Eddington arrived at this outrageous conclusion after a series of convoluted (and wrong!) calculations in which he first "proved" that the value of the so-called fine-structure constant was exactly 1/136.
This is the Eddingtonnumber, notable for being the largest specific integer (as opposed to an estimate or approximation) ever thought to have a unique and tangible relationship to the physical world.
Unfazed, Eddington simply amended his "proof" to show that the value had to be exactly 1/137, prompting the satirical magazine Punch to dub him "Sir Arthur Adding-One."
The physicist Arthur Eddington at one time thought the fine-structure constant a, which had been measured at approximately 1/137, should be exactly 1/137, based on aesthetic and numerological arguments.
Careful measurements have shown this not to be the case: the value of a is currently estimated at 1/137.035 999 76(50).
When another (erroneous) measurement showed a to have a value nearer 1/136, Eddington constructed an argument relating the number 136 to the Eddingtonnumber, his best estimate of the number of electrons in the Universe.
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was one of the foremost astrophysicists of the twentieth century, making fundamental contributions to our understanding of general relativity, as well as the internal structure of stars and the method by which they generate energy.
The second quotation is not only a commentary on the state of the world in 1943, but also shows that Eddington was riding 80 miles or more at age 61, not much more than a year before his death.
Certainly Eddington did not refer to this quantity as the EddingtonNumber; however, I think it's a fitting title and I refer to it by the letter E.
The physicist Arthur Eddington was something of a numerologist in later life, as well as a keen cyclist.
Part of the attractiveness of Eddington's idea is the difficult-to-get-your-head-round way it combines two not necessarily amenable forces (physical effort and number of attempts) into one variable.
His H for this is 12, the number of miles from Grangemouth to the top of Ben Cleuch - and of course his twelfth ascent was made a whole herd of donkeys' years ago.
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Different relations between atomic and cosmic quantities and fundamental constants are leading to the same large number in the order of magnitude of 10
is a number of the same order of magnitude as in (1).
This is nearly the square of the number found in (1), (2) and (3) !
Eddington liked publicity and probably dreamed of winning a Nobel Prize, and upon his return to England declared that his observations proven the theory of relativity.
Recent analysis of Eddington's work revealed that he was biased in selecting his data, and that overall his data was inconclusive about the theory of relativity.
"Number Theory" means the theory of whole numbers, and this seems to be what the poor benighted Conservapedists meant by the term.
