3 pointsby Oldrich3334 hours ago2 comments
  • magicalhippo4 hours ago
    A single closed-form expression that reproduces Newton's gravitational constant G from the electron mass, the reduced Planck constant, the speed of light, and the fine-structure constant alone

    The relation was discovered by an exhaustive bounded equation search through 2.67 billion raw expressions [...]

    Numerology[1] in other words.

    Reminded me of the Koide formula[2]. While Koide's work one was at least initially theoretically motivated but later experimentally ruled out, it has lived on as a numerological relation.

    [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology

    [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koide_formula

  • Oldrich3334 hours ago
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