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http://www.faz.net/s/Rub163D8A69080...BE8043D084E51F1E95~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
thanks to Peter Woit for the Frankfurter Allgemeine link.
Two news items.
There is a new measurement of alpha
I started a thread in another subforum about it
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=127747
I'll put it here because these things easily get covered up and missed.
alpha reciprocal new value is 137.035 999 710(96)
(uncertainty 0.70 ppb)
the new value of the electron magnetic moment is
g/2 = 1.001 159 652 180 85(76)
(uncertainty 0.76 ppt-------parts per trillion!)
http://hussle.harvard.edu/~gabrielse/gabrielse/papers/2006/NewFineStructureConstant.pdf
http://hussle.harvard.edu/~gabrielse/gabrielse/papers/2006/NewElectronMagneticMoment.pdf
Publication was in Physical Review Letters.
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the other item of news is that the Frankfurter Allgemeine (a widely-read German newspaper) has an article about Peter Woit's book. It looks like it has some entertaining parts.
In German, the reviewer's title is
[tex]\mathfrak{Schlimmer. als. falsch}[/tex]
("worse than wrong")
thanks to Peter Woit for the Frankfurter Allgemeine link.
Two news items.
There is a new measurement of alpha
I started a thread in another subforum about it
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=127747
I'll put it here because these things easily get covered up and missed.
alpha reciprocal new value is 137.035 999 710(96)
(uncertainty 0.70 ppb)
the new value of the electron magnetic moment is
g/2 = 1.001 159 652 180 85(76)
(uncertainty 0.76 ppt-------parts per trillion!)
http://hussle.harvard.edu/~gabrielse/gabrielse/papers/2006/NewFineStructureConstant.pdf
http://hussle.harvard.edu/~gabrielse/gabrielse/papers/2006/NewElectronMagneticMoment.pdf
Publication was in Physical Review Letters.
==============================
the other item of news is that the Frankfurter Allgemeine (a widely-read German newspaper) has an article about Peter Woit's book. It looks like it has some entertaining parts.
In German, the reviewer's title is
[tex]\mathfrak{Schlimmer. als. falsch}[/tex]
("worse than wrong")
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