> On 28 Apr 2020, at 15:58, John Clark wrote:
>
> The universe may have a preferred direction. A new study has found a spatial
> variation in the Fine Structure Constant (a pure number approximately equal
> to 1/137) with a 3.9 sigma level of confidence, that means there is a 0.8%
> chance it
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:42 PM Lawrence Crowell <
goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, having read the article this is a result I hope disappears in the
> light of further work. This would almost mean the universe has no rhyme or
> reason at all.
>
Before 1900 the shape of the blackb
If space itself is some sort of dark stuff (or is filled with stuff), and
that stuff is not "uniformly distributed" and it interacts with all the
"observable" stuff, then this could make sense.
And few think that most of fundamental physics is the right set of
"equations" anyway.
@philipthri
Well, having read the article this is a result I hope disappears in the
light of further work. This would almost mean the universe has no rhyme or
reason at all. Then again, on the other hand … , strange things can turn
up. It makes little sense that the fine structure constant α = e^2/(4πεħc)
The universe may have a preferred direction. A new study has found a
spatial variation in the Fine Structure Constant (a pure number
approximately equal to 1/137) with a 3.9 sigma level of confidence, that
means there is a 0.8% chance it's just a statistical fluke. It's not good
enough to claim a d
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