Bcc: E - worth a skim 1962 efforts to prove invariance of Fine Structure Constant based on observations to date. Interesting but not surprising to see that 50 years on we are slightly less certain of the point that the authors then felt was reasonably well established. http://astrophysics.fic.uni.lodz.pl/100yrs/pdf/07/026.pdf And, no, I do not immerse myself in the technical details of such things - mostly I simply peer in from the outside as I stumble across them to see if it seems they just might be useful. (Sometimes I instead just tiptoe quietly away ... :-) ). Russell --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .