Antonio Padilla

Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them (eBook, ePUB)

A Journey to the Edge of Physics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780241445389
• Artikelnr.: 62658520

Autorenporträt

Antonio Padilla

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

An exceptional compilation of modern mathematics and its real-world applications... A fast-paced and dramatic telling of the history of mathematics that is ultimately concerned with convincing us why we should care... Perusing this book will leave readers with awe, enough fun facts for many cocktail parties, and a deep appreciation for mathematicians like Padilla who can explain how understanding a googolplex leads us to the existence of doppelgängers Brianne Kane Scientific American