nine crystals could spontaneously convert normal water into more ice-nine, the material was dangerous—just licking it would cause all the water in a person’s body to freeze solid. At the end of the book, a piece of ice-nine is accidentally knocked into the ocean, causing all of the Earth’s water to freeze and ending nearly all life on the planet in an instant."

[maskofmany]

In diamonds, their molecular structure is based on squares, which causes it to be extremely hard, even to the point that it is considered the hardest material ever, but there was actually a material found from a meteorite called Q-carbon that, while extremely similar to diamond, is actually even harder than diamond. Why? Because instead of having their molecular structure based on squares, Q-carbon’s molecular structure based on, you guessed it, *hexagons*
*Hexagons are the Bestagons*

[brebeeb]

I love that grey has slowly transitioned to slam poetry and none of us have questioned it

[asimo]

Me: I wonder if Grey will post an Election Day video.
Grey: HEXAGONS

[thunderflare]

Now I want to make a hexagon cult for a DND campaign.

[ActivelyMike]

I absolutely love your content! Keep up the great work!!!!

[Markstrosity]

I just realized that the reason Grey uses a few French phrases is because France is, famously, a hexagon.

[wabboss]

This feels like the monologue of a hexagon themed super villain, before they pull out their mathematically indestructible hexagonal super weapon.

[MrBattlecharge]

This is actually just an audio clip of Grey ranting to Civilizations 4 about how they should use hexagonal tiles instead of square tiles so Grey can get the most nearby resources per city. They listened and Civ 5 has hexagonal tiles. Years later, Grey decides to animate it.

[fredthepenguin]

He spent 9 minutes converting us to a hexagonal cult

[flavvsdasilver]

Glucose is a hexagon. Your body literally runs on hexagons as a fuel source.