• ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website
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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.