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“You too can make the golden cut, relating the two poles of your being in perfect golden proportion, thus enabling the lower to resonate in tune with the higher, and the inner with the outer. In doi...”
“The fine-structure constant is ubiquitous throughout physics. Ive already noted its connection to the electromagnetic interaction. In atomic physics, the binding energy, fine-structure splitting, a...”
“Was Giza the mirror of the sky? In addition, what was the number 137 purpose? The number 137 has a very amazing meaning and it can range from modern Science to Kabbalah, from Archetypes numerology ...”
“While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally not been encouraged, a re...”
“The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known as the fine structure constant. The value of this constan...”
“In the context of physics, 137 is equal to the integer part of the inverse of the fine structure constant ... The fine structure constant is the key to the physicists quest for a Grand Unified The...”
“Quite obviously, a theoretical determination of the numerical value of would signify great progress in our understanding of fundamental interactions. Many physicists have tried to find it, but wit...”
“Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.”
“Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advanc...”
“QED [quantum electrodynamics] reduces ... "all of chemistry and most of physics," to one basic interaction, the fundamental coupling of a photon to electric charge. The strength of this coupling re...”
“We present a series of hypotheses and speculations, leading inescapably to the conclusion that SU(5) is the gauge group of the world that all elementary particle forces (strong, weak, and electrom...”
“I introduce the subject of fine structure with a mini-calendar of events. ...Winter 1914-15. Sommerfeld computes relativistic orbits for hydrogen-like atoms. Pashcen, aware of these studies, carefu...”
“True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does not satisfy the physicists naive faith in elegance and simplicity. I...”
“The measured magnetic moment, together with fine structure constant determined by a different method, is the most stringent test of QED and the Standard Model of particle physics. The measured magn...”
“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not have. In this talk I want to return to the old question of what it is...”
“The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics. We believe that any regression to the ideas of classical phy...”
“[The fine structure constant] ... defines how firmly atomic nuclei bind together and how all the atoms on Earth were made. Its value controls the power from the Sun and, more sensitively, how stars...”
“But some numbers, called dimensionless numbers, have the same numerical value no matter what units of measurement are chosen. Probably the most famous of these is the "fine-structure constant," ......”
“At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate numerologists, who have claimed that connections exist between alpha, the Cheops ...”
“Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years.”
