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The number that fascinates physicists above all others
Cosmos Magazine ^ | Paul Davies

Posted on 02/20/2016 2:09:29 PM PST by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 02/20/2016 2:09:29 PM PST by MtnClimber
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Can’t figure out how to get “pi” to show up instead of the smart symbol trash.


2 posted on 02/20/2016 2:10:37 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I love this stuff. Thank you!


3 posted on 02/20/2016 2:10:59 PM PST by Marie (TRUMP TRUTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg)
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Bookmark


4 posted on 02/20/2016 2:11:30 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! I reallyRead it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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If Planck’s constant were off by the distance between these words, life as we know it would be impossible.

and that’s just one of innumerable factors that had to fit precisely and narrowly.

The odds of that happening are nonzero but so minuscule they may as well be zero.


5 posted on 02/20/2016 2:11:33 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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If you know science you really cannot deny that there was devine input.


6 posted on 02/20/2016 2:15:48 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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What is the usefulness of this number?


7 posted on 02/20/2016 2:17:15 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Use HTML, that is ϖ

8 posted on 02/20/2016 2:17:30 PM PST by Cboldt
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Especially if you have even a layman’s understanding of things like quantum physics.


9 posted on 02/20/2016 2:19:23 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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"What is the usefulness of this number?"

That is above my pay grade.

10 posted on 02/20/2016 2:19:48 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Divide 22 by 7 on a calculator.


11 posted on 02/20/2016 2:19:54 PM PST by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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http://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3112961/posts?page=1


12 posted on 02/20/2016 2:21:12 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1577385/posts


13 posted on 02/20/2016 2:21:57 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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Is this Erwin Schroedinger the Schroedinger Wave Equations person? Thanks for the links, lots to read!


14 posted on 02/20/2016 2:25:42 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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"What is the usefulness of this number?"

It predicts the time, in seconds, when a Trump/Cruz thread devolves to garbage.

15 posted on 02/20/2016 2:26:06 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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The one with the famous cat.


16 posted on 02/20/2016 2:26:42 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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Use HTML, that is ϖ

Oops, π or Π

Those being π and Π respectively

17 posted on 02/20/2016 2:27:27 PM PST by Cboldt
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“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers


18 posted on 02/20/2016 2:29:05 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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e^ipi + 1 = 0
19 posted on 02/20/2016 2:33:42 PM PST by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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I’m fascinated by the # 1.67 showing up as a ratio in nature! The number of peddles on a flower, the ratio of eye separation to the width of the mouth. The probability that a length = 2 the separation between lines and how often the length will fall on the line.
The spiral of a snail shell!
Probably coincidence yet makes you think a higher power could be behind it!
Also, does mean anything significant ?


20 posted on 02/20/2016 2:33:50 PM PST by qman
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