Asimov's Ladder of Physical Constants

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Isaac Asimov introduced the following idea of representing the powers of ten as steps in a ladder and enumerating objects or phenomena in the universe corresponding to each power. In this Demonstration, fundamental physical constants are located on the ladder.

Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (February 2009)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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I. Asimov, The Measure of the Universe, New York: Harper & Row, 1983.



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