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1 " Alpha sets the scale of nature -- the size of atoms and all things made of them, the intensity and colors of light, the strength of magnetism, and the metabolic rate of life itself. It controls everything that we see. ... In 137, apparently, science had found Nature's PIN Code. "
― Frank Close , The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe
