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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. This has already been proven by scott1853 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anybody that programs for Windows is familiar with the phenomenon of constants simply changing their values whenever the hell the OS feel like it.

  2. Evolution vs. Creation debate by cavemanf16 · · Score: 0, Troll
    So, this is good news for string theorists, bad news for evolutionists. After all, if you can't count on the 'constants' being the exact same value in the past, how can you actually date the age of the earth, fossils, the universe, etc. accurately? Sounds like the scientists from both sides of the pond (the psuedo science called Evolutionary Theory and the observational science called physics) should start coordinating a little better on exactly what constitutes scientific fact.

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