The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle

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• Pi and Bouncing Balls ...
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  • @ikkocan
    @ikkocan5 жыл бұрын

    Originally discovered in 1995, published in 2003. maybe he DID count the clacks?

  • @mikeymcmikeface5599

    @mikeymcmikeface5599

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @fifofuko1864

    @fifofuko1864

    5 жыл бұрын

    Alem adamsın

  • @ViratKohli-jj3wj

    @ViratKohli-jj3wj

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lmfao😂😂😂

  • @diogoandre756

    @diogoandre756

    4 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @theoanthony1901

    @theoanthony1901

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably a computer can do this simulation and count the clacks

  • @antiscribe4150
    @antiscribe41503 жыл бұрын

    Pi has no business showing up literally everywhere in math.

  • @onebeets

    @onebeets

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wait, it's all pi?

  • @gruncho8227

    @gruncho8227

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@onebeets always has been...

  • @bignicebear2428

    @bignicebear2428

    3 жыл бұрын

    What goes around comes around and voila: pi.

  • @Saturnares

    @Saturnares

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nobody expects the Pi inquisition!

  • @dathaniel9403

    @dathaniel9403

    2 жыл бұрын

    @antiscribe it’s like that one guy who always seems to be at every party but no one knows who invite him. He just shows up no matter where you are.

  • @andrewdavis1138
    @andrewdavis11387 ай бұрын

    2:37 I was watching in the middle of the night and got absolutely flashbanged by the sudden swap from dark coloured example to bright white paper.

  • @redelf8052

    @redelf8052

    27 күн бұрын

    same

  • @siddharthabbanerjee
    @siddharthabbanerjee2 жыл бұрын

    Another interesting observation : When the masses colliding are powers of some other base (say 3), the number of collisions still equal the digits of Pi, but in the same base. Eg : Pi in base 3 is 10.010211012222010211002111110221222220111201212121... If you run the simulation with masses of 1, 3^(2 * 1), 3^(2 * 2), 3^(2 * 3),..., then the number of collisions will be 1 (base 3), 10 (base 3), 100 (base 3), and 1001 (base 3) respectively. Number of collisions for 1,3^(2 * 50) will be first 50 digits of Pi in base 3 : 10010211012222010211002111110221222220111201212121 , or 2255343044159619899886237 in decimals.

  • @JeffMTX

    @JeffMTX

    Жыл бұрын

    Now that is very very cool!

  • @vijayrajendran4006

    @vijayrajendran4006

    Жыл бұрын

    this is what I thought... awesome!!!

  • @Mimaloodak

    @Mimaloodak

    Жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @partyboy4121

    @partyboy4121

    Жыл бұрын

    Good thinking

  • @markdawg

    @markdawg

    Жыл бұрын

    🤓

  • @evank3718
    @evank37185 жыл бұрын

    1:40 Me opening the door at 1:43 am

  • @orvillevroemen3956

    @orvillevroemen3956

    5 жыл бұрын

    3:14 am

  • @jcgongavoe337

    @jcgongavoe337

    5 жыл бұрын

    PRODUCES SLAP BASS MELODIES,SO TRUE

  • @appiusssss

    @appiusssss

    5 жыл бұрын

    hahahahah

  • @rolanddogna921

    @rolanddogna921

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@orvillevroemen3956 3:14

  • @colinjava8447

    @colinjava8447

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a sound effect on a zx spectrum game

  • @Jouzou87
    @Jouzou874 жыл бұрын

    Physicists: "Noo! You can't have ideal collisions make a sound!" 3B1B: "Haha, blocks go brr"

  • @midlanismail416

    @midlanismail416

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don't you mean clack

  • @pixelartkid7965

    @pixelartkid7965

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@midlanismail416 in the 100000kg one it went brrrrrr

  • @aa01blue38

    @aa01blue38

    3 жыл бұрын

    The sound also goes hypersonic because the frequency of clacks is so high

  • @thelukedankwalker

    @thelukedankwalker

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aa01blue38 lmao what, that’s not how that works dude

  • @jamesorendorff2284

    @jamesorendorff2284

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aa01blue38 "Hypersonic" means "faster than sound"... You literally just said "the sound goes faster than sound".

  • @hotpockets1417
    @hotpockets14175 ай бұрын

    This is why I love math. You always look at a problem, read it out loud, then discover something about that problem. It's like there is always a hidden puzzle in math equations. For example, in 7th grade, we were learning about circumference. My teacher showed the class a video which said that if you take the diameter and try to wrap it around a circle, there's a tiny bit left, to which I realized that that tiny bit looked EXACTLY like pi, or 3.14. It's so cool finding small details that make so much since!

  • @user-rc1mv2zy3r

    @user-rc1mv2zy3r

    Ай бұрын

    🤓🤓🤓

  • @hotpockets1417

    @hotpockets1417

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-rc1mv2zy3r thanks :)

  • @bmschech
    @bmschech8 ай бұрын

    I thought your video on relating the Basel Problem to the circle was simply gorgeous, astonishing and unforgettable. These three surpass even that! Thank you so very much!

  • @poopcatapult2623
    @poopcatapult26235 жыл бұрын

    Teacher: "gimme some digits of pi" Me: "clack clack clackclackclackcla... clackclack clack clack... Wait for it" Teacher: "what on earth is that supp...?" Me: "... clack"

  • @RubyPiec

    @RubyPiec

    5 жыл бұрын

    3.1415926535897932 There take that

  • @mediding7001

    @mediding7001

    5 жыл бұрын

    No, it's: clack clackclack claclaclclcl reeEEEEEeee clacla clack clack... clack

  • @mikeymcmikeface5599

    @mikeymcmikeface5599

    5 жыл бұрын

    I demand immediate satisfaction!

  • @chikoroblox9734

    @chikoroblox9734

    5 жыл бұрын

    I baked you a pie

  • @skyspects1211

    @skyspects1211

    5 жыл бұрын

    Damn, this made my day! 😂😂😂

  • @Selicre
    @Selicre5 жыл бұрын

    That animation of the spherical cow actually made me wheeze. That was unexpected

  • @chobyriley417

    @chobyriley417

    5 жыл бұрын

    Selicre [Hyper] it’s my favorite picture on wikipedia

  • @NickiRusin

    @NickiRusin

    5 жыл бұрын

    that's a great image

  • @Selicre

    @Selicre

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@NickiRusin I really, really, really like this image.

  • @NickiRusin

    @NickiRusin

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Selicre a long time ago my dad told me a great physics joke. I don't have the patience to translate it from Russian, but the punchline boils down to "a spherical horse in a vacuum". For some reason I never tried to visualize that, but now it's crisp in my mind thanks to this video.

  • @AlRoderick

    @AlRoderick

    5 жыл бұрын

    ASSUME THE SPHERICAL COW!

  • @erinc129
    @erinc129 Жыл бұрын

    the clacking sound is so satisfying i want it on repeat forever in my brain

  • @ItsNekotaku
    @ItsNekotaku Жыл бұрын

    i love coming back to this video every once in a while because it's just so mind boggling that it reblows my mind every time

  • @The-Rest-of-Us
    @The-Rest-of-Us5 жыл бұрын

    Highest quality KZreadr out there. And I mean that in every dimension.

  • @ariqahmer5188

    @ariqahmer5188

    5 жыл бұрын

    Make that in concurrent parallel dimensions 😉

  • @jacobkleeman8546

    @jacobkleeman8546

    5 жыл бұрын

    Even the fourth?

  • @ganaraminukshuk0

    @ganaraminukshuk0

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jacobkleeman8546 All spatial and abstract dimensions up to infinity, even the temporal dimensions (if 2D time and up makes any sense). Even the fractal dimensions where you can have non-integer values (like 1.3425 dimensions). Even any system, existing or to-be-discovered or purely nonsensical for the sake of argument, that calls for negative value dimensions, or imaginary number values, or complex values, or quaternions, or octonions, or sedonions, and beyond.

  • @papi1050

    @papi1050

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ariqahmer5188 we need to talk about parallel universes

  • @ariqahmer5188

    @ariqahmer5188

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@papi1050 Agreed 🤔😎😍

  • @ZzSlumberzZ
    @ZzSlumberzZ4 жыл бұрын

    *gets this on recommendations for the 10th time* Brain: click on it. Me: but I've already wa- Brain: *do it.*

  • @SpaceSeal64

    @SpaceSeal64

    3 жыл бұрын

    this is probably like my 6th time

  • @andy-kg5fb

    @andy-kg5fb

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its my 5th time

  • @boldizsarfiser9894

    @boldizsarfiser9894

    3 жыл бұрын

    its my 4th time

  • @Game_Sometimes

    @Game_Sometimes

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is my 12th time…

  • @seanjericdioquino197

    @seanjericdioquino197

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes.. 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.

  • @ridhomblr
    @ridhomblr2 жыл бұрын

    0:49 i saw this on tiktok, they did not give credit or anything no link to the original just sped it up, glad i found the original

  • @iamsopro4115
    @iamsopro41159 ай бұрын

    Doctor: it’s not gonna hurt! The kid in the next room: 2:22

  • @andrewmoonbeam321
    @andrewmoonbeam3214 жыл бұрын

    2:32 ' Credit to the viewer Henry Cavill.' Of course Superman would know the answer. He's brilliant at math. And physical education.

  • @andrewzhang8512

    @andrewzhang8512

    2 жыл бұрын

    *kavle

  • @mono6359

    @mono6359

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewzhang8512 guess who didn't get the joke

  • @andrewzhang8512

    @andrewzhang8512

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mono6359 ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mb

  • @hansondesa188

    @hansondesa188

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @watlehbillidijedhik

    @watlehbillidijedhik

    9 ай бұрын

    Silver for physics, steel for maths

  • @milk_WOO
    @milk_WOO3 ай бұрын

    thank you for giving me a math project! this was very fun to work on and you explain this very well.

  • @AbCat4
    @AbCat42 жыл бұрын

    I like how the speed of the last collision is an expression of the remaining digits. So when it's 314(15...) collisions it juuuust reaches the line, but when it's 31415(92...), it gives the moving block a proper final spank to send it on its way.

  • @vijayrajendran4006

    @vijayrajendran4006

    Жыл бұрын

    wait, if what you're saying is true, we can get more digits by analysing the speed more intuitively?

  • @kyriakos02
    @kyriakos024 жыл бұрын

    Clack.

  • @AmadeuShinChan

    @AmadeuShinChan

    4 жыл бұрын

    [ I donot know. Let us ask someone. ]

  • @finalftl732

    @finalftl732

    4 жыл бұрын

    At some point the clacks would be so rapid that the frequency created would be too high pitched for human ears lmao

  • @Torthrodhel

    @Torthrodhel

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@finalftl732 so ideally you'd find the ideal magnitude that over a 10 hour total period would at some point get closer to the highest averagely humanly perceivable pitch than the next magnitude, which breaks that barrier. And there's your 10 hour video.

  • @alexniggins1799

    @alexniggins1799

    4 жыл бұрын

    MrBeast can, ofc.

  • @danielreed540

    @danielreed540

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just loop the system - add an opposing wall the other side of the masses/objects; masses between 2 walls. Then that system cycles, repeating (to infinity). Under the special ideal conditions. A truly closed system, with only total motion & energy transfers, where all is constant & only velocity can change.

  • @Indomat64
    @Indomat645 жыл бұрын

    Small brain: Memorizing digits of pi Galaxy brain: Having blocks of precise mass on hand and counting the collisions

  • @froggymine5003

    @froggymine5003

    5 жыл бұрын

    Also me: destroying earth to find Pi to the 20th digit

  • @torezcoasters6043

    @torezcoasters6043

    4 жыл бұрын

    Don’t forget about removing friction!

  • @PersonWithAFunnyBone
    @PersonWithAFunnyBone6 ай бұрын

    3Blue1Brown never fails to make me question reality!

  • @theNatura1_
    @theNatura1_8 ай бұрын

    something about the collision sound is so satisfying

  • @mrsaussissonsec1054
    @mrsaussissonsec10543 жыл бұрын

    Saw this at least 5 times. Still amazed at the quality of the explanations and the correlation itself. You are truly one of the best out there.

  • @marcgonzalez5628

    @marcgonzalez5628

    Жыл бұрын

    Watch it again

  • @mrsaussissonsec1054

    @mrsaussissonsec1054

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marcgonzalez5628 aight

  • @Adarsh_amd

    @Adarsh_amd

    10 ай бұрын

    again

  • @destroyer100onblitz

    @destroyer100onblitz

    10 ай бұрын

    Again

  • @mrsaussissonsec1054

    @mrsaussissonsec1054

    10 ай бұрын

    @@destroyer100onblitz ayo it's only been 4 days

  • @bobbyp4025
    @bobbyp40254 жыл бұрын

    Sliding off to infinity, never to be touched again- so sad

  • @Kido336

    @Kido336

    4 жыл бұрын

    *adding sad comment about you and your ex

  • @ah2522

    @ah2522

    4 жыл бұрын

    my dad's hand and my crtoch

  • @noddye1764

    @noddye1764

    4 жыл бұрын

    r/cursed comments

  • @tarzbaow

    @tarzbaow

    4 жыл бұрын

    @AssmasterFlex69 until the big crunch, and everything will be once again, at once place, at one time

  • @maxtreme2901

    @maxtreme2901

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bobby P the blocks will forever remember how their first and last touches were

  • @jasongusta7419
    @jasongusta74192 жыл бұрын

    I loved this video but lost it for 3 years I am so glad I found it again, comment "salute" for those who still haven't refound this

  • @jasongusta7419

    @jasongusta7419

    2 жыл бұрын

    salute

  • @lehamsterhollandais9908
    @lehamsterhollandais99084 ай бұрын

    i truly understand why people loves so much mathematics, all makes sense and everything is explained , thats just magical 😊

  • @blackpenredpen
    @blackpenredpen5 жыл бұрын

    WOW!!

  • @herlock2

    @herlock2

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well hello there :)

  • @giladu.6551

    @giladu.6551

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi BPRP! Love your videos

  • @wontpower

    @wontpower

    5 жыл бұрын

    Isn’t it?

  • @yash5879

    @yash5879

    5 жыл бұрын

    Congrats for the 200k man 1/1-x

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    5 жыл бұрын

    me thank you!!!!

  • @DynestiGTI
    @DynestiGTI5 жыл бұрын

    2:31 when the actor for Superman helps out 3Blue1Brown

  • @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS

    @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS

    5 жыл бұрын

    LUL

  • @kasperjoonatan6014

    @kasperjoonatan6014

    5 жыл бұрын

    But Gregory Galperin is the real Superman here ❣

  • @MrAB2357

    @MrAB2357

    5 жыл бұрын

    When you need to move blocks weighing 10^(20-1) kg, you'd better call Superman to help out!

  • @duckymomo7935

    @duckymomo7935

    5 жыл бұрын

    Is it really the same person ie superman?

  • @thanostitan.infinity

    @thanostitan.infinity

    5 жыл бұрын

    True LMAO

  • @ngyanloongmoe1305
    @ngyanloongmoe130511 ай бұрын

    1:38 open the 0.25x speed

  • @kgsr_x2

    @kgsr_x2

    11 ай бұрын

    Nice

  • @ericallen333
    @ericallen333Ай бұрын

    Thanks for showing me math can be fun and interesting. Great video

  • @EnglishNijisanji
    @EnglishNijisanji5 жыл бұрын

    I don’t speak English. So I don’t get it well. But when I got that the collisions number turned near π, I was like “!?.” It was so beautiful phenomenon.

  • @anselmschueler

    @anselmschueler

    5 жыл бұрын

    cool

  • @dxrpz1669

    @dxrpz1669

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi (sorry for my bad english)

  • @IQuickscopeCA

    @IQuickscopeCA

    5 жыл бұрын

    !!コメントだけで登録者10万人を目指す すうがくはすばらしいですね

  • @EnglishNijisanji

    @EnglishNijisanji

    5 жыл бұрын

    Blakee Yes, I believe math is beautiful and also amazing

  • @ARlELATOM

    @ARlELATOM

    5 жыл бұрын

    !!コメントだけで登録者10万人を目指す You write English wonderfully! ❤️

  • @epochthekid
    @epochthekid4 жыл бұрын

    3:56 Why is this cow your idea of "way over-idealized" and why do I agree?

  • @different_stuff

    @different_stuff

    4 жыл бұрын

    i don't know about a spherical cow, but there is popular joke about spherical horse: Some man hired physicists to calculate which horse will finish first in the upcoming races. They gave him their results. And that horse didn't win. Angry man asked physicists why is that so, and they replied, that they calculated race results for spherical absolutely black horses in vacuum. So this is a joke about over-idealized conditions that physicists use in their calculations.

  • @fordsquared537

    @fordsquared537

    4 жыл бұрын

    DifferentStuff Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Both my engineering teachers in the past enjoyed the phrase “spherical cow in a vacuum,” which just says how engineers and physicists would assume the cow is a sphere so that calculations are much easier

  • @georgiykireev9678

    @georgiykireev9678

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@fordsquared537 In my language it's a horse.

  • @infintiyward

    @infintiyward

    4 жыл бұрын

    in topology, you count holes. A cow (assuming it had no holes) would be the same as a sphere from a topological perspective since they both have no holes.

  • @josephnimal953

    @josephnimal953

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's from a Neil deGrasse Tyson's joke. It's about how physicists love to see the things in universe to be a perfect sphere. If u ask a farmer what is a perfect cow, he will answer a perfect cow is the one which will give lots of milk, a butcher will answer a perfect cow is the one which is fat. But a physicist will answer that a perfect cow is a cow which is spherical.

  • @copycatlyn
    @copycatlyn8 ай бұрын

    saw the short. found the original video. nice!

  • @SCP--sf3fu
    @SCP--sf3fu3 жыл бұрын

    3blue: Quick! I need some visual way to show the audience how over-idealized this simulation is! 1brown: Cow sphere 3blue: w h a t ? 1brown: _c o w s p h e r e_

  • @shadesmarerik4112

    @shadesmarerik4112

    3 жыл бұрын

    cowsphere is one word actually

  • @alx-lm3kg

    @alx-lm3kg

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shadesmarerik4112 hiw do you know that???!?!?

  • @jasongusta7419

    @jasongusta7419

    2 жыл бұрын

    did he stutter 3blue?

  • @maxnolife_

    @maxnolife_

    Жыл бұрын

    @@achtsekundenfurz7876 Oh so it’s just the humor for simplified models such as a spherical cow because the shape of a cow is too complex lmao

  • @IanBLacy

    @IanBLacy

    10 ай бұрын

    “Assume a spherical cow in a vacuum”

  • @paragbehera754
    @paragbehera7542 ай бұрын

    I think the large cube motion represent as a semi-circle or half sine wave. Maybe something has to do with that which would be half of pie no collision to the big cube and half value are from just the end wall.

  • @djsalad5752
    @djsalad57523 жыл бұрын

    “Like a satisfying game of breakout.” Is my favorite analogy on this channel so far.

  • @o_o............

    @o_o............

    2 жыл бұрын

    The ideal cow takes the cake for me

  • @myukunigunde8372
    @myukunigunde83723 жыл бұрын

    Any maths/science/engineering problem: *exists* Pi: aight imma head *in*

  • @chyuyeyo9933
    @chyuyeyo99338 ай бұрын

    do you have any update on this? I found an interesting correlation between pi number, circle and perhaps collisions of all particles in the universe? Is there any concept of collision force? Excuse my questions I was not good at physics during school I am just being curious and imaginative

  • @LydellAaron
    @LydellAaron2 жыл бұрын

    Question: Would this same algorithm compute TAU if we switched the walls once after the initial series of collisions before the larger block is ejected back out from where it came? Let PI be defined as C/r (circumference of circle divided by the radius), AND TAU which is C/d (circumference / diameter). Can we reverse the roles of the walls to block the heavier block from leaving, so that the "high impedance" wall and "open circuit" walls are switched?

  • @FacultyofKhan
    @FacultyofKhan5 жыл бұрын

    I always COUNT my blessings whenever 3b1b uploads an UNEXPECTED video. As usual, great work!

  • @ParthKohli

    @ParthKohli

    5 жыл бұрын

    We feel the same way about you. :)

  • @SheikhEddy

    @SheikhEddy

    5 жыл бұрын

    I love the videos you put up! Great content that is nearly impossible to find elsewhere :D

  • @PhysicsMath

    @PhysicsMath

    5 жыл бұрын

    I am also making video on physics

  • @FacultyofKhan

    @FacultyofKhan

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Just A Random Dood Shhhh let me make my lame puns on the title

  • @vikranttyagiRN

    @vikranttyagiRN

    5 жыл бұрын

    I Subbed to Ur channel and really glad to have found you

  • @hisham1111
    @hisham11113 жыл бұрын

    I really, REALLY, appreciate you leaving in that last bump at 3:53

  • @EntergeticalakaBot

    @EntergeticalakaBot

    2 жыл бұрын

    Its just so amazing when the 1 kg block is moving slightly faster than the other block and you are just like ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAY

  • @EntergeticalakaBot

    @EntergeticalakaBot

    2 жыл бұрын

    @DON'T I WONT 😶

  • @user-vc8ep9cr2f
    @user-vc8ep9cr2f6 ай бұрын

    perfect explication of this fenomen. perfect video continue like this bro.

  • @ivancarrascoq
    @ivancarrascoq10 ай бұрын

    The transient of any natural movement will be e^n where n is x*jw, which is a frequency. Then, any natural movement has “e” implied and a natural oscillation associated. We know from Euler that there is a relationship between e and Pi. Great video 👏

  • @jademonass2954
    @jademonass29544 жыл бұрын

    1:40 what a cool sound effect

  • @hishykot

    @hishykot

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kinda sounds like the beginning of that one Crystal Castles song🤔

  • @uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug6314

    @uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug6314

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a radio

  • @Geotrax2

    @Geotrax2

    Жыл бұрын

    the beginning sounds like a geiger counter

  • @megaman4354

    @megaman4354

    Жыл бұрын

    sounds like a creaking door

  • @_._---.

    @_._---.

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@hishykotCrimewave? Yeah I thought the same thing.

  • @underscoredfrisk
    @underscoredfrisk4 жыл бұрын

    Me: Hey that looks like Pi lol what a coincidence Me: Ah

  • @IAmNotASandwich453

    @IAmNotASandwich453

    4 жыл бұрын

    Exactly what I was thinking 😂

  • @X_w45ey89
    @X_w45ey89 Жыл бұрын

    Never have I ever thought that the small explanation bit with words sliding away at 3:59 from a math video would get me giggling like a kid at six in the morning

  • @howdareyou-cs4qn
    @howdareyou-cs4qn3 ай бұрын

    This is amazing, physics teachers never taught this, and everything we learned was designed to solve problems, from conservation of momentum to conservation of mechanical energy, and we even came to a conclusion E(lose)=1/2 (M1•M2)/(M1+M2) • V(relative) how fascinating physics is now

  • @stevenvanhulle7242
    @stevenvanhulle72424 жыл бұрын

    Originally discovered in 1995, published in 2003. Galperin (for 8 years): "Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbe... Well, time to publish then, I guess."

  • @TechSupportDave

    @TechSupportDave

    4 жыл бұрын

    that's what i was wondering. why wait almost 10 years to publish it?

  • @hiransarkar1236

    @hiransarkar1236

    4 жыл бұрын

    The time he took to count the no. of collisions

  • @Proccito

    @Proccito

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hiransarkar1236 Gralperin: "956...957...958..." His wife: "Honey. Dinner is ready!" Gralperin: "Sure, I am comming soon...fuck...1...2...3..."

  • @matejpesl6442

    @matejpesl6442

    4 жыл бұрын

    Xd

  • @derwastl

    @derwastl

    Жыл бұрын

    no

  • @BobbyDukeArts
    @BobbyDukeArts2 жыл бұрын

    What the what!!!!! That's so cool

  • @godchild7545

    @godchild7545

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow I didn’t know you were interested in this kind of stuff!

  • @damianh.1429

    @damianh.1429

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yo big fan dude keep it up

  • @colewilkie

    @colewilkie

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fancy meeting you here, woodsman.

  • @lasmalux

    @lasmalux

    2 жыл бұрын

    What the what

  • @xilnoi

    @xilnoi

    2 жыл бұрын

    wood

  • @sednathansdominoes8369
    @sednathansdominoes83697 ай бұрын

    All thanks to Greg.

  • @rufelabanil731
    @rufelabanil7318 ай бұрын

    This is a good quote

  • @MatematicaRio
    @MatematicaRio4 жыл бұрын

    Pure poetry! ❤️

  • @ChaosAtlantis33

    @ChaosAtlantis33

    3 жыл бұрын

    How has noone noticed you lol?

  • @jonathasdavid9902

    @jonathasdavid9902

    3 жыл бұрын

    Olha, brasileiro na área

  • @jgperes

    @jgperes

    3 жыл бұрын

    O RAFAEL

  • @redswordcalice235

    @redswordcalice235

    3 жыл бұрын

    Krlh a lenda aqui.

  • @nikhilnagaria2672

    @nikhilnagaria2672

    2 жыл бұрын

    yo

  • @InsertName5015
    @InsertName50153 жыл бұрын

    1:34 The sound is perfect

  • @Caterblock

    @Caterblock

    3 жыл бұрын

    134 rearranged is 314

  • @devsus

    @devsus

    10 ай бұрын

    bambi fantrack

  • @user-ke7ki6mx2z

    @user-ke7ki6mx2z

    2 ай бұрын

    Duck

  • @Ashishbro
    @Ashishbro Жыл бұрын

    0:38 the best decision ever took place on the planet

  • @mikaelangehagen7251
    @mikaelangehagen72518 ай бұрын

    This was very calming and i dont know why

  • @feynstein1004
    @feynstein10045 жыл бұрын

    Ah so 3blue1brown is blueballing me. Figures 😂

  • @dreamer097

    @dreamer097

    5 жыл бұрын

    you mean 3blue1brownballing you..?

  • @GewelReal

    @GewelReal

    5 жыл бұрын

    3blueballing

  • @lankymcgainsplease1236

    @lankymcgainsplease1236

    5 жыл бұрын

    Would you rather they brown balled you?

  • @PrincessEev

    @PrincessEev

    5 жыл бұрын

    tfw you came into the comments to make this exact joke xD

  • @aidanroberjot7469

    @aidanroberjot7469

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well at least you can see where the circle comes from coz the equation of a circle is (x-a) ^2 +(y-b) ^2 = r^2 so 1/2m1v^2 + 1/2m2v2^2 = const. is clearly a circle equation

  • @Shubham-qk8fw
    @Shubham-qk8fw5 жыл бұрын

    Content - 💯 Editing - 💯 Voiceover - 💯 That's the definition of 3 blue 1 brown. Keep up the good work. U will definitely hit 10M subscribers soon

  • @guilhermegondin151

    @guilhermegondin151

    5 жыл бұрын

    I would give another 💯 for the colision sound kkkkk

  • @enverko

    @enverko

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't say soon, because for some reason most people hate math for no apparent reason. If they were to see the true beauty of math I believe there would be a lot more people loving math!

  • @Shubham-qk8fw

    @Shubham-qk8fw

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@guilhermegondin151 true, how could I forget that?

  • @Shubham-qk8fw

    @Shubham-qk8fw

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@enverko Yaa you are absolutely right

  • @totoxahc

    @totoxahc

    5 жыл бұрын

    Date format - 0

  • @BarberAnimations
    @BarberAnimations7 ай бұрын

    This is so satisfying, better than most asmr 💀💀💀

  • @rjaycruzalde4388
    @rjaycruzalde438810 ай бұрын

    1:40 Me farting in school be like

  • @XxJoe1101xX
    @XxJoe1101xX5 жыл бұрын

    That "clack" sound you added is apparently ASMR to my ears, so it's very appreciated.

  • @rishujeetrai5780
    @rishujeetrai57804 жыл бұрын

    Pi is a creep. I'm gonna file a restraining order on him. He has started to show up on my integration problems now. He's gone too far.

  • @oblivion2755

    @oblivion2755

    4 жыл бұрын

    pi is a cursed number, way more cursed than 13 or 666.

  • @iqbaltrojan

    @iqbaltrojan

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@oblivion2755 whats wrong with 13 lol it's my lucky number

  • @thewall4069

    @thewall4069

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@iqbaltrojan oh the irony

  • @notyepdranel961

    @notyepdranel961

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@oblivion2755 *4* is the worst

  • @akasakasvault7597

    @akasakasvault7597

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@oblivion2755 indeed four, or, in Japanese, shi, which us also the Japanese word for death, is terribly cursed

  • @justinhoch4180
    @justinhoch41802 жыл бұрын

    I’m just here to say that I’m glad that there was sound on those simulations, they were satisfying

  • @aexirrr
    @aexirrr2 жыл бұрын

    I saw this video months ago and replayed it just for the clacks

  • @toothandsticks
    @toothandsticks4 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Galperin was my geometry professor at University. I have never enjoyed geometry so much in my life. The man knows and can prove an incredible number of astounding, non-obvious facts. Thanks for sharing his work!

  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat4 жыл бұрын

    Woah. Freaking woah.

  • @aidenmcubing

    @aidenmcubing

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Laquelectro woah

  • @sunitakrishna3864

    @sunitakrishna3864

    3 жыл бұрын

    s

  • @ignacio6851

    @ignacio6851

    3 жыл бұрын

    mr beast give me moners

  • @fakeuber8254

    @fakeuber8254

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ignacio6851 this is not Mr Beast, but Mr Beat. Instead of giving you money he gives you a beat down

  • @osirisapex7483

    @osirisapex7483

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mr Beat on a 3b1b vid? Worlds are colliding

  • @suzuki_aoharu
    @suzuki_aoharu Жыл бұрын

    3 years after this video is published, I discovered something(not sure if anyone found this out before) I think the number of collisions =Pi*sqrt(ratio of the mass of the block on the left to that on the right)

  • @nerdgamesproductionsinc.9015
    @nerdgamesproductionsinc.90152 жыл бұрын

    The fact that the blocks made a realistic electric guitar chord is mind-blowing

  • @jotarokujo5849
    @jotarokujo58495 жыл бұрын

    Wrong The 100²⁰ would have destroyed our slippery floor

  • @carltonblend

    @carltonblend

    5 жыл бұрын

    And our tiny cube, either that or the bigger cube itself collapses into a black hole lol

  • @afoxwithahat7846

    @afoxwithahat7846

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@carltonblend And eats the Tinny cube

  • @thfFromRussia

    @thfFromRussia

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@carltonblend and even if it has no enough mass for a black hole its gravity influences purity of the experiment )

  • @Voidmoth1

    @Voidmoth1

    4 жыл бұрын

    what about a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg mass

  • @asfi637

    @asfi637

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@carltonblend What if the cube is made out of bedrock?

  • @humanguy1643
    @humanguy16434 жыл бұрын

    Everybody gangsta till the blocks start pullin’ out autotune

  • @intravine

    @intravine

    3 жыл бұрын

    supertone lol

  • @artisttemple8268
    @artisttemple82682 жыл бұрын

    I was with you until you mentioned the Black Hole lol. Yet; as someone who was not taught math in a fun way, I'm very grateful to you for creating this channel. Thank you! ✖➕➖➗〰🟥🔶❇🔘💜

  • @cheeseburgerpro69
    @cheeseburgerpro697 ай бұрын

    Thank you for letting me learn what “ 20 to the power of 5” is

  • @kauboy9816
    @kauboy98164 жыл бұрын

    I was watching this from the preview, and I would swear the counter of "314 clacks" hit exactly at 3:14 left in the video. Well done.

  • @h3xty

    @h3xty

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RIPToot it was, it says 3:14 *left*

  • @DavidG2P

    @DavidG2P

    4 жыл бұрын

    This channel is of suprahuman intelligence

  • @ojasvikamra6835

    @ojasvikamra6835

    4 жыл бұрын

    At 1:58 if youre curious

  • @tyriekovco711
    @tyriekovco7114 жыл бұрын

    Okay how many collisions if it was 10^1,000,000 times the weight of a 1kg object? Me: C L A C K

  • @batzal9459

    @batzal9459

    4 жыл бұрын

    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000^10 years later " ... Clack.. I freaking finished to count that, oh boi!!"

  • @full5339

    @full5339

    4 жыл бұрын

    It will become part of it.

  • @full5339

    @full5339

    4 жыл бұрын

    Imagine gravity.

  • @full5339

    @full5339

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or it would get so hot. May be it could melt.

  • @oliverholm3973

    @oliverholm3973

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@full5339 I prefer to read this comment without the context of your other two. Hello. _Imagine gravity._

  • @roymuerlunos2426
    @roymuerlunos2426 Жыл бұрын

    Common core lessons in a billion billion billion billion nutshells, Clacks is in session

  • @ChandrasegaranNarasimhan
    @ChandrasegaranNarasimhan14 күн бұрын

    Thanks for the video. Enjoyed it.

  • @GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT
    @GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT4 жыл бұрын

    me: **moving frame by frame at **2:29** and seeing 59 instantly become 313,979** **doing the same for **3:12** and seeing 941 become 314,159,265,136** this looks so fast... gotta know how fast it was...

  • @AspectOfTheBlade

    @AspectOfTheBlade

    3 жыл бұрын

    So true. I wanna know too. I could not even pause it between 100 and 3 hundred trillion

  • @marzipug5439

    @marzipug5439

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AspectOfTheBlade He literally said the rate in the video.

  • @xxromerocksxx2889

    @xxromerocksxx2889

    3 жыл бұрын

    literally did the same thing bruh

  • @GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT

    @GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Fernando García salazar i already knew that

  • @Britishfurryrectifiersucker

    @Britishfurryrectifiersucker

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately it will be faster than the frame rate of the video. You would need a 314 million fps youtube viewer

  • @basimansari6759
    @basimansari67592 жыл бұрын

    As a 6th grader, I don't understand the terms you use in your video but I so much hope to learn them throughout my coming years. I find your videos very intriguing, keep up the amazing work!

  • @PritamDavis

    @PritamDavis

    Жыл бұрын

    Keep being curious bro😎🔥

  • @e2532e

    @e2532e

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PritamDavis until being killed by the education system of the country

  • @PritamDavis

    @PritamDavis

    Жыл бұрын

    @@e2532e agreed bro.. it really sucks at times

  • @rajan8516

    @rajan8516

    Жыл бұрын

    @@e2532e well 😔

  • @silverseacow

    @silverseacow

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PritamDavis im 7th grade rn

  • @doruktasbasan1559
    @doruktasbasan15599 ай бұрын

    Math proffesors: randomly studying Pi whenever something new is being found: bonjourno

  • @NoLife555
    @NoLife55511 ай бұрын

    Math: this is none of your business Pi: nu'uh

  • @iwillspam5985
    @iwillspam59855 жыл бұрын

    3B1B's homework best homework

  • @alessandroceloria4573

    @alessandroceloria4573

    5 жыл бұрын

    The next day... Math teacher: Have you done your homework for today? Me: No, but I know why if you shoot a moving object to a still one with a mass ratio of 10^k under no friction conditions you get the digits of pi!

  • @avgchz9444

    @avgchz9444

    5 жыл бұрын

    I know, I'm gonna do this instead of my actual homework

  • @PriyabrataHalder
    @PriyabrataHalder4 жыл бұрын

    2:30 when superman passes his time doing maths.

  • @paglobal

    @paglobal

    3 жыл бұрын

    Was about to comment something like this😂

  • @user-ov2fc5sd1e

    @user-ov2fc5sd1e

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't get it. Yes I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed

  • @examination4088

    @examination4088

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@user-ov2fc5sd1e henry cavil plays superman in the dceu

  • @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886

    @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@user-ov2fc5sd1e The Big Mass?

  • @dulearning8256

    @dulearning8256

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@user-ov2fc5sd1e the youtuber says henry cavil lol henry cavil is the actor name for superman movie

  • @retrotech383
    @retrotech383 Жыл бұрын

    i dont know how but this guy makes math actually interesting

  • @skilzrus8965
    @skilzrus896510 ай бұрын

    i have rewatched this at least 10 times, still entertained

  • @PhoenixLive_YT
    @PhoenixLive_YT5 жыл бұрын

    3:56 me after watching this video....

  • @pi2590

    @pi2590

    6 ай бұрын

    YEAH PHOENIX

  • @lezhilo772
    @lezhilo7725 жыл бұрын

    Solved :D The circle in question is a circle in the momentum phase space. Specifically say m2 is the heavier block, if you rescale the momentum variable p1 and p2 by sqrt{m}, then you have a very nice circle equation. The entire process amounts to turning by angle pi from the point (p1,p2)=(0,1) to (0,-1) so that the heavier block is reflected. Every collision between the two blocks can be written down as a mapping between points on the circle in the phase space(ie old momentum determining new momentum completely, while obeying energy conservation so staying on the circle). Every collision at the wall serves to reflect the point about the p2 axis so that the direction of p1 is flipped. Every step leaves a point on the circle, and each point corresponds to a click sound. So the total number of points on the circle(minus the starting point) is the same as the total number of clicks heard. Since all collisions between two blocks is followed by a collision at the wall, we can consider these two events forming a single step. It turns out that as the ratio r=m1/m2 gets smaller, this step approaches an infinitesimal rotation generator, with each step’s rotation angle being 2sqrt{r}. If we let k to be the number of rotation steps to execute the full pi angle rotation from (1,0) to (0,1), then 2sqrt{r}=\pi/k, or 2k=\pi/\sqrt{r}. We identify 2k as the total number of points on the circle(involving both the rotation and the reflection, thats why there’s a factor of 2), then if sqrt{r} is 10^-2n, we have 2k=\pi * 10^n, which is exactly what we have. The only thing left is the round off but I need my beauty sleep now XD. Can’t wait to see Grant’s solution and animations! :D

  • @coconutflour9868

    @coconutflour9868

    5 жыл бұрын

    That would only be the case if the sum of the squares of the momenta (p1^2 + p2^2) is conserved, which is not the case. Conservation of energy demands that p1^2/m1 + p2^2/m2 is conserved, which is the same as what you tried only if the masses are equal

  • @sauravchauhan4172

    @sauravchauhan4172

    5 жыл бұрын

    Energy is also conserved here

  • @coconutflour9868

    @coconutflour9868

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sauravchauhan4172 How so?

  • @sauravchauhan4172

    @sauravchauhan4172

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@coconutflour9868 he said that in the video too , energy is also conserved , and I think circle is not the solution, it can be an ellipse also. Maybe wrong

  • @lezhilo772

    @lezhilo772

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@coconutflour9868 I rescaled the momentum variable by 1/sqrt(m). That means given old p^2/m, I define P=p/sqrt{m}. The conservation of energy equation p1^2/m1+p2^2/m2=E then becomes P1^2+P2^2=E. If we use the rescaled momentum variables as the axis of the phase space, then states of constant energy form a circle.

  • @timwhite1783
    @timwhite1783 Жыл бұрын

    0:19 Love the spherical cow animation btw.

  • @CanadaGovernment785
    @CanadaGovernment785Ай бұрын

    This is so cool bro I am amazed by this

  • @sharbel9624
    @sharbel96245 жыл бұрын

    Reading comments section: . . Expectations: people discuss math reality: clack clack clack

  • @emilefortier1688
    @emilefortier16884 жыл бұрын

    I just wanted to say thank you for all of your work. This is brilliant. I think if more people watched your videos, we'd have a better world overall.

  • @coolperson8335
    @coolperson83357 ай бұрын

    1:41 was a literal door frame

  • @MrTaken-tl4bw
    @MrTaken-tl4bw Жыл бұрын

    every now and then, this video comes to my feed, and i watch it just for the sound

  • @3kbschannel288
    @3kbschannel2884 жыл бұрын

    1:42 "Did you just fart?" "No, mom. I'm watching a physics video"

  • @blazeguruz8989

    @blazeguruz8989

    4 жыл бұрын

    did you just farted

  • @oblivion2755

    @oblivion2755

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@blazeguruz8989 have you did farted?

  • @Ixions

    @Ixions

    4 жыл бұрын

    *plot twist* you did fart while watching a physics video

  • @cubeofmeat4982

    @cubeofmeat4982

    4 жыл бұрын

    Who tf farts like that

  • @craetydonutkey1348

    @craetydonutkey1348

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like your bedroom’s door hinges need some lubricant XD

  • @zerokelvin3626
    @zerokelvin36264 жыл бұрын

    It comforts me that there is this abstract, interesting, mathematical world full of independent truth, no matter how dire our situation in the real world may be. A sacred place.

  • @hhoopplaa

    @hhoopplaa

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Ron I'm assuming he means its mathematical parts of it. In reality, there would (probably) be also physics and biology and stuff, ...right? Honestly this sounds very philosophical.

  • @artursruseckis4242
    @artursruseckis4242 Жыл бұрын

    It's not enough to ignore friction and energy loss of collision. At point gravity starts to show its influence on results, and I am pretty sure there will be no more than 1 collision with the supermassive black hole object. So the round cow disclaimer should have mentioned the the gravity as well

  • @error_6o6
    @error_6o6 Жыл бұрын

    3:56 why did this make me love the whole video

  • @juliangoulette7600
    @juliangoulette76004 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps you could set up analogous situations for any other base: 0. You have two blocks with masses of 1 and b^2^(d-1), where b is the base of the number system and d is the number of digits in that base you want to compute. 1. Count the number of collisions in that base. 2. You now have an approximation of pi*b^(d-1) in that base.

  • @dustinsanders5780
    @dustinsanders57804 жыл бұрын

    3Blue1Brown: "We have 2 sliding blocks and a wall" Me: "I'm sorry could you repeat that, I'm already lost."

  • @Bread403
    @Bread4037 ай бұрын

    Me trying to get a drink of water in the middle of the night The floor: 1:41

  • @The2378AlpacaMan
    @The2378AlpacaMan Жыл бұрын

    i think my intuitive, albeit incomplete, answer would be this. we know energy is conserved. as the smaller block bounces back and forth between the larger block and the wall, this stops once the larger block has a velocity to the right relative to the smaller block, even after the smaller block bounces off the wall. as the mass of the larger block gets super large compared to the smaller block, the smaller block can only take/give very small amounts of energy of the larger block with each collision, so the speed of the larger block changes very slightly with each collision. because of this, the moment when the larger block is moving to the right faster than the smaller block, their speeds will be roughly equal with the larger one's slightly larger than the smaller one's. because energy is conserved and the energies are determined by the squares of the velocities, the velocities determine an ellipse. if we imagine the x axis is the velocity of the bigger block and the y axis is the velocity of the smaller block, we start at the positive x axis, and then with each collision, we bounce up and down along the ellipse but going slowly to the left. because the speeds are roughly equal when the bouncing stops as mentioned above, if we scale the y axis down by the square root of the ratio of the masses, we get a circle, and since the ratio of the masses is very close to zero, the y axis coordinate must be close to zero, so we must end up very close to the negative x axis. that is to say, as the ratio of the masses goes to zero, we visit more and more points of such a circle, so we somehow count pi.