> On 15 May 2019, at 19:01, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is not a joke. For internal reason Eddington evaluated the number of > particles as N = 2 x 136 x 2^256.
Is 136 related to some physical constant? Why 2^(a power of two)? Any idea where this estimation comes from, and why it would be exact? This assumes a lot of thing about the universe, when we still don’t have a coherent descriptive theory, nor unanimity of what that could, and if that exists. Then how to verify this? Bruno > 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 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Everything List" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2158abf8-82c9-8b49-eeb1-43415021244d%40rudnyi.ru. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/39a59c3a-e560-1967-7571-5d44741183f9%40rudnyi.ru. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/4474728D-2086-40BE-ADBC-6289FB52607F%40ulb.ac.be.
