OK, listen. First of all, my answer was from a scientific point of view. I'm sorry that you thought I was atributing myself divine power, but I was not.
And second, this is a forum of respecting people. Please take your sarcasm elsewhere. Thank you.
Fundamental constants of Nature changing over the Universe history and/or over space is a topic of debate in the physics community (in which I include myself, being a grad student in physics).
There is no compelling theoretical reason that suggests this running of the fundamental constants. There are some experimental (astrophysical) evidence that could be explained in this way, and several models have been developed. They would have far reaching consequences, changing our views on cosmology and the Standard Model of particle physics.
Pinkfud, your "simple" argument is a trivialization on the issue and doesn't make much sense, in fact. For example, no observer could stand outside the universe, because there's nothing outside the universe.
I don't know if you got your ideas from a "popularising" science magazine (don't ever trust them) or misinterpreted a more serious source. But keep researching into it, and if you got the opportunity to discuss it with a physicist, do it.
P.S.: I pretend this comment just to point to you that your understanding is incorrect and to encourage your interest for physics.
This is how we do it in Spain too and there's never been any suspicion of and election being stolen since the beginning of democracy in 1975.
Well, almost. Although I am not American and I have never seen a ballot in this country, I keep reading about filling out and punching ballots. As cryptochrome points out, Paper ballots [...] can be tampered with (turning a valid ballot into an overvote is as simple as a surreptitious mark/punch from someone handling the ballots in most designs).
In Spain, you cast your vote by putting a pre-printed paper with the name of the party, candidate, etc. of your election in an envelope, and that envelope in a box. That means that there are different papers for different options. No marks, no punches. No possibility of tampering with.
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Since when is Spanish a dead language?!?!
OK, listen. First of all, my answer was from a scientific point of view. I'm sorry that you thought I was atributing myself divine power, but I was not.
And second, this is a forum of respecting people. Please take your sarcasm elsewhere. Thank you.
Fundamental constants of Nature changing over the Universe history and/or over space is a topic of debate in the physics community (in which I include myself, being a grad student in physics).
There is no compelling theoretical reason that suggests this running of the fundamental constants. There are some experimental (astrophysical) evidence that could be explained in this way, and several models have been developed. They would have far reaching consequences, changing our views on cosmology and the Standard Model of particle physics.
Pinkfud, your "simple" argument is a trivialization on the issue and doesn't make much sense, in fact. For example, no observer could stand outside the universe, because there's nothing outside the universe.
I don't know if you got your ideas from a "popularising" science magazine (don't ever trust them) or misinterpreted a more serious source. But keep researching into it, and if you got the opportunity to discuss it with a physicist, do it.
P.S.: I pretend this comment just to point to you that your understanding is incorrect and to encourage your interest for physics.
This is how we do it in Spain too and there's never been any suspicion of and election being stolen since the beginning of democracy in 1975.
Well, almost. Although I am not American and I have never seen a ballot in this country, I keep reading about filling out and punching ballots. As cryptochrome points out, Paper ballots [...] can be tampered with (turning a valid ballot into an overvote is as simple as a surreptitious mark/punch from someone handling the ballots in most designs).
In Spain, you cast your vote by putting a pre-printed paper with the name of the party, candidate, etc. of your election in an envelope, and that envelope in a box. That means that there are different papers for different options. No marks, no punches. No possibility of tampering with.