Throw out your physics books...

Spit said:
Doesn't surprise me really, the universe is sooo big I'm sure there is a multitude of things out there that will surprise us for an eternity.
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Indeed, it's nowt but extreme egotism as a species to assume we know even a fraction about how the universe works.
 
Bit odd it's only in Physical Review Letters though. If it was that big a discovery I'd expect it in Science or Nature.:p
 
It's not really that new. This has been speculated about for decades. Let's not forget also that the variation is Time dependent, so the laws may have varied over time, not distance.
 
There are always massive claims like this. We'll probably just never hear of it again though like the WMAP physicist studying the CMB claiming that a stretch of space over 4 billion light years wide was moving towards a single point in some constellation.
 
What's with all the book burning this week? Are other forms of heating really getting that expensive? :p

To adapt an oft-used cliché, perhaps the only constant in the universe really is change. But then again, who was it that told us that Pluto was a planet? And who that it wasn't? Shows how much they know! :p
 
Castiel said:
It's not really that new. This has been speculated about for decades. Let's not forget also that the variation is Time dependent, so the laws may have varied over time, not distance.
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Aye, I remember hearing years ago about the fine structure constant possibly being not a constant.
 
Scientists were convinced for years that the Earth was flat

Indeed you could be killed for suggesting otherwise.

It wasnt until the 15th century that "scientists" began to acknowledge that they had been wrong all along and that the earth was indeed round.

No scientific principle "rule" is safe.
 
MrLOL said:
Scientists were convinced for years that the Earth was flat

Indeed you could be killed for suggesting otherwise.

It wasnt until the 15th century that "scientists" began to acknowledge that they had been wrong all along and that the earth was indeed round.

No scientific principle "rule" is safe.
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The "earth is flat" thing is a bit of a myth. I'm not saying it wasn't believed, but it was nowhere near as prevalent as is oft suggested.
 
MrLOL said:
Scientists were convinced for years that the Earth was flat

Indeed you could be killed for suggesting otherwise.

It wasnt until the 15th century that "scientists" began to acknowledge that they had been wrong all along and that the earth was indeed round.

No scientific principle "rule" is safe.
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I'm pretty sure that's an exaggeration, and that very few people actually thought the earth was flat.
 
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MrLOL said:
Scientists were convinced for years that the Earth was flat

Indeed you could be killed for suggesting otherwise.

It wasnt until the 15th century that "scientists" began to acknowledge that they had been wrong all along and that the earth was indeed round.

No scientific principle "rule" is safe.
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No scientists thought the earth was flat. Since ancient Greece, China and India they all knew it was a sphere.

That is a load of garbage.
 
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