Let’s cut Mount Everest in half: it is nearly 9,000 meters tall, but the Earth is 12.7 million meters wide, so the Earth is really smooth, but not as smooth as a billiard ball. In this video, I showed that if you were a giant who could hold the entire Earth in your hands, it would feel about as smooth as the top of a pancake - that’s still pretty smooth. But here’s something else: the name Everest comes from this man who did not pronounce his name Everest. His name was George Everest, but that doesn’t mean that he would want us to call the mountain Mount Everest - oh no! He never wanted the mountain to have his name at all, because it already had an established local name, Chumulongma. He didn’t discover it, and in his entire life he never even saw it.