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“Geometry is 'number in space', music is 'number in time'.”
― Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
― Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
“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]”
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“The golden ratio is the key to universal physics.
-- Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Nobel Laureate in physics (1947)”
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-- Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Nobel Laureate in physics (1947)”
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“An electron exhibits a slight spin precession characterized by the inverse fine structure constant. Electric charge (spin precession) corresponds to a torsion field dislocation defect (loop closure failure).”
― Quantum Wave Mechanics
― Quantum Wave Mechanics
“In the early days of atomic physics [before quantum field theory revealed the true meaning of the fine structure constant to be the strength of the coupling between the electron and photon], it was thought to have a value so close to being precisely 1/137 that numerologists started to establish cultish associations with the number 137.”
― Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
― Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
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