Fine-Structure Constant

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fortran77 Apr 20, 2025 View on HN

By this guy: https://x.com/ThrillScience/status/1249742678532620293

jodrellblank Jun 11, 2010 View on HN

Dear Yanks, Remember this? http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619 Regards,

fortran77 Feb 14, 2023 View on HN

See also: https://twitter.com/ThrillScience/status/1625326912083226625

ridderhoff Feb 14, 2024 View on HN

there's a NOVA episode that came out in 2012 which basically gives all the same details of this article

pkaye Sep 28, 2025 View on HN

There is an Veritasium video where they visit that lab.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0amdIcZt5I

slowhand09 Sep 6, 2019 View on HN

Here is a related article on NOVA. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/rethinking-sciences-ma...

exikyut Oct 6, 2024 View on HN

New Scientist article (captured 3 weeks ago): https://archive.is/JQI4x

buovjaga Dec 9, 2017 View on HN

Article at the university's site: https://physics.illinois.edu/news/article/24114

98324298f Jan 24, 2018 View on HN

might you be thinking of Florent and Lenka Krzakalas research?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0N6mn9L-GA&list=PLvKBgJ4p0p...

Apocryphon Mar 17, 2023 View on HN

Ah, Discover had an issue about that as wellhttps://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/from-here-to-e...https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xH8AAOSwryZi3Ef0/s-l1600.jpg