Is Our Entire Universe Held Together By One Mysterious Number?

1/137 is a universal constant that determines how stars burn, how chemical reactions happen, and if it were off by just a few percentage points—all of this might not even be here. But what happens if it shifts?

Opinion:

Since alpha depends on the charge of an electron and General Relativity tells us that charge changes with time dilation, of course the measurement of alpha would change. But the local value of alpha would remain constant.
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