Not So Fast

For John, BLUF:  It is like COVID-19.  One suspects we are a ways yet from knowing ground truth.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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New findings suggest laws of nature not as constant as previously thought

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From the Blog Site Watts Up With That, by Mr Charles Rotter, 28 April 2020.

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University of New South Wales

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 prestigious journal 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 have measured tiny variations in the fine structure constant.

UNSW Science’s Professor John Webb says the fine structure constant is a measure of electromagnetism – one of the four fundamental forces in nature (the others are gravity, weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force).

From the Party of Science I gEt the impression that they think science is all settled.  From the Party of Engineering I am not so sure they believe the science is settled.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff