Shocked to learn that the universe is 465,000 Milky Way galaxies across - that didn't seem that big to me. So then I googled how many galaxies are estimated to be in the universe, and the answer is either 100-200 billion or 2 trillion, depending on who you ask. Those both seemed too large to fit in a sphere with a diameter of 465k galaxies, so I calculated the volume of the universe using the Milky Way as a unit, and the universe can fit 5.26 x 10^16 galaxies, or 5,260,000,000,000,000 (5.26 quadrillion). So I guess 465k galaxies across isn't that small after all.
This is what surprised me, i'm so used to unimaginably large numbers when regarding the observable universe that 465,000 didn't seem like that much lol
I LOVE how you presented this as more of a two-way comparison rather than just starting at the Planck length and scaling up to the observable universe. It makes everything shockingly comprehensible!
Agreed. They took cool science facts and wrapped it into a comparative story that goes on to explain just how crazy it is to be a human in this Thanos-balanced universe..
When I first saw the video I thought it was going to be like one of the many size comparison videos, but it turned out to be quite different and unique
@@emildegas4213 Yes, but that idea only simply says we’re in the middle. It didn’t tell a story like this channel did. This channel did perhaps the best story narrative around this middle idea I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen it told a lot of ways.
@@emildegas4213 I once read that the middle of a scale from the Planck length to the volume of the visible universe is roughly the size of a speck of house dust. But in the grand scheme of things, specks of dust to the size of a house is likely well within the margin of error, so calling the avg human the center of that scale is well within that +/- accuracy IMO, but factually speaking, specks of dust are actually the “middle” or “center” of everything 🤷🏻♂️
Wow I should show this to my mom, growing up she would always tell me I wasn’t the center of the universe and turns out she was wrong! But then again so is she lol
@@ozanozenir2503 Height has nothing to do with being the existential center of the universe. There are people all across the world who are shorter and taller than others, what made you say that?
I was half-expecting you to mention how we also are technically in the center of the universe as we are at the center of our observable universe since it changes based on where you are
I loved the way that, instead of just giving a list of objects and their sizes, each object was compared to its size counterpart in an actually meaningful way! So cool!
My god, the comparison at 6:53 actually makes so much sense. I can't fathom something so tiny going through me without even touching me, but when you compare it to a person floating through space it's just emptiness... space. WILD!
@@ZimaCyberia Yes but this is true of all matter. All matter is empty space... not mostly, it's literally JUST space. Matter and solidity is an illusion brought on by energetic repulsion. This is why singularities can exist, you can collapse any amount of matter down to zero volume because... it's already zero volume, you're just overcoming the repulsion forces with a stronger force. Matter IS energy, as Einstein proved.
@@Chris-xo2rq Correct. This is why neutron stars are so incredibly dense and heavy. We do not understand just how dense matter can become. It gets even denser in a black hole.
First 10 seconds and I already learned that the average 3 storey house is as tall as 36 squirrels stacked on top of each other! Amazing, thank you Kurzgesagt! Edit: I love how many people are saying this is basically how Americans measure things
Whoever came up with the idea to go bigger and smaller at the same time with a human in the middle is genius. This was one of your best videos in a while.
Well kurzgesagt certainly didn't come up with it. It's been a popular science communication exploration at least since the 70s. The oldest example I'm aware of is the short film "the powers of ten". I wouldn't been surprised if it was older even than that. I believe tom scott and cgp gray and vsauce have all also showcased it. Along with the famous flash art piece named something like 'the size of the universe'.
I can only imagine how difficult it may be to produce these videos at the rate you're going now. Thank you for sharing what you create, while increasing output, and maintaining your iconic quality. I am deeply grateful for your collective contribution.
Usually, Kurzgesagt's videos make me feel a sense of existential dread, but this one is different. It shows how a single cell, while small, plays a crucial role in our survival, much like how we, though seemingly insignificant, add meaning and wonder to the vast universe.
This proves God exist, atheist said life have no meaning yet the universe have mena and purpose for each things, and human have higher mean of life and have their own purpose to submit to God
@ridwanarifien1628 It proves nothing, meaning is what this person gave it. It's also about the concept of emergeance, aka greater than the sum of its parts. If anything, religion cheapens perspective.
How very odd. As a giant plant biologist who happens to be 530,000 times larger than you, I am currently studying modern Germany's interaction with plants.
😂 As a professional watering can operator I can confirm that vegetation if stacked on top of eachother would be easier to water if my can was the size of Germany squared. With an assortment of levers and pulleys I could gently tip the can by pushing a button 365.000 x smaller than a single rhizobia. So strange that pops up here.😂😂😅
Once again, Kurzgesagt delivers a dose of wonder, reminding us of the magnificence of our universe. Thanks for consistently bringing such awe-inspiring content!
@jadecutter1760 I'd probably class this one into existential dread. Just showing how absolutely tiny we are, yet also showing us how absolutely huge we are, yet we are powerless to control the large and the small. Despite how much we are bigger than, a lot of the small stuff is still capable of taking us out of the equation so quickly, along with that which is larger. Have fun thinking about that!
10:24 I really like the subtle artistic imagery of one human having a magnifying glass on the front of the shirt while the other one has a telescope. The amount of effort put into these videos are nothing short of amazing.
It's not free... You pay for it either with TH-cam Premium or a crapton of ads shoved in your face. Not to mention the data-mining Google does on you, and sells to the highest bidder.
@Zircuitz Don't worry, MicheleRiva's comment is just another standard ADHD comment, which is copied from every video to boot. These people have no brains and therefore can't think.
I've just watched this again and noticed that at the end, once it has zoomed back in (10:25), the person on the left where the smaller things were had a magnifying glass on their top, and the person on the right where the bigger things were had a telescope on their top! That's why I love this channel, not only is it educational and funny, there are so many cool details that just make the videos so incredible. Edit: I used their not there and it was bugging me
@@TS-jm7jm By making those scale comparisons, you can see how insignificant you are to the universe because what you can easily reason about the smallest things, you can easily reason about yourself. And humans need a purpose. So, this kind of video can be dreadful: the fear of having no purpose.
@@programaths ....thats, rather odd, the scale of things and my own fragility has never upset me per se, then again i already know the gist of my purpose courtesy of the bible, so i guess that makes me immune to such things.
@@TS-jm7jm Also a lot of the videos remind me of the concept that infinite time exists after we die and the concept of feeling nothing for eternity is terrifying to me (I know that doesn't make sense as I wont have the conciousness to experience it, but I still can't wrap my head around it) but as you are religious luckily for you I imagine thats not something you struggle with either
To me, Kurzgesagt isn't just a channel, it's a project showing what humanity can do when it works together. Somehow, despite having some of the highest quality standards on the entire platform, they are uploading more frequently while continuing to improve everything else. I look forward to a future where many other such projects become our vehicles for progress.
Anyone who's ever paid attention during science classes has seen scale up/down videos like these already, but this one's different. Kurzgesagt manages to put this into perspective, so that I feel like a red blood cell to the Tokyo metropolitan area. Incredibly smart storytelling, yet so simple. And of course it comes in the beautiful Kurzgesagt art style. Thank you!
4:54 That visual of the earth being dropped into Jupiter was honestly one of the most informative and fascinating visuals I think I have ever seen in a scientific TH-cam video. I don't know why, but a part of me feels like that just helped me understand what it means that Jupiter is a "gas giant" more than any textbook ever has.
It should be noted that large parts of Jupiter aren’t actually gas. As you go deeper into its atmosphere, the pressure becomes so extreme that the gases are first liquified and after that, compressed into weird states of matter like metallic hydrogen. It also (probably) has a solid rocky core.
@@fixminer9797 ahhhhh, I see. I've always been a little confused about Jupiter's *actual* composition so just seeing that visual helped clear up a small confusion I have, but that would make sense considering gravity obviously compressing everything as you go closer to the centre. Thank you for the reply!
@@fixminer9797 and the weirder thing is, that it might not which is equally as likely considering the fact that we simply don't know whats jupiters core is made of. we know that it likely has metallic hydrogen due to its immense magnetosphere which is only possible if metallic hydrogen is convecting. Such crazy pressures is so intriguing, making me want to see stable metallic hydrogen to be commercially possible.
@@christopherwray4788 Dont worry, hydrgoen becoming metal is super complicated, but a hint as to why it behaves like metal is why it is classed above the alkali metals, with enough pressure and heat you can theoretically force hydrogen to become metallic and due to begin so compressed, it should remain stable and behave just like any other metal.
For some reason the thing that makes my brain melt the most is how infinitely SMALL things can be?? I knew that I could never comprehend the vastness of space but the fact that things keep getting SMALLER as the video goes on is just amazing
whats even crazier is that the video ONLY describes size in terms of 1-dimensional length, for example, the video states an atom is 15 billion times smaller than a human. What the video should have said was that a human is 15 billion times TALLER than an atom, as you only measure the height of both. in reality, an adult male human contains 7 billion billion billion atoms because we live in a 3 dimensional world. So if it sounds crazy that a human is 15 billion times "larger" than an atom, in reality an atom is actually billions of billions times smaller by volume, which is even crazier.
Truly one of the best ever kurzgesagt videos I have ever watched, the production quality is somehow still increasing I can’t name a single TH-camr who’s videos compare to kurzgesagts
Kurzgesagt is the most ridiculously good channel on this website. Fascinating science packaged into compelling narratives, gorgeous visuals, amazing writing and VO work, powerful music - it feels like it should be impossible to combine into one channel. And yet here we are. Keep up the good work!
I would agree. @@maverick4255i loved this channel back when it started and continuing into some of its most popular videos today, but it fell prey to political corpos that fund it and unfortunately I'm no longer subscribed. Still happy to see its doing fine now.
I really like how this size comparison isnt just a bunch of random things travelling across the screen. It is really unique and finally someone is trying something new.
After seeing countless "comparison/scale" videos, this was by far the best one I've seen. Keeping 'you' in the center, and working back and forth is a brilliant approach. I've followed this channel from the beginning, and these are reasons why. Thank you!
If I was rich enough, I would single-handedly fund this entire channel as it has become my favorite way to learn information about the world and universe that surrounds me, keep making more!❤️
This channel is popular enough to fund itself many many times over. You're telling me you'd rather send a massive amount of money to an already-rich channel instead of donating it to the poor or a charity? That's ridiculously immoral.
@@ChinnuWoW Well, he is talking about what he would do with his OWN money. Telling other people what to or not to spend their money on is the only ridiculously immoral thing here.
@@ChinnuWoW At least the intention is right. Spending it on education is still better than spending it on materialistic things you don't need / shopping culture.
@@ChinnuWoW Haha you're paying for internet and a computer and on a youtube video. During the time you were watching the video you could've been helping kids in Africa who are starving. And you can sell your computer too and give it to a charity. You're ridiculously immoral.
@@sk8_bort I'm not telling him what to do with his own money. I'm explaining how stupid he would be to send money to someone who's already rich and doesn't need any more. Feel free to waste your money as you please, but don't get butthurt when I call you an idiot for it, which is my right to free speech.
This to me is what makes kurzgezagt great. It's not just yet another dumb incomprehensible size comparison, it's accompanied with smart insightful commentary. Fantastic job as usual.
I think everyone feels this way, but Kurzgesagt's animations are so well done. I also love how you make it so entertaining to learn, as well as the philosophical twist that you use to enhance any concept you explain. Regardless of your personal views, I think we can all agree that this world is beautiful and something to behold.
Wow, @10:00 to 10:30 is one of the best animation sequences ever made on this topic IMO. Such a narrative driven, well crafted scene with the smoothest and subtlest of frames in such a short span of time. Kudos to the production teams at KZ! Hope they are well acknowledged for their stellar work.
It's almost unbelievable how accessible this video is, considering the quality of content it offers. Sure, there are ads, but having access to such exceptional content at such a low cost feels like an incredible opportunity.
Actually answered a longstanding question of mine… “Where are we located between big and small” Used to think we were in middle. Then, I got confused watching TH-cam size comparisons to put us towards the larger. Now back to in between. Please don’t stop keeping up good work.
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Honestly this channel is never gonna die down. The thirst for the Knowledge just keeps on becoming greater as human race lives on and innovation exists
Once again, Kurzgesagt delivers a dose of wonder, reminding us of the magnificence of our universe. Thanks for consistently bringing such awe-inspiring content!
cant imagine the immense work and research that went into the video to find the objects that are at exact scale in both spectrums kudos to the team for creating such masterpieces on a regular basis been a fan for years now and surely will be a fan forever
Wow, that's mind-blowing! I never realized just how massive the universe is. Thanks for sharing this fascinating information! 🌌 Congrats on another great video, Kurzgesagt!
This is impressive. As so many have said before, this content for free wherever screens are available, with limited commercial interruptions. In 1982 this would have been a Sunday special hour-long episode of Kurzgesagt! Assuming you a had a color TV with an outdoor antenna and a room to view it in, (along with electricity and a spare receptacle in the wall)!
This is probably one of my favorite TH-cam channels. The art style is amazing, the visuals are interesting and the information is intriguing! Stuff like this has always interested me but i find myself binge watching their videos every now and then
this is such a great thought exercise, it hard to visualize with just numbers, but when you know how big you are using the equivalent small and large in comparison, it really puts into perspective the scales of everything :D
Honestly shocked by the upload schedule of Kurzgesagt these days. After watching the video on how long it takes to make each one, it blows my mind that y'all are putting in so much work to get these out here multiple times a week I'm sure the pace will slow down at some point but I'll enjoy it while it lasts
I'm a little concerned honestly. In my mind, Kurzgesagt is a shinning example of quality over quantity. Their recent videos have still been great, but I don't want them devolving into a content farm like I've seen with so many other channels.
You fell for that video? That's like saying it takes 100,000 people 100,000 hours to make every IPhone that comes out the factory. It took that long and that many people to get the first one off the ground, sure, but a few minor efficiencies have dropped along the way to streamline the process.
@@gabrielsatter I didn't "fall" for anything, the video very clearly states that they, of course, work on multiple videos at the same time. But it's still clear that each video, depending on it's complexity and length, takes anywhere from 500-1200 hours from start to finish when tallied up. Even when shared across a team, that's a ton of effort. Just look at the quality of these videos. It's fantastic. I have to imagine that the team has expanded
1:11 "If humans lived like Dinaponera, we'd be building towers over 25 storeys, filled with offices and ruthlessly competing for status, and...wait..." I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣
comparing us to the size of other objects in the universe is one thing, but adding an inversely proportional comparison is an ingenious other~ this was so surprisingly comprehensible until the objects hundreds of thousands, even millions, of times in size! and on top of that, the sense of connection you forged between us with both ends of the spectrum made me feel so moved ..I've rarely felt so in touch with the universe :') this was a thing of beauty Kurzgesagt, as it often is with you. thank you for another incredible video
This size comparison video is like a trip from the microscopic to the cosmic in just a few minutes! The visuals are incredible, and it's wild to think about how everything fits into the grand scheme of things. Mind officially blown! Props to Kurzgesagt for making science so darn cool and accessible.
Thank you so much for the content Kurzgesagt. The beauty and explanation of your videos make me want to cry out of happiness. After watching your videos, I have learned a lot. Thank you so much for the videos and content. Very good team! Keep it up!
This is probably the most clever way of showing sizes I've seen yet. Especially how the very small are linked to the very big is super neat! Well done :)
Yes! This is exactly what i think of when i imagine society as a giant organism. All of us play a role in it, no matter how meaningless it could seem from our perspective. Change your perspective, change your life.
This video made me realize that everything we know from the large end to the small end, is basically just the expanding knowledge relative to our own size, it's crazy how balanced it is to both sides and humans are pretty much in the middle
To be fair he played it pretty loose with the accuracy a bit at the end there... it gets so extreme you tend to ignore those "rounding errors" but the difference between 1.0 and 1.2 matters when the scale is SEPTILLIONS... also the ratio between the Planck length to you and you to the observable universe is not even CLOSE to the same, billions of times different. He kind of glossed over this by saying "maybe the universe is that much bigger too"... but we have no idea. So at the far ends we really don't know, and that's the only thing that matters to a claim that we are in the middle. To take this information and claim we are in the center of the scale of reality is incorrect. On a long line it doesn't matter that you can mark a point and then mark other meaningful points on opposite sides of that point at equal distances... that doesn't mean your point is in the middle. To know that you're in the middle you have to know where the ends are, and we don't. I can demonstrate this with a shoe string if you'd like.
I've watched a lot of Powers of Ten videos over the years, and this one is exceptionally good. Doing both directions simultaneously was clever and keeps it relatable
I do really appreciate that, instead of just going steadily in one direction, you kinda go in both directions at the same time, while giving us a more understandable sense of scale. Excellent work, as always. -w-)b
The Scale of this universe and really of our world is, crazy. Words in my opinion do not do justice for the sheer scale of our universe from the unfathomably large to the infinitesimally small. Kurzgesagt you guys are awesome, keep up the good work and have an absolutely amazing Christmas and happy new year!
Have seen other videos that does this "scale of the universe" video comparison, but they always do it in a one way direction, either from the smallest to the biggest or vice versa, so I got actually surprised to see this new way of exploring these scales in a video, showing both the big and the small side by side, in comparison to us. That was really clever and appreciated!!
Been following this channel since 2016, Kurzgesagt is posting more and more frequently! My biggest inspiration to start learning more about science and quantum physics. You're a real one Philipp
The best size comparison video I have ever seen. Its easier to understand these astronomical size differences once we look it through our scale of reference. So cool!! I wish I could motion design for you 🙏
It's kinda cool to look at the world from this different angle. Seeing ourselves as the center of the universe and realizing how everything, big or small, affects us and the world-it's a trip. It's like our bodies are running a similar show to civilizations. Makes me take a step back and think about all the stuff keeping me ticking and grateful for my health. But, you know, it also hits you with how fragile we are. And that quote, 'from here on, things just kind of stop making sense'-got a good laugh out of that one! 😄
Particle birb and the happy holidays message fills you with determination :'3. Plus the music is perfect as usual!
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I'm just in awe because this is the most productive this channel has ever been, like there's no month with many videos like this month. Thank you so much Kurzgesagt ❤
This video follows the same concept as a CGP Grey's metric paper video from a couple of years ago, but the constant mirroring of the sizes throughout is a nice addition that was absent in the other video. Well done!
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Shocked to learn that the universe is 465,000 Milky Way galaxies across - that didn't seem that big to me. So then I googled how many galaxies are estimated to be in the universe, and the answer is either 100-200 billion or 2 trillion, depending on who you ask. Those both seemed too large to fit in a sphere with a diameter of 465k galaxies, so I calculated the volume of the universe using the Milky Way as a unit, and the universe can fit 5.26 x 10^16 galaxies, or 5,260,000,000,000,000 (5.26 quadrillion). So I guess 465k galaxies across isn't that small after all.
very interesting
yea the difference between diameter and volume of a sphere is kinda crazy
With how big this stuff is I wonder where the nearest aliens might be
Yup that's what happens when you have 3 dimensions to work with
This is what surprised me, i'm so used to unimaginably large numbers when regarding the observable universe that 465,000 didn't seem like that much lol
I LOVE how you presented this as more of a two-way comparison rather than just starting at the Planck length and scaling up to the observable universe. It makes everything shockingly comprehensible!
Agreed. They took cool science facts and wrapped it into a comparative story that goes on to explain just how crazy it is to be a human in this Thanos-balanced universe..
When I first saw the video I thought it was going to be like one of the many size comparison videos, but it turned out to be quite different and unique
It's not their idea, Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the shell conclusion is this. That we are in the "Middle" of everything.
@@emildegas4213 Yes, but that idea only simply says we’re in the middle. It didn’t tell a story like this channel did. This channel did perhaps the best story narrative around this middle idea I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen it told a lot of ways.
@@emildegas4213 I once read that the middle of a scale from the Planck length to the volume of the visible universe is roughly the size of a speck of house dust.
But in the grand scheme of things, specks of dust to the size of a house is likely well within the margin of error, so calling the avg human the center of that scale is well within that +/- accuracy IMO, but factually speaking, specks of dust are actually the “middle” or “center” of everything 🤷🏻♂️
I knew it! I'm not narcissistic, I'm just actually the center of the universe
Guess I'm the center of the universe as well, and no that's not narcissism it's facts lol we all are.
Wow I should show this to my mom, growing up she would always tell me I wasn’t the center of the universe and turns out she was wrong! But then again so is she lol
lol me too
only if you are 165 cm long.
@@ozanozenir2503 Height has nothing to do with being the existential center of the universe. There are people all across the world who are shorter and taller than others, what made you say that?
I was half-expecting you to mention how we also are technically in the center of the universe as we are at the center of our observable universe since it changes based on where you are
I thought the whole video was about it when I clicked on it
@@Akum4Kam15amaparticles do not react when observe them
I learned about this in a video that calls it the Axis of Evil
@@KrystianGage Why evil?
@@javiercarballal3087 because they can’t explain it 😅
I loved the way that, instead of just giving a list of objects and their sizes, each object was compared to its size counterpart in an actually meaningful way!
So cool!
Did some digging and found out they live under the bot bridge in Cochin India
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My god, the comparison at 6:53 actually makes so much sense. I can't fathom something so tiny going through me without even touching me, but when you compare it to a person floating through space it's just emptiness... space. WILD!
Also thought about one, I could never really grasp something that small but the comparison helped a lot
@@ZimaCyberia Yes but this is true of all matter. All matter is empty space... not mostly, it's literally JUST space. Matter and solidity is an illusion brought on by energetic repulsion. This is why singularities can exist, you can collapse any amount of matter down to zero volume because... it's already zero volume, you're just overcoming the repulsion forces with a stronger force. Matter IS energy, as Einstein proved.
@@Chris-xo2rq Correct. This is why neutron stars are so incredibly dense and heavy. We do not understand just how dense matter can become. It gets even denser in a black hole.
@@Chris-xo2rqA very enlightening comment! I'll take a screenshot!
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First 10 seconds and I already learned that the average 3 storey house is as tall as 36 squirrels stacked on top of each other! Amazing, thank you Kurzgesagt!
Edit: I love how many people are saying this is basically how Americans measure things
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9:38, this is beautiful.
Zooming in.
But the whole video is beautiful.
Thank you for this. 🙏🏻
4:54 that animation of Jupiter is GORGEOUS!
YEAH IKR!? LIKE ITS SO GOOD!?
it looks like a 3d animation with shaders! as opposed to their usual 2d animation. both look so cool
Yeah that was truly, truly great animation I’d make a short of just that part of the vid 👍
This is more 100x better than a badly drawn animation
Whoever came up with the idea to go bigger and smaller at the same time with a human in the middle is genius. This was one of your best videos in a while.
Well kurzgesagt certainly didn't come up with it. It's been a popular science communication exploration at least since the 70s. The oldest example I'm aware of is the short film "the powers of ten". I wouldn't been surprised if it was older even than that. I believe tom scott and cgp gray and vsauce have all also showcased it. Along with the famous flash art piece named something like 'the size of the universe'.
@@himan12345678we all know kurzgesagt didn’t come up with it
Genius really?
@@idkman-rr3bm yes
Middle-out decompression
I can only imagine how difficult it may be to produce these videos at the rate you're going now. Thank you for sharing what you create, while increasing output, and maintaining your iconic quality. I am deeply grateful for your collective contribution.
i agree, i love it, but i don't want the team to become burnt out or something
@@mabel1487Maybe these are uploaded several months after being finished. Most TH-camrs do that. To keep continuity.
@@vika0194probably weeks but still
@@mabel1487they have a good system and a very large team
They made a video about how they make videos and it takes about 1200 hours
"The deadliest and most annoying insect in the world is the mosquito", I fully agree with that
Because they kill 1million people a year
spiders are deadlier they have poison
@@BlastinRopemosquitos are the #1 cause of death among bugs.
@@BlastinRope Spiders aren't insects, and mosquitos still cause more deaths. Vast majority of spider species aren't even harmful to humans.
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Usually, Kurzgesagt's videos make me feel a sense of existential dread, but this one is different. It shows how a single cell, while small, plays a crucial role in our survival, much like how we, though seemingly insignificant, add meaning and wonder to the vast universe.
This proves God exist, atheist said life have no meaning yet the universe have mena and purpose for each things, and human have higher mean of life and have their own purpose to submit to God
@@ridwanarifien1628 what's god's purpose?
@@ridwanarifien1628There are bugs in your skin.
Finally I can actually enjoy a kurzgesagt video lol
@ridwanarifien1628 It proves nothing, meaning is what this person gave it. It's also about the concept of emergeance, aka greater than the sum of its parts. If anything, religion cheapens perspective.
As a plant biologist my heart sprang when I heard rhizobia being mentioned. Their interaction with plants is my field of study!
How very odd. As a giant plant biologist who happens to be 530,000 times larger than you, I am currently studying modern Germany's interaction with plants.
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whats your favourite thing about them
If you check their sources in the info, they go over where they got their research from. Who knows, maybe they read some of your work on it!
😂 As a professional watering can operator I can confirm that vegetation if stacked on top of eachother would be easier to water if my can was the size of Germany squared. With an assortment of levers and pulleys I could gently tip the can by pushing a button 365.000 x smaller than a single rhizobia.
So strange that pops up here.😂😂😅
Once again, Kurzgesagt delivers a dose of wonder, reminding us of the magnificence of our universe. Thanks for consistently bringing such awe-inspiring content!
A much-needed salve for their equally awe-striking existential dread videos. :) I admire Kurzgesagt's delicate balance between these types of videos.
@jadecutter1760
I'd probably class this one into existential dread.
Just showing how absolutely tiny we are, yet also showing us how absolutely huge we are, yet we are powerless to control the large and the small.
Despite how much we are bigger than, a lot of the small stuff is still capable of taking us out of the equation so quickly, along with that which is larger.
Have fun thinking about that!
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i feel like they forget that they made an app for this it would be totally in place to plug that in this video
I recently received my Kurzgesagt in a Nutshell calendar + poster and it's amazing, your merch is absolutely amazing!!
10:24 I really like the subtle artistic imagery of one human having a magnifying glass on the front of the shirt while the other one has a telescope.
The amount of effort put into these videos are nothing short of amazing.
The replies are trolls, ignore them
Nice catch! I missed it!
Wow
@@guylikesbananas3986 this comment chain is just disgusting
@@tuureluotonen1631 They're bots not trolls
I just kept thinking ‘wait, wow’ each time he introduced something new
Im gonna watch content
Not gonna lie I wasn't really thinking that when he brought up the airplane and the hummingbird.
did you wow
NPC comment @@mkhanman12345
huh
I still find it incredible that we have such high-quality content available for free on TH-cam
It's not free... You pay for it either with TH-cam Premium or a crapton of ads shoved in your face. Not to mention the data-mining Google does on you, and sells to the highest bidder.
Imagine if they got paid- directly
I use brave, so I only pay for my internet connection@@Zircuitz
@Zircuitz Don't worry, MicheleRiva's comment is just another standard ADHD comment, which is copied from every video to boot. These people have no brains and therefore can't think.
Tbf that's the way it ought to be
I've just watched this again and noticed that at the end, once it has zoomed back in (10:25), the person on the left where the smaller things were had a magnifying glass on their top, and the person on the right where the bigger things were had a telescope on their top! That's why I love this channel, not only is it educational and funny, there are so many cool details that just make the videos so incredible.
Edit: I used their not there and it was bugging me
Thank you Kurzgesagt for continuing to reliably give me a mild panic attack from existential dread every episode
what is it you're dreading exactly
@@TS-jm7jm By making those scale comparisons, you can see how insignificant you are to the universe because what you can easily reason about the smallest things, you can easily reason about yourself. And humans need a purpose. So, this kind of video can be dreadful: the fear of having no purpose.
You should look at pictures of large objects in the ocean without context:)
@@programaths ....thats, rather odd, the scale of things and my own fragility has never upset me per se, then again i already know the gist of my purpose courtesy of the bible, so i guess that makes me immune to such things.
@@TS-jm7jm Also a lot of the videos remind me of the concept that infinite time exists after we die and the concept of feeling nothing for eternity is terrifying to me (I know that doesn't make sense as I wont have the conciousness to experience it, but I still can't wrap my head around it) but as you are religious luckily for you I imagine thats not something you struggle with either
To me, Kurzgesagt isn't just a channel, it's a project showing what humanity can do when it works together. Somehow, despite having some of the highest quality standards on the entire platform, they are uploading more frequently while continuing to improve everything else. I look forward to a future where many other such projects become our vehicles for progress.
What has caused them to be able to put out more videos?
@@patrickkelly737 paid slavery
@@thunderred5263 my dude that's called a job
I'd rather work for them than McD's or Starbucks.
@@ecliiipsssse depends on point of reference
Anyone who's ever paid attention during science classes has seen scale up/down videos like these already, but this one's different. Kurzgesagt manages to put this into perspective, so that I feel like a red blood cell to the Tokyo metropolitan area. Incredibly smart storytelling, yet so simple. And of course it comes in the beautiful Kurzgesagt art style. Thank you!
Cells At Work roleplay in Tokyo. Imagine that! 🤔
We didn't have scale videos when I was in school.
Thanks! Now I have an explanation for considering myself important.
4:54 That visual of the earth being dropped into Jupiter was honestly one of the most informative and fascinating visuals I think I have ever seen in a scientific TH-cam video.
I don't know why, but a part of me feels like that just helped me understand what it means that Jupiter is a "gas giant" more than any textbook ever has.
It should be noted that large parts of Jupiter aren’t actually gas. As you go deeper into its atmosphere, the pressure becomes so extreme that the gases are first liquified and after that, compressed into weird states of matter like metallic hydrogen. It also (probably) has a solid rocky core.
@@fixminer9797 ahhhhh, I see. I've always been a little confused about Jupiter's *actual* composition so just seeing that visual helped clear up a small confusion I have, but that would make sense considering gravity obviously compressing everything as you go closer to the centre. Thank you for the reply!
@@fixminer9797metallic hydrogen… WHAT. lol. my iq is too low to comprehend that as a concept
@@fixminer9797 and the weirder thing is, that it might not which is equally as likely considering the fact that we simply don't know whats jupiters core is made of. we know that it likely has metallic hydrogen due to its immense magnetosphere which is only possible if metallic hydrogen is convecting. Such crazy pressures is so intriguing, making me want to see stable metallic hydrogen to be commercially possible.
@@christopherwray4788 Dont worry, hydrgoen becoming metal is super complicated, but a hint as to why it behaves like metal is why it is classed above the alkali metals, with enough pressure and heat you can theoretically force hydrogen to become metallic and due to begin so compressed, it should remain stable and behave just like any other metal.
For some reason the thing that makes my brain melt the most is how infinitely SMALL things can be?? I knew that I could never comprehend the vastness of space but the fact that things keep getting SMALLER as the video goes on is just amazing
whats even crazier is that the video ONLY describes size in terms of 1-dimensional length, for example, the video states an atom is 15 billion times smaller than a human. What the video should have said was that a human is 15 billion times TALLER than an atom, as you only measure the height of both. in reality, an adult male human contains 7 billion billion billion atoms because we live in a 3 dimensional world. So if it sounds crazy that a human is 15 billion times "larger" than an atom, in reality an atom is actually billions of billions times smaller by volume, which is even crazier.
The square cube law.
Truly one of the best ever kurzgesagt videos I have ever watched, the production quality is somehow still increasing I can’t name a single TH-camr who’s videos compare to kurzgesagts
How did you watch a 13-minute video in less than 12 minutes? 😳
@@TheAyushSomani watched it like 7secs after it came out and also it had been out for over 13mins when I was done
Koranos is as good as Kurzgesagt
@@DzhokharDudayev-kr9mi Koranos is pretty good but I keep confusing him for Kurzgesagt
TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN! 999
mashallah
we r soooooooooooo much smaller than we think
i feel soooo happy for learning these
keep up the good work
At the same time, we are much larger than we think
Kurzgesagt is the most ridiculously good channel on this website. Fascinating science packaged into compelling narratives, gorgeous visuals, amazing writing and VO work, powerful music - it feels like it should be impossible to combine into one channel. And yet here we are. Keep up the good work!
you don’t even know the meaning of the word ridiculous - ironic
@@llwydanwyl be careful not to cut yourself on all that edge mate
Yeah, but there are many things they say that are not 100% confirmed, and they pass it off as completely true.
@@maverick4255 such as?
I would agree. @@maverick4255i loved this channel back when it started and continuing into some of its most popular videos today, but it fell prey to political corpos that fund it and unfortunately I'm no longer subscribed. Still happy to see its doing fine now.
I really like how this size comparison isnt just a bunch of random things travelling across the screen. It is really unique and finally someone is trying something new.
Absolutely insane size comparison! Loving the increase in upload speed: it's crazy to think of the quality of your videos, and how often you upload.
You are welcome for reporting the spammers
Oh their messages didn't dissappear. Never mind.
@k4vbRms7-ytlearn grammar.
@@HexaflexagonFan Its Spelt Right
@@UTTPCaptainur cringe
this video is simply amazing! thank you Kurzgesagt
After seeing countless "comparison/scale" videos, this was by far the best one I've seen. Keeping 'you' in the center, and working back and forth is a brilliant approach. I've followed this channel from the beginning, and these are reasons why. Thank you!
If I was rich enough, I would single-handedly fund this entire channel as it has become my favorite way to learn information about the world and universe that surrounds me, keep making more!❤️
This channel is popular enough to fund itself many many times over. You're telling me you'd rather send a massive amount of money to an already-rich channel instead of donating it to the poor or a charity? That's ridiculously immoral.
@@ChinnuWoW Well, he is talking about what he would do with his OWN money. Telling other people what to or not to spend their money on is the only ridiculously immoral thing here.
@@ChinnuWoW At least the intention is right. Spending it on education is still better than spending it on materialistic things you don't need / shopping culture.
@@ChinnuWoW Haha you're paying for internet and a computer and on a youtube video. During the time you were watching the video you could've been helping kids in Africa who are starving. And you can sell your computer too and give it to a charity. You're ridiculously immoral.
@@sk8_bort I'm not telling him what to do with his own money. I'm explaining how stupid he would be to send money to someone who's already rich and doesn't need any more. Feel free to waste your money as you please, but don't get butthurt when I call you an idiot for it, which is my right to free speech.
4:53 that's some next level animation right there
MY GOSH THE CHORUS. made a tear in my eye. what a masterpiece video
6:35 I like that as soon as a blackhole show up they use a similar theme to the one used on their last blackhole video.
Can we appreciate how Kurzgesagt has been putting out so much content so fast, literally legends
i guess ill send this to anyone who says "your not the center of the universe"
😄
at 5:00 the visual of Jupiter swallowing Earth looks awesome, Great Work!
This to me is what makes kurzgezagt great. It's not just yet another dumb incomprehensible size comparison, it's accompanied with smart insightful commentary. Fantastic job as usual.
Kurzgesagt back with another BANGER! Truly amazing how small and large we really are! Appreciate the work the team are doing
@Dougloide are you a bot too?
@@retinazer7652 just report em all
If you ignore the fact that nothing in this video is true or accurate, then yeah, it's a great video
I think everyone feels this way, but Kurzgesagt's animations are so well done. I also love how you make it so entertaining to learn, as well as the philosophical twist that you use to enhance any concept you explain. Regardless of your personal views, I think we can all agree that this world is beautiful and something to behold.
Wow, @10:00 to 10:30 is one of the best animation sequences ever made on this topic IMO. Such a narrative driven, well crafted scene with the smoothest and subtlest of frames in such a short span of time. Kudos to the production teams at KZ! Hope they are well acknowledged for their stellar work.
It was pure bliss
And a really good soundtrack too
the shortcut "KZ" is not that popular in germany tho xD
@@durchfreude I honestly fail each time I try to write the full name of the channel :) never seen KZ used before either
Yea for sure, I also really love the black hole comparison done in a similar manner
It's almost unbelievable how accessible this video is, considering the quality of content it offers. Sure, there are ads, but having access to such exceptional content at such a low cost feels like an incredible opportunity.
Actually answered a longstanding question of mine…
“Where are we located between big and small”
Used to think we were in middle. Then, I got confused watching TH-cam size comparisons to put us towards the larger. Now back to in between.
Please don’t stop keeping up good work.
Did you know that cats can be gay lesbian or bisexual :3
@@JackWilke "the source is that I made it the fuck up"
@@Freckle_McMurray that's adorable
well, they discarded plank length, so we may still be on the larger half if we consider it
@@Freckle_McMurray Did you know everyone in your life thinks you are a looser?
6:23 I love that this musical sting keeps coming back whenever black holes are mentioned
lovely animations as always kurzgesagt im loving the frequency of these recent uploads
2023 is a year of content for sure
this is a hive comment so spam comments can flood the replies, thus why it has so many likes. this same account said that this video was ai generated and that you shouldnt watch it
@DougloideYou must live a sad life.
@Dougloide ok
It doesn't raise even the slightest concern?
Honestly this channel is never gonna die down.
The thirst for the Knowledge just keeps on becoming greater as human race lives on and innovation exists
Well said fellow homo sapiens
@Dougloidebad bait, do better
@@kirbylover37 Here's a better bait: of course the channel won't die down, it's a billionaire-funded channel.
@@gabor6259 happy to hear that, I hope that translates to high quality as always
Happy Diwali Also
one of your best videos yet 👍
especially how you connect and transition between big and small for each step
Once again, Kurzgesagt delivers a dose of wonder, reminding us of the magnificence of our universe. Thanks for consistently bringing such awe-inspiring content!
yes!! thats it, contrary to the typical comment about existencial dread u commonly see
The sheer contrast between the smallest and largest things is absolutely insane.
you did not watch the whole vid in 45 seconds!??...
Kurz inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
Begging.
The smallest thing being your attention span because you did not watch this whole video in 1 minute
this video is obviously generated by AI Stop praising it lol
Just wanted to be first with some generic comment
Getting 10 Kurzgesagt videos in a space of 2 months is amazing. Thank you!
@@JackWilke go exercise, fatty
This is more impactful and amazing than a 2 hr movie
1:20 That was the moment of realisation
I died
“Wait. . .”😂
"Ruthlessly competing for status, and, wait..." 🤣
How Kurzgesagt manages to break my mind with every single video is incredible. Amazing work as always to the team / teams making these productions
I love the recurring blackhole motif at 6:22, I've noticed it in other videos as well when the topic comes up.
cant imagine the immense work and research that went into the video to find the objects that are at exact scale in both spectrums
kudos to the team for creating such masterpieces on a regular basis
been a fan for years now and surely will be a fan forever
The society joke at 1:14 was amazing 😂
Lol
Thanks Kurzgesagt for the daily dose of magnificence of our universe again!
@Dougloide big Brain 🧠 🔥🔥😭💀
Wow, that's mind-blowing! I never realized just how massive the universe is. Thanks for sharing this fascinating information! 🌌 Congrats on another great video, Kurzgesagt!
To even come up with these comparisons in the first place is just mindboggling. Thank you for giving us a whole new way of looking at things!
3:35 Just realized how much Germany resembles the gta 5 map
HOLY SHIT YOURE RIGHT
This is impressive. As so many have said before, this content for free wherever screens are available, with limited commercial interruptions. In 1982 this would have been a Sunday special hour-long episode of Kurzgesagt! Assuming you a had a color TV with an outdoor antenna and a room to view it in, (along with electricity and a spare receptacle in the wall)!
This is probably one of my favorite TH-cam channels. The art style is amazing, the visuals are interesting and the information is intriguing! Stuff like this has always interested me but i find myself binge watching their videos every now and then
@Dougloide what about the skillshare course about how to animate like kurzgesagt?
7:40
Quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, etc. Props & thanks for using large quantities instead of those confusing scientific notations!
this is such a great thought exercise, it hard to visualize with just numbers, but when you know how big you are using the equivalent small and large in comparison, it really puts into perspective the scales of everything :D
LOVE THESE VIDEOS omg they’re so so so good
Honestly shocked by the upload schedule of Kurzgesagt these days. After watching the video on how long it takes to make each one, it blows my mind that y'all are putting in so much work to get these out here multiple times a week
I'm sure the pace will slow down at some point but I'll enjoy it while it lasts
FR
I'm a little concerned honestly. In my mind, Kurzgesagt is a shinning example of quality over quantity. Their recent videos have still been great, but I don't want them devolving into a content farm like I've seen with so many other channels.
You fell for that video? That's like saying it takes 100,000 people 100,000 hours to make every IPhone that comes out the factory. It took that long and that many people to get the first one off the ground, sure, but a few minor efficiencies have dropped along the way to streamline the process.
@@SBroproductions yeah I'd be worried if the quality had dropped but it hasn't
@@gabrielsatter I didn't "fall" for anything, the video very clearly states that they, of course, work on multiple videos at the same time. But it's still clear that each video, depending on it's complexity and length, takes anywhere from 500-1200 hours from start to finish when tallied up. Even when shared across a team, that's a ton of effort.
Just look at the quality of these videos. It's fantastic. I have to imagine that the team has expanded
Absolutely Mind Blowing! Just went to the toilet and thinking about how big and how small things are, almost got dizzy. Amazing Work!
1:11
"If humans lived like Dinaponera, we'd be building towers over 25 storeys, filled with offices and ruthlessly competing for status, and...wait..."
I'm dying
🤣🤣🤣
Im still amazed by how fast they pump these fully voiced,animated and informtive videos so fast,keep up this is some of te best yt content ever.
@@Janeworxgame is game
TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN!
@@stuartclarke2988 here's hoping you all get IP banned and your user clients restricted
You’re probably the only channel that I watched all of its videos! ❤ It's incredible how much work you put into each of them! 👌
one of the few for me!
comparing us to the size of other objects in the universe is one thing, but adding an inversely proportional comparison is an ingenious other~ this was so surprisingly comprehensible until the objects hundreds of thousands, even millions, of times in size! and on top of that, the sense of connection you forged between us with both ends of the spectrum made me feel so moved ..I've rarely felt so in touch with the universe :')
this was a thing of beauty Kurzgesagt, as it often is with you. thank you for another incredible video
This size comparison video is like a trip from the microscopic to the cosmic in just a few minutes! The visuals are incredible, and it's wild to think about how everything fits into the grand scheme of things. Mind officially blown! Props to Kurzgesagt for making science so darn cool and accessible.
Respect
@OFFICERJIMMYUTTPdidn’t ask+ L
7:39 "Space is just so large its kinda mean" -Kurzgesgat 2023
Thank you so much for the content Kurzgesagt. The beauty and explanation of your videos make me want to cry out of happiness. After watching your videos, I have learned a lot. Thank you so much for the videos and content. Very good team! Keep it up!
I just wanna say thank you for keeping my passion in knowledge since childhood. this channel really means a lot to
Absoluter Respekt. Großartiges Video 😄❤️✌️
This is probably the most clever way of showing sizes I've seen yet. Especially how the very small are linked to the very big is super neat!
Well done :)
good stuff is good stuff from wherever it may be
What a fantastic idea! Usually these scales only go one way but this is far more relatable. Well done
“If humans lived like ants, we’d be building giant offices & competing for status, wait” 😂😂
I laughed so hard when they said that
@@Janeworx what is bro yapping about
Finally someone points this out😂
Yes! This is exactly what i think of when i imagine society as a giant organism. All of us play a role in it, no matter how meaningless it could seem from our perspective. Change your perspective, change your life.
This video made me realize that everything we know from the large end to the small end, is basically just the expanding knowledge relative to our own size, it's crazy how balanced it is to both sides and humans are pretty much in the middle
As above, so below. The principle of correspondence.
To be fair he played it pretty loose with the accuracy a bit at the end there... it gets so extreme you tend to ignore those "rounding errors" but the difference between 1.0 and 1.2 matters when the scale is SEPTILLIONS... also the ratio between the Planck length to you and you to the observable universe is not even CLOSE to the same, billions of times different. He kind of glossed over this by saying "maybe the universe is that much bigger too"... but we have no idea. So at the far ends we really don't know, and that's the only thing that matters to a claim that we are in the middle. To take this information and claim we are in the center of the scale of reality is incorrect. On a long line it doesn't matter that you can mark a point and then mark other meaningful points on opposite sides of that point at equal distances... that doesn't mean your point is in the middle. To know that you're in the middle you have to know where the ends are, and we don't. I can demonstrate this with a shoe string if you'd like.
I've watched a lot of Powers of Ten videos over the years, and this one is exceptionally good. Doing both directions simultaneously was clever and keeps it relatable
9:30 OMG ITS AN OMG PANCAKE PARTICLE!1111
omg particle
6:07 an amazing comparison... 🤯
I do really appreciate that, instead of just going steadily in one direction, you kinda go in both directions at the same time, while giving us a more understandable sense of scale. Excellent work, as always. -w-)b
what a beautiful world.
thanks, Kurzgesagt.
The Scale of this universe and really of our world is, crazy. Words in my opinion do not do justice for the sheer scale of our universe from the unfathomably large to the infinitesimally small. Kurzgesagt you guys are awesome, keep up the good work and have an absolutely amazing Christmas and happy new year!
Have seen other videos that does this "scale of the universe" video comparison, but they always do it in a one way direction, either from the smallest to the biggest or vice versa, so I got actually surprised to see this new way of exploring these scales in a video, showing both the big and the small side by side, in comparison to us. That was really clever and appreciated!!
Been following this channel since 2016, Kurzgesagt is posting more and more frequently! My biggest inspiration to start learning more about science and quantum physics. You're a real one Philipp
This channel is truly run by some of the most brilliant people around because literally how did they ecen come up with the idea for this. Just. Wow.
The best size comparison video I have ever seen. Its easier to understand these astronomical size differences once we look it through our scale of reference.
So cool!! I wish I could motion design for you 🙏
It's kinda cool to look at the world from this different angle. Seeing ourselves as the center of the universe and realizing how everything, big or small, affects us and the world-it's a trip. It's like our bodies are running a similar show to civilizations. Makes me take a step back and think about all the stuff keeping me ticking and grateful for my health. But, you know, it also hits you with how fragile we are. And that quote, 'from here on, things just kind of stop making sense'-got a good laugh out of that one! 😄
You guys keep outdoing yourselves with every video. Well done!
Particle birb and the happy holidays message fills you with determination :'3.
Plus the music is perfect as usual!
I'm just in awe because this is the most productive this channel has ever been, like there's no month with many videos like this month. Thank you so much Kurzgesagt ❤
It's the influence of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
I doubt they had any influence on this video, unless they're suddenly interested in size comparisons@@the_SolLoser
This video follows the same concept as a CGP Grey's metric paper video from a couple of years ago, but the constant mirroring of the sizes throughout is a nice addition that was absent in the other video.
Well done!
Yes. But with life things.
CGP's video is amazing and definitely worth a watch if you enjoyed this one