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of a collection of particles is symmetrical or antisymmetrical when their spins and positions are swapped, which, as we saw, was first noted by Heisenberg.

* That is, second floor in America.

* Pauli’s footnote: “Obviously the combinations are from the previous dream.—Only a pair can play chess. (You see: the professor ‘reckons.’)”

† Pauli’s footnote: “C.f. The chess game in the previous dream.”

* As well as describing the DNA of spectral lines, 1/137 also determines the strength of the interaction between two electrons, because the charge of the electron occurs twice (e2) in the fine structure constant equation,.

* The most recent determination of the fine structure constant was a marvel of modern technology. Gerald Gabrielse and co-workers at Harvard University created an artificial hydrogen atom by catching a single electron in a trap made of a positively charged electrode, supplemented by coils producing a magnetic field. They carefully measured the light produced by the electron as it jumps between energy levels and obtained the most accurate value of the fine structure constant to date: 1/ = 137.035999084…(Hanneke [2008]).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1 Dangerously Famous

2 Early Successes, Early Failures

3 The Philosopher’s Stone

4 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

5 Intermezzo—Three versus Four: Alchemy, Mysticism, and the Dawn of Modern Science

6 Pauli, Heisenberg, and the Great Quantum Breakthrough

7 Mephistopheles

8 The Dark Hunting Ground of the Mind

9 Mandalas

10 The Superior Man Sets His Life in Order

11 Synchronicity

12 Dreams of Primal Numbers

13 Second Intermezzo—Road to Yesterday

14 Through the Looking Glass

15 The Mysterious Number 137

Epilogue: The Legacy of Pauli and Jung

Notes

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