or do they change with time?https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/constants.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_large_numbers_hypothesis
>>16171823Who knows? We think they should be fairly consistent but if there are small perturbations, or a gradual and slow change in these constants occurring then I think we'd have no fucking clue.
>>16171823General Relativity's whole shtick is that the speed of light is spatially variable around masses, if you aren't too retarded about it.
>>16171823>Are physical "constants" really constantwe don't know fir sure, but we're devising experiments to test their constancy.
>>16171971Anon, you have that exactly backwards.
>>16172575So the speed of light's partial stick is that general relativity isn't variable around masses?
>>16171971No, general relativity's whole schtick is that everything moves at the speed of light, but that how much of that motion is through the spatial and temporal directions of spacetime is variable around masses.
>>16172619>he was too retarded about ityikes...
>>16172619>>16172622I don't care how dumb that sounds, it's a trippy AF way to think about it. Gonna go buy some shrromz now XD
>>16171823In my scifi they are variable! (I am very intelligent)
If it’s true that inflaton field collapsed and gave rise to other fields, then the constants would indeed need to be variable
