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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them audiobook
- By: Antonio Padilla
- Narrator: Antonio Padilla
- Category: Physics, Quantum Theory, Science
- Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 26, 2022
- Language: English
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them Audiobook Summary
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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 Poincare 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them Audiobook Narrator
Antonio Padilla is the narrator of Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them audiobook that was written by Antonio Padilla
Antonio Padilla is a leading theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. He is the Associate Director of the new Nottingham Centre of Gravity and has served as the chair of U.K. Cosmology for over a decade. In 2016, he and his collaborator 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 seven million times.
About the Author(s) of Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them
Antonio Padilla is the author of Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them Full Details
| Narrator | Antonio Padilla |
| Length | 13 hours 53 minutes |
| Author | Antonio Padilla |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | July 26, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9781250841568 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Physics, Quantum Theory, Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250841568.
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