I have a physics (or perhaps maths) question that one been thinking about for a while, and I'm hoping someone here could shed some light on it.
Why is it that everything in the universe appears to fit in a scale that is on the order of roughly 10-80 to 1080? In maths, you can easily come up with problems where the solution goes way beyond what exponential notation can describe (Grahams number is one such example) but in the real world, everything seems to fit in 100 orders of magnitude.
Is there something fundamental that causes this? I know this might be more philosophy than physics, but surely people have thought about this?
#physics #maths
Elias Mårtenson
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