EDDINGTON'S BLUNDER

Eddington was a prolific writer and a prolific mathematician and a dedicated Quaker. He asserted that the fine structure constant was exactly the integer 136 then later he changed this to being exactly 137 when measurements showed it was greater than 136. He lost a lot of credibility by doing this and his "Fundamental Theory" was not accepted. Instead of this it is too bad that Eddington did not know about my suggestion that the fine structure constant is given by a simple series in e and pi. He might have sold his "Fundamental Theory" to the physics community in his lifetime if he had claimed my series' establishes the uniqueness of the constants he defined. He is a very gifted writer who writes loftily about the philosophy of nature. Too bad he never married. But I like that he stayed Quaker throughout his life at Cambridge.