As Richard Feynman once said, “a man cannot live beyond the grave,” and so surely Feynman could not speak from the grave, either. Except that actually, he did. For years after his death in ...

The fine-structure constant, by contrast, has no dimensions or units. It’s a pure number that shapes the universe to an astonishing degree — “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding,” as ...

RICHARD FEYNMAN ... the same everywhere and everywhen. And the fine-structure constant will have shown itself to be more mysterious than even Feynman conceived.

Irrespective of what he got right and what he got wrong in his famous 1959 lecture, Richard ... to pattern surfaces on very fine scales was not picked out in Feynman's lecture.