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**Antonio Padilla’s *The Amazing Numbers of the Universe: A Journey Beyond Imagination***
What do the numbers Graham, TREE(3), and 10⁻¹²⁰ have in common? They are the keys to unlocking the deepest mysteries of the cosmos. In this book, leading theoretical physicist Antonio Padilla takes you on a daring cosmic journey through nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics.
The search for mathematical truths has led brilliant minds like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, and Albert Einstein to new understandings of reality. Padilla reveals how these numbers are crucial for grasping phenomena such as black holes, relativity, and the cosmological constant problem.
Discover why the number Graham is so vast that thinking about it incorrectly could cause your head to collapse into a singularity. Learn why the nature of TREE(3) can never be fully proven without rebooting the universe. Understand how 10⁻¹²⁰ measures the incredibly unlikely energy balance needed for the universe to exist beyond a single moment.
Padilla, a leading theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Nottingham, deputy director of the Nottingham Centre for Gravity, and winner of the 2016 Buchalter Cosmology Prize, guides you down the rabbit hole to see why the two best-tested ways of understanding the universe contradict each other.
Price: 2005.00 RUR