Fine-structure-constant Quotes

Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dyn...

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archet...

There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have ...

To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about eve...

Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamic...

Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the c...

As I regard physics and psychology as complementary types of examination, I am certain that there is...

... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression i...

The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the ...

I introduce the subject of fine structure with a mini-calendar of events. ...Winter 1914-15. Sommerf...

… there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay...

All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. ...

We have one real candidate for changing the rules; this is string theory. In string theory the one-d...

QED [quantum electrodynamics] reduces ... "all of chemistry and most of physics," to one basic inter...

But some numbers, called dimensionless numbers, have the same numerical value no matter what units o...

Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combinati...

One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most...