Mysterious Fine Structure Constant (1/137) Measured In Nearby Stars

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the mystery of the fine structure constant and the measurement of this value from the nearby Sun like stars
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant
https://theconversation.com/one-of-the-greatest-damn-mysteries-of-physics-we-studied-distant-suns-in-the-most-precise-astronomical-test-of-electromagnetism-yet-194062
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9232
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