"The leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla uses nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics to build a picture of our current best understanding of how the universe works"-- Provided by publisher.

"Originally published in 2022 by Allen Lane, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

A chapter that's not a number -- Big numbers -- 1.000000000000000858 -- A bolt of relativity -- The challenger deep -- A glimpse into the abyss -- A googol -- Tales of Gerard Grant -- The entropic captor -- A Googolplex -- The quantum sorcerer -- Where is your doppelgñger? -- Graham's number -- Black hole head death -- Too much information -- Think of a number -- Tree(3) -- The game of trees -- The cosmic reset -- The holographic truth -- Little numbers -- Zero -- A beautiful number -- A history of nothing -- Zero is symmetry -- Finding zero -- 0.0000000000000001 -- The unexpected Higgs boson -- Particle particulars -- The inevitable Higgs boson -- Technically, it's not natural -- The Scarlet Pimpernel -- 10p-120s -- An embarrassing number -- Albert Einstein's most difficult relationship -- The golden ticket -- The ghost of Sir Isaac Newton -- Infinity -- The infinity gods -- The aleph and the omega -- Close encounters of the infinite kind -- The theory of everything.