Avogadro’s Number: Is the World Granular?
Gopi Krishna Vijaya
The mystery of Avogadro’s number has led scientists into the foundations of physics, since the magnitude of this number has historically made it inaccessible to human experience. In seeking the origins of this number, Gopi examines the very nature of numbers as we attribute them to physical phenomena via measurement, and also the wide variety of experiments from which this number itself was drawn. He reveals how an estrangement from the experience of this number affects our worldview. By extricating ourselves as much as possible from the underlying assumptions regarding this number, we can begin to grasp Avogadro’s number as a fundamental nano-rhythm of the world around us.
