[video] The Universe's Biggest Gear Reduction!

[6Foot2]

 

Today [1st of March 2020] 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 google 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...

 

[TechMonkey]

I still like this one

This machine was inspired by dreaming about gear ratios and considering the unexpected implications of exponential powers.

 

Each worm/worm gear pair reduces the speed of the motor by 1/50th. Since there are 12 pairs of gears, the final speed reduction is calculated by (1/50)12. The implications are quite large. With the motor turning around 200 revolutions per minute, it will take well over two trillion years before the final gear makes but one turn. Given the truth of this situation, it is possible to do anything at all with the final gear, even embed it in concrete.