The Second Apocalypse

Miscellaneous Chatter => Philosophy & Science => Topic started by: sciborg2 on May 02, 2020, 04:09:56 am

Title: New findings suggest laws of nature 'downright weird,' not as constant as....
Post by: sciborg2 on May 02, 2020, 04:09:56 am
New findings suggest laws of nature 'downright weird,' not as constant as previously thought (https://phys.org/news/2020-04-laws-nature-downright-weird-constant.html)

Lachlan Gilbert

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Not only does a universal constant seem annoyingly inconstant at the outer fringes of the cosmos, it occurs in only one direction, which is downright weird.

Those looking forward to a day when science's Grand Unifying Theory of Everything could be worn on a t-shirt may have to wait a little longer as astrophysicists continue to find hints that one of the cosmological constants is not so constant after all.

In a paper published in Science Advances, scientists from UNSW Sydney reported that four new measurements of light emitted from a quasar 13 billion light years away reaffirm past studies that found tiny variations in the fine structure constant (https://phys.org/tags/fine+structure+constant/).