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=== Short intuition (so you can explain it to viewers/readers): the golden-angle itself is a purely geometric/arithmetic angle (≈137.5077°). The fine-structure inverse ≈137.035999… is a measured electromagnetic coupling. Our rain-drop / spherical refraction tests weight the rainbow scattering angle by a spectral intensity (Planck, atomic lines, solar spectrum) and by refractive index dispersion n(λ). That weighted mean is a convolution of: ===
* the geometry that maps wavelength → scattering angle (sphere + refraction gives a wavelength-dependent exit angle), and
* the spectral intensity I(λ)I(\lambda)I(λ) (Planck, line emission, solar spectrum), and
* refractive dispersion n(λ)n(\lambda)n(λ) (shifts angles nonlinearly).

Small shifts in the spectral weighting or the dispersion model move the weighted mean angle by degrees. The computations you saw (approx dispersion + Planck / selected lines) produced mean angles around 139–140°, a couple of degrees above golden-angle. That is entirely plausible: spectral weighting and real dispersion are strong influences and not tuned to produce 137.036 exactly. In short: spherical geometry + spectra produce angles in the golden-angle region — suggestive, but not a proof that α = geometric golden-angle.

Two ways to make the comparison more meaningful:
# Use realistic measured solar spectrum + high-precision refractive index tables (you asked for this earlier) — reduces model error.
# Replace broad Planck weighting with discrete atomic lines (Hα, Hβ, Na D, etc.) or narrow plasma lines — narrow lines can pull the mean angle and potentially bring it closer to 137.0x if they align with dispersive features.

But even if a careful weighting produced 137.036 to high precision, that would still be a numerical coincidence unless we can show how e2, h/2π, c, ε0e^2,\ h/2\pi,\ c,\ \varepsilon_0e2, h/2π, c, ε0 emerge from the same geometry. So the numeric test is evidence, not derivation.