The title of my article was, "Fundamental Constants of Physics: The Genes Of The Universe", so this graphic here was intended to capture that idea by taking a familiar DNA double helix and substituting in different fundamental constants of physics instead of the standard DNA base pairs, G A T C, Guanine, Adenine, Thyamine, and Cytosine.
For those of you who are curious, c = the speed of light, e = the charge of an electron, G = Newton's gravitational constant, h = Planck's contstant from quantum mechanics,
= the Hydrogen fine structure constant, k
= Boltzman's constant from thermodynamics, and m
= the mass of the electron. There are plenty of other constants, so the choice of these particular ones
was arbitrary on my part, chosen mainly because they are some of the most well known ones.
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