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

Author
Padilla, Antonio, 1975-
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Description
viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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.
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"--
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ISBN
9780374600563 (hardcover)
0374600562 (hardcover)
Note
"Originally published in 2022 by Allen Lane, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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