Very nice work. Questions about time affecting the various fundamental constants have been around for a long time. As each one is nailed down, we can get more assurance that what we see locally is representative of what we see distantly.

Very nice work. Questions about time affecting the various fundamental constants have been around for a long time. As each one is nailed down, we can get more assurance that what we see locally is representative of what we see distantly.

Unfortunately there are some who will refuse to believe that in this one universe, there must be this one reality, governed by one set of physics.

They will argue endlessly that what we see over there is different than that which we see here, merely because it's there and not here.

Very nice work. Questions about time affecting the various fundamental constants have been around for a long time. As each one is nailed down, we can get more assurance that what we see locally is representative of what we see distantly.

Unfortunately there are some who will refuse to believe that in this one universe, there must be this one reality, governed by one set of physics.

They will argue endlessly that what we see over there is different than that which we see here, merely because it's there and not here.

The post above you states how by nailing each constant down, we will NOT argue endlessly. :P

"They will argue endlessly that what we see over there is different than that which we see here, merely because it's there and not here."

You right buddy.

As an example.
You watch space expanding.
I see sky objects travel in cosmos like vapor becoming cloud and the others like rains.

Time slows down in a gravitational field so a methanol molecule is going to have a lower frequency near a black hole than it would in intersteller space. A range of frequencys could be generated by various massive bodys resulting in frequencys that are a product of other frequencys (Hetrodyning).

Too bad it is the bad kind of alcohol...

I think I need to take a trip to that radiotelescope this weekend. Haven't been down there in almost 5 years. And from the aerial it looks like they put in some solar since.

It's a beautiful valley and you don't see it until the last moment. Very 'James Bond' type of setting...especially when that humongous dish suddenly starts realigning to a different part of the sky. The precision is eerie.

"...from the aerial it looks like they put in some solar since."

I think what you're referring to is actually the LOFAR array installation at Effelsberg: http://www.mpa-ga...ig2a.jpg

I wish I could visit the historic 100m dish at Effelsberg. I had a friend at uni who worked with the telescope and had some wonderful stories (and video) of the region.

This doesn't surprise me. Alcohol constrains me as well.

From a "fine-tuning" perspective, the apparent conspiracy of fundamental constants, in generating physical laws that afford the possibility of life (as we know it), speculatively suggests some sort of "cosmic natural selection". Perhaps successive Big Bang / Big Crunch cycles successively define (BB) and then re-define (BC) physical constants, allowing for cosmic variation (half of NS). Then, the (in-)stability of the ensuing cosmos would impose some sort of selection (other half of NS). If so, then in the ultra-intense environments, of universe-sized black holes (BC), physical constants could be redefined. And if so, then perhaps in the intense environments, around galaxy-sized black holes (SMBH), physical constants are "tweaked" by minor amounts? Perhaps sensitive measurements, around the most massive galactic BHs might reveal some minor variations, to the values, of fundamental constants ?

Such an observation rather supports the steady-state universe model, than this expanding one. In expanding Universe the atoms should appear relatively larger in the distant past and more transparent in general.

Such an observation rather supports the steady-state universe model, than this expanding one.

Nope, quite the opposite, in a steady state universe, there should be no redshift. The result here shows that the redshift at 6.5GHz is the same as at optical frequencies to within 100 parts per billion. The wavelength stretched from 46mm to 87mm.