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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them
- A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
- Narrated by: Antonio Padilla
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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Publisher's Summary
This program is read by the author.
A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality.
For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new understandings of the ultimate nature of reality. But what are these truths? What are the mysterious numbers that explain the universe?
In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, the leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Antonio Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, offering a startling picture of how the universe works. These strange numbers 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 nature can never be definitively proved, because to do so would take so much time that the universe would experience a Poincaré Recurrence—resetting to precisely the state it currently holds, down to the arrangement of individual atoms; and 10^{-120}, measuring the desperately unlikely balance of energy needed to allow the universe to exist for more than just a moment, to extend beyond the size of a single atom—in other words, the mystery of our unexpected universe.
Leading us down the rabbit hole to a deeper understanding of reality, Padilla explains how these unusual numbers are the key to understanding such mind-boggling phenomena as black holes, relativity, and the problem of the cosmological constant—that the two best and most rigorously tested ways of understanding the universe contradict one another. Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is a combination of popular and cutting-edge science—and a lively, entertaining, and even funny exploration of the most fundamental truths about the universe.
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- Scott Chambers
- 2023-01-08
Excellent and Recommended
Who would have thought a book about numbers would be so interesting? I have always had an irrational fear of math and numbers and despite that mental block discovered a love for theoretical physics, quantum mechanics and relativity. This was a well written book explaining the incomprehensibly large numbers without too much, daunting maths. I found it profound and placed me in a better overall understanding of the complexity and beauty of large numbers and our place in the universe within all of that. Fascinating reading - It is amazing to listen and read such passionately well written works from clearly, really smart people.
I would say that Anthony Padilla's writing and style is a comparable to Carlo Rovelli and Frank Wilczek - looking beyond just the science to see the beauty of what Stephen Hawking' labeled the Grand Design. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in time, theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, relativity and, now, for me, large numbers. I hope we see more from this author.
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