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214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Graham's Number Is Bigger Than Six Dimensions
A physicist asked how many dimensions did you have to have to guarantee that this particular mathematical property would exist, would always be guaranteed to hold? And what he showed was, was that it's the number had to be I think bigger than six dimensions. So if you're going to picture Graham's number in your head, you're storing a hell of a lot of information in your head and information ways. Every time you picture one of Graham's number's digits, you are going to add some maths to your head,. might only be a very microscopic amount, but it will be a little bit.
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