New findings suggest laws of nature 'downright weird,' not as constant as previously thought

PhysOrg ^ | 4/27/20 | Lachlan Gilbert

[LibWhacker]

It's weird. Just as I feared.

[ronnie raygun]

Says a lot about us being in a sweet spot and maybe not by accident but on purpose

[Erik Latranyi]

Things are far more complex than science believes.

Science tries to reduce things to simplicity, but that is not reality.

When the human genome was mapped, they were astonished to find an insufficient number of combinations to account for human variability.

This is why climate science basing everything on CO2 is a failure. It is far more complex a system than how the frauds make it out to be.

[Drango]

weak nuclear force

The weak needs to step up its game. Try CrossFit or HIIT.

[Savage Beast]

If there is a directionality to the universe, does this explain, or correlate with, why time flows, or appears to flow, in one direction only?

[RonnG]

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves”

[GOPJ]

Time flowing in one direction is probably an illusion...

[TalBlack]

People who don’t know jack shit about Nature really don’t get to call anything “weird”.

[misanthrope]

Cosmos electric

[CARTOUCHE]

Just when we think we have it all figgered out the aliens thrown a wrench into it. Next we’ll find that Pi really isn’t.

[wastoute]

So the Universe isn’t so much a Big Bang but more of a Western Union Telegram? Kurt Vonnegut was right?

[Moonman62]

In a paper published in Science Advances, scientists from UNSW Sydney reported that four new measurements of light emitted from a quasar 13 billion light years away reaffirm past studies that found tiny variations in the fine structure constant.

...

Tiny deviations and unverified, but that won’t stop the kooks from claiming that their crazy idea is right.

[Moonman62]

If there is a directionality in the universe, Professor Webb argues, and if electromagnetism is shown to be very slightly different in certain regions of the cosmos, the most fundamental concepts underpinning much of modern physics will need revision.

“Our standard model of cosmology is based on an isotropic universe, one that is the same, statistically, in all directions,” he says.

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The big deal is directionality.

[Moonman62]

But adding to the side of the argument that says these findings are more than just coincidence, a team in the US working completely independently and unknown to Professor Webb’s, made observations about X-rays that seemed to align with the idea that the universe has some sort of directionality.

“I didn’t know anything about this paper until it appeared in the literature,” he says.

“And they’re not testing the laws of physics, they’re testing the properties, the X-ray properties of galaxies and clusters of galaxies and cosmological distances from Earth. They also found that the properties of the universe in this sense are not isotropic and there’s a preferred direction. And lo and behold, their direction coincides with ours.”

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I wonder if the observations in the article coincide with the Axis of Evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology)

[poconopundit]

LOL, your tagline is brilliant, GOPJ! (Was misery & death worth the four bucks saved on the crappy waffle-iron 'made in China?) * * * As to the question of time flowing in multiple directions. Isn't Time itself but a human construct -- an electronic or analog "ticking" wrapper for a series of sequential events? Can we really alter the sequence of a past event? Similarly, can't we say that Distance is like overlaying a fisherman's net (or grid) over a map?  Ah, but does the grid actually exist? Can we warp the grid to such a degree that the uninhabited and volcanic Antipodes Islands, south of New Zealand, would lie right outside their antipode near London? If we could, then there's great danger living in La Rioja, Argentina, because if you dug straight down through the Earth from there, you will have dug a hole to China -- Wuhan City, China to be precise! Where's my Antipode?  Check it out here.

[GOPJ]

LOL - glad you like the tag - thanks pundit

fyi

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Furthermore, ideas from information theory keep showing up in physics. “In my research I found this very strange thing,” said James Gates, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland. “I was driven to error-correcting codes—they’re what make browsers work. So why were they in the equations I was studying about quarks and electrons and supersymmetry? This brought me to the stark realization that I could no longer say people like Max are crazy.”

[Sirius Lee]

Says a lot about us being in a sweet spot and maybe not by accident but on purpose

All rivers bleed into one.

[I want the USA back]

When scientists call something weird it means that their theories are inadequate, but that they cling fast to their theories and cannot accept any other explanation.

The Universe works, and it’s foolish to think that any human can understand it fully.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Time flowing in one direction is probably an illusion...

With the passage of time, it's an illusion I increasingly want to shake.

[V K Lee]

PP,whatever, wherever it may be my feet are standing over really doesn't
give much concern.
At the moment attempting to escape that darn
looking glass which I just passed through.
Everything seems quite different from this perspective.
(Though not as dark as falling
down a rabbit hole.)