For example, what is the Kolmogorov complexity of the fine-structure constant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Wells: Another ID Creationist Who Doesn't Understand Information Theory - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

That turns into a more stringent bound on the dark fine-structure constant: about two orders of magnitude smaller, at Still, not so bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Photons] Reference

So this fine-structure constant is something that we can measure in the laboratory much, much more accurately, but we don't have the same time base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does The Universe Have a 'Dark Flow?'] Reference

A very good example of a coincidence that is too good to be true, and therefore a candidate for future physics principles, is the fine-structure constant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Rare Universe (Trilogy Part 2 cont,)] Reference

It turns out that the upper limit on the dark fine-structure constant required to stop the dark matter particles from annihilating away is — about the same!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Photons] Reference

Over billions of light years and looking back billions of years in time, we now know that the fine-structure constant hasn't changed any more than about .001 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does The Universe Have a 'Dark Flow?'] Reference

Physicists have made the most accurate measurement to date of the fine-structure constant, alpha -- the dimensionless number that is a measure of the strength of the electromagnetic force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the soylent planet] Reference

The cellulosic powder, which lacks the normal fine-structure crystallinity of cellulose, is easily degrated by enzyme treatment, particularly after delignification with 1 per cent NaOH solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 20] Reference

We're going to now talk about the alpha, the fine-structure constant called alpha, with my guest Michael Turner, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, professor of physics at the University of Chicago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does The Universe Have a 'Dark Flow?'] Reference

The strength of the dark electromagnetic force is characterized, naturally, by the dark fine-structure constant; remember that ordinary electromagnetism is characterized by the ordinary fine-structure constant α = 1/137.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Photons] Reference

Their fine-structure constants run according to the following picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

Variations in fine-structure constant suggest laws of physics not the same everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [ZPEnergy.com] Reference

The intersection may just move to a different value of the fine-structure constant (i.e. down).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

The fine-structure constant and the nature of the universe: Ye cannae change the laws of physics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

Because they're the fine-structure constants (i.e. inverted squared couplings), the actual couplings are actually.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

For more than 20 years, some researchers have found what they think is evidence that the fine-structure constant varies over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

In this sense, the value of the fine-structure constant is analogous to the density of liquid hydrogen or any other complex quantity of this kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

In the northern sky, the fine-structure constant apparently gets smaller with increasing distance, while the opposite held true in the southern sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues reported astronomical observations suggesting that the value of the fine-structure constant may indeed have changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The work is the latest in a series of controversial studies on the fine-structure constant, also known as alpha, that the researchers have conducted since 1999.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference

If the fine-structure constant changes during the light's journey, atoms in gas clouds at different distances would absorb slightly different wavelengths of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference

The level of uncertainty "may make it difficult to use Keck HIRES data to constrain the change in the fine-structure constant," the team noted in the Jan. 1 issue of.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference

One intriguing possible implication is that the fine-structure constant is continuously varying in space, and seems fine-tuned for life in our neighborhood of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [DV Hardware] Reference

Australia, and his colleagues reported astronomical observations suggesting that the value of the fine-structure constant (which is related to the speed of light) may have changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

Along one direction the fine-structure constant, which governs the strength of the electromagnetic force, grows slightly weaker with time, while in the other direction it grows slightly stronger.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference

Fundamental constants such as the strength of the electromagnetic force - the so-called fine-structure constant, or alpha - get their name from the fact that they are supposedly the same everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

In both directions the researchers observed from Earth, the study indicates that the fine-structure constant varied noticeably only very far back, during the first several billion years of cosmic history.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference

University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues, have argued that the Keck spectrometer called HIRES, used by Webb's team, isn't stable enough to measure the fine-structure constant to the precision needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference

But temporal physics had reached a point in its research where it couldn’t go anywhere without building a nuclear-powered fine-structure oscillator.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

Refining the fine-structure constant http://physicsweb. org/archive/news/10/8/1/1? rss = 2.0.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the soylent planet] Reference

SNPs chosen for fine-structure mapping were harvested through the online Entrez SNP database, dbSNP (http://www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

) You shouldn't expect a simple formula for the fine-structure constant or for "e" because it is now expressed in terms of more fundamental couplings g, g 'of the U (1) x SU (2) gauge theory in this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference