A Gaussian expression for the fine structure constant #205
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Interesting, I wasn't aware of this numerical expression for the fine structure constant. What is the physical meaning of this expression? |
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That is an interesting equation and there may be reasoning behind it (I'm not saying I have it!) If you look at the equation for alpha on CoData which can also simplifiy to (once again my equation skills are MIA) α=(q^2)/(2hc*ε0) Point is that this equation is a constant on the left, related to a ratio of constants on the right. Doesn't it mean (at least) one of the constants is redundant? Or for interpretation, the interpretation from the above links may also have reference to the constants in the right side of the equation, since they essentially make up alpha. |
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Okay. I've made some exercises with MAPLE 8 and my outcomes are not in complete agreement with the claims as made in this thread. I've started with a
Yes of course: in general there is more than one solution. But only the first one ( |
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I am pleased to see that the alpha enigma is again under scrutiny. You may recall that I have referred to the work of the late Malcolm Mac Gregor in past posts. Malcolm spent the last 30 or so years of his life developing a model of an extended electron structure and refining and expanding the range of application of the alpha constant, all of which is summarized in 5 books published over that period, the last of which, the Alpha Sequence, appeared posthumously, a project to which he devoted the last year of his life. The papers of Browne, Broberg and Martin describe particle models that attempt to extend the information about the α quantized data base of elementary particle lifetimes and mass/energies so as to include the surrounding vacuum state and the mechanisms that give rise to the creation and properties of these particles. The paper of Heyrovska and Narayan and other papers by her group start with the elementary particles themselves and demonstrate how they combine in atomic, molecular and solid state configurations that can be understood and predicted with the aid of Golden Mean representations. Heyrovska has expanded the Golden Ratio analysis of the hydrogen atom to include the entire hydrogen spectral line data base for experimental determinations of the fine structure constant and the Rydberg constant. She has also applied the Golden Radius analysis to a determination of ionization bond lengths, as specified in the title of a Vixra report: Bohr Radius as the Sum of Golden Sections Pertaining to the Electron and Proton, Covalent Bond Lengths Between Same Two Atoms as Exact Sums of Their Cationic and Anionic Radii and Additivity of Atomic and or Ionic Radii in Bond Lengths. The interesting aspect of the Heyrovska Golden Ratio formalisms for our purposes is to see if they can be applied to the production and properties of the elementary particles themselves, which is an area that she has not addressed. Next area for The 137 Project to investigate: The Thomson radius |
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Here is further detail from the abstract of Malcolm's last published paper. Abstract: Precision Tevatron and Linear Hadron Collider measurements at Fermilab and CERN have revealed the |
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Here is a candidate expression for the fine structure constant from chip architect Hans de Vries:
http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2004_10_04_The_Electro_Magnetic_coupling_constant.html
archived: https://archive.ph/Q9oB2
http://www.chip-architect.org/physics/fine_structure_constant.pdf
archived: https://archive.ph/QfdoY.
It's a Gaussian value with a convergent, recursive series, and it equals the measured constant to 10 significant digits.
Here is a simple program to arrive at the value step by step
https://jsfiddle.net/5m1cf7qt.
Knowing that the Hydrogen atom is an eternally reoccurring structure, and that the fine structure constant is essential to the Hydrogen atom, I think it's awesome that the constant is almost certainly of this self-stabilizing form.
This expression was discovered in 2004. That 20 years later this gem still isn't well-known is super strange.
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