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Antonio Padilla, "Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity" (FSG,2022)
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Antonio Padilla reveals why gravity is fake—it's just the shape of space-time, not a force like kicking a ball.
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A clear walk from giant numbers to the strange outer edge of physical possibility.
Antonio Padilla takes a book about huge numbers and turns it into a brisk tour of how scale changes what physics can mean. The discussion moves through Googleplex-sized improbabilities, internal inflation, doppelgangers, and Graham's Number, yet it stays readable enough to…
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