The universe’s biggest gear reduction #Art #Mechanics
Daniel De Bruin posts the universe’s biggest gear reduction. He writes:
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 google amount around. Or better said you’ll need more energy than the entire known universe has to do that. That boggles my mind.
See the videos (one and two) below of this amazing machine in action.
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