August 22, 2021
137
This from David Nabhan:
The great physicist Wolfgang Pauli spent his life pondering the significance of the number 137. It kept him up at night for years. Why should the alpha constant of the universe be 1/137? Why not 1/136 or 1/138? When he wound up in hospital—in room 137!—he knew the jig was up. Indeed, that’s where he died. I’m not as smart as Pauli, but I try to be sneakier. What number fascinates ME? It's #34,875,791. Why? Simple, there’s no hospital on Earth with that many rooms. Gotcha, fate; checkmate!
The great physicist Wolfgang Pauli spent his life pondering the significance of the number 137. It kept him up at night for years. Why should the alpha constant of the universe be 1/137? Why not 1/136 or 1/138? When he wound up in hospital—in room 137!—he knew the jig was up. Indeed, that’s where he died. I’m not as smart as Pauli, but I try to be sneakier. What number fascinates ME? It's #34,875,791. Why? Simple, there’s no hospital on Earth with that many rooms. Gotcha, fate; checkmate!
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