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The title of my talk may seem a bit ambitious, but please note the plural “constants”. To calculate the fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not have. In this talk I want to return to the old question of what it is that determines gauge couplings in general, and try to prepare the ground for a future realistic calculation.
©Steven Weinberg, 1983. This invorporates the texts of talks given at the Fourth Workshop on Grand Unification and at the She luter Islter Conference on Quantum Field Theeory and the Fundamental Problems of Physics, June 1, 1983. Research supported in part bu the Robert A. Welch Foundation and NSF Contract No. PHY-82-15246
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Weinberg, S. (1983). Calculation of Fine Structure Constants. In: Weldon, H.A., Langacker, P., Steinhardt, P.J. (eds) Fourth Workshop on Grand Unification. Progress in Physics, vol 9. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1812-6_23
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