“The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
“You too can make the golden cut, relating the two poles of your being in perfect golden proportion, thus enabling the lower… — Alison Charlotte Primrose Copy Share Image
“If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Through Jung [Pauli] became very interested in various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish mysticism. This led Pauli to develop a friendship with… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
“Now let us analyze the other two occupants of the inner Sanctuary or Oracle. They are the two cherubim who guard the… — William Eisen Copy Share Image
“We present a series of hypotheses and speculations, leading inescapably to the conclusion that SU(5) is the gauge group of the world… — Howard Georgi & S. L. Glashow Copy Share Image
“All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. It is the mysterious organon on… — Arnold Sommerfeld Copy Share Image
“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“The power of the deductive network produced in physics has been illustrated in a delightful article by Victor F. Weisskopf. He begins… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
“For [Wolfgang] Pauli the central problem of electrodynamics was the field concept and the existence of an elementary charge which is expressible… — Charles P. Enz Copy Share Image
“While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally… — Carl Johan Calleman Copy Share Image
“Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“The bridge between the electron and the other elementary particles is provided by the fine structure constant. ... An expanded form of… — Malcolm H. Mac Gregor Copy Share Image
“The fine-structure constant derives its name from its origin. It first appeared in Sommerfeld's work to explain the fine details of the… — John S. Rigden Copy Share Image
“The mystery about α is actually a double mystery. The first mystery – the origin of its numerical value α ≈ 1/137… — Malcolm H. Mac Gregor Copy Share Image
“Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“Dirac's equation not only accounted for the spin of the electron and its observed magnetic moment, but also correctly explained the fine… — Silvan S. Schweber Copy Share Image
“there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
“Was Giza the mirror of the sky? In addition, what was the number 137 purpose? The number 137 has a very amazing… — Armando Mei Copy Share Image
“Let us begin with the fine-structure constant. ... The fine-structure constant is really the ratio of two natural units or atoms of… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“As I regard physics and psychology as complementary types of examination, I am certain that there is an equally valid way that… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
