Dragaera

re Tiassa

Thu Dec 4 20:53:10 PST 2003

David Silberstein wrote:

>Of course, then the question arises, how should a *proper* universe be
>designed?
>
>I recently stumbled across an anecdote, which you perhaps know of:
>
>  According to a story well known in the physics community, after his
>  death in 1958 Pauli was granted an audience with God.  Pauli asked
>  God why the fine structure constant has the value 1/(137.036...).
>  God nodded, went to a blackboard, and began scribbling equations at
>  a furious pace. Pauli watched Him with great satisfaction, but soon
>  began shaking his head violently...
>
>   http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli
>  
>
I fail to understand the anecdote; specifically, why Pauli would shake 
his head violently at what God is scribbling.

Jose

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