<div dir="ltr">But when you deal with physical quantity you realize that universe is bounded both above and below.<div>Below you have the Plank Scale and above you have the visible universe. </div><div>And because of this non integers irrational numbers are just a (somehow useful) abstraction. In physics number should always be in proportion to a useful reference unit. </div><div><br></div><div>G</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Chris Hibbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hibbert@mydruthers.com" target="_blank">hibbert@mydruthers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I wrote giga-parsec^3, and I did mean a cube 1000 parsecs on a side. It still feels big to me.<br>
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Have you heard the story where some guy in the back of the room at a seminars respond to the idea of a googol as a pretty big number with "most are bigger"?<br>
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Chris<br>
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