Fantastic numbers and where to find them

Fantastic numbers and where to find them is the title of a book written by Antonio Padilla in 2023.Antonio Padilla (2023) "Fantastic numbers and where to find them: A journey to the edge of physics" Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0141992822 The author is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Nottingham and a star of the Numberphile YouTube network.Dr. Tony Padilla Retrieved 2023-11-25.Antonio Padilla's papers at Google ScholarTony Padilla on Numberphile YouTube Playlist
In the chapter of "Big Numbers", there are 5 sections, "1.000000000000000858", "A Googol", "A Googolplex", "Graham's Number", and "Tree(3)". In the section of "A Googol", googol (p.39) and googolplex (p.40) are explained. After that, it is written
Like the googolplexian. That's a one followed by a googolplex zeroes. A googolplexian is also referred to as a googolplexplex or a googolduplex. In fact, these latter definitions are much more powerful since they allow us to exploit the idea of recursion to generate a whole tower of truly enormous numbers. From a googolduplex you can leap to a googoltriplex, a one followed by a googolduplex zeroes, and then to a googolguadruplex, which has a googoltriplex zeroes, and so on.
in p.41, with a note "This recursive naming definition was proposed by the celebrated googologist Jonathan Bowers, also known as Hedrondude." Then the author discusses that "you won't find your in a googolian universe, but in a googolplician universe they will almost certainly exist" (p.42), and continues to think about the physical meaning of these large numbers. In p.55, doppelgängion is defined.
In the section of "Graham's Number", Graham's number (p.88) is explained. He writes as an introduction
It's perfectly OK to think about seven or fifteen or four hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred and twenty-two. But what happens when you think about Graham's number? Well, if you do that, it's really not OK. If you think about Graham's number in the wrong way, you die. Looking back, Johnny Bal really ought to have named his show Think of a number that won't kill you, but I guess health and safety was less of an issue in 1980s Britain.
In the section of "Tree(3)", the game of tree is introduced and TREE(3) (p.123) is shown.
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