Signature of changing fundamental constants may hide in copper block
By Chris Lee
Simple as using an interferometer to measure length change in block of material.
The fundamental constants—the speed of light, Planck’s constant, the charge of the electron, etc.—are taken to be fixed in value. But there is no theory to explain the fundamental constants, nor is there a reason for them to be constant. They could have been different in the past, and they may be different in the future. Spectroscopic measurements of stars and galaxies at ever-increasing distances tell us that if the fundamental constants were different, it wasn’t by much. We now know that the limit for the relative variation of alpha is 10-17 per year.
This experiment is based on the assumption that space-distance is a rigid 4D manifold. Too bad it isn't.
Don't stop where the ink does.
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