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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them

Autor Antonio Padilla
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iul 2023
What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe?

In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Antonio Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics. These include Graham's number, which is so large that if you thought about it in the wrong way, your head would collapse into a singularity; TREE(3), whose finite value could never be reached before the universe reset itself; and 10^{-120}, which measures the desperately unlikely balance of energy the universe needs to exist. . .

Leading us down the rabbit hole to the inner workings of reality, Padilla demonstrates how these unusual numbers are the key to unlocking such mind-bending phenomena as black holes, entropy and the problem of the cosmological constant, which shows that our two best ways of understanding the universe contradict one another. Combining cutting-edge science with an entertaining cosmic quest, Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is an electrifying, head-twisting guide to the most fundamental truths of the universe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141992822
ISBN-10: 0141992824
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin

Notă biografică

Tony Padilla is a leading theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. In 2016, he and his team shared the Buchalter Cosmology Prize for their work on the cosmological constant. He is also a star of the Numberphile YouTube network, where his most popular videos include a discussion of Ramanujan's sum of all positive integers, which has been viewed more than eight million times.

Cuprins

A Chapter That's Not a Number

BIG NUMBERS

1.000000000000000858
A Bolt of relativity
The Challenger Deep
A glimpse into the abyss

A Googol
The tales of Gerard Grant
The entropic captor

A Googolplex
The quantum sorcerer
Where is your doppelgänger?

Graham's Number
Black hole head death
Too much information
Think of a number

Tree(3)
The Game of Trees
The cosmic reset
The holographic truth

LITTLE NUMBERS

Zero
A beautiful number
A history of nothing
Zero is symmetry
Finding zero

0.0000000000000001
The unexpected Higgs boson
Particle particulars
The inevitable Higgs boson
Technically, it's not natural
The Scarlet Pimpernel

10^-120
An embarrassing number
Albert Einstein's most difficult relationship
The golden ticket
The ghost of Sir Isaac Newton

INFINITY

Infinity
The infinite gods
The aleph and the omega
Close encounters of the infinite kind
The Theory of Everything

Notes
Acknowledgements
Index