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“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

“The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics.”

— Wolfgang Pauli

“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

“All we can assert with confidence is a negative: if the constants of Nature were not within one percent or so of their observed…

— John D. Barrow

“... 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

... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left…

— Anonymous

“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

“Science is entirely dependent on constants. Anything that is not constant (natural disasters, poor construction, or other human factors) is nearly impossible to include…

— Stephen and Tiffany Domena

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

“You're still just silicon," he said, as he turned the page. "And you're just carbon," Art persevered. "Since when has the periodic table been…

— Bernard Beckett

“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

“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