On the Fine?]Structure Spectrum of Hydrogen
H. Pierre Noyes
Keywords: discrete physics, combinatorial hierarchy, fine?]structure constant, Sommerfeld formula
Using our discrete relativistic combinatorial bit?]string theory of physics in the context of the hydrogen spectrum, we calculate our first two approximations for the fine?]structure constant as ??(1) = 1/137 and ??(2) = [1 − 1/(30 ?~ 127)]/137 = 1/137.035 967 4 ?c ; we can then derive the Sommerfeld formula.
