I know of no evidence for a variation in the physical constants. My
solution to the problems of YECism was to suggest a variation in the
constants. But the lack of evidence for such variation certainly hurts
such a suggestion.
At 10:19 AM 11/3/98 -0600, SZYGMUNT@EXODUS.VALPO.EDU wrote:
>Kevin,
>
>Recently you claimed in one of your posts that:
>
>1. There is preliminary evidence that the fundamental constants
>of nature have changed over time; and
>
>2. That before the four fundamental forces of nature were
>"decoupled", the fundamental constants "could have been
>changing constantly and wildly".
>
>Can you please give a reference for (1) above? Of course the
>idea of a time-dependent G goes back to Dirac in the 1930s, but
>I'm not aware of any solid evidence for its validity.
>
>I'm not an expert in the issues surrounding fine-tuning, but I
>have read quite a bit about it, including some papers by Carter
>and Barrow. I do not remember ever reading a suggestion that
>the fundamental constants could have been "changing" in the manner
>you claimed. Can you give a reference for this too?
>
>Would Glenn, Brian, and David Bowman care to comment about these
>issues?
>
>Thanks Kevin,
>
>Stan Zygmunt
>
>
>
glenn
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