“In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that only a formulation of quantum theory would be satisfactory which expresses the relation between the value of [the… — Charles P. Enz 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 by the fine-structure constant ... 1/137. This fundamental pure number had greatly fascinated Pauli, … For Pauli the explanation of the number 137 was the test of a successful field theory, a test which no theory has passed up to now.” — Charles P. Enz Copy Share
“In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that only a… — Charles P. Enz Copy Share Image