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Constants Not Constant?

Posted by Hemos on from the or-is-it dept.

grytpype writes: "According to this story, a team of astronomers have determined (based on their observations of distant quasars) that [certain physical constants] may have been different in the far past of the universe. The discovery (if validated) is said to be good news for string theorists."

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  1. Re:Evolving value of Pi by feed_me_cereal · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Pi is a really nasty law offender actually. Within the digits of Pi are an infinite number of unliscensed copies of windows 98, and a multitude of kitty porn. In fact, pi is so devious, that it has a naked picture of every child in every sexual position compressed not only into JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP, but also compression formats we wont invent for another year or two! Pi is also the worst violater of privacy in known history. It has movies of you in the shower, sleeping, and making out with all your past signifigant others. Pi has your address, phone number, social scurity number, and list of personal turn-on's all nicely formated in every concievable document format. Pi even has a DivX compressed AVI file of Bill Gates having intercouse with satan. The funniest thing about all of this is, its ABSOLUTELY true!!

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  2. Programmers know this already for a long time :-) by MavEtJu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Constants aren't, variables won't...

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  3. for those that don't have a NYTimes acct.. by TechnoVooDooDaddy · · Score: 4, Redundant

    http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/15/science/15PH YS.html

    1. Re:for those that don't have a NYTimes acct.. by jawad · · Score: 1, Redundant

      Oh, please. C'mon. Do moderators really think they're spending their points wisely by modding up posts like these? It's the same old crap, every single time a NYTimes article is posted here. How about some "-1, Redundant"?

  4. Re:Evolving value of Pi by Alexis+Morissette · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I heard somewhere that Metallica and the RIAA are filing a lawsuit against pi, citing that, because of its infinite string of digits, embedded somewhere within is a complete digital copy of "Enter Sandman". 317,865 others have subsequently filed lawsuits for similar reasons.

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  5. Relationship to previous story... by FortKnox · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Could the fact that constants have changed relate to the fact that Electromagnitism has evolved??

    Considering they were both posted the same day, I'm surprised I was the first to relate them (I ain't too smart like dem der LEEENucks users).

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  6. Re:Evolving value of Pi by gnovos · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "PI is exactly 4!" -- Professor Frink

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