User:SyntheticET

SyntheticET (talk) 17:05, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

A peculiar, seemingly numerical coincidence which may require resolving the discovery of counting in the decimal system, AND the development of standard measures of time (years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds) arose. Today, the dimensions of the speed of light are taken to be length/time, or [ L T^-1 ].

The earth-moon distance is well known, especially with laser reflectors on the Moon. For the following, it should be stated that the quantity c^2 is big news these days. If we are ever going to invent anti-gravity and build our own flying saucers, we better know what we're doing. One of the earliest inquiries into the nature of light was by the construction of the Sphinx in Egypt; the three pyramids might well have been an attempt to understand the three dimensions of space alone.

The speed of light is, c = 299,792,458 meters/second. C should be taken as a pure number. The square root of the speed of light is 17,314.51582, leaving its dimensions to eventually be better resolved.

Taking 17,314.51 as a pure number, then it can be rationally compared with other pure numbers.

The mean Earth-Moon distance is listed as Rm = 1,737,400 meters in Woan's "Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas".

Now compare the two numbers, 17,314.51/1,737,400 = 0.00996576... The inverse of that is 100.34355.

Just like alpha, the fine structure constant 0.0072913.. and its inverse 137.035.. Like, that must be the most mysterious number in the universe, and Feynman once wrote. Shades of the James Bond 007 flicks, like, England never keeps any secrets. The Brits will say "We thought you'd never ask.

Dividing 1,737,400 meters by the square root of c results in 100.35355. That's where one begins to worry about what early human beings based modern cosmology on and why we don't know what that 100.35 is actually caused by. Of course, it COULD be sheer coincidence, yet cost-benefit analysis at current prices almost dictates that the coincidence be understood completely. SyntheticET (talk) 21:00, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Numerical coincidences in the speed of light and the fine structure constant are compared.