Metric Paper
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@kpatch410 2 роки тому
"What are you watching?" "...mostly nothing."
@tydev2305 2 роки тому
He isn’t wrong
@donottrustanyonelol 2 роки тому
dont let this distract you from the absolute fact that bungee gum has both the properties of rubber and gum
@proild 2 роки тому
This statement is true regardless of what exactly you're watching.
@oliverhumphreys8141 2 роки тому
why
@XnoobSpeakable 2 роки тому
@@donottrustanyonelol in Lithuanian rubber and gum is the same word
@QuarterLifeCrises 2 роки тому
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 2 роки тому
why
@sheeloesreallycool 2 роки тому
@@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 2 роки тому
@@sheeloesreallycool ah
@alamrasyidi4097 2 роки тому
"It all~ returns~ to nothing~"
@dethor6251 2 роки тому
@@sheeloesreallycool human knowlage and curiosity what else
@juancuelloespinosa Рік тому
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 Рік тому
Yeah, we are in the larger part of the middle of everything.
@zanorok5896 Рік тому
Well I mean it's based off a piece of paper so that doesn't really mean much tbh
@Qaptyl Рік тому
proportionally, our cells are in the middle
@TheBswan Рік тому
@@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 Рік тому
226-184=42 2^42=4 trillion😳 2^226=107 unvigintillion 2^184=24 septendecillion
@-E-M-C- Рік тому
Paper getting infinitely small: Has an existential crisis Paper getting infinitely big: *Has an existential crisis*
@NintendoNerd64 2 роки тому
“look at this sheet of paper” *8 minutes later* “we are now at the edge of the universe”
@mariatpena7638 2 роки тому
*mind blown*
@richard6196 2 роки тому
We got taken for a ride for sure.
@simon-pierrelussier2775 2 роки тому
And that happens to be how long it took photons to leave the photosphere of the sun and reach earth.
@dahscreamingeagle3473 2 роки тому
well that escalated very quickly
@Mrityunjay7 2 роки тому
@@simon-pierrelussier2775 If that was intended then I believe Grey is the best story teller I have seen
@Moj1989 3 роки тому
"Hey Grey, look at this sheet of paper for a second." Grey: (transcends reality)
@Altrantis 3 роки тому
CHIM
@Shaymin0 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
@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 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
@@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?
@MCjossic Рік тому
What I liked most about this is that a) I learned that A0 paper exists, b) it is a satisfying, perfect 1m^2
@agumon1605 Рік тому
Yeah usually used in huge posters and architecture working drawings
@Delibro Рік тому
I thought you learn that as a small kid when you ask: "Why is it called A4 and not A37?" :)
@blakksheep736 Рік тому
It is also made of mostly nothing.
@gabrielkind2970 Рік тому
1m x 1.41m akchully
@Delibro Рік тому
@@gabrielkind2970 No! A0 has 1 m² area. That is 0.841 × 1.189 m
@fredthepenguin6539 Рік тому
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 Рік тому
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 Рік тому
@@agnetalykins7564 Terrifying is not what there is to be afraid of but is instead the inability to comprehend the unknown.
@YuutaShinjou113 2 роки тому
"A4 x 2⁵²" could be enough to stop an asteroid. Paper beats rock.
@aidtim1350 2 роки тому
How many zeros is that number
@aidtim1350 2 роки тому
@@throwawaty5575 thanks
@vetle9399 2 роки тому
@@throwawaty5575 15 zeros*
@throwawaty5575 2 роки тому
@@vetle9399 I believe the number in the top right denotes the number of zeros. Correct me if I’m wrong though.
@andreamiele5842 2 роки тому
@@throwawaty5575 only if the base is 10
@lucystarlight8887 2 роки тому
I'm not sure what this video was supposed to teach me but I'll be more careful around paper from now on
@AmphiStuG 2 роки тому
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 2 роки тому
@@AmphiStuG, uhh what? Explain in simpler terms please?
@aura_flower3385 2 роки тому
@laith, nope, I got nothing srry
@aura_flower3385 2 роки тому
@laith, oh wow. Ok then
@matthewhale1572 2 роки тому
@@aura_flower3385 it was a joke
@chughes156 Рік тому
Love the re-use of "Illusion of something solid" at two completely different scales: A4 x 2^(-76) and 2^140
@dorol6375 Рік тому
And "the reality of x, it is made of mostly nothing."
@ultimatelaserkid Рік тому
Man really explained the entire universe and nothingness with a piece of A4 paper.
@thonatmo7073 3 роки тому
If you didnt have an existential crisis in the first half, don't worry, CgpGrey got you in the second half
@JustaGuy12347 3 роки тому
nah
@user-rc8bb7yb1e 3 роки тому
nope i don't have existential crisises on any video
@grabthecrucifixband4203 3 роки тому
Yeah you’re just weak minded.
@Lafayette-hk2gd 3 роки тому
He hits you with the double whammy
@grabthecrucifixband4203 3 роки тому
@@onxiaftw you don’t use big words with small words in the same sentence that’s just stupidence.
@grassguy1154 3 роки тому
*"S-Sir... All I wanted to know is if you wanted the receipt..."*
@grim1044 3 роки тому
Oof
@mayberus7612 3 роки тому
This made me lohle
@kilianfirebolt 3 роки тому
Sir this is a wendys >:I
@cadainn3718 3 роки тому
this made me chuckle
@lux5164 3 роки тому
A cvs receipt is longer than the width of the observable universe
@mfbfreak Рік тому
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.
@jacksonritchie7672 Рік тому
I don’t think I’ll be able to look at a sheet of paper again without having an existential, gut-wrenching reality check
@botston 2 роки тому
Smallest metric: here is something that is actually nothing The largest metric: here is nothing that is actually everything
@jcxz983 2 роки тому
Also, mostly nothing.
@GodSpeedx0 2 роки тому
Damn...
@keithdolderer8391 2 роки тому
** The largest metric: here is nothing that is actually something
@ethanwalsh5441 2 роки тому
🙌🏻
@sarthaksharma4816 2 роки тому
@Noah H most likely. I guess.
@91thewatcher23 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
Grey 10 years from now: "....
@NN-mh4bj 3 роки тому
@@benjaminzerr6708 "hovers above ground ominously"
@obsideonyx7604 3 роки тому
@@NN-mh4bj **speaks in reverse**
@moxsedai 3 роки тому
Grey 4 months ago: hexagons are the bestagons
@Drake00075 3 роки тому
I bet reading a book upside down is a simple enough challenge for him now.
@ruthstewart5242 Рік тому
I wasn’t aware I was about to go on an existential journey guided by a piece of paper but there it is…
@Quartz512_ Рік тому
3:45 if I'm right, if we would fold a paper to that little, it would be taller than the observable universe
@ChadrickNurn 3 роки тому
"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 3 роки тому
Writers block...metric paper...metric block!
@ForteFaiey 3 роки тому
great
@user-yc3tf4wz2x 3 роки тому
@BatCostumeGuy 3 роки тому
Batman
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому
A blank sheet of paper has always been inspiring, but it takes a certain kind of mind to see it in a different way.
@The-Rest-of-Us 3 роки тому
I came here for light entertainment. I left with an existential crisis.
@atchaaa 3 роки тому
yep
@rovsea-3761 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
Well, there is mostly nothing to worry about.
@blagoevski336 3 роки тому
Lol
@AMA-Online 3 роки тому
Part of me agrees with you but the other part is left infinitely hopeful.
@wolfrock04 Рік тому
“Sir this is a Wendy’s.”
@NoahRamseysGhost 5 місяців тому
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!
@4dri129 3 роки тому
Came for cool paper facts. Left with existential dread.
@chriku 3 роки тому
now imagine looking at A4 every single day!
@Spartan-Four-Twenty 3 роки тому
Dido
@edvardsauzins7041 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
@@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 3 роки тому
😆
@chessplayer6632 3 роки тому
**Starts zooming out from the plank length** “Ok, maybe he will stop making me have a crisis” **Starts doubling paper** “Oh no”
@rawtoast7719 3 роки тому
Same I feel like I am going to cry
@mmagnenat 3 роки тому
Just wait until he does a video on the C and the B formats...
@emmanueltidor1996 3 роки тому
Anyways.
@Polarthief 3 роки тому
If you didn't expect him to go the other way, idk what to tell you
@graceoartyo 3 роки тому
the crisis only got worse
@devilish8130 Рік тому
Is it just me, or would anyone else love to experience this in VR
@bloodykenshiro8218 Рік тому
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.
@veritasium 3 роки тому
I mean you *think* it takes a second for light to reach the moon...
@hobogrifter 3 роки тому
I didn't expect to see you here
@Infinatus25 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
@@hobogrifter you didn’t? These channels are both sciencey channels that explain things that are very hard to understands lol
@hobogrifter 3 роки тому
@@russianacorns8080 lol, I didn't think he was a cgp Gray fan. I thought he just watched smarter every day and vsauce
@Max-oi9zm 3 роки тому
But there is no moon
@donatoliotino1872 3 роки тому
It's sad CGP Grey had to leave the observable universe to make this.
@LeoStaley 3 роки тому
Ya but he came back
@xnob_1670 3 роки тому
His rocket must have been huge
@devaorios5793 3 роки тому
this is gold wooosh bait
@uknownada 3 роки тому
Yet he didn't tell us what he found there. He told us mostly nothing.
@thegreatestchigone5813 3 роки тому
@@uknownadait’s cause he discovered the universe aren’t hexagons
@aosper4350 Рік тому
The most fascinating thing about his videos is that they are so mind blowing and amazing that it makes you less regret on watching UKposts videos.
@loststylus7641 Рік тому
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.
@stormninjabros025 2 роки тому
"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 2 роки тому
A perfect example between the difference between practical and theoretical mathematics.
@zypity 2 роки тому
True, though you could also make the argument he cuts them in half, which is - as docincredible remarks - theoretically (near) infinitely possible.
@Shockblade95 2 роки тому
I just folded it 7 times sure it doesn't have its ratio anymore, but still
@definitelynotjustasquirrel8319 2 роки тому
The world record is twelve. Its a myth that the size and thickness don’t matter.
@davidmartensson273 2 роки тому
@@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.
@Talik13 3 роки тому
CGP Grey: "In conclusion, I like A4 paper."
@YALMSL 3 роки тому
I like A999 paper
@Jay_Johnson 3 роки тому
@@YALMSL I like A-140
@Robstar0 3 роки тому
Maybe he should study a course about brevity 🤣
@marcolinosalgarone9442 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
Paper
@FrogFood8587 Рік тому
Not very often does a video about such a mundane topic bring me such existential dread. Great video!
@Anonymous-sb9rr Рік тому
A4/2^64 could also just be called A68. Not a very common paper size, but well defined.
@SquillyBR 3 роки тому
"This is a normal sheet of paper." "-Or is it?" *Vsauce music plays*
@teainnit27 3 роки тому
Ngl CPGray doing a collaboration video with Michael Stevens would be so cool.
@exxelsetijadi5348 3 роки тому
"what defines something as a sheet ?"
@intelligent1964 3 роки тому
HEY VSAUCE MICHAEL HERE
@skiller5034 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
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
@lancelotofsadblackwolf_yt6222 3 роки тому
I'm impressed that a piece of paper would give someone an existential crisis.
@skelpix5449 3 роки тому
Ok???
@favioferreira8921 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
I feel like CGP Grey can have an existential crisis over anything.
@Jawsomest 3 роки тому
Yo Mama!
@benjaminpainter378 3 роки тому
I read this comment before and after watching the video. It didn't make sense before, but boy did it hit hard after.
@CoDkiller1888 Рік тому
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 Рік тому
Yeah, and that everything we experience is mostly nothing with a very thin cloud of things that barely even exist masquerading as something.
@mmmmine5439 Рік тому
The concept of the infinite rectangle ratio is huge in the Steel Ball Run manga. I recommend it to manga fans!
@get_a_grip_4209 3 роки тому
POV: your philosophy teacher when you ask for another piece of paper
@doapin6240 3 роки тому
Lmao
@Jawsomest 3 роки тому
Lmao
@toivowelling 2 роки тому
Lmao
@koldkilla777 3 роки тому
"... so anyways, welcome to Kinkos. What size paper did you want me to copy this onto again?"
@Qwertytsuna 3 роки тому
The size of the observable universe
@micobob2883 3 роки тому
@@Qwertytsuna I accidentally folded it, it’s now half the observable universe.
@Mikeological 3 роки тому
"Yeah, can I get that in A184 please?"
@koldkilla777 3 роки тому
@@micobob2883 congrats, you've just folded space time and created a wormhole!
@wesleymays1931 3 роки тому
A -184 please
@NicoandIndy Рік тому
I think Grey went insane during quarantine, this scares me, and I don’t get scared unless it’s something like this
@imaadakram5624 Рік тому
this has sent me into a rabbit hole keep doing what your doing man! 😄
@leemsvg 2 роки тому
Conclusion: "damn that is a large sheet of paper"
@Uarehere 2 роки тому
And apparently, the universe should be called A^-184.
@guilhermesartorato93 2 роки тому
@@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 2 роки тому
@@guilhermesartorato93 There is the change from 1 to 6. Six times. 36 walls for a four-dimensional box, perhaps?
@No.1_Ulynona_Fan 2 роки тому
@@Uarehere your galaxy should be called A4x2144
@No.1_Ulynona_Fan 2 роки тому
Yes I’m at a different galaxy rn okay just don’t question it
@samueloconner1482 2 роки тому
I've seen many scale of the universe videos but never one that was filled with such a sense of cosmic horror
@sarah12232 2 роки тому
try the video on size of black holes by kurzgesagt
@avcables_ 2 роки тому
And paper.
@eg_manifest510 2 роки тому
same, he perfectly encapsulates that feeling of innate, inescapable dread he should be a horror writer
@1989Nihil 2 роки тому
Indeed, this video was soo deep I got a paper-cut from it.
@lorrainewilliams7896 2 роки тому
This was positively uplifting compared to Kurzgesagt.
@airbender460 Рік тому
Watching it back again.... I like the subtle foreshadowing in the print examples. Well played.
@GK-pt9vf Рік тому
The most satisfying video, I have come across! Didn't expected the metric paper video will navigate me to a microscopic cosmos.
@the-sands-of-time 2 роки тому
Normal people: "Hey, could you hand me a sheet of paper?" CGP Grey: *contemplates life, existence, and nothingness*
@abhishekaggarwal6473 2 роки тому
CGP Grey is on steroids
@skeeter.1017 2 роки тому
How can a piece of paper give me stress I never felt befor
@MrMischelito 2 роки тому
Epic and philisophical
@bloodnivel70 2 роки тому
No such thing as nothingness, please drop this facile cynical nihilism mindset.
@Ushankan 2 роки тому
yeah about that i still have a question nobody can answer: Why is i? why is us? why is existence?
@Weazle13XIII 2 роки тому
Fun fact: the house Grey is in doesn't exist. That location has a building holds a gas company and a telecommunications provider.
@shalomakolatse537 2 роки тому
That’s interesting!
@birbthetopicman2851 2 роки тому
How did you find this out?
@Weazle13XIII 2 роки тому
@@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 2 роки тому
I was wondering that, i couldn't imagine he'd use his real house
@vale.antoni 2 роки тому
@@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.
@effect0031 Рік тому
I really thought it is going to be like how did they come up with this system...I didn't expect this at all.
@mafe2233 Рік тому
This is my favorite video from UKposts, i always come back for a rewatch
@frankthetank2550 3 роки тому
This video is what would happen if Vsauce focused on one topic for more than a minute
@82ayalaj 3 роки тому
Me thoughts exactly. Very reminiscence from the classic vsauce
@geckowizard9058 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
He forgot the most essential element of Vsauce..... But why? *Vsauce music intensifies*
@gabevietor3685 3 роки тому
@@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 3 роки тому
@@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.
@nekomakhea9440 3 роки тому
"Sir, this is a Wendy's drive through. You're blocking the other customers."
@panchor 3 роки тому
Lmfao
@elijah_9392 3 роки тому
Creating a snake effect :)
@snorkeyrules 3 роки тому
Sir! Sir Please!!
@Marquis-Sade 3 роки тому
Why is this "its a wendys" comment so popular right now? I read this on every other video
@LZRMonkey249 3 роки тому
Why am I not surprised this joke Is here
@ZOMBIII-I Рік тому
thanks for letting me know that everything is so small, yet so big at the same time
@aspiringwayfarer Рік тому
this is *not* where i thought this video would go. amazing and breathtaking. thank you.
@aljax6800 3 роки тому
You know, at least when kuercragzat gives me existential dread, they at least show me cute birds
@SurnSensei 3 роки тому
maybe you meant kurzgesagt
@Aminal321 3 роки тому
Kurzgesagt not "kuercragzat"
@Morningstar_37 3 роки тому
@@Aminal321 Maybe he meant kuercragzat
@Morningstar_37 3 роки тому
But CGP Grey has Bees
@thunderboltpoplays1177 3 роки тому
@@SurnSensei kurzgesagt is very hard to spell, its resonable he spelled it wrong
@Spritesuit 3 роки тому
Beginning of the video: A paper ratio that easily scales! End of the video: Existential dread!
@ddcc5560 3 роки тому
Exactly correct
@cindynguyen4516 3 роки тому
Precisely
@DrDrake-kz7js 3 роки тому
Exactly
@dshapiro2518 3 роки тому
But why is this an existential crisis?
@evanjohnson1299 3 роки тому
Grey is what you call a lateral thinker.
@MiguelSilvaX Рік тому
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 :)
@jensschroder8214 Рік тому
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.
@LGR 3 роки тому
...so I'm honestly impressed metric paper folds in half to the same ratio.
@vilmarmoccelin 3 роки тому
Welcome to the magical world of metric thinking... They're trying to connect everything.
@Melesniannon 3 роки тому
That one is pretty common knowledge for anyone who's worked with any kind of office supplies, you'll typically see A4 all over the place, A5 a fair bit, some A3. What made me go "Wha, really?" is that A0 is exactly 1 square metre.
@_.luminosity._ 3 роки тому
very cool
@damianpulido4712 3 роки тому
Fibonacci Fibonacci Fibonacci
@damianpulido4712 3 роки тому
I know it's not the Fibonacci sequence exactly but it looks similar enough
@robertli3600 3 роки тому
Kutzergast: Our videos cause existential crises CGP grey: Hold my bees
@marafolse8347 3 роки тому
Truly an admirable attempt at spelling curts-gay-socked
@theyoten1613 3 роки тому
Pls don't hold bees.
@Commandelicious 3 роки тому
@@marafolse8347 KURZ GESAGT ACHTUNG!
@presidentbanana4536 3 роки тому
It's Kurzgesagt
@Kingatje 3 роки тому
Why stop at that spelling! Go all the way: Kotsergast = puker guy in Dutch! (Yes, we left German behind)
@Lickmuffin Рік тому
Me: Just watched some Kurzgrsagt and now have existential dread. Grey: Hey, hold my paper.
@Racoonma392 Рік тому
Ah yes, the 2 channels for existential crisis
@fesheface Рік тому
He is able to induce existential crisis to many people just from talking about a piece of paper
@otterstream1263 3 роки тому
Thanks for this, grey, now I can’t look at a sheet of paper without having an existential crisis.
@CGPGrey 3 роки тому
@edmundthespiffing2920 3 роки тому
@@CGPGrey damn you
@legs3509 3 роки тому
@@CGPGrey Grey i have a question. When is it too late to say “Yeetus to the fetus”?
@Adam-zt4cn 3 роки тому
@@CGPGrey Wait, is that a PICTURE? In a UKposts comment section?!
@sparklerabbit33 3 роки тому
@Mek_T ඞ
@Tay-tt2gy 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
that will A5 mr
@user-qq1xj5zk9n 3 роки тому
A5 then A6 And so on The Spiral Of insanity continues
@republicofgamers9842 3 роки тому
Sadly we only have 8 proper sizings, A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, and A7.
@Warshava_ Рік тому
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
@RoTerra217 Рік тому
Whimsical, ethereal thinking there. Nice going CGP Grey!
@giosanpedro 3 роки тому
I... just became an A4 convert. It's been nice letter size 🙋♂️
@abemulligantralz8806 3 роки тому
why are you here
@Glace1221 3 роки тому
I converted after the Hexagonism video
@user-yc3tf4wz2x 3 роки тому
@tech99070 3 роки тому
Yeah that's... not how life works? Like, are you planning to move? Buy your office a new printer? What exactly do you mean by "convert"????
@peacewalker3344 3 роки тому
@@tech99070 it means he'a gonna use metric paper for printing purposes from now on i guess which is great, metric system makes everything better
@daanstrik4293 3 роки тому
This is a sheet of paper *3 minutes later* We have now reached the edge of human understanding
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому
Isn't that what paper is for? Creating ideas as far as the mind can imagine?
@underthesurfacemovies Рік тому
This is the video, that convinced me to set up a Patreon account and join the Bonnie Bees. Absolutely outstanding!
@Tanekoshima 5 місяців тому
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.
@Venotix 3 роки тому
So what you're saying is.. this perfectly-shaped rectangle... is the bestangle?
@pinkneko13 3 роки тому
No such thing, hexagon is bestagon.
@tomrogue13 3 роки тому
@@pinkneko13 not bestagon. Bestangle
@challengerjj9760 3 роки тому
You may multiply multiple hexagonal bits to tile t-wards infinity as well
@lourdthebluefoxie 3 роки тому
Lol
@gaboversta2.423 3 роки тому
it has the one thing the bestagon doesn't, it divides into itself. So it should be the bestangle
@TheSonicsean 3 роки тому
2:27 "where hexagonal arrangements..." Because of course they're bloody hexagons.
@marinescu0511 3 роки тому
My heart jumped in fear, thinking he would go on another bestagons rant
@CGPGrey 3 роки тому
@Awkairo 3 роки тому
@@CGPGrey No words needed.
@pikachu-jf2oh 3 роки тому
@@CGPGrey praise the hexagon!
@capitalm417 3 роки тому
@@CGPGrey could not have been more true
@devinbates1461 Рік тому
I love this video so much. Never stop, you beautiful man.
@heatherdelihlah3286 Рік тому
Simple concept, beautiful execution, great job, grey
@coltonme4304 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
Thanks to him, we're about to have Approval Voting in Denver
@aviratthakor8974 3 роки тому
Artistic growth indeed
@GraemeLechner 3 роки тому
Sounds like he watched Vsauce during that time. /hj
@cattibingo 3 роки тому
This is exactly the existential dread I needed
@Tim_Small 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
@@Tim_SmallYes. Me too. I actually find this kind of thing very relaxing
@fredbeard7710 3 роки тому
Existential dread? Bro look how big things are, that’s cool!
@whoknows7968 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
I like to think of it as "existential awe". Much easier to process and enjoy the universe in it entirety that way.
@dwcscca Рік тому
Brilliant. Wonderfully done. Thank you.
@oswaldlong9044 Рік тому
Excellent! A (micro/macro)-cosmic view of the Universe. Classically and wonderfully done.
@derinedala5032 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
It was at Reality Pixel aka Planck Length I realized we got duped. This was going to be an existential crisis ride.
@Nalehw 3 роки тому
...Wait, you mean not every country uses the A4 system?
@Neojhun 3 роки тому
@@Nalehw Huh Letter is still very popular. I thought both was still a thing.
@mymoomin0952 3 роки тому
@@Nalehw America is always the exception for metric Plus sometimes Canada, a few other countries in the Americas, and the Phillipines
@derinedala5032 3 роки тому
@@Nalehw Americans have a bunch of weirdly shaped paper sizes with no relation to each other.
@Leidon00 3 роки тому
i thought this was gonna be about how brilliant Metric Paper design is. Still glad tho
@MrPercolator9000 3 роки тому
it wasn't not that
@sp_1029 3 роки тому
Its still that
@duckmasterflex 3 роки тому
I thought it was going to aim for the golden ratio
@comradedogma4957 3 роки тому
It does
@comradedogma4957 3 роки тому
It does all of that
@nishantaggarwal2825 Рік тому
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.
@commandrogyne Рік тому
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.
@saims.2402 3 роки тому
Moral of the story: the fastest known object is the camera zooming away from CGP Grey’s desk.
@estiaanj8425 3 роки тому
It’s both the slowest moving object, fastest moving object and fastest accelerating object in different parts of the video
@rashkavar 3 роки тому
Grey has quite an arm, doesn't he.
@BatCostumeGuy 3 роки тому
Lies, my batcopter is faster.
@5daboz 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
@@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.
@whynachtsmann5796 3 роки тому
The most impressive thing is how fast exponential growth is. I mean u only have to double 400 times to get from the smallest thing that can possibly be to the size of the whole observable universe
@andrius0592 3 роки тому
And then remember that diseases spread exponentally 😬 (although the exponent is not always 2).
@saprogeist31 3 роки тому
Imo, the coolest thing about scaling the universe exponentially is that human neurons fall right in the middle. Human neurons can be about a hundred microns wide (1 x 10^-4 m). A micron is a millionth of a meter, so a hundred of them would be a tenth of a millimeter. If we convert the unit of measurement from one meter to one-tenth of a millimeter, then human neurons have an average length of 1. Make the same conversation to the planck length and the diameter of the observible universe, and you end up with 1.6x10^-31 and 8.8x10^30.
@bigman25plus25 3 роки тому
'only'
@lackingmaturity6631 3 роки тому
@@bigman25plus25 400 really isn't a lot when you think about how you're going from the smallest possible measurement to 8.8 × 10^26 meters. I mean, just compare 400 to 8.8 × 10^26 and you'll see what Whynachtsmann is talking about.
@michaelklog 3 роки тому
@@andrius0592 not always some have a grow rate of ,5 meaning for new infection only a half new one gets infected this is how we removed the measles.
@annakareninacamara6580 Рік тому
Whatever I was expecting by clicking a video about Metric Paper, it sure wasn't this.
@Igor-ug1uo Рік тому
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.
@pallandoromestamo8861 3 роки тому
Can we all take a moment to appreciate how well the voice is synced with the zooming?
@fisheatsyourhead 3 роки тому
If you haven't listened to HI, he used to practice his scripts in an office with thunderstorms as background noise pacing back and forth and I know this one was at home but I can just imagine how strange this one would sound especially
@DorianC 3 роки тому
At 3:55?
@cuberman5948 3 роки тому
ok
@duckles426 3 роки тому
The speed of the zoom also changes a bit to sync up with his speech.
@THEFIRE360 3 роки тому
Technically more so the other way around. Video is synced to audio
@Elesarr 3 роки тому
A video titled "Metric Paper" is the last place I thought would give me an existential crisis
@prakharmishra3000 3 роки тому
Same dude I just came here because I thought that he was going to roast imperial measurements 😭
@noahjordan6761 3 роки тому
Trust me... there are much... MUCH further places
@eeeeeeeee9381 3 роки тому
The original title was “Metric Paper and Everything in the Universe”
@neojack333 Рік тому
It was very satisfying to watch, thanks !
@j0a0carlos Рік тому
this is definitely one of my favorites videos on youtube
@suddenstorm8 3 роки тому
Congratulations CGP Grey, you have now joined "Kurzgesagt - in a nutshell" on the list of UKposts channels that can fill me with a sense of existential dread.
@Kriae 3 роки тому
Vsauce is pretty much the king of that
@jtbk7199 3 роки тому
We have found the holy trinity of mind fuckery
@saraqael. 3 роки тому
You forgot the most important one: exurb1a
@rafliavriza3651 3 роки тому
@@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 3 роки тому
exurb1a causes the most existential dread
@vlogbrothers 3 роки тому
Now THIS is my kind of party. -John
@evanpearson2612 3 роки тому
factually frustrating though, for ex. his inaccurate description of Planck length.
@askplays 3 роки тому
wow
@HasanSawan 3 роки тому
Existential angst party!
@Univarman 3 роки тому
@@evanpearson2612 What did he say that was incorrect?
@amanatee27 3 роки тому
+
@DecapObsessed 4 місяці тому
This by far is one of the coolest videos I have seen
@chasegrebb7015 Рік тому
This video is amazing! It embodies “as above, so below” to me.
@jaru3097 3 роки тому
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 3 роки тому
You called?
@motifity3416 3 роки тому
@@eyeballpapercut4400 Your paper cut is so horrifying, I wouldn't wish that upon my enemies.
@duskyracer8800 3 роки тому
That is 1000% every English major's entry essay thesis.
@shaunhurst2595 2 роки тому
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 2 роки тому
Ha i got that reference
@Banana_boat 2 роки тому
@@J4WURSED I don't. Care to explain.
@PatricioHondagneuRoig 2 роки тому
@@Banana_boat Rick and Morty's "true level"
@Substance2020 Рік тому
Psychiatrist: If you're not screaming in terror then you are insane. Those who aren't screaming are the insane ones.
@superhuman2407 Рік тому
This channel has me hooked!
@Aspect12 Рік тому
Didn't expect to have an existential crisis over a sheet of paper.