Through Jung [Pauli] became very interested in various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish mysticism. This led Pauli to develop a friendship with Gershom Scholem, the world's greatest authority in that field and in the Cabala,. . On one occasion Scholem asked me to tell him about unsolved problems in modern physics... When I mentioned this number --137-- to Scholem,. . He told me that in Hebrew. . The number corresponding to the word 'cabala' happens to be 137. Victor F. Weisskopf
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