Book

Fantastic numbers and where to find them : a cosmic quest from zero to infinity

Call Number

  • 530.15 P1237 (CEN)

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Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Physical Description

viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"The leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla uses nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics to build a picture of our current best understanding of how the universe works"--

Notes

"Originally published in 2022 by Allen Lane, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • 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
  • 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
  • The infinity gods
  • The aleph and the omega
  • Close encounters of the infinite kind
  • The theory of everything.

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