[SUBS]RANK

Making a GOOGOL:1 Reduction with Lego Gears

Brick Experiment Channel BRICK EXPERIMENT CHANNEL · MAY 16, 2020 · 9:58 · SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

This YouTube video has 42 383 730 views, 547 920 likes, 45 423 comments and was published May 16, 2020 on Brick Experiment Channel. That is 2.5x the channel's average views.

Description

Building a long gear train using 186 Lego gears. Many different types of Lego gears are used. Enjoy! Read more details of the Lego machine here: https://brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/lego-googol-machine/ This was inspired by Daniel de Bruin's "universe's biggest gear reduction": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFslB0AcVmM The finished gear ratio: 10341796308487334800992832804222885104773611498499997696000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000:1 or 1.0342e100:1 or 1.034 GOOGOL:1 Rotation time for the last gear: 52433879932503535381614991275498187972589101825233846406570841889117043121149897330595482546 years or 5.2434e91 years Formula for the gear ratio: 24/8 * 40/8 * 40/8 * 40/8 * 60/1 * 12/1 * 168/1 * (140 / 8 + 1) * 141 * 20/12 * (40/8)^20 * 20/12 * (24/1)^20 * 56/16 * (36/1)^10 * (40/1)^18 * 15/9 * 56/1 List of gears used: 27x Gear 8 Tooth [3647] 1x Gear Expert Builder 9 Tooth [g9] 6x Gear 12 Tooth Bevel [6589] 2x Gear 12 Tooth Double Bevel [32270] 1x Gear Expert Builder 15 Tooth [g15] 1x Gear 16 Tooth [94925] 2x Gear 20 Tooth Bevel [32198] 23x Gear 24 Tooth [3648] 10x Gear 36 Tooth Double Bevel [32498] 49x Gear 40 Tooth [3649] 2x Turntable Large Type 2 [48452cx1] 1x Turntable Large Type 3 [18939 / 18938] 8x Gear Rack 11 x 11 Curved [24121] 1x Gear, Hailfire Droid Wheel [x784] 1x Gear Worm Screw, Short [27938] 51x Gear Worm Screw, Long [4716] For those wondering, the visual effect I used in the end montage is called Find Edges, comes with Adobe Premiere 14. Music (used with permission): Alpha Centauri B by Anders Enger Jensen https://www.youtube.com/user/HariboOSX