Bartosz Milewski on Nostr: If I told you that the only interesting numbers are between -35 and 27 you'd think ...
If I told you that the only interesting numbers are between -35 and 27 you'd think I'm crazy. But this is the outer reach of physics, between \(10^{-35}\) (Planck length) and \(10^{27}\) (size of the Universe). If we completely ignore everything else, why are we using real numbers?
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