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Ye cannae change the laws of physics - Or can you? Economist

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
September 2, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 17:52
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RICHARD FEYNMAN, Nobel laureate and physicist extraordinaire, called it a “magic number” and its value “one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics”. The number he was referring to, which goes by the symbol alpha and the rather more long-winded name of the fine-structure constant, is magic indeed.

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