Fine-structure-constant Quote by David J. Griffiths Download Open image ““Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.”” — David J. Griffiths ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fine-structure-constant First Principles Physics Quantum mechanics
“The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics.” — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“Itwas one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant wasimportant. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The fine-structure constant is ubiquitous throughout physics. I’ve already noted its connection to the electromagnetic interaction. In atomic physics, the binding energy, fine-structure splitting,… — Gerald Gabrielse 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 all the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression in the specific numerical value of the fine… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“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… — Steven Weinberg 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 not been… — Carl Johan Calleman Copy Share Image
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,… — Steven Weinberg 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 hydrogen spectrum.… — John S. Rigden Copy Share Image
“Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamics, defined as the square of the charge of the electron divided by… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“In particular, a quantity known as the fine-structure constant, which controls the basic fingerprinting for every element, must have remained unchanged for billions of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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 action. ...… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…” — David J. Griffiths Copy Share Image
“The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known as the… — 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 to resonate… — 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 all the… — 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 Gershom Scholem,… — 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 Ark ...… — 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 — that… — 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 which Nature… — 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 atom. That's… — 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 of nature… — 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 them to… — 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 by taking… — 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 by the… — Charles P. Enz Copy Share Image
