NUMBER OF UNIVERSES IN THE MULTI-VERSE Physicists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin of Stanford University recently calculated “that the total number of such universes, in the simplest inflationary models, may exceed” a number one can write as 10 raised to the (10 raised to 107) power. This is a deceptively compact notation. First, 107 is a 1 with seven zeroes after it, that is, 10,000,000, or ten million. Next, 10 raised to the ten-millionth power, is a 1 with ten million zeroes after it. Written out with six zeroes to the inch, it would stretch for about 26 miles. But the next step, raising 10 to the power of that 26-mile number, generates a number so large that we cannot name it, let alone write it out. It would stretch for at least 260 million miles. Source: Webre, Alfred Lambremont, The Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverse, p. 4, 2014. Universe Books. Kindle Edition. Kindle: amzn.to/R3JsXW Softcover: bit.ly/XE08Zt
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:18:39 +0000
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