The LONGEST time - Numberphile
A paper by Don Page claimed to use the longest finite time ever calculated by a physicist - it's the time it will take the Universe to reset itself!?! More links & stuff in full description...
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BRADY HARAN: You got another number for us?TONY PADILLA: I have, yeah.Yeah.It's the--well, I'll just write it down, shall I?That's probably the best thing to do.So it is 10 to the 10 to the 10 to the 10 to the 10--and then this is the strange bit-- to the 1.1.OK?This has been claimed to be the largest finite time thathas ever been calculated by a physicistin a published paper.This is the paper.It's a bit of a weird paper.It's not had a huge impact or anything.It's about black hole information lossand conscious beings.We won't go down that route.He actually calculates something called the Poincarerecurrence time for a certain type of universe within acertain cosmological model.And this is the number that he gets out...
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BRADY HARAN: You got another number for us?TONY PADILLA: I have, yeah.Yeah.It's the--well, I'll just write it down, shall I?That's probably the best thing to do.So it is 10 to the 10 to the 10 to the 10 to the 10--and then this is the strange bit-- to the 1.1.OK?This has been claimed to be the largest finite time thathas ever been calculated by a physicistin a published paper.This is the paper.It's a bit of a weird paper.It's not had a huge impact or anything.It's about black hole information lossand conscious beings.We won't go down that route.He actually calculates something called the Poincarerecurrence time for a certain type of universe within acertain cosmological model.And this is the number that he gets out...
