The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle

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  • @antiscribe4150
    @antiscribe4150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13240

    Pi has no business showing up literally everywhere in math.

    • @onebeets
      @onebeets 3 ปีที่แล้ว +872

      Wait, it's all pi?

    • @gruncho8227
      @gruncho8227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1046

      @@onebeets always has been...

    • @bignicebear2428
      @bignicebear2428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +219

      What goes around comes around and voila: pi.

    • @Saturnares
      @Saturnares 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      Nobody expects the Pi inquisition!

    • @dathaniel9403
      @dathaniel9403 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @antiscribe it’s like that one guy who always seems to be at every party but no one knows who invite him. He just shows up no matter where you are.

  • @ikkocan
    @ikkocan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6597

    Originally discovered in 1995, published in 2003. maybe he DID count the clacks?

  • @andrewdavis1138
    @andrewdavis1138 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

    2:37 I was watching in the middle of the night and got absolutely flashbanged by the sudden swap from dark coloured example to bright white paper.

    • @redelf8052
      @redelf8052 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      same

  • @siddharthabbanerjee
    @siddharthabbanerjee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +934

    Another interesting observation : When the masses colliding are powers of some other base (say 3), the number of collisions still equal the digits of Pi, but in the same base.
    Eg : Pi in base 3 is 10.010211012222010211002111110221222220111201212121...
    If you run the simulation with masses of 1, 3^(2 * 1), 3^(2 * 2), 3^(2 * 3),..., then the number of collisions will be 1 (base 3), 10 (base 3), 100 (base 3), and 1001 (base 3) respectively.
    Number of collisions for 1,3^(2 * 50) will be first 50 digits of Pi in base 3 : 10010211012222010211002111110221222220111201212121 , or 2255343044159619899886237 in decimals.

    • @JeffMTX
      @JeffMTX ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Now that is very very cool!

    • @vijayrajendran4006
      @vijayrajendran4006 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      this is what I thought... awesome!!!

    • @Mimaloodak
      @Mimaloodak ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes

    • @partyboy4121
      @partyboy4121 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good thinking

    • @markdawg
      @markdawg ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🤓

  • @poopcatapult2623
    @poopcatapult2623 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6643

    Teacher: "gimme some digits of pi"
    Me: "clack clack clackclackclackcla... clackclack clack clack... Wait for it"
    Teacher: "what on earth is that supp...?"
    Me: "... clack"

    • @RubyPiec
      @RubyPiec 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      3.1415926535897932
      There take that

    • @mediding7001
      @mediding7001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +267

      No, it's:
      clack clackclack claclaclclcl reeEEEEEeee clacla clack clack... clack

    • @mikeymcmikeface5599
      @mikeymcmikeface5599 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I demand immediate satisfaction!

    • @chikoroblox9734
      @chikoroblox9734 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I baked you a pie

    • @skyspects1211
      @skyspects1211 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Damn, this made my day! 😂😂😂

  • @Jouzou87
    @Jouzou87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10594

    Physicists: "Noo! You can't have ideal collisions make a sound!"
    3B1B: "Haha, blocks go brr"

    • @midlanismail416
      @midlanismail416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      Don't you mean clack

    • @pixelartkid7965
      @pixelartkid7965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +207

      @@midlanismail416 in the 100000kg one it went brrrrrr

    • @aa01blue38
      @aa01blue38 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      The sound also goes hypersonic because the frequency of clacks is so high

    • @thelukedankwalker
      @thelukedankwalker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@aa01blue38 lmao what, that’s not how that works dude

    • @jamesorendorff2284
      @jamesorendorff2284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@aa01blue38 "Hypersonic" means "faster than sound"...
      You literally just said "the sound goes faster than sound".

  • @hotpockets1417
    @hotpockets1417 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    This is why I love math. You always look at a problem, read it out loud, then discover something about that problem. It's like there is always a hidden puzzle in math equations. For example, in 7th grade, we were learning about circumference. My teacher showed the class a video which said that if you take the diameter and try to wrap it around a circle, there's a tiny bit left, to which I realized that that tiny bit looked EXACTLY like pi, or 3.14. It's so cool finding small details that make so much since!

    • @user-rc1mv2zy3r
      @user-rc1mv2zy3r 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      🤓🤓🤓

    • @hotpockets1417
      @hotpockets1417 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-rc1mv2zy3r thanks :)

  • @bmschech
    @bmschech 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I thought your video on relating the Basel Problem to the circle was simply gorgeous, astonishing and unforgettable. These three surpass even that! Thank you so very much!

  • @evank3718
    @evank3718 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8849

    1:40 Me opening the door at 1:43 am

    • @orvillevroemen3956
      @orvillevroemen3956 5 ปีที่แล้ว +951

      3:14 am

    • @jcgongavoe337
      @jcgongavoe337 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      PRODUCES SLAP BASS MELODIES,SO TRUE

    • @appiusssss
      @appiusssss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      hahahahah

    • @rolanddogna921
      @rolanddogna921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@orvillevroemen3956 3:14

    • @colinjava8447
      @colinjava8447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sounds like a sound effect on a zx spectrum game

  • @Selicre
    @Selicre 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3743

    That animation of the spherical cow actually made me wheeze. That was unexpected

    • @chobyriley417
      @chobyriley417 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Selicre [Hyper] it’s my favorite picture on wikipedia

    • @NickiRusin
      @NickiRusin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      that's a great image

    • @Selicre
      @Selicre 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@NickiRusin I really, really, really like this image.

    • @NickiRusin
      @NickiRusin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@Selicre a long time ago my dad told me a great physics joke. I don't have the patience to translate it from Russian, but the punchline boils down to "a spherical horse in a vacuum". For some reason I never tried to visualize that, but now it's crisp in my mind thanks to this video.

    • @AlRoderick
      @AlRoderick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      ASSUME THE SPHERICAL COW!

  • @erinc129
    @erinc129 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    the clacking sound is so satisfying i want it on repeat forever in my brain

  • @ItsNekotaku
    @ItsNekotaku ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i love coming back to this video every once in a while because it's just so mind boggling that it reblows my mind every time

  • @rishujeetrai5780
    @rishujeetrai5780 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2512

    Pi is a creep. I'm gonna file a restraining order on him. He has started to show up on my integration problems now. He's gone too far.

    • @oblivion2755
      @oblivion2755 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      pi is a cursed number, way more cursed than 13 or 666.

    • @iqbaltrojan
      @iqbaltrojan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@oblivion2755 whats wrong with 13 lol it's my lucky number

    • @thewall4069
      @thewall4069 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@iqbaltrojan oh the irony

    • @notyepdranel961
      @notyepdranel961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@oblivion2755 *4* is the worst

    • @akasakasvault7597
      @akasakasvault7597 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@oblivion2755 indeed four, or, in Japanese, shi, which us also the Japanese word for death, is terribly cursed

  • @ZzSlumberzZ
    @ZzSlumberzZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +792

    *gets this on recommendations for the 10th time*
    Brain: click on it.
    Me: but I've already wa-
    Brain: *do it.*

  • @ridhomblr
    @ridhomblr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:49 i saw this on tiktok, they did not give credit or anything no link to the original just sped it up, glad i found the original

  • @milk_WOO
    @milk_WOO 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    thank you for giving me a math project! this was very fun to work on and you explain this very well.

  • @EnglishNijisanji
    @EnglishNijisanji 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1035

    I don’t speak English.
    So I don’t get it well.
    But when I got that the collisions number turned near π, I was like “!?.”
    It was so beautiful phenomenon.

    • @anselmschueler
      @anselmschueler 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      cool

    • @dxrpz1669
      @dxrpz1669 5 ปีที่แล้ว +226

      Hi (sorry for my bad english)

    • @IQuickscopeCA
      @IQuickscopeCA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      !!コメントだけで登録者10万人を目指す すうがくはすばらしいですね

    • @EnglishNijisanji
      @EnglishNijisanji 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Blakee
      Yes, I believe math is beautiful and also amazing

    • @ARlELATOM
      @ARlELATOM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      !!コメントだけで登録者10万人を目指す You write English wonderfully! ❤️

  • @PersonWithAFunnyBone
    @PersonWithAFunnyBone 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    3Blue1Brown never fails to make me question reality!

  • @iamsopro4115
    @iamsopro4115 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Doctor: it’s not gonna hurt!
    The kid in the next room: 2:22

  • @The-Rest-of-Us
    @The-Rest-of-Us 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9177

    Highest quality TH-camr out there. And I mean that in every dimension.

    • @ariqahmer
      @ariqahmer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Make that in concurrent parallel dimensions 😉

    • @jacobkleeman8546
      @jacobkleeman8546 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Even the fourth?

    • @ganaraminukshuk0
      @ganaraminukshuk0 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@jacobkleeman8546 All spatial and abstract dimensions up to infinity, even the temporal dimensions (if 2D time and up makes any sense). Even the fractal dimensions where you can have non-integer values (like 1.3425 dimensions). Even any system, existing or to-be-discovered or purely nonsensical for the sake of argument, that calls for negative value dimensions, or imaginary number values, or complex values, or quaternions, or octonions, or sedonions, and beyond.

    • @papi1050
      @papi1050 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@ariqahmer we need to talk about parallel universes

    • @ariqahmer
      @ariqahmer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@papi1050 Agreed 🤔😎😍

  • @andrewmoonbeam321
    @andrewmoonbeam321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +840

    2:32 ' Credit to the viewer Henry Cavill.' Of course Superman would know the answer. He's brilliant at math. And physical education.

    • @andrewzhang8512
      @andrewzhang8512 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *kavle

    • @mono6359
      @mono6359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      @@andrewzhang8512 guess who didn't get the joke

    • @andrewzhang8512
      @andrewzhang8512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@mono6359 ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mb

    • @hansondesa188
      @hansondesa188 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol

    • @watlehbillidijedhik
      @watlehbillidijedhik 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Silver for physics, steel for maths

  • @AbCat4
    @AbCat4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I like how the speed of the last collision is an expression of the remaining digits. So when it's 314(15...) collisions it juuuust reaches the line, but when it's 31415(92...), it gives the moving block a proper final spank to send it on its way.

    • @vijayrajendran4006
      @vijayrajendran4006 ปีที่แล้ว

      wait, if what you're saying is true, we can get more digits by analysing the speed more intuitively?

  • @lehamsterhollandais9908
    @lehamsterhollandais9908 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i truly understand why people loves so much mathematics, all makes sense and everything is explained , thats just magical 😊

  • @epochthekid
    @epochthekid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1483

    3:56
    Why is this cow your idea of "way over-idealized" and why do I agree?

    • @different_stuff
      @different_stuff 4 ปีที่แล้ว +283

      i don't know about a spherical cow, but there is popular joke about spherical horse:
      Some man hired physicists to calculate which horse will finish first in the upcoming races. They gave him their results. And that horse didn't win. Angry man asked physicists why is that so, and they replied, that they calculated race results for spherical absolutely black horses in vacuum.
      So this is a joke about over-idealized conditions that physicists use in their calculations.

    • @fordsquared537
      @fordsquared537 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      DifferentStuff Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Both my engineering teachers in the past enjoyed the phrase “spherical cow in a vacuum,” which just says how engineers and physicists would assume the cow is a sphere so that calculations are much easier

    • @georgiykireev9678
      @georgiykireev9678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@fordsquared537 In my language it's a horse.

    • @infintiyward
      @infintiyward 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      in topology, you count holes. A cow (assuming it had no holes) would be the same as a sphere from a topological perspective since they both have no holes.

    • @josephnimal953
      @josephnimal953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      It's from a Neil deGrasse Tyson's joke. It's about how physicists love to see the things in universe to be a perfect sphere. If u ask a farmer what is a perfect cow, he will answer a perfect cow is the one which will give lots of milk, a butcher will answer a perfect cow is the one which is fat. But a physicist will answer that a perfect cow is a cow which is spherical.

  • @bobbyp4025
    @bobbyp4025 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1110

    Sliding off to infinity, never to be touched again- so sad

    • @Kido336
      @Kido336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      *adding sad comment about you and your ex

    • @ah2522
      @ah2522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      my dad's hand and my crtoch

    • @noddye1764
      @noddye1764 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      r/cursed comments

    • @tarzbaow
      @tarzbaow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @AssmasterFlex69 until the big crunch, and everything will be once again, at once place, at one time

    • @maxtreme2901
      @maxtreme2901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bobby P the blocks will forever remember how their first and last touches were

  • @ericallen333
    @ericallen333 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for showing me math can be fun and interesting. Great video

  • @X_w45ey89
    @X_w45ey89 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never have I ever thought that the small explanation bit with words sliding away at 3:59 from a math video would get me giggling like a kid at six in the morning

  • @kyriakos02
    @kyriakos02 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6510

    Clack.

    • @AmadeuShinChan
      @AmadeuShinChan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      [ I donot know. Let us ask someone. ]

    • @finalftl732
      @finalftl732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +245

      At some point the clacks would be so rapid that the frequency created would be too high pitched for human ears lmao

    • @Torthrodhel
      @Torthrodhel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@finalftl732 so ideally you'd find the ideal magnitude that over a 10 hour total period would at some point get closer to the highest averagely humanly perceivable pitch than the next magnitude, which breaks that barrier. And there's your 10 hour video.

    • @alexniggins1799
      @alexniggins1799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      MrBeast can, ofc.

    • @danielreed540
      @danielreed540 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Just loop the system - add an opposing wall the other side of the masses/objects; masses between 2 walls. Then that system cycles, repeating (to infinity). Under the special ideal conditions. A truly closed system, with only total motion & energy transfers, where all is constant & only velocity can change.

  • @DynestiGTI
    @DynestiGTI 5 ปีที่แล้ว +293

    2:31 when the actor for Superman helps out 3Blue1Brown

    • @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS
      @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      LUL

    • @kasperjoonatan6014
      @kasperjoonatan6014 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      But Gregory Galperin is the real Superman here ❣

    • @EayuProuxm
      @EayuProuxm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      When you need to move blocks weighing 10^(20-1) kg, you'd better call Superman to help out!

    • @duckymomo7935
      @duckymomo7935 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is it really the same person ie superman?

    • @thanostitan.infinity
      @thanostitan.infinity 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      True LMAO

  • @user-vc8ep9cr2f
    @user-vc8ep9cr2f 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    perfect explication of this fenomen. perfect video continue like this bro.

  • @roymuerlunos2426
    @roymuerlunos2426 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Common core lessons in a billion billion billion billion nutshells,
    Clacks is in session

  • @underscoredfrisk
    @underscoredfrisk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +443

    Me: Hey that looks like Pi lol what a coincidence
    Me: Ah

  • @myukunigunde8372
    @myukunigunde8372 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    Any maths/science/engineering problem: *exists*
    Pi: aight imma head *in*

  • @paragbehera754
    @paragbehera754 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the large cube motion represent as a semi-circle or half sine wave. Maybe something has to do with that which would be half of pie no collision to the big cube and half value are from just the end wall.

  • @SCP--sf3fu
    @SCP--sf3fu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1489

    3blue: Quick! I need some visual way to show the audience how over-idealized this simulation is!
    1brown: Cow sphere
    3blue: w h a t ?
    1brown: _c o w s p h e r e_

    • @shadesmarerik4112
      @shadesmarerik4112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      cowsphere is one word actually

    • @alx-lm3kg
      @alx-lm3kg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@shadesmarerik4112 hiw do you know that???!?!?

    • @jasongusta7419
      @jasongusta7419 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      did he stutter 3blue?

    • @maxnolife_
      @maxnolife_ ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@achtsekundenfurz7876 Oh so it’s just the humor for simplified models such as a spherical cow because the shape of a cow is too complex lmao

    • @IanBLacy
      @IanBLacy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      “Assume a spherical cow in a vacuum”

  • @ErniSpencer
    @ErniSpencer 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    когда не мог определиться, что сдавать и купила на EL курсы Кико вместе с курсами физика и теперь ты здесь

  • @mrsaussissonsec1054
    @mrsaussissonsec1054 3 ปีที่แล้ว +727

    Saw this at least 5 times. Still amazed at the quality of the explanations and the correlation itself. You are truly one of the best out there.

  • @Indomat64
    @Indomat64 5 ปีที่แล้ว +481

    Small brain: Memorizing digits of pi
    Galaxy brain: Having blocks of precise mass on hand and counting the collisions

    • @froggymine5003
      @froggymine5003 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Also me: destroying earth to find Pi to the 20th digit

    • @torezcoasters6043
      @torezcoasters6043 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don’t forget about removing friction!

  • @cheeseburgerpro69
    @cheeseburgerpro69 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for letting me learn what “ 20 to the power of 5” is

  • @justinhoch4180
    @justinhoch4180 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m just here to say that I’m glad that there was sound on those simulations, they were satisfying

  • @jademonass2954
    @jademonass2954 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    1:40 what a cool sound effect

    • @hishykot
      @hishykot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Kinda sounds like the beginning of that one Crystal Castles song🤔

    • @uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug6314
      @uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug6314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sounds like a radio

    • @Geotrax2
      @Geotrax2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the beginning sounds like a geiger counter

    • @megaman4354
      @megaman4354 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      sounds like a creaking door

    • @_._---.
      @_._---. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@hishykotCrimewave? Yeah I thought the same thing.

  • @FacultyofKhan
    @FacultyofKhan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1015

    I always COUNT my blessings whenever 3b1b uploads an UNEXPECTED video. As usual, great work!

    • @ParthKohli
      @ParthKohli 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      We feel the same way about you. :)

    • @SheikhEddy
      @SheikhEddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I love the videos you put up! Great content that is nearly impossible to find elsewhere :D

    • @PhysicsMath
      @PhysicsMath 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am also making video on physics

    • @FacultyofKhan
      @FacultyofKhan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Just A Random Dood Shhhh let me make my lame puns on the title

    • @vikranttyagiRN
      @vikranttyagiRN 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I Subbed to Ur channel and really glad to have found you

  • @aexirrr
    @aexirrr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw this video months ago and replayed it just for the clacks

  • @Ashishbro
    @Ashishbro ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:38 the best decision ever took place on the planet

  • @feynstein1004
    @feynstein1004 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1222

    Ah so 3blue1brown is blueballing me. Figures 😂

    • @dreamer097
      @dreamer097 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      you mean 3blue1brownballing you..?

    • @GewelReal
      @GewelReal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      3blueballing

    • @lankymcgainsplease1236
      @lankymcgainsplease1236 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Would you rather they brown balled you?

    • @PrincessEev
      @PrincessEev 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      tfw you came into the comments to make this exact joke xD

    • @aidanroberjot7469
      @aidanroberjot7469 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well at least you can see where the circle comes from coz the equation of a circle is (x-a) ^2 +(y-b) ^2 = r^2 so 1/2m1v^2 + 1/2m2v2^2 = const. is clearly a circle equation

  • @InsertName5015
    @InsertName5015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    1:34 The sound is perfect

    • @Caterblock
      @Caterblock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      134 rearranged is 314

    • @devsus
      @devsus 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      bambi fantrack

    • @user-ke7ki6mx2z
      @user-ke7ki6mx2z 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Duck

  • @yyy76yyvhxxffb32
    @yyy76yyvhxxffb32 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It probably appears because the velocity gained and lost between both cubes which then represent aceleration diferences which then represents the variation between sen and coss

  • @skilzrus8965
    @skilzrus8965 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i have rewatched this at least 10 times, still entertained

  • @humanguy1643
    @humanguy1643 4 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    Everybody gangsta till the blocks start pullin’ out autotune

    • @intravine
      @intravine 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      supertone lol

  • @jotarokujo5849
    @jotarokujo5849 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1897

    Wrong
    The 100²⁰ would have destroyed our slippery floor

    • @carltonblend
      @carltonblend 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      And our tiny cube, either that or the bigger cube itself collapses into a black hole lol

    • @afoxwithahat7846
      @afoxwithahat7846 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@carltonblend And eats the Tinny cube

    • @thfFromRussia
      @thfFromRussia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ​@@carltonblend and even if it has no enough mass for a black hole its gravity influences purity of the experiment )

    • @Voidmoth1
      @Voidmoth1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      what about a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
      mass

    • @asfi637
      @asfi637 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@carltonblend What if the cube is made out of bedrock?

  • @solitude2642
    @solitude2642 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Random number: hi pi. How have you been
    Pi showing up in the video: I don't know *I just got here*

  • @ivancarrascoq
    @ivancarrascoq 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The transient of any natural movement will be e^n where n is x*jw, which is a frequency.
    Then, any natural movement has “e” implied and a natural oscillation associated. We know from Euler that there is a relationship between e and Pi.
    Great video 👏

  • @stevenvanhulle7242
    @stevenvanhulle7242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +604

    Originally discovered in 1995, published in 2003.
    Galperin (for 8 years): "Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbe... Well, time to publish then, I guess."

    • @TechSupportDave
      @TechSupportDave 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      that's what i was wondering. why wait almost 10 years to publish it?

    • @hiransarkar1236
      @hiransarkar1236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      The time he took to count the no. of collisions

    • @Proccito
      @Proccito 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      @@hiransarkar1236 Gralperin: "956...957...958..."
      His wife: "Honey. Dinner is ready!"
      Gralperin: "Sure, I am comming soon...fuck...1...2...3..."

    • @matejpesl6442
      @matejpesl6442 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Xd

    • @derwastl
      @derwastl ปีที่แล้ว

      no

  • @djsalad5752
    @djsalad5752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +292

    “Like a satisfying game of breakout.” Is my favorite analogy on this channel so far.

    • @o_o............
      @o_o............ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The ideal cow takes the cake for me

  • @jasongusta7419
    @jasongusta7419 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved this video but lost it for 3 years I am so glad I found it again,
    comment "salute" for those who still haven't refound this

  • @ChandrasegaranNarasimhan
    @ChandrasegaranNarasimhan 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for the video. Enjoyed it.

  • @hisham1111
    @hisham1111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    I really, REALLY, appreciate you leaving in that last bump at 3:53

    • @EntergeticalakaBot
      @EntergeticalakaBot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Its just so amazing when the 1 kg block is moving slightly faster than the other block and you are just like ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAY

    • @EntergeticalakaBot
      @EntergeticalakaBot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @DON'T I WONT 😶

  • @toothandsticks
    @toothandsticks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    Dr. Galperin was my geometry professor at University. I have never enjoyed geometry so much in my life. The man knows and can prove an incredible number of astounding, non-obvious facts. Thanks for sharing his work!

  • @theNatura1_
    @theNatura1_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    something about the collision sound is so satisfying

  • @retrotech383
    @retrotech383 ปีที่แล้ว

    i dont know how but this guy makes math actually interesting

  • @tyriekovco711
    @tyriekovco711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +867

    Okay how many collisions if it was 10^1,000,000 times the weight of a 1kg object?
    Me: C L A C K

    • @batzal9459
      @batzal9459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000^10 years later " ... Clack.. I freaking finished to count that, oh boi!!"

    • @full5339
      @full5339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It will become part of it.

    • @full5339
      @full5339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Imagine gravity.

    • @full5339
      @full5339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or it would get so hot. May be it could melt.

    • @oliverholm3973
      @oliverholm3973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@full5339
      I prefer to read this comment without the context of your other two.
      Hello.
      _Imagine gravity._

  • @sharbel9624
    @sharbel9624 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Reading comments section:
    .
    .
    Expectations: people discuss math
    reality: clack clack clack

  • @howdareyou-cs4qn
    @howdareyou-cs4qn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is amazing, physics teachers never taught this, and everything we learned was designed to solve problems, from conservation of momentum to conservation of mechanical energy, and we even came to a conclusion E(lose)=1/2 (M1•M2)/(M1+M2) • V(relative) how fascinating physics is now

  • @artisttemple8268
    @artisttemple8268 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was with you until you mentioned the Black Hole lol. Yet; as someone who was not taught math in a fun way, I'm very grateful to you for creating this channel. Thank you! ✖➕➖➗〰🟥🔶❇🔘💜

  • @Shubham-qk8fw
    @Shubham-qk8fw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    Content - 💯
    Editing - 💯
    Voiceover - 💯
    That's the definition of 3 blue 1 brown. Keep up the good work. U will definitely hit 10M subscribers soon

    • @guilhermegondin151
      @guilhermegondin151 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I would give another 💯 for the colision sound kkkkk

    • @enverko
      @enverko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wouldn't say soon, because for some reason most people hate math for no apparent reason. If they were to see the true beauty of math I believe there would be a lot more people loving math!

    • @Shubham-qk8fw
      @Shubham-qk8fw 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@guilhermegondin151 true, how could I forget that?

    • @Shubham-qk8fw
      @Shubham-qk8fw 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@enverko Yaa you are absolutely right

    • @totoxahc
      @totoxahc 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Date format - 0

  • @XxJoe1101xX
    @XxJoe1101xX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    That "clack" sound you added is apparently ASMR to my ears, so it's very appreciated.

  • @hanh3000
    @hanh3000 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My 10 year old son showed me this video. It stunned both of us.

  • @ngyanloongmoe1305
    @ngyanloongmoe1305 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    1:38 open the 0.25x speed

    • @kgsr_x2
      @kgsr_x2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice

  • @PriyabrataHalder
    @PriyabrataHalder 4 ปีที่แล้ว +606

    2:30 when superman passes his time doing maths.

    • @paglobal
      @paglobal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Was about to comment something like this😂

    • @user-ov2fc5sd1e
      @user-ov2fc5sd1e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don't get it.
      Yes I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed

    • @examination4088
      @examination4088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@user-ov2fc5sd1e henry cavil plays superman in the dceu

    • @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886
      @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@user-ov2fc5sd1e The Big Mass?

    • @dulearning8256
      @dulearning8256 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-ov2fc5sd1e the youtuber says henry cavil lol henry cavil is the actor name for superman movie

  • @BobbyDukeArts
    @BobbyDukeArts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +910

    What the what!!!!! That's so cool

    • @godchild7545
      @godchild7545 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Wow I didn’t know you were interested in this kind of stuff!

    • @damianh.1429
      @damianh.1429 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yo big fan dude keep it up

    • @colewilkie
      @colewilkie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fancy meeting you here, woodsman.

    • @lasmalux
      @lasmalux 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What the what

    • @xilnoi
      @xilnoi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wood

  • @timwhite1783
    @timwhite1783 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:19 Love the spherical cow animation btw.

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how the pi creature goes "this doesn't seem like me..."

  • @GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT
    @GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    me: **moving frame by frame at **2:29** and seeing 59 instantly become 313,979** **doing the same for **3:12** and seeing 941 become 314,159,265,136** this looks so fast... gotta know how fast it was...

    • @AspectOfTheBlade
      @AspectOfTheBlade 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      So true. I wanna know too. I could not even pause it between 100 and 3 hundred trillion

    • @marzipug5439
      @marzipug5439 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@AspectOfTheBlade He literally said the rate in the video.

    • @xxromerocksxx2889
      @xxromerocksxx2889 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      literally did the same thing bruh

    • @GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT
      @GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Fernando García salazar i already knew that

    • @BritishEngineer
      @BritishEngineer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Unfortunately it will be faster than the frame rate of the video. You would need a 314 million fps youtube viewer

  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +699

    Woah. Freaking woah.

    • @aidenmcubing
      @aidenmcubing 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Laquelectro woah

    • @sunitakrishna3864
      @sunitakrishna3864 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      s

    • @ignacio6851
      @ignacio6851 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      mr beast give me moners

    • @fakeuber8254
      @fakeuber8254 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ignacio6851 this is not Mr Beast, but Mr Beat. Instead of giving you money he gives you a beat down

    • @osirisapex7483
      @osirisapex7483 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mr Beat on a 3b1b vid? Worlds are colliding

  • @deebambi5567
    @deebambi5567 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5 years and I am still waiting on Matt Parker to use this method on pi-day

  • @Slapbattler666
    @Slapbattler666 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Time:exists
    Paradoxes: your not going anywhere!

  • @3kbschannel288
    @3kbschannel288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    1:42
    "Did you just fart?"
    "No, mom. I'm watching a physics video"

    • @blazeguruz8989
      @blazeguruz8989 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      did you just farted

    • @oblivion2755
      @oblivion2755 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@blazeguruz8989 have you did farted?

    • @Ixions
      @Ixions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      *plot twist* you did fart while watching a physics video

    • @cubeofmeat4982
      @cubeofmeat4982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Who tf farts like that

    • @craetydonutkey1348
      @craetydonutkey1348 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like your bedroom’s door hinges need some lubricant XD

  • @lezhilo772
    @lezhilo772 5 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    Solved :D
    The circle in question is a circle in the momentum phase space. Specifically say m2 is the heavier block, if you rescale the momentum variable p1 and p2 by sqrt{m}, then you have a very nice circle equation. The entire process amounts to turning by angle pi from the point (p1,p2)=(0,1) to (0,-1) so that the heavier block is reflected.
    Every collision between the two blocks can be written down as a mapping between points on the circle in the phase space(ie old momentum determining new momentum completely, while obeying energy conservation so staying on the circle). Every collision at the wall serves to reflect the point about the p2 axis so that the direction of p1 is flipped. Every step leaves a point on the circle, and each point corresponds to a click sound. So the total number of points on the circle(minus the starting point) is the same as the total number of clicks heard.
    Since all collisions between two blocks is followed by a collision at the wall, we can consider these two events forming a single step. It turns out that as the ratio r=m1/m2 gets smaller, this step approaches an infinitesimal rotation generator, with each step’s rotation angle being 2sqrt{r}. If we let k to be the number of rotation steps to execute the full pi angle rotation from (1,0) to (0,1), then 2sqrt{r}=\pi/k, or 2k=\pi/\sqrt{r}. We identify 2k as the total number of points on the circle(involving both the rotation and the reflection, thats why there’s a factor of 2), then if sqrt{r} is 10^-2n, we have 2k=\pi * 10^n, which is exactly what we have.
    The only thing left is the round off but I need my beauty sleep now XD. Can’t wait to see Grant’s solution and animations! :D

    • @coconutflour9868
      @coconutflour9868 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That would only be the case if the sum of the squares of the momenta (p1^2 + p2^2) is conserved, which is not the case. Conservation of energy demands that p1^2/m1 + p2^2/m2 is conserved, which is the same as what you tried only if the masses are equal

    • @sauravchauhan4172
      @sauravchauhan4172 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Energy is also conserved here

    • @coconutflour9868
      @coconutflour9868 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sauravchauhan4172 How so?

    • @sauravchauhan4172
      @sauravchauhan4172 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@coconutflour9868 he said that in the video too , energy is also conserved , and I think circle is not the solution, it can be an ellipse also. Maybe wrong

    • @lezhilo772
      @lezhilo772 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@coconutflour9868 I rescaled the momentum variable by 1/sqrt(m). That means given old p^2/m, I define P=p/sqrt{m}. The conservation of energy equation p1^2/m1+p2^2/m2=E then becomes P1^2+P2^2=E. If we use the rescaled momentum variables as the axis of the phase space, then states of constant energy form a circle.

  • @CanadaGovernment785
    @CanadaGovernment785 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is so cool bro I am amazed by this

  • @MrTaken-tl4bw
    @MrTaken-tl4bw ปีที่แล้ว

    every now and then, this video comes to my feed, and i watch it just for the sound

  • @iwillspam5985
    @iwillspam5985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    3B1B's homework best homework

    • @alessandroceloria4573
      @alessandroceloria4573 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The next day...
      Math teacher: Have you done your homework for today?
      Me: No, but I know why if you shoot a moving object to a still one with a mass ratio of 10^k under no friction conditions you get the digits of pi!

    • @avgchz9444
      @avgchz9444 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know, I'm gonna do this instead of my actual homework

  • @PhoenixLive_YT
    @PhoenixLive_YT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    3:56 me after watching this video....

    • @pi2590
      @pi2590 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      YEAH PHOENIX

  • @michaelelliotbrownle
    @michaelelliotbrownle 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "I highly encourage you to take a stab at it yourself" is the most someone has ever overestimated my abilities

  • @Mark-jt5cs
    @Mark-jt5cs 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This channel should be called: 3.142 Blue 1 Brown

  • @dustinsanders5780
    @dustinsanders5780 4 ปีที่แล้ว +367

    3Blue1Brown: "We have 2 sliding blocks and a wall"
    Me: "I'm sorry could you repeat that, I'm already lost."

  • @juliangoulette7600
    @juliangoulette7600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Perhaps you could set up analogous situations for any other base:
    0. You have two blocks with masses of 1 and b^2^(d-1), where b is the base of the number system and d is the number of digits in that base you want to compute.
    1. Count the number of collisions in that base.
    2. You now have an approximation of pi*b^(d-1) in that base.

  • @Envy-Animations
    @Envy-Animations 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Everywhere I go on educational videos, I see his face
    His face: pi

  • @Peter_1986
    @Peter_1986 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I swear Matt Parker will make a real-life "calculate Pi" video very much like this one some time in the future.

  • @jonasmarcell
    @jonasmarcell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    2:03 when you approach the forgotten sandwich in your school with a radiation detector in your hand

    • @hyperplayer22
      @hyperplayer22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ahaha good comment

    • @craiglee6461
      @craiglee6461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You diserve more likes on that

    • @craiglee6461
      @craiglee6461 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You diserve more likes on that

    • @uxleumas
      @uxleumas 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      deserve?

    • @nod_jawk
      @nod_jawk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you put your nose in your hand ? ;)

  • @MatematicaRio
    @MatematicaRio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +655

    Pure poetry! ❤️

  • @packersredhot
    @packersredhot 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looks like the man upstairs has left his signature everywhere.

  • @NoLife555
    @NoLife555 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Math: this is none of your business
    Pi: nu'uh

  • @skyhui3412
    @skyhui3412 5 ปีที่แล้ว +305

    It's midterm and I'm sending this puzzle to everyone in my class to distract them from exam revision. Ha.

    • @diegosanchez894
      @diegosanchez894 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      well I have midterms and this falls quite nicely with the subject so who's laughing now!

    • @operator8014
      @operator8014 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gotta get a jump on that curve!

    • @skyhui3412
      @skyhui3412 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@diegosanchez894 good for you but I'm just a junior-highschooler and it isn't gonna be very helpful to those poor fellas lol

    • @diegosanchez894
      @diegosanchez894 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@skyhui3412 if you're planning on doing a stem degree later on it will be useful.

    • @skyhui3412
      @skyhui3412 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@diegosanchez894 yeah of course for the long-term, but for the short-term it may not be a good idea to try solving a math problem before the geography exam

  • @cr4ff9
    @cr4ff9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +440

    Let’s give a moment of silence to the blocks that are still sliding towards infinity :

    • @mmmDaber
      @mmmDaber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They are us

    • @sparecreeper1580
      @sparecreeper1580 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mmmDaber that explains the endless abyss dragging me away from a white wall

    • @Scrubique
      @Scrubique 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mmmDaber Still waiting for my first collision in this middle of the abyss

    • @DJB3lfry
      @DJB3lfry 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now the real question is: If the blocks are moving at a constant pace along an infinite path for an infinite amount of time, how many infinities would it take for the blocks to reach the end of the infinite path?

    • @hadisakho848
      @hadisakho848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DJB3lfry end and infinite are not looking fine in the same sentence haha

  • @Lefty7788tinkatolli
    @Lefty7788tinkatolli 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Sailing off into infinity never to be touched again"
    I felt that.

  • @suzuki_aoharu
    @suzuki_aoharu ปีที่แล้ว

    3 years after this video is published, I discovered something(not sure if anyone found this out before)
    I think the number of collisions
    =Pi*sqrt(ratio of the mass of the block on the left to that on the right)

  • @somebodylikesbacon1960
    @somebodylikesbacon1960 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    3:43 The sound of my brain figuring out the puzzle.

    • @RPDC-ng8ej
      @RPDC-ng8ej 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      100,000,000,000_000,000,000_000,000,000_000,000,000 (10^38) (100 tripodecillion)

  • @aa0000
    @aa0000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    3:58
    I like this representation of how this is just theoretical, not practical.
    Creative.

  • @kilsjw
    @kilsjw 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pi is that one mf who shows up everywhere for no reason

  • @Michi880088
    @Michi880088 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I find it very interesting that in the first case 100% of the energy is transferred back onto the initial 1kg while for high masses a certain amount of energy will stay on the left mass which will never catch up with the larger mass again