There's something like this at the MIT museum (or at least it was a piece there when I last visited): a gear train with massive reduction and the final gear is actually carved out of the stone that it is mounted to. It's impossible for the final gear to move, but the beginning wheels are still able to be turned.
For those interested, I've found the piece: it's called "Beholding the Big Bang" and it's a bit different than what I recalled (it has been years since I've been to that museum and seen the exhibit). The final gear is embedded in concrete, not carved out of stone, and it's an electric motor turning the first gears, not a hand crank. th-cam.com/video/VCA2whpMCno/w-d-xo.html
Damn just imagine the amount of force you would need to spin the last gear by hand and how fast it would make the first gear spin if you spun it from the last gear
Assuming the gears were indestructible and you could apply infinite force, if you spun the last gear, the first gear would be moving far faster than the speed of light
@@Godolotl but as you approached closer to the speed of light, from the gears perspective, time would be slowing down which would inadvertently slow down the rotational speed of the last gear who’s torque is probably enough to lift up the whole universe.
@@baconwizard well yes, but this whole thing is irrational to begin with. I mean that gear ratio is just a "because I can" thing. If you actually could apply infinite force, I'm unsure if you could ever actually reach the speed of light due to time dilation. On the outside it would appear close to the speed of light, but from the 'gear's perspective' everything would speed up. This weird dynamic is why the "speed of light" is so odd.
@@baconwizard but, I'm not knowledgeable enough to keep talking about this subject, that's getting into general and special relativity, which I don't have the confidence to speak openly about. Perhaps someone else will figure out a explanation.
2:50 It's even hard to understand how MUCH BIGGER this number is. If EVERY atom in the observable universe had its OWN observable universe within it with the same amount of atoms, then the number of all the atoms COMBINED would've still be a HUNRDED THOUSAND times smaller than this gear ratio!
I'm working on my own insane gearbox using planetary and grinder gears to achieve a ridiculous 500:1 gear reduction per stage. It will only need 63 stages to pass your gearbox. The crazy thing is that the design has an extremely small profile with a thickness of just .25in per stage and an external radius of 5in. The total length of the gearbox will be just under 16 inches
@@turzilla bro said not really😂😂. The first one spins infinitely so the last moves infinitely end of story. We dont care if it breaks or whatever this is hypothetical
Nothing will move because the energy required to turn the first gear is greater than every motor on earth combined. The wheel would need to be built to the size of a planet to not sheer from the force alone
He did that in another video, but with a much smaller gearbox. Probably close to the highest gear ratio possible in this style without major design changes. He got 1:1200 or so iirc, and that needed a foot long crank handle. m.th-cam.com/video/_Ab-TkiGrmo/w-d-xo.html
What if you used a giant F1 rocket engine with 35 million newtons of thrust to spin the last gear. Or use the catastrophic force of a nuclear bomb to push the last gear, spinning the first gear at the speed of light. You would have to have the last gear to be big enough to actually utilize the rocket or the bomb, and attach a heat shield to keep the gear from burning.
That's cool and all, but actually it is more than likely that friction will cause a good chunk of the gear box to never move at all, and rotating the first gear for long enough will cause some of the gears to simply snap.
If you have a gear train with such a high gear ratio and multiple gears, there's a significant torque multiplication happening at each gear stage. By the time you reach the last gear, the torque applied to it could be immense, potentially exceeding the torque capacity of the gear teeth or the gearbox itself.
If you somehow got enough energy and force to spin the last gear, then you would open up a wormhole at the other end because it would go faster than the speed of light.
Great video. Too bad you didn't include digits 0 to 9 embossed on each gear as you printed them. Then you could see how many revolutions of the first gear have occurred. Can you imagine the torque that could theoretically be put on that final gear.
This is brilliant! I want to use this for the double slit experiment by adjusting wall cracks to a photons width. This could be very useful in so many experiments.
It would require so much force that even if you put the weight of the entire universe you wouldn't be able to turn it. Actually if you put too much force the gears will just break
If I got the math right, if you spin the first gear once per second, it would take 3.17E+161 years to spin the last gear once (I don't think the number with that many zeros has an actual name).
What if you built a gear box that scaled back the rotation ration to the original gear and then set the original gear in motion by an external gear and a lever?
If you turned it just one thousandth of a degree every 100,000,000,000 years, the first wheel would spin billions of billions of times faster than the speed of light.
I’m exactly the same, I know in theory it’s impossible but it just looks so doable and I’ve never actually interacted with a gear array like this so I lack the mechanical understanding that it’s impossible
@@TantalumPolytope eh, it depends, if they’re 3d printed gears? Yea impossible, but with strong enough construction and enough force behind it then it is technically possible albeit theoretically
aaaw, I wanted to see him spin the last gear. although I suspect the whole thing would break a few gears down. I think the trick would be to see how slowly you can move it to get the most gears spinning before it explodes. ;P
"This gearbox has a significantly higher gear ratio than the number of atoms in the observable universe" Specifically, if every atom was actually a copy of the observable universe, the total number of atoms all together would still be lower than this gear ratio by a factor of 10,000
03NOV2022 - Back in the 1950-60s near Columbia, Tennessee, you could stop on the highway and see "Bullwinkle's Geared Monstrosity." It was made of pulleys and v-belts. Somewhere I still have a postcard from that. I've always wondered what happened to it.
Judge, I would like to choose the duration of the prison sentence for my parents murderer. Judge: What do did you have in mind? Me: All he has to do is turn this simple gear, and he can get out of prison once the last gear has done one full rotation. Judge: Seems reasonable
I once built a pig rotisserie doing something similar. 1725rpm motor to a final drive of 3rpm. The motor had a 2” pulley to a 12” via belt drive. On that shaft was another 2” pulley to a 10”, another 2” to another 10” and finally a 10 tooth sprocket driving a 40 tooth on the spit rod via a chain. I never did measure the torque but it was a lot.
I would assume each gear would be around 10 to 20g. Using 20g, that would be 4 rolls of plastic, not including the base. I use about 3 rolls of PETG per week.
@@theboz1419 Couldn't imagine, i've had the same four rolls for like a year now. My printer's hotend fan exploded so i'll be using even less for about a week.
Its crazy how quickly exponential returns can get unimaginably huge. A deck of cards is another example. The odds of shuffling a deck of cards and them returning to an order that any deck of cards has been in, is so small, it could be considered impossible considering the combinations made in the past and future. To give a visual understanding, if you were to begin writing the possible combinations on paper with each paper having a new combination, you would stack them up until they reach the moon, then pull a drop of water out of the ocean and start a new stack. When the ocean is dried up, refill it and destroy a single grain of sand. When all the sand is gone, the number of combinations you have gone through are still 10 zeros away from 1/8 the maximum number of combinations. The number of combinations looks like 8.0658*10^67 For a little more perspective, the universe has only existed for 4.36*10^17 seconds.
What I want to know is, how fast could it spin if you turned it from the other end? Please attach a power drill to the opposite end and let us know how many rpms the other end spools up to. That would be a fun follow up:)
The reason it wouldn’t work (on this gearbox anyway) is because even with the fastest motor in the world spinning the first gear you’d die long before you could even get all of the lash (slack) out of the gear train. You’d never see the “gear up” side move at all.
Something that is weird to think about is just how small the movement per second is...because if the high speed end is moving then the low speed one is too just so slowly you probably cant even see it under an electron microscope.
Input torque is multiplied 10 times each stage. There is a friction for each set of gears, and then there is backlash, which would be Hugh for 169 stages, after several stages the torque will be far greater than the teeth can transmit, so this gearbox can never deliver the final ratio. I would be curious to know how many stages it would take to start shearing teeth.
Lets do some mafhs assuming all the gears have zero mass. So.. light wave can go 186000 miles or 299337.984 km in a single second, now if each teeth of the gear is more or less 3 milimeter in base width, then the circumference of the gear is 36 cm = 0.00036 km. Thus if the gear is spinning at the speed of light then in 1 second, it will rotate roughly (299337.984 ÷ 0.00036) = *831,494,400* times.. now heat death of universe occurs after 1.7^106 years or 8.44656945×10^31 seconds so to make the last gear spin 1 time before the heat death of the universe, the first gear has to spin 10^169 times within this time period, so as each second passes the *first* gear would have to spin 10^169 ÷ 8.44656945×10^31 ≈ *1.2 × 10^199* times. If u want the rpm then we just gotta multiply this by 60 ≈ *7.1 × 10^200* RPM. How many times faster is this rpm than the speed of light? Just divide the rps (s for second) of the gear if it had to finish rotating before the heat death of universe, by the rps if it was rotating at the speed of light. That is, 1.2 × 10^199 ÷ 831,494,400 ≈ *144 × 10^188* times faster than the speed of light....
That last gear is locked so tight, no amount of energy will be able to spin it without causing the set up to break. Not even thanos with all 6 infinity stones can move that last gear without breaking it.
There's something like this at the MIT museum (or at least it was a piece there when I last visited): a gear train with massive reduction and the final gear is actually carved out of the stone that it is mounted to. It's impossible for the final gear to move, but the beginning wheels are still able to be turned.
That sounds kinda cool, tbh.
Imagine aliens coming upon this wall that is slightly tilted by a fraction of a centimeter in the future
For those interested, I've found the piece: it's called "Beholding the Big Bang" and it's a bit different than what I recalled (it has been years since I've been to that museum and seen the exhibit). The final gear is embedded in concrete, not carved out of stone, and it's an electric motor turning the first gears, not a hand crank. th-cam.com/video/VCA2whpMCno/w-d-xo.html
That’s really cool actually
the mechanical flex of all the gears probably compounds up
You can't spin the last gear, but what gear can you spin from to maximize speed of the first gear?
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@@notlistening6499 been there, done that
you see him spin 3rd gear............thats about it
I’d have gone straight to the last gear
Damn just imagine the amount of force you would need to spin the last gear by hand and how fast it would make the first gear spin if you spun it from the last gear
The whole thing would explode but it would be glorious
Assuming the gears were indestructible and you could apply infinite force, if you spun the last gear, the first gear would be moving far faster than the speed of light
@@Godolotl but as you approached closer to the speed of light, from the gears perspective, time would be slowing down which would inadvertently slow down the rotational speed of the last gear who’s torque is probably enough to lift up the whole universe.
@@baconwizard well yes, but this whole thing is irrational to begin with. I mean that gear ratio is just a "because I can" thing. If you actually could apply infinite force, I'm unsure if you could ever actually reach the speed of light due to time dilation. On the outside it would appear close to the speed of light, but from the 'gear's perspective' everything would speed up. This weird dynamic is why the "speed of light" is so odd.
@@baconwizard but, I'm not knowledgeable enough to keep talking about this subject, that's getting into general and special relativity, which I don't have the confidence to speak openly about. Perhaps someone else will figure out a explanation.
2:50 It's even hard to understand how MUCH BIGGER this number is. If EVERY atom in the observable universe had its OWN observable universe within it with the same amount of atoms, then the number of all the atoms COMBINED would've still be a HUNRDED THOUSAND times smaller than this gear ratio!
Thank you for that, my brain is malfunctioning now but still cool as hell
as if our universe isn't already mind blowing enough, lmao. thanks for putting this number into perspective :)
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Horton logic lol
Your scaring me
I never thought I’d ever experience cosmic horror from such a small object
Last one will still prolly still make a revolution before GTA 6 is released...
'bout that
It would be cool to see a gearbox like this but with 2:1 gear ratios so we can see it actually working.
even with a 2:1 ratio the last gear still would take an unimaginable time to move
Great so instead of 10^169 we get 2^169.
@@noahc8997 how about 101 to 100 teeth gears? then it will be 1.01:1 and 1.01^169 = only 5.37. Am I doing this right?
@@noahc8997it’s still significantly lower than the alternative
Friend: Don't spin the last gear!
Me: *spins it just a bit*
Universe: *explodes*
I'm working on my own insane gearbox using planetary and grinder gears to achieve a ridiculous 500:1 gear reduction per stage. It will only need 63 stages to pass your gearbox. The crazy thing is that the design has an extremely small profile with a thickness of just .25in per stage and an external radius of 5in. The total length of the gearbox will be just under 16 inches
I subbed to you!!! Can't wait to see it
thats so sick
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Crazy thing is, if you could spin the first gear at an infinite rpm, the last gear would spin at infinite rpm too
Idk about that
not really because of other mechanical factors
@@turzilla bro said not really😂😂. The first one spins infinitely so the last moves infinitely end of story. We dont care if it breaks or whatever this is hypothetical
@@nazfx2648 nah we do care so not really
It would create infinity mass black hole before the last grear starts moving.
The last wheel cant actually spin right?
After the sun burns out it might
What if i spin the last gear?
Well it won't even spin then :'(
It can just after the whole universe is gone
@@CroissantCreates no, I mean, since the plastic isn't strong enough.
Try to move the last gear if you can, the rest of the gears will rotate at fantastic speeds
Nothing will move because the energy required to turn the first gear is greater than every motor on earth combined. The wheel would need to be built to the size of a planet to not sheer from the force alone
@@CroissantCreates Right, he should lower the number of gears a bit
Is not possible! When you play with gears ratio you also play with torque ratio
the about of force it would take to turn that last gear would shatter it
He did that in another video, but with a much smaller gearbox. Probably close to the highest gear ratio possible in this style without major design changes. He got 1:1200 or so iirc, and that needed a foot long crank handle.
m.th-cam.com/video/_Ab-TkiGrmo/w-d-xo.html
This is actually mindblowing! It must have taken a whole lot of time to make this video as well. Amazing!
These gears would dissolve before it even spun the last one.
What if they put a really strong engine attached to the first gear and turn it on ? 💀
Next to nothing. He has a video on it.
Why use engine when you can easilly rotate it yourself?
So thats why my bike dosn't go the speed of light.
I put my 200 gears in upside down.
I would love to see how fast the first gear would spin if it was possible to spin the last!
Math.
You stole his pfp
Me too
It's literally impossible for him to do so, unfortunately. But I'd love to see what incredibly reality-warping things would happen.
10^169 times faster.
What if you used a giant F1 rocket engine with 35 million newtons of thrust to spin the last gear. Or use the catastrophic force of a nuclear bomb to push the last gear, spinning the first gear at the speed of light. You would have to have the last gear to be big enough to actually utilize the rocket or the bomb, and attach a heat shield to keep the gear from burning.
I wonder how astronomical the torque would be on that last gear. Probably enough to move the world in theory.
It could crush the known universe into a black hole.
in theory it takes more torque to rotate it than there is energy in the known universe
The mounting points and the plastic will become worn and brittle, fall to dust before the last gear rotates
That's cool and all, but actually it is more than likely that friction will cause a good chunk of the gear box to never move at all, and rotating the first gear for long enough will cause some of the gears to simply snap.
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If you have a gear train with such a high gear ratio and multiple gears, there's a significant torque multiplication happening at each gear stage. By the time you reach the last gear, the torque applied to it could be immense, potentially exceeding the torque capacity of the gear teeth or the gearbox itself.
If you somehow got enough energy and force to spin the last gear, then you would open up a wormhole at the other end because it would go faster than the speed of light.
1:59 DONT TOUCH THAT GEAR! IT WILL BREAK THE STRUCTURE OF REALITY!
How many estimated years would it take to get all the slack out of this contraption before the last gear could even move?
all the years
10^169 secs at minimum
Make the entire floor of your garage into a gearbox.
Great video. Too bad you didn't include digits 0 to 9 embossed on each gear as you printed them. Then you could see how many revolutions of the first gear have occurred. Can you imagine the torque that could theoretically be put on that final gear.
To spin the last gear you would need the first gear to spin at the speed of light
Another video in my life of things I don't understand but still very intrigued and interested in.
😂
I really want to see you spin the last gear and watch what it would do to the first one if it were possible
You cant
last gear would break before you could make it to move
It could be very dangerous.

Spin the last gear
Yes
I challenge you to tell me 1 utility of this machine:
10 to the power of 169. That was on purpose. 😂
Shut up nigga
Him: **spin the last wheel**
Universe: **explode**
Spin the last one, i dare you
This is brilliant! I want to use this for the double slit experiment by adjusting wall cracks to a photons width. This could be very useful in so many experiments.
Please do it the other way to see how fast it will spin
That is literally impossible
@@jacob.rausch I know
@@jacob.rausch I know I just want to see
@@-LAWAN a normal human being can only spin the 4th or 5th gear if they are as strong as bruce lee
@@CodeBlueWiki theoretically if you move it like by a nano centimeter it will spin super fast
What happens if you turn the last gear to try to turn the first gear that fast?
It would require so much force that even if you put the weight of the entire universe you wouldn't be able to turn it.
Actually if you put too much force the gears will just break
Use a lever and try to turn the last gear, you might need a press for that
It could be very dangerous.

@@MicheleRoccapinnuzza Yes, yes it could.
Spin the second gear is the same way and you’ll get a time machine if you spin it fast enough
If I got the math right, if you spin the first gear once per second, it would take 3.17E+161 years to spin the last gear once (I don't think the number with that many zeros has an actual name).
In the Conway-Wechsler system which extends -illion naming infinitely, it's 317 duoquinquagintillion years.
Me: waiting for him to spin the last gear
Him: no
Now make one just like this but with a low gear ratio
See if you can get the last gear to break the sound barrier
You can create a black hole with this
Why make a new?
Think!
@@XtreeM_FaiL because this one is built one way and to build it the exact opposite would be even cooler
@@drsatan7554 Turn it around.
@@XtreeM_FaiL I don't have it but even if I did the handle would be on the wrong side
2:39 who made this photo ? maybe its just a picture , not a photo >?
It would be fun to calculate how much the last gear turns after the first has made a full turn. It should be comparable to planks length.
1st gear have to rotate trillons time to get close to Plank's length.
No, I didn't bother to calculate that. Just a guestimation.
please spin the gray gear
You can't , its too hard
What happens if you spin the grey gear in the 4th Row. will the Orange gear spin faster in the first row ? Just Curious!
Most probably it won't spin. It would require a tremendous amount of force to move it even a little
What if you built a gear box that scaled back the rotation ration to the original gear and then set the original gear in motion by an external gear and a lever?
Same as now. Nothing, but you could rotate both ends at the same time and even different direction.
imagine how fast the first gear would be spinning if you rotated the last gear
If you turned it just one thousandth of a degree every 100,000,000,000 years, the first wheel would spin billions of billions of times faster than the speed of light.
@@MicheleRoccapinnuzza🤯
Last gear moves slightly
Universe:Explodes
Spin the last one, I wanna see how fast it goes if it can handle it
It probably just would break, because the gear that is connected to also really doesn't want to move.
How long did it take to print all of these
I want to see it turned from the last gear but I know that's impossible/ insanely hard
That's quitter talk
I’m exactly the same, I know in theory it’s impossible but it just looks so doable and I’ve never actually interacted with a gear array like this so I lack the mechanical understanding that it’s impossible
I mean if you could. That first gear would probably create an explosion because the atoms could no longer hold each other together.
its not insanely hard, its actually impossible
@@TantalumPolytope eh, it depends, if they’re 3d printed gears? Yea impossible, but with strong enough construction and enough force behind it then it is technically possible albeit theoretically
aaaw, I wanted to see him spin the last gear.
although I suspect the whole thing would break a few gears down. I think the trick would be to see how slowly you can move it to get the most gears spinning before it explodes. ;P
I would have like to see you apply some torque to the last year to see how fast the first one could spin.
It could be very dangerous.

@@MicheleRoccapinnuzza why the ?
"This gearbox has a significantly higher gear ratio than the number of atoms in the observable universe"
Specifically, if every atom was actually a copy of the observable universe, the total number of atoms all together would still be lower than this gear ratio by a factor of 10,000
What happen if you try to turn the last gear
Does it break ?
Does the first gear turn faster than the speed if light ?
Or does it does nothing
the torque needed would be so high, that it would probably break the gear. so, number 1
@@odenroberts7603 allright, thanks for awnsering
Take it with a pinch of salt, Im not a physicist
If you turn by hand it would just do nothing. With a powerful enough motor, the gears would just break.
03NOV2022 - Back in the 1950-60s near Columbia, Tennessee, you could stop on the highway and see "Bullwinkle's Geared Monstrosity." It was made of pulleys and v-belts. Somewhere I still have a postcard from that. I've always wondered what happened to it.
Wow crazy that your gear ratio, 1.0*10^169, is even bigger than 1.7*10^106
I like the rear ratio vids in reverse, where the lowest gear is turned so we can see the super fast rpm at the other end.
“Here is a photo of the observable universe”
XD.
That’s not how cameras work.
I'm still waiting for someone to make a bicycle outta this
Judge, I would like to choose the duration of the prison sentence for my parents murderer.
Judge: What do did you have in mind?
Me: All he has to do is turn this simple gear, and he can get out of prison once the last gear has done one full rotation.
Judge: Seems reasonable
We all want to see you try to turn the hardest gear before it breaks.
This gives the term "don't start something you can't finish" a whole new meaning.😂
Really wanted too see it all turn 😩🤣
Legend says he’s still trying to get the last gear to spin
So you’re saying, if you could spin the last gear, you would have created a faster than light speed gearbox
now to the inverse toy------a 1:10 gear ratio, how fast can you get the final gear moving before it breaks apart, or something breaks!
now we might have enough torque to open the pickle jar
what would happen if you rotate the last gear first
the desire to rotate the last gear myself got so big that i tried to grab it through the screen
I once built a pig rotisserie doing something similar.
1725rpm motor to a final drive of 3rpm. The motor had a 2” pulley to a 12” via belt drive. On that shaft was another 2” pulley to a 10”, another 2” to another 10” and finally a 10 tooth sprocket driving a 40 tooth on the spit rod via a chain.
I never did measure the torque but it was a lot.
This is at least the third version of a "million year" gear train I've seen on YT. Most colorful version, though.
Shoutout to the guy who photographed the observable universe
Looks great! Thank you for your video!
I want an entire video of his old gear box spinning until the last gear spins once
Bro has used more rolls of filament on gears than I have owned in my entire life.
I would assume each gear would be around 10 to 20g. Using 20g, that would be 4 rolls of plastic, not including the base. I use about 3 rolls of PETG per week.
@@theboz1419 Couldn't imagine, i've had the same four rolls for like a year now. My printer's hotend fan exploded so i'll be using even less for about a week.
Its crazy how quickly exponential returns can get unimaginably huge. A deck of cards is another example. The odds of shuffling a deck of cards and them returning to an order that any deck of cards has been in, is so small, it could be considered impossible considering the combinations made in the past and future.
To give a visual understanding, if you were to begin writing the possible combinations on paper with each paper having a new combination, you would stack them up until they reach the moon, then pull a drop of water out of the ocean and start a new stack. When the ocean is dried up, refill it and destroy a single grain of sand. When all the sand is gone, the number of combinations you have gone through are still 10 zeros away from 1/8 the maximum number of combinations.
The number of combinations looks like 8.0658*10^67 For a little more perspective, the universe has only existed for 4.36*10^17 seconds.
Someone should make this thing out of stronger materials and try to move the last gear!
That's for when you want to get up a really steep hill. Really, really, really steep... and you're not in a big hurry.
Plz create a dedicated channel for this gear box and livestream it with running mode
That bloody gear box could probably lift earth.
You should try to make a clock using this gear ratio.
I guess if I get a Delorean and I put this gearbox into it, it's basically a real version of the "Back to the Future" one :o
What I want to know is, how fast could it spin if you turned it from the other end? Please attach a power drill to the opposite end and let us know how many rpms the other end spools up to. That would be a fun follow up:)
@@TheDabEnthusiastGaming So you're saying there’s a chance?
I've always wanted to see someone make an insane gear down paired to an equal gear up.
The reason it wouldn’t work (on this gearbox anyway) is because even with the fastest motor in the world spinning the first gear you’d die long before you could even get all of the lash (slack) out of the gear train. You’d never see the “gear up” side move at all.
You can make such a gear out of bismuth and by the time the last gear has spun it has become a thallium gear.
That isn't a photo of the observable universe, its an image of a graphic that is intended to visually represent or depict the observable universe.
Something that is weird to think about is just how small the movement per second is...because if the high speed end is moving then the low speed one is too just so slowly you probably cant even see it under an electron microscope.
Input torque is multiplied 10 times each stage. There is a friction for each set of gears, and then there is backlash, which would be Hugh for 169 stages, after several stages the torque will be far greater than the teeth can transmit, so this gearbox can never deliver the final ratio. I would be curious to know how many stages it would take to start shearing teeth.
Forget the friction.
Lets do some mafhs assuming all the gears have zero mass.
So.. light wave can go 186000 miles or 299337.984 km in a single second, now if each teeth of the gear is more or less 3 milimeter in base width, then the circumference of the gear is 36 cm = 0.00036 km. Thus if the gear is spinning at the speed of light then in 1 second, it will rotate roughly (299337.984 ÷ 0.00036) = *831,494,400* times..
now heat death of universe occurs after 1.7^106 years or 8.44656945×10^31 seconds so to make the last gear spin 1 time before the heat death of the universe, the first gear has to spin 10^169 times within this time period, so as each second passes the *first* gear would have to spin 10^169 ÷ 8.44656945×10^31 ≈ *1.2 × 10^199* times. If u want the rpm then we just gotta multiply this by 60 ≈ *7.1 × 10^200* RPM.
How many times faster is this rpm than the speed of light?
Just divide the rps (s for second) of the gear if it had to finish rotating before the heat death of universe, by the rps if it was rotating at the speed of light.
That is, 1.2 × 10^199 ÷ 831,494,400 ≈ *144 × 10^188* times faster than the speed of light....
What if you got a million people to crank a lever that’s attached to the final gear. Lol just my imagination being weird again
congrats, you've just invented the first mechanical odometer that can measure your mileage in inches but will still never loop to 0
legend has it these gears still spin today
Imagine the torque that thing has.
If you turn the gear at the other end, would it exceed the speed of light?
That last gear is locked so tight, no amount of energy will be able to spin it without causing the set up to break.
Not even thanos with all 6 infinity stones can move that last gear without breaking it.
when your final gear has spun 1,000 times know that eternity is just beginning; so do take care of your immortal soul!
How fast would the first one spin if you spun the last one