No, the point is really about Pauli himself, he was known in the physics world as the "Conscience of Physics", i.e. always checking everybody's work for "correctness" in both mathematics and physics, which at that level are so closely intertwined it's hard to tell them apart. He's probably spinning in his grave at some of the recent scandals in the physics world.... Jim, a physics major in another lifetime... rone wrote: > > Jose Marquez writes: > David Silberstein wrote: > > 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... > I fail to understand the anecdote; specifically, why Pauli would shake > his head violently at what God is scribbling. > > Because God is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. > > rone > -- > "I don't even know you. What if you're a psycho?" > "Would a psycho waste the last of his triple-sec?" > -- RICHH -- ! Jim Katz ! Using Clarion for Windows - Always looking for the simpler solution. ! NetBeans Dev