Why I Called This Blog Alpha 137

Every project needs a name.

Some choose something catchy. Some choose something safe.

I chose a number that refuses to behave.

137.

Physicists whisper about it. Feynman called it a “magic number.”

Others call it the universe’s favorite constant.

Richard Feynman once said that all theoretical physicists should “write this number on their office walls and wonder what it means.”

Why?

Because 1/137 - more precisely 1/137.035999… - is the fine-structure constant (= "Alpha"), a fundamental number that governs how particles interact with light, how atoms hold together, and how the universe organizes itself.

It’s the ratio that makes chemistry possible, stars stable, and life interesting.

It’s the thin line between chaos and structure.

And that is exactly why I chose it.

Quantum computing lives in that same tension - the place where the universe shifts from predictable to… strange.

AI sits on one side, forever hungry for more data.

Quantum sits on the other, running on pure physics, inventing possibilities we’ve never seen.

Alpha 137 is where I explore that frontier.

Where technology stops being engineering and starts being discovery.

Where we don’t just ask “What does the data say?”.

We ask, “What does the universe allow?”.

Alpha 137 is a blog about invention.

About discovery. About the next leap.

And if one number can hold the secrets of light, matter, and the structure of reality…it can hold the spirit of this project too.

That’s why I called it Alpha 137.