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ithought on Dec 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Secret Number

I thought 137 was the secret number? Feynman, Heisenberg, Weisskopf and Pauli were intrigued by it.

http://www.1377731.com/137/

windsurfer on Dec 12, 2011 [–]

    The current recommended value of α is 7.2973525698(24)×10−3 = 1/137.035999074(44).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant

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