The Amazing Numbers of the Universe: A Journey Beyond Imagination

The search for mathematical truths has led brilliant theoretical physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, and Albert Einstein to a new understanding of the finite nature of reality. But what are these truths? What are these mysterious numbers?

In this book,... leading theoretical physicist Antonio Padilla invites you on a daring cosmic journey through the nine most unusual numbers in physics to show how the universe is structured.
Graham's number — so gigantic that if you think about it incorrectly, your head will collapse into a singularity;
the number TREE(3) — whose nature can never be definitively proven because it would require a reboot of the universe;
the number 10^{-120} — measuring the extremely unlikely balance of energy required for the universe to exist for more than a moment.

As you descend down the rabbit hole to a deeper understanding of reality, you will realize how these unusual numbers become the key to understanding such staggering phenomena as black holes, the theory of relativity, and the cosmological constant problem.

And you will also see why the two best and most tested ways of understanding the universe contradict each other.