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Following the Pythagorean tradition of number mysticism, Weyl (1919), Eddington (1920), Dirac (1937), and others speculated about the significance of “large numbers” which arise from the natural constants and from cosmology. For instance, the ratio of the electromagnetic force and the gravitational force between electrons amounts to ~ 1042.
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Becker, J.D., Castell, L. (2003). Ur Theory and Cosmological Phase Transition. In: Castell, L., Ischebeck, O. (eds) Time, Quantum and Information. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10557-3_29
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