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The World's Biggest Gear Reduction

submitted by BSR

4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago

The World's Biggest Gear Reduction by designer and maker of prototypical machines, devices and tools Daniel de Bruin.

This machine 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 universe has to do that. That boggles my mind. ⁣
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6 Comments

crotchflame says...

That's awesome.

jokingly says...

What, no time lapse?

A billion computers, counting a billion numbers a second, will take 10 to the 74 power years to count to googol. To give you some sense of the ridiculousness of this scale, the current accepted age of the universe is 10 to the 9th years.

On a par with shuffling a deck of cards. Incredible how easily one can achieve practical infinity.

BSR

Guess I won't be around for the celebration.

A billion computers, counting a billion numbers a second, will take 10 to the 74 power years to count to googol. To give you some sense of the ridiculousness of this scale, the current accepted age of the universe is 10 to the 9th years.

From what I understand, no one will be. Counting from the big bang, the estimated heat death of the universe happens at googol years anyway, so we're a trillion or so years too late to start now.

BSR

Guess I won't be around for the celebration.

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