According to How Stuff Works, Arthur Miller, a professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London, believes the number still holds the mystery and significant to alter the universe.
He said: “137 continues to fire the imagination of everyone from scientists and mystics to occultists and people from the far-flung edges of society.
“Physicists say that 137 is the approximate measure of the strength of the electromagnet force which powers electron and muon particles.”
Leon Lederman, an iconic American physicist, once said that 137 “contains the crux of electromagnetism, relativity and quantum theory”.
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