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Published 2021-03-26
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Music
Microscopic by Gas, free download from www.microscopics.co.uk/
David Rees: www.davidreesmusic.com/
All Comments (21)
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“look at this sheet of paper” 8 minutes later “we are now at the edge of the universe”
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Normal people: "hey A4 sheets fold in half and maintain the exact ratio. Cool!" CGPGrey, having his fifth existential crisis this week: "Everything is mostly nothing."
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Paper getting infinitely small: Has an existential crisis Paper getting infinitely big: Has an existential crisis
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I always find it interesting that there are more subdivisions down than we have doublings up. the planck length is at 226, where the observable universe ends at 184
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Grey 10 years ago: "So this is why we should get rid of pennies" Grey now: "After studying a sheet of paper, I've been reminded that everything is nothing, everything we've ever known and loved is all foggy shapes in the ethereal."
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"I need a way of describing reality" looks down at blank paper "I've got it!" -CGP Grey, overcoming writers block by embracing it
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What I liked most about this is that a) I learned that A0 paper exists, b) it is a satisfying, perfect 1m^2
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Love the re-use of "Illusion of something solid" at two completely different scales: A4 x 2^(-76) and 2^140
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Smallest metric: here is something that is actually nothing The largest metric: here is nothing that is actually everything
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"A4 x 2⁵²" could be enough to stop an asteroid. Paper beats rock.
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This video makes me realize how much of a giant I am, bigger than so many things, but it makes me realize how tiny I am, and how earth is basically a quark inside an atom inside a grain of sand in a desert the size of a galaxy
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Man really explained the entire universe and nothingness with a piece of A4 paper.
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"What are you watching?" "...mostly nothing."
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"Hey Grey, look at this sheet of paper for a second." Grey: (transcends reality)
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I don’t think I’ll be able to look at a sheet of paper again without having an existential, gut-wrenching reality check
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The speed of light being described as heartbreakingly slow really speaks to me. There is so much cool stuff in the universe, but even at the fastest conceivable speed, almost all of it will forever be out of range.
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If you didnt have an existential crisis in the first half, don't worry, CgpGrey got you in the second half
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I'm not sure what this video was supposed to teach me but I'll be more careful around paper from now on
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“Sir this is a Wendy’s.”
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3:45 if I'm right, if we would fold a paper to that little, it would be taller than the observable universe
