Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 05:23:54 UTC No. 16171872

>>16171823
Who 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.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 07:53:57 UTC No. 16171971

>>16171823
General Relativity's whole shtick is that the speed of light is spatially variable around masses, if you aren't too retarded about it.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 12:42:09 UTC No. 16172194

>>16171823
>Are physical "constants" really constant
we don't know fir sure, but we're devising experiments to test their constancy.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 17:51:48 UTC No. 16172575

>>16171971
Anon, you have that exactly backwards.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 18:14:17 UTC No. 16172602

>>16172575
So the speed of light's partial stick is that general relativity isn't variable around masses?

Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 18:27:36 UTC No. 16172619

>>16171971
No, 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.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 18:28:38 UTC No. 16172622

>>16172619
>he was too retarded about it
yikes...

Sage at Sun, 12 May 2024 22:32:55 UTC No. 16172950

>>16172619
>>16172622
I don't care how dumb that sounds, it's a trippy AF way to think about it. Gonna go buy some shrromz now XD

Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 22:48:51 UTC No. 16172971

>>16171823
In my scifi they are variable! (I am very intelligent)

Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 23:00:07 UTC No. 16172985

If it’s true that inflaton field collapsed and gave rise to other fields, then the constants would indeed need to be variable