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Alpha is better than PI

Martin
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Alpha Day is May 17, the 137th day of the year.

The constant alpha is the basic constant in all electro-magnetic

interactions and determines among other things

why we have the elements we do and what

their chemical properties are. So its being the

right size and not a few percent different makes

life possible. And keeps the sea from blowing up

in an H-bomb fusion reaction and makes it so there are

stable elements heavier than helium, and so on.

It is fundamental to the universe.

 

Alpha reciprocal is about 137.036..., so very close to 137.

So a good approximation for alpha is 1/137.

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