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Wolfgang Pauli
“When I die, my first question to the devil will be:
What is the meaning of the fine structure constant?”
Wolfgang Pauli

Peter Tompkins
“Plato considered the golden section proportion the most binding of all mathematical relations, making it the key to the physics of the cosmos.”
Peter Tompkins , Secrets of the Great Pyramid: Two Thousand Years of Adventures & Discoveries Surrounding the Mysteries of the Great Pyramid of Cheops

“The fine structure constant is the pulse of certainty, will and dominion. These entities are vortices: nature's most basic sensuality; because vortices are consubstantial with their matrix ... the surround.”
Keith Whittingslow, The Fine Structure Constant

“If QED [quantum electrodynamics] is merely a phenomenology, how can one account for its remarkable quantitative success? The answer is intimately related to one of its most characteristic features, renormalizability. Because of this, short distance, high energy effects in QED can be absorbed into a finite number of measurable masses and charges. For the first time in the history of physics, there exists a theory which has no obvious intrinsic limitation and enables us in principle to calculate physical phenomena to any accuracy we need in terms of a few measurable parameters such as the elementary electric charge e [fine structure constant] and the electron mass m. Thus the detailed high energy structure of the ultimate theory is irrelevant to the analysis of low energy phenomena except insofar as it determines these parameters. [Quantum Electrodynamics]”
Toichiro Kinoshita

“One of the most curious of these stories about Pauli concerns the number 137. One of the great unsolved mysteries of modern physics is the value of the fine structure constant, for while the other fundamental constants of nature are all immensely small or enormously large, this fine structure constant 1/137 turns out to be a human-sized number. This number 137 and its place in the scale of the universe particularly puzzled Pauli and continues to challenge physicists today. I was a mystery that Pauli was to take to his death, for on being admitted into the hospital, the physicist was told that he was being put into room 137. According to one version of this story on learning of his room number, Pauli said, "I will never get out of here." The physicist died shortly after.”
F. David Peat, Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind

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