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  • @NintendoNerd64
    @NintendoNerd64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4920

    “look at this sheet of paper”
    *8 minutes later*
    “we are now at the edge of the universe”

    • @mariatpena7638
      @mariatpena7638 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      *mind blown*

    • @richard6196
      @richard6196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      We got taken for a ride for sure.

    • @simon-pierrelussier2775
      @simon-pierrelussier2775 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      And that happens to be how long it took photons to leave the photosphere of the sun and reach earth.

    • @dahscreamingeagle3473
      @dahscreamingeagle3473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      well that escalated very quickly

    • @Mrityunjay7
      @Mrityunjay7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@simon-pierrelussier2775 If that was intended then I believe Grey is the best story teller I have seen

  • @kpatch410
    @kpatch410 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4137

    "What are you watching?"
    "...mostly nothing."

    • @tydev2305
      @tydev2305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      He isn’t wrong

    • @donottrustanyonelol
      @donottrustanyonelol 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      dont let this distract you from the absolute fact that bungee gum has both the properties of rubber and gum

    • @proild
      @proild 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This statement is true regardless of what exactly you're watching.

    • @oliverhumphreys8141
      @oliverhumphreys8141 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      why

    • @XnoobSpeakable
      @XnoobSpeakable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@donottrustanyonelol in Lithuanian rubber and gum is the same word

  • @-E-M-C-
    @-E-M-C- ปีที่แล้ว +3864

    Paper getting infinitely small: Has an existential crisis
    Paper getting infinitely big: *Has an existential crisis*

  • @juancuelloespinosa
    @juancuelloespinosa ปีที่แล้ว +8737

    I always find it interesting that there are more subdivisions down than we have doublings up. the planck length is at 226, where the observable universe ends at 184

    • @bioemiliano
      @bioemiliano ปีที่แล้ว +1219

      Yeah, we are in the larger part of the middle of everything.

    • @zanorok5896
      @zanorok5896 ปีที่แล้ว +289

      Well I mean it's based off a piece of paper so that doesn't really mean much tbh

    • @Qaptyl
      @Qaptyl ปีที่แล้ว +645

      proportionally, our cells are in the middle

    • @TheBswan
      @TheBswan ปีที่แล้ว +1172

      @@zanorok5896 sure it does; it means that on a log scale from planck length to observable universe, a piece of paper is on the larger half of that scale. Many people might find that surprising, as the person who commented that did.

    • @-sprb
      @-sprb ปีที่แล้ว +130

      226-184=42
      2^42=4 trillion😳
      2^226=107 unvigintillion
      2^184=24 septendecillion

  • @Moj1989
    @Moj1989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17705

    "Hey Grey, look at this sheet of paper for a second."
    Grey: (transcends reality)

    • @Altrantis
      @Altrantis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      CHIM

    • @Shaymin0
      @Shaymin0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      there is no reality to transend for there is nothing. in the smallest virtues of reality we see nothing and from the farthest reaches beyond our comprehension, there is nothing.

    • @Shaymin0
      @Shaymin0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @Luís Andrade That is true! our current understanding of nothing is the lack of existence there is if there is a theoretical measurement of nothing and emptiness then that nothing becomes an ever-expanding ball of something in the distance of what we perceive as the reaches that our lights can't even see. So therefore in nothing, there is always the possibility of something so something will always exist in our existence.

    • @mariusdesu1633
      @mariusdesu1633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      doctor: what you see in this picture
      Grey: a sheet of paper, to be exact a metric paper on which is everything that is made of nothing...

    • @rrezonkrasniqi
      @rrezonkrasniqi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Shaymin0 Why do you assume that in nothing is always the possibility of something, maybe there is true nothing but you can't comprehend it?

  • @91thewatcher23
    @91thewatcher23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2654

    Grey 10 years ago: "So this is why we should get rid of pennies"
    Grey now: "After studying a sheet of paper, I've been reminded that everything is nothing, everything we've ever known and loved is all foggy shapes in the ethereal."

    • @benjaminzerr6708
      @benjaminzerr6708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Grey 10 years from now: "....

    • @NN-mh4bj
      @NN-mh4bj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      @@benjaminzerr6708 "hovers above ground ominously"

    • @obsideonyx7604
      @obsideonyx7604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@NN-mh4bj **speaks in reverse**

    • @moxsedai
      @moxsedai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Grey 4 months ago: hexagons are the bestagons

    • @Drake00075
      @Drake00075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I bet reading a book upside down is a simple enough challenge for him now.

  • @MCjossic
    @MCjossic ปีที่แล้ว +2737

    What I liked most about this is that a) I learned that A0 paper exists, b) it is a satisfying, perfect 1m^2

    • @agumon1605
      @agumon1605 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Yeah usually used in huge posters and architecture working drawings

    • @Delibro
      @Delibro ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I thought you learn that as a small kid when you ask: "Why is it called A4 and not A37?" :)

    • @blakksheep736
      @blakksheep736 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It is also made of mostly nothing.

    • @gabrielkind2970
      @gabrielkind2970 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      1m x 1.41m akchully

    • @Delibro
      @Delibro ปีที่แล้ว +161

      @@gabrielkind2970 No! A0 has 1 m² area. That is 0.841 × 1.189 m

  • @chughes156
    @chughes156 ปีที่แล้ว +576

    Love the re-use of "Illusion of something solid" at two completely different scales: A4 x 2^(-76) and 2^140

    • @dorol6375
      @dorol6375 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      And "the reality of x, it is made of mostly nothing."

  • @QuarterLifeCrises
    @QuarterLifeCrises 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13457

    Normal people: "hey A4 sheets fold in half and maintain the exact ratio. Cool!"
    CGPGrey, having his fifth existential crisis this week: "Everything is mostly nothing."

    • @oliverhumphreys8141
      @oliverhumphreys8141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      why

    • @sheeloesreallycool
      @sheeloesreallycool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      @@oliverhumphreys8141 Who knows? Why have we done anything? Why do we focus so much on this size of paper when there are planets that must be discovered? People to meet? We could’ve done so much, but our own limits we have created have stopped us.

    • @oliverhumphreys8141
      @oliverhumphreys8141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@sheeloesreallycool ah

    • @alamrasyidi4097
      @alamrasyidi4097 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      "It all~ returns~ to nothing~"

    • @dethor6251
      @dethor6251 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@sheeloesreallycool human knowlage and curiosity what else

  • @Talik13
    @Talik13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2334

    CGP Grey: "In conclusion, I like A4 paper."

    • @YALMSL
      @YALMSL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I like A999 paper

    • @Jay_Johnson
      @Jay_Johnson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@YALMSL I like A-140

    • @Robstar0
      @Robstar0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Maybe he should study a course about brevity 🤣

    • @marcolinosalgarone9442
      @marcolinosalgarone9442 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the end is not true, if we can't see out we can' t tell what there is out: could be other universes less than a centimeter from our universe

    • @user-kx8pu6ys5i
      @user-kx8pu6ys5i 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Paper

  • @fredthepenguin6539
    @fredthepenguin6539 ปีที่แล้ว +1007

    This video makes me realize how much of a giant I am, bigger than so many things, but it makes me realize how tiny I am, and how earth is basically a quark inside an atom inside a grain of sand in a desert the size of a galaxy

    • @agnetalykins7564
      @agnetalykins7564 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Going further, that galaxy-sized desert is itself but a quark within the grain of sand that is our galactic cluster. Within the great desert that is the observable universe. And beyond, as the video states, for who knows how long.

    • @BaronRodney
      @BaronRodney ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@agnetalykins7564 Terrifying is not what there is to be afraid of but is instead the inability to comprehend the unknown.

  • @ultimatelaserkid
    @ultimatelaserkid ปีที่แล้ว +914

    Man really explained the entire universe and nothingness with a piece of A4 paper.

  • @get_a_grip_4209
    @get_a_grip_4209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1513

    POV: your philosophy teacher when you ask for another piece of paper

  • @grassguy1154
    @grassguy1154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1627

    *"S-Sir... All I wanted to know is if you wanted the receipt..."*

    • @grim1044
      @grim1044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Oof

    • @mayberus7612
      @mayberus7612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This made me lohle

    • @kilianfirebolt
      @kilianfirebolt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sir this is a wendys >:I

    • @cadainn3718
      @cadainn3718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      this made me chuckle

    • @lux5164
      @lux5164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A cvs receipt is longer than the width of the observable universe

  • @jacksonritchie7672
    @jacksonritchie7672 ปีที่แล้ว +299

    I don’t think I’ll be able to look at a sheet of paper again without having an existential, gut-wrenching reality check

  • @wolfrock04
    @wolfrock04 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    “Sir this is a Wendy’s.”

  • @lucystarlight8887
    @lucystarlight8887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3691

    I'm not sure what this video was supposed to teach me but I'll be more careful around paper from now on

    • @AmphiStuG
      @AmphiStuG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Be afraid, for the forever lost consciousness of a tree now has the infinite power of the metric system, it’s forever expanding laws and space seek for either the simple destruction of our very existence, or the complete replacement of all matter that exists or ever will exist. Be afraid... be afraid.

    • @aura_flower3385
      @aura_flower3385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@AmphiStuG, uhh what? Explain in simpler terms please?

    • @aura_flower3385
      @aura_flower3385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @laith, nope, I got nothing srry

    • @aura_flower3385
      @aura_flower3385 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @laith, oh wow. Ok then

    • @matthewhale1572
      @matthewhale1572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aura_flower3385 it was a joke

  • @botston
    @botston 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4573

    Smallest metric: here is something that is actually nothing
    The largest metric: here is nothing that is actually everything

    • @jcxz983
      @jcxz983 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      Also, mostly nothing.

    • @GodSpeedx0
      @GodSpeedx0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Damn...

    • @keithdolderer8391
      @keithdolderer8391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ** The largest metric: here is nothing that is actually something

    • @ethanwalsh5441
      @ethanwalsh5441 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🙌🏻

    • @sarthaksharma4816
      @sarthaksharma4816 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Noah H most likely. I guess.

  • @mfbfreak
    @mfbfreak ปีที่แล้ว +49

    The speed of light being described as heartbreakingly slow really speaks to me. There is so much cool stuff in the universe, but even at the fastest conceivable speed, almost all of it will forever be out of range.

  • @Quartz512_
    @Quartz512_ ปีที่แล้ว +81

    3:45 if I'm right, if we would fold a paper to that little, it would be taller than the observable universe

  • @chessplayer6632
    @chessplayer6632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2174

    **Starts zooming out from the plank length**
    “Ok, maybe he will stop making me have a crisis”
    **Starts doubling paper**
    “Oh no”

    • @rawtoast7719
      @rawtoast7719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Same I feel like I am going to cry

    • @mmagnenat
      @mmagnenat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Just wait until he does a video on the C and the B formats...

    • @emmanueltidor1996
      @emmanueltidor1996 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anyways.

    • @Polarthief
      @Polarthief 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      If you didn't expect him to go the other way, idk what to tell you

    • @graceoartyo
      @graceoartyo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the crisis only got worse

  • @SquillyBR
    @SquillyBR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2229

    "This is a normal sheet of paper."
    "-Or is it?"
    *Vsauce music plays*

    • @teainnit27
      @teainnit27 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Ngl CPGray doing a collaboration video with Michael Stevens would be so cool.

    • @exxelsetijadi5348
      @exxelsetijadi5348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "what defines something as a sheet ?"

    • @intelligent1964
      @intelligent1964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      HEY VSAUCE MICHAEL HERE

    • @skiller5034
      @skiller5034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or "This is just a normal sheet of paper, right? WRONG! it contains the key to the universe, from the smallest things, to the largest." (@FurretWalc Kurzgesagt)

    • @gvc7314
      @gvc7314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Props ro the camera man who tool a picture of the observable universe and the milky way last to the guy in 3021 who found a another part of observable universe trillions of light years away

  • @ruthstewart5242
    @ruthstewart5242 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    I wasn’t aware I was about to go on an existential journey guided by a piece of paper but there it is…

  • @NoahRamseysGhost
    @NoahRamseysGhost 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +161

    If I had a dime for every time Grey changed the title or thumbnail of this video, I’d be able to afford a channel membership. Oh wait!

  • @donatoliotino1872
    @donatoliotino1872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2470

    It's sad CGP Grey had to leave the observable universe to make this.

    • @LeoStaley
      @LeoStaley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Ya but he came back

    • @xnob_1670
      @xnob_1670 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      His rocket must have been huge

    • @devaorios5793
      @devaorios5793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      this is gold wooosh bait

    • @uknownada
      @uknownada 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yet he didn't tell us what he found there. He told us mostly nothing.

    • @thegreatestchigone5813
      @thegreatestchigone5813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@uknownadait’s cause he discovered the universe aren’t hexagons

  • @thonatmo7073
    @thonatmo7073 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6924

    If you didnt have an existential crisis in the first half, don't worry, CgpGrey got you in the second half

    • @JustaGuy12347
      @JustaGuy12347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      nah

    • @user-rc8bb7yb1e
      @user-rc8bb7yb1e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      nope i don't have existential crisises on any video

    • @grabthecrucifixband4203
      @grabthecrucifixband4203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeah you’re just weak minded.

    • @Lafayette-hk2gd
      @Lafayette-hk2gd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      He hits you with the double whammy

    • @grabthecrucifixband4203
      @grabthecrucifixband4203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@onxiaftw you don’t use big words with small words in the same sentence that’s just stupidence.

  • @devilish8130
    @devilish8130 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Is it just me, or would anyone else love to experience this in VR

  • @Anonymous-sb9rr
    @Anonymous-sb9rr ปีที่แล้ว +44

    A4/2^64 could also just be called A68. Not a very common paper size, but well defined.

  • @ChadrickNurn
    @ChadrickNurn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2225

    "I need a way of describing reality"
    *looks down at blank paper*
    "I've got it!"
    -CGP Grey, overcoming writers block by embracing it

    • @geordonworley5618
      @geordonworley5618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Writers block...metric paper...metric block!

    • @ForteFaiey
      @ForteFaiey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      great

    • @user-yc3tf4wz2x
      @user-yc3tf4wz2x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    • @BatCostumeGuy
      @BatCostumeGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Batman

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      A blank sheet of paper has always been inspiring, but it takes a certain kind of mind to see it in a different way.

  • @YuutaShinjou113
    @YuutaShinjou113 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11422

    "A4 x 2⁵²" could be enough to stop an asteroid. Paper beats rock.

    • @aidtim1350
      @aidtim1350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      How many zeros is that number

    • @aidtim1350
      @aidtim1350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@throwawaty5575 thanks

    • @vetle9399
      @vetle9399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +233

      @@throwawaty5575 15 zeros*

    • @throwawaty5575
      @throwawaty5575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@vetle9399 I believe the number in the top right denotes the number of zeros. Correct me if I’m wrong though.

    • @andreamiele5842
      @andreamiele5842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +288

      @@throwawaty5575 only if the base is 10

  • @FrogFood8587
    @FrogFood8587 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not very often does a video about such a mundane topic bring me such existential dread. Great video!

  • @aosper4350
    @aosper4350 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The most fascinating thing about his videos is that they are so mind blowing and amazing that it makes you less regret on watching TH-cam videos.

  • @4dri129
    @4dri129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14585

    Came for cool paper facts.
    Left with existential dread.

    • @chriku
      @chriku 3 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      now imagine looking at A4 every single day!

    • @Spartan-Four-Twenty
      @Spartan-Four-Twenty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Dido

    • @edvardsauzins7041
      @edvardsauzins7041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      I don't think living is important anymore... maybe it's all... maybe everything we do is for nothing.. maybe there's no point in living at all.

    • @GreenFoxLuama
      @GreenFoxLuama 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@edvardsauzins7041 , but however, you only live once. You only get to experience your own existence for only one time, so try to live happily, make the most of it and don't be an asshole to anyone around you

    • @dahemac
      @dahemac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😆

  • @Tay-tt2gy
    @Tay-tt2gy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1187

    Teacher: Okay, class, please take out your A4 sheets of paper and fold them in half.
    CGP Grey: ...this A4 is a door... to the exponential spiral of everything...

    • @Barneyfromhalflife1
      @Barneyfromhalflife1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that will A5 mr

    • @user-qq1xj5zk9n
      @user-qq1xj5zk9n 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A5 then A6 And so on The Spiral Of insanity continues

    • @republicofgamers9842
      @republicofgamers9842 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sadly we only have 8 proper sizings, A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, and A7.

  • @airbender460
    @airbender460 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Watching it back again.... I like the subtle foreshadowing in the print examples. Well played.

  • @loststylus7641
    @loststylus7641 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This video is very powerful for understanding everything we are as far as scaling goes, but also just goes to show how our own scale, where we live and observe, is really the most important to us because it fits us. The rest of this stuff we know exists, but will never truly observe or understand, at least for a very long time. The things on our scale are explained with our communication, using the senses that are tuned for this level of understanding. Look what we’ve done with the scale we’ve been given, the scale we are bound to. We have limits, but do we really know where they are? The limits haven’t stopped our own expansion of understanding, and unlike a lot of other levels, our scale is full of life, compared to the vast nothingness on both ends. If nothing matters on both ends where nothing happens, I wanna stay where things do happen and I can bring myself to comprehend, but I think that’s more easily said, and I’m probably pretty ignorant compared to what things could be but I just wanna say to those who are having existential crises that it’s not a concern and will never be a concern, in our lifetime. And if it is we can cross that bridge when we get to it.

  • @koldkilla777
    @koldkilla777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1274

    "... so anyways, welcome to Kinkos. What size paper did you want me to copy this onto again?"

    • @Qwertytsuna
      @Qwertytsuna 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      The size of the observable universe

    • @micobob2883
      @micobob2883 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@Qwertytsuna I accidentally folded it, it’s now half the observable universe.

    • @Mikeological
      @Mikeological 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      "Yeah, can I get that in A184 please?"

    • @koldkilla777
      @koldkilla777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@micobob2883 congrats, you've just folded space time and created a wormhole!

    • @wesleymays1931
      @wesleymays1931 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      A -184 please

  • @otterstream1263
    @otterstream1263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +694

    Thanks for this, grey, now I can’t look at a sheet of paper without having an existential crisis.

    • @CGPGrey
      @CGPGrey  3 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    • @edmundthespiffing2920
      @edmundthespiffing2920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@CGPGrey damn you

    • @legs3509
      @legs3509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@CGPGrey Grey i have a question.
      When is it too late to say “Yeetus to the fetus”?

    • @Adam-zt4cn
      @Adam-zt4cn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@CGPGrey Wait, is that a PICTURE? In a TH-cam comment section?!

    • @sparklerabbit33
      @sparklerabbit33 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mek_T ඞ

  • @bloodykenshiro8218
    @bloodykenshiro8218 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    All hail A4, all hail the metric system!
    Seriously though. I don't know if this video is meant to be poetic or an existentialist piece, but I love it, for sure.

  • @effect0031
    @effect0031 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I really thought it is going to be like how did they come up with this system...I didn't expect this at all.

  • @nekomakhea9440
    @nekomakhea9440 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2131

    "Sir, this is a Wendy's drive through. You're blocking the other customers."

    • @panchor
      @panchor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lmfao

    • @elijah_9392
      @elijah_9392 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Creating a snake effect :)

    • @snorkeyrules
      @snorkeyrules 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sir! Sir Please!!

    • @Marquis-Sade
      @Marquis-Sade 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why is this "its a wendys" comment so popular right now? I read this on every other video

    • @LZRMonkey249
      @LZRMonkey249 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why am I not surprised this joke Is here

  • @daanstrik4293
    @daanstrik4293 3 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    This is a sheet of paper
    *3 minutes later*
    We have now reached the edge of human understanding

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Isn't that what paper is for? Creating ideas as far as the mind can imagine?

  • @mmmmine5439
    @mmmmine5439 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    The concept of the infinite rectangle ratio is huge in the Steel Ball Run manga. I recommend it to manga fans!

  • @imaadakram5624
    @imaadakram5624 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this has sent me into a rabbit hole
    keep doing what your doing man! 😄

  • @stormninjabros025
    @stormninjabros025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7991

    "You can only fold a sheet of paper in half 6 times. No more than that."
    CGP Grey: ...and now we're at the Planck length.

    • @IncredibleMD
      @IncredibleMD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +439

      A perfect example between the difference between practical and theoretical mathematics.

    • @zypity
      @zypity 2 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      True, though you could also make the argument he cuts them in half, which is - as docincredible remarks - theoretically (near) infinitely possible.

    • @Shockblade95
      @Shockblade95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I just folded it 7 times
      sure it doesn't have its ratio anymore, but still

    • @definitelynotjustasquirrel8319
      @definitelynotjustasquirrel8319 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      The world record is twelve. Its a myth that the size and thickness don’t matter.

    • @davidmartensson273
      @davidmartensson273 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@definitelynotjustasquirrel8319 Exactly, its just that halving the thickness only gives you one more fold, and a paper is so thin that its hard to make it thin enough to fold it many more times.
      If you make it larger you can do it, but still, if its to thin it will break instead of fold, so its a matter of physics and material.
      I think aluminium foil should be foldable more times since its thinner than most paper but I have not tried it.

  • @leemsvg
    @leemsvg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3747

    Conclusion: "damn that is a large sheet of paper"

    • @Uarehere
      @Uarehere 2 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      And apparently, the universe should be called A^-184.

    • @guilhermesartorato93
      @guilhermesartorato93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@Uarehere Now I'm thinking of how many A-184 cardboard walls a box should have to contain it, since a six-walls box won't do the job - for being just tridimensional.

    • @Derpy-qg9hn
      @Derpy-qg9hn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@guilhermesartorato93 There is the change from 1 to 6. Six times. 36 walls for a four-dimensional box, perhaps?

    • @No.1_Ulynona_Fan
      @No.1_Ulynona_Fan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Uarehere your galaxy should be called A4x2144

    • @No.1_Ulynona_Fan
      @No.1_Ulynona_Fan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes I’m at a different galaxy rn okay just don’t question it

  • @NicoandIndy
    @NicoandIndy ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I think Grey went insane during quarantine, this scares me, and I don’t get scared unless it’s something like this

  • @CoDkiller1888
    @CoDkiller1888 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Just came here to learn something about metric paper. Now I am having an existential crisis, thinking about reality pixels and the endless void.

    • @theexchipmunk
      @theexchipmunk ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah, and that everything we experience is mostly nothing with a very thin cloud of things that barely even exist masquerading as something.

  • @the-sands-of-time
    @the-sands-of-time 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12171

    Normal people: "Hey, could you hand me a sheet of paper?"
    CGP Grey: *​contemplates life, existence, and nothingness​*

    • @abhishekaggarwal6473
      @abhishekaggarwal6473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      CGP Grey is on steroids

    • @skeeter.1017
      @skeeter.1017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      How can a piece of paper give me stress I never felt befor

    • @MrMischelito
      @MrMischelito 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Epic and philisophical

    • @bloodnivel70
      @bloodnivel70 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No such thing as nothingness, please drop this facile cynical nihilism mindset.

    • @Ushankan
      @Ushankan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yeah about that i still have a question nobody can answer: Why is i? why is us? why is existence?

  • @lancelotofsadblackwolf_yt6222
    @lancelotofsadblackwolf_yt6222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1608

    I'm impressed that a piece of paper would give someone an existential crisis.

    • @skelpix5449
      @skelpix5449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ok???

    • @favioferreira8921
      @favioferreira8921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      This is CGP Grey, the guy who became fixated with hexagons for a while, and who went on a crusade to find out who owns Staton Island.

    • @mcrailroader9518
      @mcrailroader9518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I feel like CGP Grey can have an existential crisis over anything.

    • @Jawsomest
      @Jawsomest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yo Mama!

    • @benjaminpainter378
      @benjaminpainter378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I read this comment before and after watching the video. It didn't make sense before, but boy did it hit hard after.

  • @jensschroder8214
    @jensschroder8214 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I have never sent such small or such large paper letters.
    But an A4 letter folded twice fits nicely in a C6 envelope.
    Because A4 paper is folded twice, it is A6 size.

  • @Igor-ug1uo
    @Igor-ug1uo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember this music from an old video with the same concept - zooming in and out. It's nice to hear it again watching this.

  • @Spritesuit
    @Spritesuit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1571

    Beginning of the video: A paper ratio that easily scales!
    End of the video: Existential dread!

    • @ddcc5560
      @ddcc5560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly correct

    • @cindynguyen4516
      @cindynguyen4516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Precisely

    • @DrDrake-kz7js
      @DrDrake-kz7js 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly

    • @dshapiro2518
      @dshapiro2518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But why is this an existential crisis?

    • @evanjohnson1299
      @evanjohnson1299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Grey is what you call a lateral thinker.

  • @frankthetank2550
    @frankthetank2550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1685

    This video is what would happen if Vsauce focused on one topic for more than a minute

    • @82ayalaj
      @82ayalaj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Me thoughts exactly. Very reminiscence from the classic vsauce

    • @geckowizard9058
      @geckowizard9058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Content of video: if you made a really big piece of paper......... uuuhhh...... it would be really big! (it's sad that anyone could find this interesting)

    • @savwaltz5187
      @savwaltz5187 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      He forgot the most essential element of Vsauce..... But why? *Vsauce music intensifies*

    • @gabevietor3685
      @gabevietor3685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@geckowizard9058 It's not the paper that we care about, it's the things we compare it to, and how easy it is to move so fast from something to nothing.

    • @bbittercoffee
      @bbittercoffee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@geckowizard9058 It's sad anyone finds any marvel movie entertaining, it's all fake, really.
      Or that people find any games entertaining, it's all pixels, really.
      It's sad that anybody lives life, we barely matter in the bigger picture of the universe, really.
      It's sad that you try to make people feel bad about themselves for enjoying a video made to be enjoyed.

  • @GK-pt9vf
    @GK-pt9vf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The most satisfying video, I have come across! Didn't expected the metric paper video will navigate me to a microscopic cosmos.

  • @mafe2233
    @mafe2233 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is my favorite video from TH-cam, i always come back for a rewatch

  • @robertli3600
    @robertli3600 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1360

    Kutzergast: Our videos cause existential crises
    CGP grey: Hold my bees

    • @marafolse8347
      @marafolse8347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Truly an admirable attempt at spelling curts-gay-socked

    • @theyoten1613
      @theyoten1613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Pls don't hold bees.

    • @Commandelicious
      @Commandelicious 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@marafolse8347 KURZ GESAGT
      ACHTUNG!

    • @presidentbanana4536
      @presidentbanana4536 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It's Kurzgesagt

    • @Kingatje
      @Kingatje 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Why stop at that spelling! Go all the way:
      Kotsergast = puker guy in Dutch! (Yes, we left German behind)

  • @saims.2402
    @saims.2402 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1008

    Moral of the story: the fastest known object is the camera zooming away from CGP Grey’s desk.

    • @estiaanj8425
      @estiaanj8425 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      It’s both the slowest moving object, fastest moving object and fastest accelerating object in different parts of the video

    • @rashkavar
      @rashkavar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Grey has quite an arm, doesn't he.

    • @BatCostumeGuy
      @BatCostumeGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lies, my batcopter is faster.

    • @5daboz
      @5daboz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Technically, problem of space-"travel" is a problem of space-"time" and if you can just switch places (like with quantum entanglement) then you arent faster, but you are timeless. Then there is a bored teenager that just wants to watch his latest spaceshow from the other side of the galaxy but cant because his device is broken and he/she is pissed why the hell it wont do that one job it is designed for, worthless.

    • @staticcactus6029
      @staticcactus6029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@5daboz actually photons themself are timeless. they experience all of time at one time, from the moment of there creation to the moment they cease, all is as one moment for them. the interior of black holes is more apt, as time becomes space itself, and space becomes time as we know it.

  • @RoTerra217
    @RoTerra217 ปีที่แล้ว

    Whimsical, ethereal thinking there. Nice going CGP Grey!

  • @ZOMBIII-I
    @ZOMBIII-I ปีที่แล้ว +6

    thanks for letting me know that everything is so small, yet so big at the same time

  • @cattibingo
    @cattibingo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +838

    This is exactly the existential dread I needed

    • @Tim_Small
      @Tim_Small 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I like getting an occasional reminder of the scale of things. It helps to keep my day to day life events in the right perspective.

    • @WillayG
      @WillayG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Tim_SmallYes. Me too. I actually find this kind of thing very relaxing

    • @fredbeard7710
      @fredbeard7710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Existential dread? Bro look how big things are, that’s cool!

    • @whoknows7968
      @whoknows7968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The existential dread that doesn't give us despair but hope for the infinite possibilities of the known universe! Now just ignore that giant black hole coming for us.

    • @kettei5408
      @kettei5408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I like to think of it as "existential awe". Much easier to process and enjoy the universe in it entirety that way.

  • @aljax6800
    @aljax6800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1058

    You know, at least when kuercragzat gives me existential dread, they at least show me cute birds

    • @SurnSensei
      @SurnSensei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      maybe you meant kurzgesagt

    • @Aminal321
      @Aminal321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Kurzgesagt not "kuercragzat"

    • @Morningstar_37
      @Morningstar_37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@Aminal321 Maybe he meant kuercragzat

    • @Morningstar_37
      @Morningstar_37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      But CGP Grey has Bees

    • @thunderboltpoplays1177
      @thunderboltpoplays1177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@SurnSensei kurzgesagt is very hard to spell, its resonable he spelled it wrong

  • @fesheface
    @fesheface ปีที่แล้ว +25

    He is able to induce existential crisis to many people just from talking about a piece of paper

  • @aspiringwayfarer
    @aspiringwayfarer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is *not* where i thought this video would go. amazing and breathtaking. thank you.

  • @ast8177
    @ast8177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +725

    00:00 me: "Just a fun video about paper befor bed"
    08:38 me: "WHY ARE WE HERE?, WHAT EVEN AM I?"

    • @talltomtube
      @talltomtube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You are, "Star Stuff." But, no idea why we are here.

    • @shoujahatsumetsu
      @shoujahatsumetsu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@talltomtube Plastic

    • @ahmadgames4u918
      @ahmadgames4u918 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      0:00 doesn't work only 0:01 works click 0:01

    • @ahmadgames4u918
      @ahmadgames4u918 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also try 08:37

    • @drakan4769
      @drakan4769 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      as he said, mostly nothing is what we are

  • @Elesarr
    @Elesarr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +670

    A video titled "Metric Paper" is the last place I thought would give me an existential crisis

    • @prakharmishra3000
      @prakharmishra3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Same dude I just came here because I thought that he was going to roast imperial measurements 😭

    • @noahjordan6761
      @noahjordan6761 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Trust me... there are much... MUCH further places

    • @eeeeeeeee9381
      @eeeeeeeee9381 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The original title was “Metric Paper and Everything in the Universe”

  • @Warshava_
    @Warshava_ ปีที่แล้ว

    I really cannot say what fascinates me the most, either the extreme smallness of stuff and what is everything made of at every level or the immenseness of the universe and how the distances that separate everything are extremely massive and probably we will never know for sure what is out there.
    The world is fascinating, there are so many mysteries of this astonishing complex universe that I cannot comprehend how it all came to be

  • @MiguelSilvaX
    @MiguelSilvaX ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The real problem is when you fold a sheet of paper, you halve it's length but you double it's thickness, so folding it 2^100 times would give it a spike with almost zero "lengh" and unimaginable "thickness" of ~2^98 meters - you would need a very thick folder :)

  • @veritasium
    @veritasium 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10658

    I mean you *think* it takes a second for light to reach the moon...

    • @hobogrifter
      @hobogrifter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +444

      I didn't expect to see you here

    • @Infinatus25
      @Infinatus25 3 ปีที่แล้ว +396

      What's your point?
      Edit: Ok ok I get it people, we don't "actually" know the speed of light, just how long it takes to get from point A to point A after bouncing off of point B.

    • @russianacorns8080
      @russianacorns8080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +395

      @@hobogrifter you didn’t? These channels are both sciencey channels that explain things that are very hard to understands lol

    • @hobogrifter
      @hobogrifter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      @@russianacorns8080 lol, I didn't think he was a cgp Gray fan. I thought he just watched smarter every day and vsauce

    • @Max-oi9zm
      @Max-oi9zm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      But there is no moon

  • @connoissuer_of_class
    @connoissuer_of_class 3 ปีที่แล้ว +628

    You’ve already tried converting me to the church of the hexagonal king. I’m not falling into the House of our Lord A4.

    • @dominicholder7323
      @dominicholder7323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Well.. Hexagons are the bestagons

    • @theunholysmirk
      @theunholysmirk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Hexagons are the bestagon.
      Praise be the bestagon

    • @metametodo
      @metametodo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Do it, A4 paper is magical

    • @DehimVerveen
      @DehimVerveen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tetragons are the bestagons!

    • @tomc.5704
      @tomc.5704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@DehimVerveen Heresy!

  • @nishantaggarwal2825
    @nishantaggarwal2825 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In today's episode of "that useful information you didn't know where to get"
    I was looking for paper dimensions for printer setting for my business(printing on A4 would waste paper in my field)
    But this half fold thing simplifies things so much.

  • @underthesurfacemovies
    @underthesurfacemovies ปีที่แล้ว +58

    This is the video, that convinced me to set up a Patreon account and join the Bonnie Bees. Absolutely outstanding!

  • @Weazle13XIII
    @Weazle13XIII 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7151

    Fun fact: the house Grey is in doesn't exist. That location has a building holds a gas company and a telecommunications provider.

    • @shalomakolatse537
      @shalomakolatse537 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      That’s interesting!

    • @birbthetopicman2851
      @birbthetopicman2851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      How did you find this out?

    • @Weazle13XIII
      @Weazle13XIII 2 ปีที่แล้ว +726

      @@birbthetopicman2851 Zoomed in on maps to the rough area in England based on the river shown in vid, found the location based on the streets and buildings shown. biggest clues were the trident shaped road to the south-east, the two circular roads in the north corners, and the blobby shaped building next door to Grey

    • @Yorie1234
      @Yorie1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +372

      I was wondering that,
      i couldn't imagine he'd use his real house

    • @vale.antoni
      @vale.antoni 2 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      @@Yorie1234 The place he used was in the kind of borough called "City of London" (It's not technically part of the UK's capital city called London) It's one of the densest built, and has the tallest skyscrapers in the region
      Also has been around for so long, noone actually knows how long it has been around for.

  • @Venotix
    @Venotix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32743

    So what you're saying is.. this perfectly-shaped rectangle... is the bestangle?

    • @pinkneko13
      @pinkneko13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2024

      No such thing, hexagon is bestagon.

    • @tomrogue13
      @tomrogue13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1598

      @@pinkneko13 not bestagon. Bestangle

    • @challengerjj9760
      @challengerjj9760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +341

      You may multiply multiple hexagonal bits to tile t-wards infinity as well

    • @lourdthebluefoxie
      @lourdthebluefoxie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Lol

    • @gaboversta2.423
      @gaboversta2.423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +283

      it has the one thing the bestagon doesn't, it divides into itself. So it should be the bestangle

  • @davidsaltz2806
    @davidsaltz2806 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Reminds me of "powers of ten"

    • @Garrett1986
      @Garrett1986 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was about to write that comment, then I thought, "Surely someone besides me remembers that film..." Very much presented in the style of Powers of Ten. Lovely work.

  • @Leidon00
    @Leidon00 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1285

    i thought this was gonna be about how brilliant Metric Paper design is. Still glad tho

  • @samueloconner1482
    @samueloconner1482 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6213

    I've seen many scale of the universe videos but never one that was filled with such a sense of cosmic horror

    • @sarah12232
      @sarah12232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      try the video on size of black holes by kurzgesagt

    • @avcables_
      @avcables_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      And paper.

    • @eg_manifest510
      @eg_manifest510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      same, he perfectly encapsulates that feeling of innate, inescapable dread
      he should be a horror writer

    • @1989Nihil
      @1989Nihil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Indeed, this video was soo deep I got a paper-cut from it.

    • @lorrainewilliams7896
      @lorrainewilliams7896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      This was positively uplifting compared to Kurzgesagt.

  • @WolfehAlex
    @WolfehAlex ปีที่แล้ว

    It's not new information for me per se, but the new perspective this video have me reminded me of the funny trend of things going from seemingly mostly emptiness to seeming to have a sort of shape, back to seeming mostly empty again, whichever way you go.

  • @dwcscca
    @dwcscca ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Brilliant. Wonderfully done. Thank you.

  • @coltonme4304
    @coltonme4304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +667

    grey 10 years ago: ‘here is how the UK works’ ‘here is how voting systems work’
    grey now: ‘everything you know and love are but illusions that flicker in the dim light of a melancholy lightbulb that, like the universe, will one day fade’

    • @alanivar2752
      @alanivar2752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Thanks to him, we're about to have Approval Voting in Denver

    • @aviratthakor8974
      @aviratthakor8974 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Artistic growth indeed

    • @GraemeLechner
      @GraemeLechner 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like he watched Vsauce during that time. /hj

  • @The-Rest-of-Us
    @The-Rest-of-Us 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44209

    I came here for light entertainment.
    I left with an existential crisis.

    • @atchaaa
      @atchaaa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      yep

    • @rovsea-3761
      @rovsea-3761 3 ปีที่แล้ว +568

      You need not fear an existential crisis such as this. Personally, I find it almost more freeing that we may be utterly insignificant in the scale of the universe, observable or otherwise. I think it allows us to set our own limits, our own expectations, rather than trying to find some sort of universal expectation of what should be.

    • @YouTubeGetsWorseEveryUpdate
      @YouTubeGetsWorseEveryUpdate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +336

      Well, there is mostly nothing to worry about.

    • @blagoevski336
      @blagoevski336 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Lol

    • @AMA-Online
      @AMA-Online 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Part of me agrees with you but the other part is left infinitely hopeful.

  • @chasegrebb7015
    @chasegrebb7015 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is amazing! It embodies “as above, so below” to me.

  • @Tanekoshima
    @Tanekoshima 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is the type of visualization that makes me realize I'm much more interested in the vastness of space than the infinitely compact void of Atoms and quarks and such. I get that it's fascinating but imagining that, ultimately, matter is just what makes up our existence, and outer space IS our existence, waiting to be explored, fills me with a sense of impossible wanderlust that, honestly, is scary, but very peaceful at the same time.
    I know I'll never be able to go explore space like Star Trek or Mass Effect, but that's why it brings me peace to know that I might as well enjoy my time here, pondering and wondering and contemplating, thinking that somewhere out there there might be a similar being possibly pondering the same thing I am.

  • @syafsanai
    @syafsanai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +482

    Printer is displaying "Error: Paper Tray Has An Existential Crisis"

    • @StrokeMahEgo
      @StrokeMahEgo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      pc load letter

    • @MeppyMan
      @MeppyMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@StrokeMahEgo that’s the joke :)

    • @smoothjazzfails
      @smoothjazzfails 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Black hole toner is low on light

    • @broxtt
      @broxtt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      maybe my favourite yt comment ever

  • @jaru3097
    @jaru3097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +847

    and i thought the only way a paper could harm me was a papercut. turns out it can give you a never ending, yet somehow equal exsistential crisis.

    • @eyeballpapercut4400
      @eyeballpapercut4400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You called?

    • @motifity3416
      @motifity3416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@eyeballpapercut4400 Your paper cut is so horrifying, I wouldn't wish that upon my enemies.

    • @duskyracer8800
      @duskyracer8800 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is 1000% every English major's entry essay thesis.

  • @oswaldlong9044
    @oswaldlong9044 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent! A (micro/macro)-cosmic view of the Universe. Classically and wonderfully done.

  • @superhuman2407
    @superhuman2407 ปีที่แล้ว

    This channel has me hooked!

  • @katjawindle1016
    @katjawindle1016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1159

    Me: ah he’s probably gonna zoom back in and say something funny right at the end. Y’a know, lighten the mood?
    Grey: heh heh. No.

    • @annadaranjannandi5952
      @annadaranjannandi5952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah . So heart breaking

    • @Fluvance
      @Fluvance 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      "And if we keep going, at 250 doublings of a sheet of A4 paper, we reach the size of your mother." - Grey, probably

    • @katjawindle1016
      @katjawindle1016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Fluvance who am I to disagree with that joke, But I’d have to travel the world and the seven seas to reach grey and tell him. Everybody’s looking for something though, so perhaps the dark video is what someone wanted.

    • @Ratigan2
      @Ratigan2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Fluvance please comment this.. i really want you to get 10 thousands likes for that.

  • @shaunhurst2595
    @shaunhurst2595 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2615

    Psychiatrist: What do you see when you look at the A4 paper?
    CGP Grey: Folding the paper make the same size ratio as its original...we're all lambs to the cosmic slaughter.

    • @J4WURSED
      @J4WURSED 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ha i got that reference

    • @Banana_boat
      @Banana_boat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@J4WURSED I don't.
      Care to explain.

    • @PatricioHondagneuRoig
      @PatricioHondagneuRoig 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Banana_boat Rick and Morty's "true level"

    • @Substance2020
      @Substance2020 ปีที่แล้ว

      Psychiatrist: If you're not screaming in terror then you are insane. Those who aren't screaming are the insane ones.

  • @Lickmuffin
    @Lickmuffin ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Me: Just watched some Kurzgrsagt and now have existential dread.
    Grey: Hey, hold my paper.

    • @Racoonma392
      @Racoonma392 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah yes, the 2 channels for existential crisis

  • @heatherdelihlah3286
    @heatherdelihlah3286 ปีที่แล้ว

    Simple concept, beautiful execution, great job, grey

  • @knightshousegames
    @knightshousegames 3 ปีที่แล้ว +681

    *About a minute in*: "Oh hey, I remember learning this in drafting class in high school."
    *At the end*: "What else did they neglect to tell me......?"

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I've seen a lot of TH-cam videos about things I learned in science class, or history class... never would have guessed drafting class would bring one of the most interesting of them all.

  • @suddenstorm8
    @suddenstorm8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +938

    Congratulations CGP Grey, you have now joined "Kurzgesagt - in a nutshell" on the list of TH-cam channels that can fill me with a sense of existential dread.

    • @Kriae
      @Kriae 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Vsauce is pretty much the king of that

    • @jtbk7199
      @jtbk7199 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      We have found the holy trinity of mind fuckery

    • @saraqael.
      @saraqael. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      You forgot the most important one: exurb1a

    • @rafliavriza3651
      @rafliavriza3651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@saraqael. the depression turtle can either fill you up with an existential dread so terrifying that death itself isn't enough to put it out, or a sense of unity for the better future of humanity that is yet to come

    • @StarsInYourMultitude
      @StarsInYourMultitude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      exurb1a causes the most existential dread

  • @chriswitmer9754
    @chriswitmer9754 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Did Micheal from Vasuce guest Direct this one ? ... damn, well done!

  • @commandrogyne
    @commandrogyne ปีที่แล้ว +2

    With so much nothing on all sides, inward and outward, how wonderful is it that we exist at the same scale? The vast, unknowable reaches of space are dark and empty, but here on a little ball of mud we have warmth, and light, and cats. Happy new years everyone.

  • @LisaWhelan
    @LisaWhelan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +653

    Grey making videos about weed: not high
    Grey making videos about paper: super high

    • @evandugas7888
      @evandugas7888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Na this is some acid level stuff

    • @LocaLGh0sT
      @LocaLGh0sT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Both are required for the effect.

    • @208jdog
      @208jdog 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Paper can be made out of hemp

    • @wave1090
      @wave1090 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You do need both to roll a joint

    • @yelpkelp9134
      @yelpkelp9134 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He made a video about weed?

  • @TheSonicsean
    @TheSonicsean 3 ปีที่แล้ว +918

    2:27 "where hexagonal arrangements..."
    Because of course they're bloody hexagons.

    • @marinescu0511
      @marinescu0511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      My heart jumped in fear, thinking he would go on another bestagons rant

    • @CGPGrey
      @CGPGrey  3 ปีที่แล้ว +545

    • @Awkairo
      @Awkairo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@CGPGrey No words needed.

    • @pikachu-jf2oh
      @pikachu-jf2oh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@CGPGrey praise the hexagon!

    • @capitalm417
      @capitalm417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@CGPGrey could not have been more true

  • @Vdevelasko
    @Vdevelasko ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, just one thing, the planck length doesn't imply that the universe is discrete (like pixels), it's more that we don't know what happens in between, it's better to visualize it as a series of points united by a fuzzy fog than a series of points. Love your videos!

  • @j0a0carlos
    @j0a0carlos ปีที่แล้ว

    this is definitely one of my favorites videos on youtube

  • @derinedala5032
    @derinedala5032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3640

    Me, an Australian who grew up with this kind of paper: yeah our paper system is the best, I know exactly what this video is going to be about.
    CGP: The organs of the bee...
    Me: Whelp, I was wrong.

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      It was at Reality Pixel aka Planck Length I realized we got duped. This was going to be an existential crisis ride.

    • @Nalehw
      @Nalehw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      ...Wait, you mean not every country uses the A4 system?

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Nalehw Huh Letter is still very popular. I thought both was still a thing.

    • @mymoomin0952
      @mymoomin0952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      @@Nalehw America is always the exception for metric
      Plus sometimes Canada, a few other countries in the Americas, and the Phillipines

    • @derinedala5032
      @derinedala5032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@Nalehw Americans have a bunch of weirdly shaped paper sizes with no relation to each other.