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This tag is for questions relating to physical constants which are any of a set of fundamental invariant quantities observed in nature and appearing in the basic theoretical equations of physics. Accurate evaluation of these constants is essential in order to check the correctness of the theories and to allow useful applications to be made on the basis of those theories.
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Is the Boltzmann constant really that important?
We can understand all of this business if we visit the statistical mechanics notion of temperature, and then connect it to experimental realities.
Temperature is a Lagrange multiplier (and should hav …