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http://www.feynman.com/science/the-mysterious-137/
@metal-brain saidOh, please. This is such Chopra-level quantum woo. That entire site should be deeply ashamed of itself, abusing Feynman's name for such pseudo-zen-physics.
http://www.feynman.com/science/the-mysterious-137/
@shallow-blue saidRounding it off is unacceptable to you?
Oh, please. This is such Chopra-level quantum woo. That entire site should be deeply ashamed of itself, abusing Feynman's name for such pseudo-zen-physics.
By the way, you might not have caught this, because you're stuck in mythic-quantum-is-magic-land, but... we now know that the fine structure constant is actually one over 137.036, not one over 137 exactly.
("wHa ...[text shortened]... rature, where you've only read phys.org and misinterpreted even their Daily Mail-level cheap shots.)
@metal-brain saidRounding it off and then pretending that the rounded value is the real value and has some mysterious inner meaning?
Rounding it off is unacceptable to you?
You are really dense. It was not just Feynman, Dirac and others too. This is a mystery that physicists obsess over.
@shallow-blue saidYou are nit picking over nothing. The link I provided has a quote from Feynman giving the exact number. Here it is:
Rounding it off and then pretending that the rounded value is the real value and has some mysterious inner meaning?
Yes, that's unacceptably unscientific.
You are really dense. It was not just Feynman, Dirac and others too. This is a mystery that physicists obsess over.
No, it's not. It was thought to be a notable coincidence that physicists ...[text shortened]... fgang Pauli, but he was weird and a Jungian anyways - and still do even though science has moved on.
@sonhouse saidDo you know how many of these so called coincidences there are? Have you ever counted them? Are you calling Feynman and Dirac conspiracy theorists?
@Metal-Brain
There is the way out there possibility it is just a frigging coincidence. But that doesn't fit with your love of conspiracy theories.
@sonhouse saidThe answer is 26
@Metal-Brain
There is the way out there possibility it is just a frigging coincidence. But that doesn't fit with your love of conspiracy theories.
@metal-brain saidThat's half the number of cards in a full deck, so of course it can't be a coincidence. Mystic woo must be real. D'oh!
The answer is 26
Coincidence?
@shallow-blue saidBut what if someone isn't playing with a full deck? Then 26 is overkill. Coincidence?
That's half the number of cards in a full deck, so of course it can't be a coincidence. Mystic woo must be real. D'oh!
@moonbus saidWhat do playing cards have to do with anything?
But what if someone isn't playing with a full deck? Then 26 is overkill. Coincidence?
Vladimir Putin's birthday is Oct. 7, 1952. Now, you add the single digits, like so: 10 / 7 / 1952
1+0+7+1+9+5+2 = 25
So Vlad's not playing with a full deck. But he's got his finger on the nuclear button and a hot shooting war in Ukraine and he says he's not bluffing. Overkill? Coincidence?