Page 44 - The Creation Of The Universe

Roger Penrose:
"This number
tells us how pre-
cise the Creator's
aim must have
been."

tried to calculate the probability. Including what he considered to be all
variables required for human beings to exist and live on a planet such as
ours, he computed the probability of this environment occurring among all
the possible results of the Big Bang.
According to Penrose, the odds against such an occurrence were on the
order of 10 10123 to 1.
It is hard even to imagine what this number means. In math, the value
10 123 means 1 followed by 123 zeros. (This is, by the way, more than the
total number of atoms 10 78 believed to exist in the whole universe.) But
Penrose's answer is vastly more than this: It requires 1 followed by 10 123 ze-
ros.
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Or consider: 10 means 1,000, a thousand. 10 103 is a number that that
has 1 followed by 1000 zeros. If there are six zeros, it's called a million; if
nine, a billion; if twelve, a trillion and so on. There is not even a name for
a number that has 1 followed by 10 123 zeros.
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In practical terms, in mathematics, a probability of 1 in 10 means "ze-
ro probability". Penrose's number is more than trillion trillion trillion times
less than that. In short, Penrose's number tells us that the ‘accidental" or
"coincidental" Creation of our universe is an impossibility.
Concerning this mind-boggling number Roger Penrose comments:
This now tells how precise the Creator's aim must have been, namely to
an accuracy of one part in 10 10123 . This is an extraordinary figure. One
could not possibly even write the number down in full in the ordinary