That’s an excellent reason to avoid it. I thought of it not just because it is one of the only plausible grand unification constants, but because it appears in the tantalizingly accurate numerology of the Combinatorial Hierarchy, encompassing not only 137 (EM coupling) but gravitational dimensionless coupling, that motivated the creation of ANPA, which is how I came to know both Pierre Noyes and Tom Etter:
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