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This paper is just wrong, lots of other people have also done this calculation and shown that it's off by multiple orders of magnitude. Robin Hanson claims the particular error is the paper's assumption of zero pressure: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/03/what-holds-up-a-north...


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