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Feinstrukturkonstante f

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For reasons of convenience, historically the value of the reciprocal of the fine-structure constant is often specified.

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This constant is called the fine-structure constant.

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The fine-structure constant combines an extraordinary number of physical properties of our universe: the speed of light, the charge of an electron, energy differences in quantum mechanics, and more.

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One such dimensionless physical constant is the fine-structure constant.

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According to the theory of the renormalization group, the value of the fine-structure constant (the strength of the electromagnetic interaction) grows logarithmically as the energy scale is increased.

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Papers in 2010 and 2011 made strong cases for the fine-structure constant being variable over space and time.

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There is no known way to solve the horizon problem with variation of the fine-structure constant, because its variation does not change the causal structure of spacetime.

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The coupling constant sets the magnitude of the force of interaction; for example, in quantum electrodynamics, the fine-structure constant is a coupling constant.

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Their findings were consistent with no variation in the fine-structure constant between these two vastly separated locations and times.

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Pi is not a parameter of physics like the fine-structure constant, which could conceivably be different or even variable from place to place.

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