For Feynman, you see, the “magic number” is around 1/137 – specifically, it’s 1/137.03599913. Physicists know it as α, or the fine structure constant.

The Commerce Department has not released the December trade number yet. China’s surplus for that month should end up around $22 billion. Yet let’s assume, purely for the sake of argument, that ...

News Published: 23 May 1936 The Mysterious Number 137 Nature 137, 877 (1936) Cite this article ...

THIS is stated in NATURE of May 23, p. 877, to be more accurately 137·2. Now 1371288 is the natural number similar to the mantissa of its logarithm. How will this fact interact with the formulæ ...