Let $X\_i$ be iid random variables with $EX\_i = 0$ and $Var X\_i=1$ and $S\_n=X\_1+\cdots+X\_n$. Then the law of the iterated logarithm says almost everywhere we have

$$\limsup\_{n\to\infty}\frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}} = \sqrt{2}$$

On the other hand the central limit theorem says

$$\frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n}} \to N(0,1)$$

Can anyone explain why dividing by an extra $\sqrt{\log{\log{n}}}$ should go from giving $N(0,1)$ to something bounded by the constant $\sqrt{2}$?

To try to understand I considered the simple case when each $X\_n$ is $N(0,1)$ so that $S\_n/\sqrt{n}$ is also normally distributed as $N(0,1)$. Then $S\_n/\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}$ is distributed as $N(0,1/\log{\log{n}})$. Then it would seem to me that to even have just $\limsup\_{n\to\infty}\frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}} \le \sqrt{2}$ requires either

$$\sum\_{n=3}^\infty P\left(\frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}} > \sqrt{2}\right) < \infty$$

or if 

$$\sum\_{n=3}^\infty P\left(\frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}} > \sqrt{2}\right) = \infty$$

then to achieve $\limsup\_{n\to\infty}\frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}} \le \sqrt{2}$ the sets {$ \omega : \frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}} > \sqrt{2}$} cannot for example cover the probability space over and over infinitely forever. I don't know the value of $\sum\_{n=3}^\infty P\left(\frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}} > \sqrt{2}\right)$ but since it is the sum of the probability of the tail ends of a bunch of normal distributions you would expect there to be no closed form even for partial sums.

In the other direction for $\limsup\_{n\to\infty}\frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}}$ to not have a value lower than $\sqrt{2}$ isn't it necessary that something like the following holds

$$\sum\_{n=3}^\infty P\left(\sqrt{2}-\epsilon < \frac{S\_n}{\sqrt{n\log{\log{n}}}} \le \sqrt{2}\right) = \infty$$

Can anyone explain why this number $\sqrt{2}$ should pop up?

I already asked the above on math.stackexchange ([link](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/406291/intuition-of-law-of-iterated-logarithm)) but apparently moving it here was impossible hence the duplicate post.