http://io9.com/5642233/ask-a-physicist-is-the-fine-structure-constant-really-constant
excerpt: About a decade ago, the UNSW team found, much to everyone's surprise<http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9803165>, that billions of light years away, the FSC was slightly smaller than it is here on earth. The difference is pretty miniscule, however, only about 1 part in a hundred thousand. In other words, the physics at the other end of the physical universe would look nearly (but not exactly) like it does here on earth. That means that the diagram above shows an effect about 10,000 times larger than the group actually observed. The signal is small enough that people are right to be concerned about whether or not the UNSW team got their errorbars right. On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:06 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess that is what it boils down to Eric. I would much rather have the > series continue indefinitely as I have been discussing. i.e. > (1/2,1/3,...1/137,1/138...1/infinity) which would blend nicely with the > other integer portion that we all assume is real. If the total series is > found to be valid, then there is no special consideration needed for the > 1/137 term. > > But, we must abide by natural laws and most times they do not care what we > prefer. :( > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> > To: vortex-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, Jan 26, 2014 4:12 pm > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Mills's theory > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:55 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]>wrote: > > The theory is a photon like zitterbewegung model describing states that >> retain locality in phase space with circular cycles of a trapped photon >> representing the usual eigenstates. The Maxwell quanta hbar(c) becomes a >> classical angular momentum quanta in phase space with quantum number 137 >> attached. >> > > Ah, gotcha. Thank you. Hence also the electron "becoming a photon" as > it approaches the lowest level. > > Now we have to decide whether we can live with a series { 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, > ..., 1/136, alpha(N) }. (Or something like that.) > > Eric > > -- Jeff Driscoll 617-290-1998
