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SOURCES AND EXTRAS:
my twitter: / tweetsauce
my instagram: / electricpants
Gabriel’s horn:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...
blog.plover.com/math/gabriels-...
Gabriel’s wedding cake:
oumathclub.wordpress.com/2015...
PDF: people.emich.edu/aross15/math1...
Supersolid PDF: people.emich.edu/aross15/math1...
Zeno’s supertask paradoxes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27...
math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Read...
• Zeno's Paradox - Numbe...
Staccato Zeno runner with no velocity/acceleration discontinuities: goo.gl/2mYdcT
General supertask reads:
personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/eb...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/spa...
mathpages.com/rr/s3-07/3-07.htm
math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Read...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertask
www.vordenker.de/gunther_web/a...
Big book of collected supertask writing: books.google.co.uk/books?id=0...
PDF’s about supertasks:
pitt.edu/~jearman/EarmanNorton...
www.interciencia.es/infinity/t...
arxiv.org/pdf/1309.0144.pdf
www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/...
personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/te...
arxiv.org/pdf/1503.05847v1.pdf
www.phys.nthu.edu.tw/~pep/down...
arxiv.org/pdf/math/0212047.pdf
Plank scale:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_...
astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/P...
/ eli5_why_is_a_planck_l...
Hyper computation and supertasks:
georgschauer.com/2013/04/03/ov...
www.hypercomputation.net/downl...
Thomson’s Lamp:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson...
alexanderpruss.blogspot.ro/200...
Benacerraf on supertasks: [PDF] joelvelasco.net/teaching/hum9/...
Ordinal numbers (omega and omega+1):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal...
www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/o...
math.wikia.com/wiki/Ordinal_nu...
Ross-Littlewood paradox:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%E2...
angryfaic.wordpress.com/2011/...
New York Times Neanderthal genome article: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Neanderthals:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neander...
ngm.nationalgeographic.com/201...
rogerdhansen.wordpress.com/20...
and boats: www.newscientist.com/article/...
Another fun infinity paradox: lesswrong.com/lw/isp/on_the_im...
SMBC Zeno comic: www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2759
MATH!
/ standupmaths
/ numberphile
/ singingbanana
/ vihart
music from:
/ jakechudnow
and
www.audionetwork.com

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Комментарии : 32 тыс.

@ja-vishaara 5 лет назад

An infinite number of mathematicians walks into a bar. The first orders a pint. The second orders half, the third a quarter, and so on. The bartender pours them 2 pints and says, "Sort it out yourselves."

@Novaerian 5 лет назад

10/10 my lovely person

@Poyni 5 лет назад

Brilliant but I think I heard that before somewhere

@acepilot1 5 лет назад

The bartender then spends the rest of eternity kicking them out while they try divvying up the portions

@PelycheeaceRA 5 лет назад

i reckon they just dont know their limit

@ahmedelakrab 5 лет назад

Good Luck to him with the tip

@Vsauce 8 лет назад

ωtf, infinity?

@donotresuscitatetrampstamp 8 лет назад

ayy lmao

@yaroubthayer-752 8 лет назад

You're in a good spirit today, aren't you?

@ilianvizcaino8140 8 лет назад

I KNOWWWWW

@ilianvizcaino8140 8 лет назад

Anyways... Was the cake a lie?

@ilianvizcaino8140 8 лет назад

+Mr Moseby K

@MartanJe Год назад

Whenever Michael says “Or could you” universe creates a new copy of itself with new rules of physics.

@ALECTORMANCY Год назад

W joke

@mihailmilev9909 Год назад

@@ALECTORMANCY fr

@Y_Chen123 Год назад

I know right that is what happens!🤣🤣

@alindemurre1446 Год назад

Me when I put my physics textbook in the "fiction" section:

@withnosensetv Год назад

Welcome back to "Jokes you can find under every VSauce video"

@Adam-vu5sy Год назад

Never thought he would tell me I can’t have an infinite amount of balls

@goldsrcorsource2551 Год назад

I AM GOING TO CRY

@soisaus564 Год назад

I literally made a video that he said that like a month ago

@AdamIDK Год назад

Yea I'm sad now 😢

@Handles_Are_Bad_Lol Год назад

Didn't know you had the balls to do that.

@rstidman Год назад

I think in this case Michael is wrong, and your balls are indeed a supertask.

@thebakedone32 8 лет назад

You will never have an infinite number of balls. -Michael, 2015

@Vsauce 8 лет назад

+Dominic Nadeau print this poster, please, people.

@ShaunDreclin 8 лет назад

+Vsauce 17:13

@YipYapYoup 8 лет назад

Tfw you'll never have an infinite amount of balls.

@Pugpono 8 лет назад

Timestamp- 17:12

@samscheding8731 8 лет назад

+Dominic Nadeau You don't know my life!

@SurrogateActivities 7 лет назад

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. *Inhales* Infinity. [video ending]

@SurrogateActivities 7 лет назад

and yet i continued watching. and i found potentially useful info. i should learn to skip and speed up. dont repeat my mistake, skip to 17:05

@SurrogateActivities 7 лет назад

***** i genuinely think that alot of vsauce vids are just demagogy around the ideas of infinity. i dont like that i wasted some time listening to it.

@angelinawang4866 7 лет назад

Pointy Fork u

@alejandrogorricho4791 7 лет назад

que gano yo con perderte

@acunadied 7 лет назад

But what if the video would have continued forever?

@pumpkinpirat Год назад

I love how the audience goes completely silent once Michael pulls out the knife

@cat_sandwich 8 месяцев назад

I would be too 🎂🍰🔪

@sup3rhaz883 7 месяцев назад

Hey VSauce. Michael Here. How Fast Can you Run?

@cat_sandwich 7 месяцев назад

@@sup3rhaz883 😂

@Gentlekeys 6 месяцев назад

man we're dead 💀💀💀💀💀

@robyncore 3 месяца назад

Wasn't there a vid where he needed a brain so the vid cut and he had a fucking knife covered in blood

@ayushsharma8804 Год назад

Micheal : 'You will never have an infinite number of balls' My live reaction: 😔

@theresa.y5221 Год назад

69 likes 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@shrubon4921 10 месяцев назад

ORRRR will you?

@kevinnguyen552 6 месяцев назад

T*sticular Finitus Lol

@MonzennCarloMallari 6 месяцев назад

😔

@Iona_Roe_Deer 2 месяца назад

😔

@floridamancode_e2673 5 лет назад

> cuts cake > cake eventually starts nuclear fission every time

@Cerberus03 5 лет назад

Cellphone Dave hahah! Cake is the ultimate energy source.

@spebla 5 лет назад

Happens every time, like, jeez cake, clam down

@Astute_idiosyncrasy 5 лет назад

@@isaacjosuetoco2767 Molecules *vibrating intensifies*

@daisydaswani689 5 лет назад

The fact that he did it vertically,,,,

@marselo5332 5 лет назад

>feels bad man.jpeg

@marsishere1121 3 года назад

“You will never have an infinite number of balls” 😔

@Mo_Real_Official 3 года назад

@rciafardone 3 года назад

Or in the case of the cube... Holes

@supriyo_biswas 3 года назад

An infinite number of balls that keep getting smaller.

@baffledwaffle6319 3 года назад

Lmao

@xboydubose7254 3 года назад

Stolen

@MiloRaglan Год назад

Since watching this video when it first came out I have had several nightmares where I have to perform supertasks. Such as cutting that cake or making holes or stacking squares of infinitely halfling size, etc. Odd random stuff. I also know in these nightmares I am making progress but always know that progress will never have an end point and the realization of that usually causes me to jolt awake. My point is... Thank you Michael for providing me with nightmares I never knew I feared.

@gamerninjask6746 Год назад

wait so does that mean your nightmares are time limited?

@PlatonicPluto Год назад

HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU DO IT!?!? WE HAVE TO KNOW!!!!!!!

@cyrus7972 Год назад

DID YOUR NIGHTMARES END FASTER AND FASTER???

@pessskychaos4874 Год назад

WAS THE LAMP ON OR OFF!?!?!?!

@DiggyPT Год назад

WAS THE CUBE ORANGE OR GREEN?!?!?!?!?!

@BartholemewFitzgeraldThe4th Год назад

The amount of sweaters this man has on at one time is terrifying

@4TrapezoidDinosaur Год назад

yes

@FrostyTheOne_ Год назад

Even those can't control he amount of energy he radiates

@takumifujiwara7160 Год назад

i thought he was gonna talk about it at the end haha

@nerdboy628 9 месяцев назад

Real answer: every time the video cuts he takes the sweater off, puts an extra sweater on and puts the first sweater back. Then the video starts and he takes it off again so he never has more than 3 or 4 layers of clothing at a time. Fake answer: Vsauce bends the subatomic laws of physics so he can wear as many as he wants

@teddyrichard1488 6 месяцев назад

@@nerdboy628damn. You are fucking hillarious. You get the Funny Award 2023. You need to get a job at a circus. Funniest person on earth right here.

@moneyman5202 7 лет назад

People think I'm smart because of you.

@astoocities 7 лет назад

Of course your Bill Nye the Dumbass Guy!!!!!!!!!

@moneyman5202 7 лет назад

+Crux 211 woah gooD ONE BRO

@frisa96 7 лет назад

You're*

@collinsmcrae 7 лет назад

To be fair, people only think he's smart because of information he acquired through research. Since watching this video can be counted as research on some level, you are the same. The only difference is that he spent a few days on the subject, and you just get the portion of the information he acquired that he shared with you in this brief video, plus whatever independent research you may or may not do.

@parissharpe3233 7 лет назад

you do realise thi sisn't the real bill nye right?

@johntubig2223 8 лет назад

vsauce = **explains something impossible**, **pauses**, "or is it??"

@electromika 8 лет назад

*cue music*

@Wisdawms 8 лет назад

John Tubig Yeah, I love when he does that.

@Gytax0 8 лет назад

+John Tubig *We can ask more questions than we can answer, so what?.. Neanderthals.* Yeah, I hate when he does that.

@StormAnalysis 8 лет назад

+Sulthan14 doooo doooo doooooooo woooeoeoeoeooeowowoowooo do dooooo

@gtboy80 8 лет назад

+Wisdoms it's so satisfying

@merric_the1 Год назад

the universe feels disturbingly engineered to avoid paradoxes (beyond thought experiments) at times

@sethpolley7999 6 месяцев назад

Makes me think: "This stuff is possible, but we could never do it. What if there is something that could do the impossible possible?"

@g_g... 6 месяцев назад

That's an incorrect way to put it. Rather, the reason we have no paradoxes is because that's what a paradox refers to, something beyond the logic of the universe. Something our of reality. Something unreal, untrue. If they did exist, they wouldn't be called paradoxes. Even then, the fact that these paradoxes don't exist answers why the universe exists how it is now in the first place.

@billsheldon5465 Год назад

Hey Michael, V sauce here. Thank you for making learning and discovery addictively interesting. And as always, thanks for posting!

@manfredi19 Год назад

this was posted seven years ago

@cupid7553 Год назад

@@manfredi19 LMAO

@baldurvintheretardedtard8166 Год назад

@@manfredi19 so? there's so many comments here that aren't from seven years ago.

@scar.bluesa Год назад

Who asked

@averagecucumber Год назад

@@scar.bluesa I did

@butteredtoastinbed397 4 года назад

Michael: do you want some cake? Me: just a small slice, thanks Michael: say no more

@butteredtoastinbed397 4 года назад

@devil tobleh thanks babe

@butteredtoastinbed397 4 года назад

@devil tobleh oh dont worry im already 2 for 2!! And i am "go get some therapist" so no need to panic

@butteredtoastinbed397 4 года назад

@devil tobleh okay but, how on god's earth am i the stupid one in this conversation?

@youraverageasian123 4 года назад

@devil tobleh so every comment on youtube is uncreative because the same comment exists somewhere in the multiverse?

@carsonmorris127 4 года назад

devil tobleh what’s your problem?

@mundotaku_org 8 лет назад

I was expecting for Michael to remove his sweater on each half until he removed infinite number of sweaters. :(

@lostingames5657 8 лет назад

So was I!

@Moraren 8 лет назад

+mundotaku That would have been amazing!

@edelweiss2239 8 лет назад

hahaha i was waiting for that

@Tschoii90 8 лет назад

+mundotaku same here xD

@anothisflame8266 8 лет назад

Chalk me up on that too.

@adammarshallyt 8 месяцев назад

Who else noticed that the video is a supertask? Half way through the video, Michael takes off his sweater revealing another. Then half way through the remaining time, he does it again, and so on until the end. Am i the only one who noticed?😅

@jacobstanford8118 7 часов назад

WAIT WHAT

@Road2Med 10 месяцев назад

The conclusion analogy of the Neanderthals, tied up with the Saint-Exupery quote is one of the most legitimately inspiring academic calls-to-arms i have ever seen, even 7 years after first watching it. Vsauce is not just an amazing teacher, but one of the great philosophers of our time lowkey. Keep learning lads.

@RandomGuy-km6mn 7 лет назад

>Keeps Cutting >Cuts Atom >Nuclear Fission >ohshit.jpg >Everyone dies

@Ryan-sn7fq 7 лет назад

/pol/?

@theKing-me2uw 7 лет назад

>learns physics >learns more physics >learns more physics >becomes amazing physicist >team up with more physicists >helps build hadron collider >ohshit.jpg >everyone claps

@guanyu5091 7 лет назад

>be me >current year >complete supertask >still no gf >sadpepe.jpg

@Inckman452 7 лет назад

and this goes straight to a cringe thread.

@Ryan-sn7fq 7 лет назад

+AdolphX gtfo

@EloquentTroll 4 года назад

Mathematician: "Math shouldn't be bound by the realities of spacetime" Scientist: "This why everyone hates you"

@irrelevantgaymer6195 4 года назад

As a physicist and a mathematician, I can tell you this is exactly why I hate myself

@hewhomustnotbenamed5912 4 года назад

Scientists are mathematicians who lost interest in the abstract.

@irrelevantgaymer6195 4 года назад

He Who Must Not Be Named tell that to theoretical physicists

@hewhomustnotbenamed5912 4 года назад

@@irrelevantgaymer6195 question that is unrelated to the abstract, but... Shouldn't "theoretical physicists" be called "hypothetical physicists", or do I not understand their roles in science correctly?

@irrelevantgaymer6195 4 года назад

He Who Must Not Be Named a hypothesis is an assumption that’s not based any evidence, a theory is an explanation with the most evidence. Theoretical physicists deal with theory and implications of said theory, for example, the theoretical physicists working on the math behind alcubierre drives use general relativity and it’s implications if negative mass existed outside of virtual particles

@logankenda5383 9 месяцев назад

One must imagine Michael happy..

@taydreash4924 2 года назад

Vsause's comments one of the most kind and tranquil comment section I've seen, especially from an ~15 million subscriber person. Bravo Micheal for making your community only have helpful and respectful conversations coming out of your video!

@TheKrensada Год назад

Your opinion is wrong. And that's a fact

@willy4892 8 месяцев назад

@@TheKrensadaagreed my dear boy

@cuprianlycoris4016 3 года назад

I like how the audience goes quiet when he starts talking MATHS

@emmanandoca8591 3 года назад

It’s out of respect

@phil4795 3 года назад

There ain’t actually an audience..

@alter7110 3 года назад

@@phil4795 now way It’s almost as if we already K N E W

@user-kx8pu6ys5i 3 года назад

@@alter7110 yeah *ikr*

@notmadeofpeople4935 3 года назад

*math jk

@godgaveyouhands2848 2 года назад

"another piece to slice again" *splits an atom*

@ikeaforlife 2 года назад

"whoops guys, my bad"

@flouro4782 2 года назад

*uses the large hadron collider to split protons*

@BisexualPlagueDoctor 2 года назад

*tiny little explosions occur*

@tonyandsammyclub 2 года назад

Planck lengthed-slice, anyone?

@schizoframia4874 2 года назад

@NijeBitno72 Год назад

Watching this in december 2022 again and seeing it was uploaded in 2015 left me flabbergasted. I just can't help the feeling like it was uploaded 2 years ago, and that's pushing it.

@astra1288 Год назад

my thoughts exactly..

@littleghost6102 Год назад

i saw that it was uploaded 7 years ago, and got surprised when you said that's only 2015 and not further back

@dakota5432 Год назад

Covid fucked up my sense of time over the past few years I swear

@RafaelMunizYT Год назад

bro is flabbergasted

@Defirence Год назад

Oops, my bad. I must have caused a paradox unintentionally avoiding death on 5/4/12022, going back to ensure it doesn't happen again. 👍🏻

@ksv314 Год назад

you can tell right before he says "thanks for watching" that he really can no longer contain his passion and just needs to step off camera, almost like he's about to burst into tears. What a marvelous professor this man would make.

@theoman971 4 года назад

5 years later and i still marvel at how delicious that cake looks

@Boobesman 4 года назад

@Tyler Coon probably yes

@friedrichjaeger367 4 года назад

@Tyler Coon it still does in the video

@tutin9930 4 года назад

4 years

@amrapalinaik6571 4 года назад

😑

@TheestofHaxors 4 года назад

@Tyler Coon Or does it?

@araknidude 8 лет назад

Mom! Micheal broke my brain again!!!!!!

@lukethekuya 8 лет назад

Heh...

@guesswot5311 8 лет назад

+★No.1★ stfu eazy

@connorb614 8 лет назад

+★No.1★ Shouldn't your picture be of Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen then?

@bennybeetle572 8 лет назад

my too

@TheGameReplay 8 лет назад

+Connor Brown mr crabs! he was number one!

@jukeboxygo4353 Год назад

0:24 guy named gabriel: lets gooo

@wagnerramosmidichannelabso514 Год назад

Imagine if today is Gabriel's birthday.

@taintedjudasbindingofeyesack 3 месяца назад

💀

@shresthaditya9731 Год назад

4:18-Supertask 4:48-Zeno's Dichotomy 6:21-True Supertask 7:38- Plank Length 7:58- Plank Time 9:20-Example of divergent supertask

@Defirence Год назад

If supertasks are able to diverge does this state that hypothetically, depending on a decision made or the influence of Entropy, that Temporal branches of timespace diverge too?

@captainhero4116 2 месяца назад

14:30

@SammyMaggio 5 лет назад

"Because there's no end to how many balls you have." -Vsauce 2015

@SammyMaggio 5 лет назад

Define: "balls".

@Cerberus03 5 лет назад

Sammy/Tracy Maggio I just knew someone was going to quote this.

@anthonypearce2080 5 лет назад

17:12 is my personal favourite.

@Strawberrypersonoffixial 5 лет назад

Holy hell eyyyyy. 2019 am I right?

@spebla 5 лет назад

😬

@massivecowbreakout7555 3 года назад

Genie: There are 3 rules, no wishing for death, love, or infinite money. Micheal: Make this lamp turn on and off infinitly in 2 minutes Genie: There are 4 rules

@yashaskedlaya7326 3 года назад

What about infinite wishes?

@schoolzone5818 3 года назад

everyone went silent when he brought the knife up

@zed211 3 года назад

@@schoolzone5818 everyone went silent when you stole this comment

@ej-jz5rc 3 года назад

@@zed211 roasted

@garlonschuman1014 3 года назад

@@zed211 everyone went silent when you stole this comment

@UrAWizard Год назад

I remember watching this video when it was released and telling my family about it. I was 12 at the time. The thanks for the impact you’ve had on my life vsauce. I love you.

@cirno_the_mediocrity Год назад

what did ur family said, when they heard about it?

@Defirence Год назад

@@cirno_the_mediocrity probably thought the poor person had lost it, study Horology or show an interest in anything scientific from a young age and ppl will alienate and abuse you whichever way possible. Humans are disgusting, cruel beings towards those who are different. Paradoxically though this would not be the case in a parallel timeline or branched undivergent timeline.

@anonphil Год назад

@@cirno_the_mediocrity my family wasn't even interested:(

@johnnystankiewicz295 10 месяцев назад

@@cirno_the_mediocrity"you are adopted"

@brokenjet6134 6 месяцев назад

@@cirno_the_mediocrity"you are a super task"

@ThatOneHacker305 Год назад

Planck Time is the fps of our simulation

@RafaelMunizYT Год назад

planck length is the pixel

@ChrisLuigiTails 4 года назад

Michael: You will never have an infinite number of balls Me: :(

@cillad3294 4 года назад

Why would you want infinite balls??

@testicleetus5298 4 года назад

@@cillad3294 infinite sperm cells of course

@oktw6150 4 года назад

cilla d , infinite cum

@sharpmeth 4 года назад

@@oktw6150 *turns into glue hose*

@koreaface 4 года назад

“Infinity cum” is a medical term given to a male who has a genetically mutation where sperm cells replenish much faster than a normal male. In return calories are burned at such a exponential rate because the body’s testicles are put under enormous stress, and have to recover.

@Ilikeminecraft57 3 года назад

I can't imagine being the cameraman and watching Vsauce play the introduction skit out but with none of the post SFX

@Fingeroo 2 года назад

Bro I thought you said "caveman", I was so confused

@squishypeanut42 2 года назад

Maybe there is just a full crowd and an ensemble

@squishypeanut42 2 года назад

@@daniel4412 I jont know that'd what I would have done

@arcticdreamer 2 года назад

i can

@God-Emperor_Elizabeth_the_2nd 2 года назад

The secret is this: they aren’t added in post. They emanate from Michael’s very being.

@BadCoverMan 6 месяцев назад

That ending speech was so profound I need to sit down for a bit haha. I think we all tend to feel lost, not realizing feeling lost may be our greatest tool. Thank you for everything you do!

@KeiffButTheRealOne 4 месяца назад

Gabriel's WHAT!?!? (the ULTRAKILL brainrot has consumed me)

@avokey2 3 месяца назад

HAHSHAHS

@tigris115 3 месяца назад

Based

@nwah816 4 года назад

My theory is that Achilles waited until his toe nail grew pass the finish line

@shankargijinepalle7827 4 года назад

Harvard would like to: *Know your location? *

@leightonpetty4817 4 года назад

But that means there was a point when his toe nail had grown half the required distance. Then half of that. Then

@adity.atiwari 4 года назад

@@leightonpetty4817 his toenail didn't follow the rules

@wellshit9489 4 года назад

@@adity.atiwari fucking toenail, not being sentient doesnt excuse not following the rules

@darkgreen5572 4 года назад

This poor achilles

@christophercxx3774 7 лет назад

Michael: No you can't Me: Ok... You Cant... Michael: Or can u...??? Me: *Brain Cells Explode*

@dingdong10746 7 лет назад

Christopher Cxx top ten anime betrayals

@christophercxx3774 7 лет назад

Ed Stephenson lmaoo

@noahsimpson9255 6 лет назад

Or can you?

@guyincognito8043 6 лет назад

If you're gonna tell Michael "no", use a damn apostrophe!

@surelock3221 6 лет назад

The one time where I get a stroke and like it

@cheesemanmaster 4 месяца назад

THE gabriel from ultrakill?!

@getflashbanged6909 3 месяца назад

Gabriel’s cake 🤤

@Abolishtaxes1997 2 месяца назад

@@getflashbanged6909 nuh uh 🤤

@DevourerOfFlippinGods Месяц назад

Guys stop eating my cake ☹

@andistansbury4366 Год назад

For the cube one, I thing the layers would eventually become thin enough to be translucent, meaning it wouldn't be orange or green, but some kind of horrible combination

@andistansbury4366 Год назад

But I don't know

@KICK839 10 месяцев назад

Logically it will be like that .. Because at some point the wide of the layers will be as small as plank length so the color which will reach the plank length first will be the answer

@TrossardWasUnavailable 4 года назад

*s-sir I just wanted to know if you wanted the receipt*

@awcy6902 4 года назад

I want that receipt

@althepal234 4 года назад

Woody Blanco me too

@Marispider 4 года назад

_sir this is a mcdonalds drive thru_

@thealienontheinternet 4 года назад

Vsauce: "I want it... or DO I?" Employee: "Ah s**t, here we go again"

@carolynnance9617 4 года назад

SatoshiUltra Sir, this is a Wendy’s

@uraid 5 лет назад

Beginning: Bake show End: The endlessness of the human curiosity makes us who we are

@ndJssFlurt 4 года назад

Strange...

@ndJssFlurt 4 года назад

@Beyblade AMV's "Typical Vsauce"??? Wow, I must be blind... Can I have your eyes? Please?????

@ndJssFlurt 4 года назад

@Beyblade AMV's Ok.

@zanabarwary9659 4 года назад

@Beyblade AMV's 😂

@ShlokParab Год назад

Michael gives clear indication in his tone when the video is about to end. Till the time, you are so absorbed in it that you feel a bit disappointed when the video ends, especially when you have exhausted all previous video. Also, my opinion for that thumbnail supertask: the colour on top will be #FFAE42 (RGB 225:174:66)

@FormerlyDuck 4 месяца назад

Leaf-blowing could be a supertask. I've noticed that every time I blow leaves in a straight line, half of the leaves go where I want, and half get pushed to the sides. In theory, it would take me an infinite amount of time to collect all the leaves normally. Fortunately for me, the leaves can only be subdivided so much.

@cwispygiraffe 2 года назад

"achiles obviously cant finish" poor guy

@keisufederationmapping2748 2 года назад

The arrow did

@voyd8217 2 года назад

This actually made me laugh

@Umbraminf 2 года назад

he can't finnish but he can greek

@keisufederationmapping2748 2 года назад

@@Umbraminf his poor wife

@progfox 2 года назад

@@keisufederationmapping2748 *husband greek, remember...

@luiselu6208 8 лет назад

this went from a mind-blow to an inspirational speech, I love it...

@indraputra1935 8 лет назад

exactly

@sleepinganarchy3486 8 лет назад

s o x s o x

@luiselu6208 8 лет назад

momo SOX!

@austinobambino1360 8 лет назад

+Luis Elumba ikr

@TheLastEchelon 8 лет назад

+coldice Ahan What videos are in it?

@LeBigMeme Год назад

A classic; in time for the holidays!

@soisaus564 Год назад

So true

@selimacast725 Год назад

Looking back I think this is my favorite vsauce video. Stuck with me when I first watched it years ago and still has the same “whimsy” (for lack of a better word…) watching now.

@samadsyed5396 5 лет назад

Michael: As long as your home is *infinitely large* Audience: 😂😂👌👌😈🤣💯💯

@goldengears5355 5 лет назад

@@Agony.. What about it made you upset?

@goldengears5355 5 лет назад

@@Agony.. The laugh track itself was the joke. It was funny because it made the joke unfunny. This is actually really hard to say in words because it is essentially a paradox of humor.

@lvbboi9 5 лет назад

@@Agony.. yes,its the internet, you should get used to create arguments out of the smallest things

@goldengears5355 5 лет назад

@@Agony.. No we are not. Do not start one. I was not arguing with you. I just made a point as to what I thought the joke actually was. The joke itself has more layers to it than what you can see or what I have the ability to explain. But I have the ability to perceive the joke and I figured that I would try to let you know. Clearly I cannot explain the joke to you as I have already failed to do so.

@goldengears5355 5 лет назад

@@Agony.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-15HTd4Um1m4.html Whoops, sorry!

@FairbrookWingates 4 года назад

"Our impressive ability to confuse ourselves", I love this phrase.

@NANA-fo5cr Год назад

I feel like the concept of the plank length helps give these hypothetical experiments conclusive results since it’s now understood that there is likely a point at which you could not make something like a slice of cake thinner than it already is. I may be wrong about as I am not very informed on the relevant information but it was just a thought I had that would help solve the questions posed by this classic sauce video.

@VercilJuan Год назад

Man, rewatching old vsauce videos and getting nostalgia all over again.

@MildlySpider-Man 3 года назад

Michael must have been melting with all those sweaters

@lxathu 3 года назад

Think about the sweating of Zenon in his infinite run.

@andrewcheng1948 3 года назад

Yeah

@theblob2937 3 года назад

Nah, each one was half as thick as the last, so it wasn’t too bad

@adityayv1873 3 года назад

@@theblob2937 so was he wearing infinite number of sweaters 😳

@chrisedwards3640 3 года назад

@@adityayv1873 still is 😳

@melon5031 3 года назад

0:56 "cut the cake in half" stares at knife like a maniac

@rubeusphantom8705 3 года назад

That’s my favorite moment

@thatguywithcheese6341 3 года назад

Hey, Michael, you good bro

@mason11198 3 года назад

FINALLY, a comment that noticed!

@devinclark6090 3 года назад

He stares at the knife as if he got flashbacks to the people he has killed with it lol

@coolcatcastle8 2 года назад

which kind of cake?

@rexprocellas4161 9 месяцев назад

This is my all-time favorite Vsauce video. There’s just so much to like that I end up rewatching it every few weeks at least.

@lukasnickelson3563 Год назад

This is, I genuinely believe, the best video on all of RU-vid

@vivideateproductions2068 4 года назад

Doctor: "You have 2 days to live" Michael: "I better get started on some tasks"

@mrmunch5615 4 года назад

That’s smart though, I would do that.

@cheeko6166 4 года назад

The smartest comment in this comment section

@levithe2nd 4 года назад

Helth

@zheenbekakimzhanov8969 4 года назад

If you divide your time into 2 infinite times, and you're gonna live forever while doing it

@popularnow8930 4 года назад

Some *-supertasks-*

@augustphye3361 4 года назад

“You’ll never have enough balls” Never have I ever been so offended by something I 100% agree with

@psychememes3864 3 года назад

I lik the amount of liks

@zer0rebel4 3 года назад

He is threatening us

@robo-cat6323 3 года назад

How to make 2 people unlike a comment

@phewiss3066 Год назад

So it's mathematically impossible. He will never reach the finish line. Yet logically, if hes moving, no matter how small the increments are, if hes moving a distance an infinite amount of times, he will reach the finish line. This shit is breaking my brain.

@BradenBest Год назад

"You will never have an infinite number of balls" Ouch, Michael. Ouch.

@Drstokely 4 года назад

The more important question is, does Michael have an infinite amount of Christmas sweaters?

@luke1876 4 года назад

Yes he bought one after 1 minute another one after half a minute and another one after a quarter a minute and so on

@Astral_YT 4 года назад

Yes, I can confirm that he does, OR DOES HE?

@Somewhere50 4 года назад

I don't think so.

@hamz2863 4 года назад

@@Somewhere50 why

@villagernumber7882 4 года назад

The more important question is why he has them in the first place.

@ritter1209 3 года назад

The way he did that second slice threw me into a blood rage

@chromosoze 3 года назад

Now that you mention it i had a heart attack LIKE WHY DOES HE CUT THE CLOSEST PART OF THE CAKE IN HALF THEN HE CUTS THE FURTHEST PART OF THE CAKE IN HALF HE HAS TO LIFT UP HIS KNIFE TO DO THAT THAT IS A VERY INEFFICIENT METHOD OF SORTING, WHY ARE YOU EVEN USING BOGOSORT THAT'S THE WORST METHOD THAT IS LITERALLY THE WORST SORTING ALGORITHM YOU CAN THIHNK OF WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU YOU ARE MENTAL YOU ARE AUTISTIC YOU ARE CANCEROUS YOU ARE AIDS I WILL DROP THE TSAR BOMBA ON YOUR HOUSE I AM NOT KIDDING I WILL DO IT I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND I CAN NUKE COUNTRIES AT MY WILL I NUKED JAPAN TWICE I CAN DEFINITELY NUKE YOUR HOUSE I WILL SEND THE FBI TO BLOCK ALL DOORS TO ENSURE DEATH TO YOU AND YOUR BOTTLES OF ENSURE BY ABBOTT INCORPORATED

@Owen_loves_Butters 3 года назад

Holy sh*t man he was just showing the concept off

@vistagreat9994 3 года назад

@@chromosozeyou will be doomed to go extinct, like the neander *TALS*, for your hatred of science. you will not be getting the cake that he beautifully prepared, for your hatred of science. you will never find the end of the supertask you are doomed TO FAILURE. TOTAL ORGAN FAILURE! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE CHROMOSONES AND YOUR BRAIN CELLS HAVE BEEN MELTED AWAY FROM THE UNBELIEVABLE BRIGHTNESS OF A BLACKHOLE CONSUMING STARS, FOR YOU ARE NOT READY TO LEAVE ONCE MORE... YOU ARE READY TO And as always, thanks for watching. no funny. biches.

@vistagreat9994 3 года назад

@Sassy The Sasquatch yeah and it's for science

@chromosoze 3 года назад

@Sassy The Sasquatch but it was very inefficient he could have very easily cut it without having to lift up the knife but he didn't and he lift up the knife that's why

@lavasharkandboygirl9716 Год назад

On god I remember when this video was uploaded. This blows my mind

@den93050 Год назад

Same, I come back to it every now and then because this specific time period of Vsauce brings back such memories. I feel like I can remember where and when I was whenever a specific video was uploaded.

@ChuckyFetta 5 месяцев назад

I made a similar paradox in my head about a year ago before I watched this, using decimals, where you can infinitely add a value to a number such as one by adding 0.1 then 0.01 then 0.001 and so on forever but yet, even though you're infinitely adding a value to the number you never add enough value to sum up to 2. Seeing as there is a limit to how small things can get, this means that adding an infinitely small value to something is impossible. This tells us how mathematics can create reality's that are impossible to the real world. Watching this really helped me understand my own paradox better. But what was probably the creepiest thing about this, was that I stayed up all night baffled by my own paradox and then the next day this video was on my for you page.

@exceisior3145 6 лет назад

>You will never have an infinite number of balls. Why even live?

@baab4229 6 лет назад

He is right tho. There will never be a large enough urn to hold my balls.

@scarface2771 6 лет назад

The Earth is a fidget spinner

@arsxne 6 лет назад

We don't know

@axys6771 6 лет назад

it's just a exaple

@contactmeghan 6 лет назад

ExceIsior _ of

@Anti-i25 5 лет назад

>"You will never have infinite number of balls" Why live?

@LennyUltra 4 года назад

😔

@EliteFreeman 4 года назад

You got a lotta balls sayin that bold statement against me dawg

@abdullahehe 4 года назад

*sad noises*

@zarsiw 4 года назад

mfw

@willbagthegreat 2 года назад

3:02 when you ask your parents how many chores you have

@andistansbury4366 Год назад

2:44 ah, A trypophobes worst nightmare

@NakedEndoskeleton 4 года назад

when he cut the vertically cut slices vertically again when there was a clear design in the cake to cut horizontally i almost broke something i swear

@NakedEndoskeleton 4 года назад

@Dr Deuteron yeap. thats me. every single day. i shit on the bed.

@Axodus 4 года назад

@Bonnie Wouldn't that destroy the example and the entire point he was cutting it in the first place?

@Doctor_Straing_Strange 4 года назад

Same

@wellshit9489 4 года назад

He definitely did that on purpose

@followthelucario4388 4 года назад

@@Axodus It'd still increase the surface area, just not as much

@as7river 8 лет назад

Conclusion: When you have a problem and solve it, you evolve. Thus, the only way to evolve is to find more problems to solve. The more problems you have, the more potential you have to evolve.

@XxLeszczuHDXx 8 лет назад

+Leonel Cantú de Llano Or just take some shrooms ;)

@as7river 8 лет назад

***** This.

@Fucisko 8 лет назад

+Reese „Reesies“ Aksteter First thing that occured to me when I read the original comment.

@eliclarkwills5194 8 лет назад

+Leonel Cantú de Llano where did you steal that quote from?

@tilkian 8 лет назад

depends on how much pressure you put yourself under, there are many people with lots of problems who are not evolving, steps are the key, quality over quantity.

@jamozmynamoz6516 Год назад

Every time I see this video I forget why the thumbnail is a cube with layers and I always click just to look again

@chloesmurf Год назад

5:56 my answer would be that when he's 1 Planck length away from the line would be blue and then red

@BrockAband 8 лет назад

That audience went from 100-0 real quick

@sand1573 8 лет назад

Lol, they must have been confused

@Niko- 8 лет назад

They got science-boner

@bravechicken6251 8 лет назад

+Niko Kinnunen lol me and my close friends never knew that science-boner a thing. we thought we were weird. maybe Vsouce should explain this

@samuelf80 8 лет назад

+Brock Aband I dont want to be the 101st like... but il do it anyway

@BrianFace182 8 лет назад

+Brock Aband the audience halved at intervals of half the previous interval length.

@cronchtm4900 3 года назад

"Will the lamp be on or off?" Michael, you burned out the lamp.

@ArcticArmy 3 года назад

Nah, the lightbulb explodes.

@DanielSilva-gc4xz 3 года назад

Easy, it will be off

@TheOnlyBlancy 3 года назад

But will it be on or off

@imjustice6866 3 года назад

Underrated comment 😂

@ArcticArmy 3 года назад

@@TheOnlyBlancy broken. so... off... i guess...

@mikethenerd1 2 месяца назад

I love how this is just Michael plays with built in laugh sound effects in editing software and talk about super tasks

@ferociousfeind8538 Год назад

I think the "we may just be very good at confusing ourselves" is a good point. Like, for example, the raising and lowering of a flag takes a not-infinitesimal amount of time. If you do it once for every half of the race left you finish, you will take an infinite amount of time, at the end all the time being taken up by raising and lowering the flags, sitting before the finish line simply flipping between them forever.

@BlitzSniperPS3 5 лет назад

"You will never have an infinite number of balls" .... Listen here Michael

@patrickwhitehead9931 5 лет назад

My wife says my Balls are infinite... lol . I know poor taste but funny !

@Viscidsquare040 5 лет назад

Stephen Gordon I was looking for this

@manylittlefish693 5 лет назад

Hahahaha xDD

@Au16227 5 лет назад

Chuck Norris would like to know your location

@willmunoz1638 5 лет назад

@@Au16227 Chuck Norris already knows your location.

@Narpas 8 лет назад

17:12 try me

@PiercingSight 8 лет назад

+Narpas I lol'd

@einekartoffel2490 8 лет назад

lol

@Jojodude8 8 лет назад

oh my god

@user-dh1yh3by4b 8 лет назад

+Narpas That´s harsh, Vsauce! :´(

@Ca11m3Raven 8 лет назад

HOLY SHIT

@andistansbury4366 Год назад

10:45 Michael: what's the answer? Ad: THIS

@KasenMcClelland22 6 дней назад

11:20 The box will be a mixture of orange and green because once the slab gets thin enough, it will become translucent and show the layer beneath it.

@AlphaBeastHD 8 лет назад

The amount of research, effort and detailed material Vsauce produces is phenomenal. I mean, just look at how many links there are in the description! Not to mention the quantity of the video matched with its quality. Vsauce continues and will always fuck with our heads.

@AlphaBeastHD 8 лет назад

+Wagacca thanks, it's my new profile pic.

@AlphaBeastHD 8 лет назад

+Wagacca I appreciate the comments but one thing - I'm a guy haha

@Kamastamasta 8 лет назад

+Ommstar Official bet you didnt expect that

@potatogod9737 8 лет назад

+Ommstar Official Lmao, but to be honest.. How many times do you see a real girl, using a half naked girl as their profile on RU-vid?

@AlphaBeastHD 8 лет назад

+Wagacca Maybe I'm on the wrong side of RU-vid and let's be honest - I don't think we'll see them on a Vsauce video.

@gwennnnnnnnnnnn 8 лет назад

you have an unlimited number of balls - vsauce 2016

@Spatuule 8 лет назад

+Jesse Watson Hahhaha I noticed too!

@grymmrhoninn1855 8 лет назад

+Jesse Watson 2015*

@Silverwind87 8 лет назад

+Jesse Watson haha grow up

@starwarsjk99 8 лет назад

+jackaboy "You will never have a large enough urn to held all of your balls."

@lewmy230 8 лет назад

+Jesse Watson if vsause have unlimited of balls than how could the balls fit in the screen

@tylen4ik1337 3 месяца назад

Bro really said "Judgement"

@its_deer Год назад

'you will never have an infinite number of balls.' you watch micheal, you watch.

@l.l1118 4 года назад

Micheal: *There is no beginning or end, No one ever dies or gets born* Micheal’s son wanting to know what two plus two was: bruh

@gravy7861_ 4 года назад

Also Micheal: or do they

@christinathea5737 3 года назад

he has only a daughter

@jahnos581 3 года назад

@@christinathea5737 Issa joke

@playgirl7305 3 года назад

It's almost 4. But at the moment 3,999.....................................

@veetipakarinen8798 3 года назад

two plus two is four minus one thats three quick maths

@kimi59 3 года назад

everyone went silent when he brought the knife up

@TomFZER 3 года назад

Oh shit 😂😂

@giorgosanastasiou1009 3 года назад

People know what's up 😂

@Bransbow 5 месяцев назад

One of my favorite Vsauce videos. I've come back to it dozens of times since it released.

@harshitpiplani6196 Год назад

The quote in the end, well that's what Vsauce has done for me. It's all about fostering and promoting and feeding your curiosity, and you learn practically anything you want. The amount of information available in the world is endless, but so is your curiosity.

@shrug1250 3 года назад

Did anyone else get uncomfortable when he sliced the cake like that?

@dasyoutubeklohauschen 3 года назад

*screams internally*

@themaverick1891 3 года назад

No. I felt pretty comfortable. That's a nice way of slicing the cake.

@1_in_8billion 3 года назад

I wanted to eat it, but then he made that second slice and I lost it

@anomaly_echelon7994 3 года назад

was expecting to cut it in a plus sign

@poankiyu7664 3 года назад

Yes

@ethanb8983 7 лет назад

"You will never build a lamp that can turn on and off arbitrarily fast." DON'T STOP ME NOW.

@ethanb8983 6 лет назад

Christopher Hall I dunno but I'm sure as heck gonna find out. >:)

@oogoog9074 6 лет назад

are you going to tho?

@ethanb8983 6 лет назад

Sgt. Dickbed Yes. .-. I will find out

@bencilbusher5070 6 лет назад

but it runs on alternating current.

@captainobvious9201 6 лет назад

It cant go arbitrarily fast. the light would have to exceed the speed of light to do so, which is impossible.

@MVPVentureTV Год назад

This is my Favorite VSauce video that I repetitively come back to, I fr love seeing examples of this whenever I run into a super task animation, in anime for example like JoJo's Stone Ocean, Jolene is trying to catch a baby and the time it takes to catch the baby just keeps doubling the closer she gets because she shrinks in size the closer she gets, infinitely shrinking and "getting closer" at the same time as she's running towards the baby Crawling away lol