Penrose Number

Penrose Number:

it’s called the Penrose Number, an equation really, 10¹⁰²³, and its simplicity in appearance belays the impossibility that it represents — these are the odds in which the likelihood of the universe coming into existence in a way that would develop and support life as nearly mathematically impossible. This is the equation of a miracle. Mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose formulated this equation and by all accounts it is sound and fully checks out theoretically, Penrose won a Noble prize and was a close associate of Stephen Hawkins, so his credentials are unmatched. To better understand what this number represents we need to to know just how unlikely it places the odds of our existence, it’s almost a zero probability, and it’s been described that if we took each zero from this number and wrote it on an atom there wouldn’t be enough in the entire universe to express its actual value.

what we’re told here is the Big Bang never should have happened.

or that we’ve defied the greatest odds by our existence.

honestly, I can’t really wrap my mind around the Penrose Number, it’s too large, too complex for my limited understanding. To be even more honest, most physics and pretty much all math is beyond me, although I’m fascinated by their challenge. Yet the Penrose Number challenges me in a different way, I’m not trying to…