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  • Dear Ryan What came first, the chicken or the egg?

  • Hey, guys! So I don't know why this has always been

  • such a popular Dear Ryan.

  • I mean, it always has been.

  • I get this one all the time.

  • I mean, look at how many likes this one comment has.

  • I'm finally just gonna put this ridiculous question to an end once and for all.

  • I'm gonna scientifically prove what came first, the chicken

  • or the egg, using the power of maths.

  • And I'm not gonna lie. You're probably gonna need to know

  • at least basic algebra to follow along.

  • It's not algebra. It's like my version of Ryan's algebra--

  • "Algebryan".

  • You have to learn "algebryan" to understand this.

  • So in order to answer the most famous question of all time:

  • What came first? The chicken or the egg?

  • We're gonna need to start with the most famous equation of all time:

  • E=MC squared.

  • In school they teach you that Einstein meant that E=MC squared

  • is Energy equals Mass times the Speed of Light squared.

  • Well, that's completely wrong in "algebryan".

  • What it really means is that Egg equals matter times chicken,

  • little floating number two.

  • And in order to find out what came first,

  • we have to figure out the matter at hand, which is M.

  • We have to figure out what M equals, basically.

  • We have to find out what M equals by getting M by itself.

  • This is where basic "algebryan" comes in.

  • If you take the square root of both sides of the equation,

  • the square root gets rid of the little floating number two,

  • leaving you with the square root of E equals M times C.

  • And now to get rid of C, you divide the chicken on both sides,

  • leaving you with square root of E over C equals M.

  • Now this may look even more confusing, but bear with me.

  • The little floating number two and the C that we got rid of earlier

  • will help you to understand.

  • See, we were to write this out,

  • we're left with chicken, little floating number two.

  • Notice anything familiar? Exactly. Chicken Little.

  • From the nursery rhyme! Nursery rhymes were trying

  • to tell us the whole time!

  • Chicken Little was the one who said, "The sky is falling!"

  • And falling is the opposite of floating.

  • So if we take the opposite of Chicken Little floating,

  • we get Egg Big Falling.

  • Big Egg Falling!

  • What big egg is most famous for falling?

  • Yet another nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty.

  • The same Humpty Dumpty that was on a wall and had a great fall.

  • Get it? On a wall, great fall.

  • He was on the Great Wall-- The Great Wall of China!

  • Which means Humpty Dumpty was Chinese.

  • In fact, his name wasn't even Humpty Dumpty.

  • It was just Hu, but they added the "umpty Dumpty"

  • to make it more pleasant for kids, I guess.

  • But Hu was indeed a Chinese egg, which means he came from Chinese Chicken,

  • which explains why chickens go bok! bok! bok!

  • They're trying to say bok!--as in Bok -Choy,

  • like a Chinese Cabbage!

  • And since eggs are the opposite of a chicken in this equation,

  • the egg's name was Hu, the opposite of that is Uh.

  • And that was the name of the Chinese Chicken: Uh.

  • Uh, the Chinese Chicken, gave us Hu, the Chinese Egg.

  • But, as you know, as much as chickens do lay eggs,

  • eggs do hatch chickens.

  • So Uh doesn't just give us Hu, Hu gives Uh!

  • Because chickens and eggs are one, but don't forget,

  • we still have the Number 2.

  • One, two...12.

  • You see, if we go back to our original equation,

  • square root of E over C is just 12

  • because the square root of an egg, where eggs come from,

  • is a chicken. And if you're left with

  • a chicken over a chicken, that's two chickens that become one.

  • One, two...12!

  • And we all know that in Egg Terms that 12 eggs is a dozen.

  • A Dozen equals Matter.

  • So if you really wanna know the truth and put an end

  • to the most famous question of all time,

  • all you need is basic "Algebryan" and the answer is simple:

  • It doesn't matter. (dozen = matter sounds the same)

  • Who gives a sh*t.

  • Teehee!

  • So thank you guys so much for watching.

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