Victor F. Weisskopf, The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist
"Through Jung [Pauli] became very interested in various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish mysticism. This led Pauli to develop a friendship with Gershom Scholem, the world's greatest authority in that field and in the Cabala, ... On one occasion Scholem asked me to tell him about unsolved problems in modern physics. ... When I mentioned this number --137-- to Scholem, ... He told me that in Hebrew ... The number corresponding to the word 'cabala' happens to be 137."
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"Through Jung [Pauli] became very interested in various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish mysticism. This led Pauli to develop a friendship with Gershom Scholem, the world's greatest authority in that field and in the Cabala, ... On one occasion Scholem asked me to tell him about unsolved problems in modern physics. ... When I mentioned this number --137-- to Scholem, ... He told me that in Hebrew ... The number corresponding to the word 'cabala' happens to be 137."
"عبر يونغ، أصبح باولي مهتماً جداً بأنواع مختلفة من التصوف، بما في ذلك التصوف اليهودي. وقد قاده هذا إلى إقامة صداقة مع غيرشوم شوليم، أعظم مرجع في العالم في ذلك المجال وفي الكابالا... وفي إحدى المناسبات، طلب مني شوليم أن أحدثه عن المشكلات العالقة في الفيزياء الحديثة... وعندما ذكرت هذا الرقم – 137 – لشوليم... أخبرني أن في العبرية... الرقم المقابل لكلمة "كابالا" هو 137 بالصدفة."
Victor F. Weisskopf, The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist
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