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I shall start this talk with a quotation from Weinberg [1] which, I think, explains very well what he and I mean, in practice, by a “Fundamental Constant of Nature”. Weinberg says [1]:
“The list of fundamental constants depends on who (and I would add on when one) is compiling the list⋮. A hydrodynamicist would put in the list the density and viscosity of water, an atomic physicist would put the mass of the proton and the charge of the electron”.
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Veneziano, G. (1990). Quantum Strings and the Constants of Nature. In: Zichichi, A. (eds) The Challenging Questions. The Subnuclear Series, vol 27. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3828-8_9
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