Michelle Obama

And so when I started, I was just reading about all the different combinations.

And apparently, there are...

across the cube, 43 quintillion combinations that the cube can be in, right?

That is more in seconds.

That's more time than we have in a lifetime.

Like if we all started counting, everyone in this room, we started counting together over the course of our entire lives, we wouldn't hit that number.

As best as I understand it.

You know what I mean?

Maybe if you got some extra years, you'd be fine.

But we...

I didn't even know a quintillion was a number.

I missed that in the math class.

But the other thing that I learned about that blew my mind is that there is a number, when they were researching, they called it God's number.

And it is the number...

of moves, the shortest number of moves it would take to solve the cube.

And they found that it was 20.

So in all of these 43 quintillion combinations, there are 20 moves away is as far as you are

from having this scramble solved, the scramble that feels infinite in its chaos.

And it all gets brought back together in like such a simple number, such a simple amount.

And it also just feels like a little bit of a metaphor for life that these kids do it.