This is not a joke. For internal reason Eddington evaluated the number of particles as N = 2 x 136 x 2^256. To show it more vividly, he has written this result in full.

Evgenii

Am 14.05.2019 um 16:24 schrieb Bruno Marchal:

On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote:

‘I believe there are 
15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296
 protons in the universe, and the same number of electrons.’

Eddington, Arthur S. 1939. The Philosophy of Physical Science. Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press. p. 170. The beginning of the Chapter XI, The 
Physical Universe.

Lol.

I guess this concerns the observable universe, which has grown a lot since 
1939. (Cf Hubble and “Hubble)

Any idea of why that particular number? Beyond the apparent joke?

Bruno





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