True Subatomic Fans will know of my affinity for all that has to with units and constants.Thus, we were happy to read this interesting article about the three natural constants that are all we need to define pretty much everything in the physical universe.
Of course, there's our good ole pal c, the velocity of light. Then there's h, the work-horse Planck's Constant. If you didn't know, Planck's Constant gives the ability to calculate the energy of a certain frequency of light. Then there's also G, the gravitational constant.
I never really thought about other constants, but when I do, I can totally see how all other constants can be understood in terms of these three (or two depending on how you look at it).
Perhaps there's no new physics involved here, but at least it's changed the way I think of these constants, what they mean, and how astonishingly simple (yet it isn't at all) the Universe is.
1 comment:
That seems like a rather sparse list. How, for example, would you get the charge of an electron e with just G, c, and h?
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