Fine Structure Quotes
- The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of… — Charles M. Vest
- If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and… — Max Born
- From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be… — Wolfgang Pauli
- There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine… — Roger Penrose
- It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as… — Steven Weinberg