Eddington wrote a book "Fundamental Theory" which was apparently never
quite finished. I only know of it because there's a book I have by
Higman "Applied Group Theoretic and Matrix Methods" that devotes the
last chapter to a review of Eddington's "Quantum Relativity" in which he
says he gives a shortened version of Eddington's argument. It's 41
pages long. Higman's book is out of print, but cheap used copies are
available.
Brent
On 5/16/2019 10:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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
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