• ShranTheWaterPoloFan
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    1 year ago

    The strangeness of the Fine Structure Constant isn’t it’s value, it’s that we don’t know what it is.

    Other constants have units that explain what they are doing. Like converting miles to meters we multiply by meters/miles. But this is just a number that is needed. That’s so strange I can’t think of another example.

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      1 year ago

      Meh, there’s pi, it has no units because it’s the ratio of one distance to another…

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        1 year ago

        I feel like this might be another example of OPs meme. Feyman called it a magic number we have no understanding of. It’s one of the great mysteries of modern physics.