The universe's biggest gear reduction! GOOGOL to 1

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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.

The last wheel spins roughly once every 10^89 years... The age of the universe is about 10^9 (~13.800.000.000=13.8x10^9) years... If this had started spinnig back then, its progress would have been today about 10^-78 %, 0.0000...01% with 78 zeroes. Mindblowing

The universe's biggest gear reduction! GOOGOL to 1

To celebrate being 1 billion seconds old as of year 2000, Daniel de Bruin built a machine that visualizes the number googol.

There are a total of 100 gears in his machine, with each gear pair having a reduction of 1 to 10, so for every 10 revolutions, the gear next in line makes one rotation, and so forth. So for the last gear to spin one time, the first has to revolve a googol number of times.

As de Bruin explains, "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."

de Bruin said he was inspired to build his gear reduction machine after seeing "Machine with Concrete," another gear reduction machine designed by acclaimed artist Arthur Ganson. His design features a gear train sporting twelve pairs of worms and gears, each reducing the rotations by 1/50. The input shaft maintains a constant 200 RPMs, with the output shaft revolving at 1/5012 of that rate, meaning the final gear, which is encased in concrete, will complete one rotation in over 2 trillion years.

Largest Gear Reduction Machine Features 100 Gears and Takes Eons to Complete One Rotation

 

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A comment:

Or you can just manually spin the last one, make the first one spin at the speed of light!

 

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The first gear will wear out long before the last gear ever moves

 

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14B years?? Owner did NOT do math !

Gear.1 appears to turn every 4 seconds.

gear 2 turns every 40 seconds

gear 3, 400 seconds ( 6.66 min )

G4: 4000sec = 66.6 min = 1.1hr Owner got bored watching by this point...

 

 

 

G5: 40K.sec = 11.1 hrs

G6: 400K.sec = 111 hrs = 4.629 days

G7: 4Mill.sec = 46.29 days (about how long to 3D.print 100 gears)

 

 

 

G8: 40Mill = 462.96 days = 1.267 yrs

G9: 400M.sec = 12.675 years ... in about 15yrs gear #1 turns far enough ... to have rolled all way around planet earth But gear #9 would be just past once.

 

 

.. since every gear takes 10x time to turn:

... gear ten takes more than a lifetime.

 

G10: 4B.sec = 126.75 yrs

G11: 40B.sec = 1267.5 yrs per turn

G12: 400B.sec = 12,675 years

... Longer than written human history

... past Old English, Italian Renaisance,

... Middle Ages, Roman empire, Greeks.

... Egyptian, sumarians, near cave men.

 

 

G13: 4Trillion.sec = 126,751 years.

G14: 40T.sec = 1.26 Mill years

G15: 400T.sec = 12.6 Mil years ... note: Dinosaurs died 66Mil.yrs ago ...

 

 

 

G16: 4+E15 sec = 126.75 Mil years

... age of dinosaurs barely start that far back

G17: 4+E16 sec = 1.267 Bill.years

... mostly just ancient sea life exists 3By ago

G18 4+E17 sec = 12.67 B.yrs

...this is more years than Earth has existed.

...our Sun predicted to die out under 6B.yrs

 

 

 

G19: 4+E18 sec = 126B.yrs

G20: 4+E19 sec = 1.26T years

G21: 4+E20 sec = 12.675 T.yrs (approaching current age of universe)

 

 

 

G22: 4+E21 sec = 126.75 T.yrs

...By this point, all known stars may burn out

G23: 4+E22 sec = are you feeling old yet?

Gear 24: 1,265.5 Trillion Years to turn !!

 

 

 

The known universe has ended, and the Googol-gears could not really turn gear 25yet, from 100 gears built in at 10x ratio.

If gear #1 could turn 4000 rpm, this would only change things by 3 more gears...

( gear 4 woud turn 4 rpm instead )

... but gear 1+2 would overheat plastic and wear our machine in a few hours...

 

 

It seems like creator of this video just Made-Up the time of 14 Billion years.
... if 10:1 gear ratio exists for 100 gears.

Maybe they just watched YouTube and heard universe isc13.8Billion years, and decided to round UP to 14B yrs, using that number.

Other people added comments about having a gear turn at Light Speed...

(Ignoring aspect of gears exploding apart)

Even having the teeth on gear #1 move at 300,000km/sec light speed, would only use up another factor of ten gears !!

 

 

So: Did I calc the math+time right ???

How long do YOU think gear machine would last ?

Will it run for years past a human lifetime ...?

... or be thrown in trash & forgotten sooner ?

 

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13.8 billion years ago someone probably tried this for a youtube video and caused big bang

Turning a Googol to 1 gearbox from the other side!?

 

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So, I'm on the internet, literally watching 98 wheels not turning. What am I doing with my life.

Yes..  Every single one of those wheels are turning but... most of them are running with less resolution than a high-end camera.

They are turning but the final one is moving like one yocto per day or something. One yocto is 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001 of a base unit or a septillionth.

I calculated that if the first wheel makes one revolution every 1 second, the last wheel will makes one revolution in a time which is approximately 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times the current age of the universe.

Current age of the universe in seconds only has 17 zeroes. Amazing. We are so tiny.

You could literally fix the last gear to the axle so that it cannot rotate at all, and yet you would still be able to rotate the first gear billions of times.

 

so this rotation's torque would cause another big bang

 

They should livestream this and let it run forever, literally.

 

Finally, a video that loses nothing when you double the playback speed or skip by leaps and bounds!

 

The faster gears would be worn out before finishing the turn the 5th wheel.

 

What is going to power them to turn for billions of years?

 

That poor little first gear is like a secretary. She's doing all the work done while the executives are slowly riding the wave with minuscule effort.

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