3 Quotes & Sayings By Charles P Enz

Charles P. Enz is a wandering poet, playwright, novelist, and editor of the literary journal Midwest Quarterly. He is also the author of numerous published books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Many of his works have achieved national best-seller status Read more

His most recent book, To Be Published: Voices From the Literary Underground (2012), is a collection of interviews with more than two dozen writers who are themselves still in the early stages of their careers.

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In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that only a formulation of quantum theory would be satisfactory which expresses the relation between the value of [the fine structure constant] and charge conservation in the same complementary was as that between the space-time description and energy-momentum conservation. Charles P. Enz
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For [Wolfgang] Pauli the central problem of electrodynamics was the field concept and the existence of an elementary charge which is expressible by the fine-structure constant ... 1/137. This fundamental pure number had greatly fascinated Pauli, .... For Pauli the explanation of the number 137 was the test of a successful field theory, a test which no theory has passed up to now. Charles P. Enz