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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>The fundamental constants and their variation: observational status and theoretical motivations · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/hep-ph_0205340/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/hep-ph_0205340/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>The fundamental constants and their variation: observational status and theoretical motivations — mentioned by rramadass</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739237</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:hep-ph_0205340:49739237</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:28:23 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Right. Added the wikipedia link to Dirac&amp;#x27;s LNH above. Also found this; The fundamental constants and their variation: observational status and theoretical motivations - https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205340&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/hep-ph_0205340/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>hep-ph</category></item><item><title>The fundamental constants and their variation: observational status and theoretical motivations — mentioned by belter</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475373</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:hep-ph_0205340:43475373</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:10:45 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the answer. I had forgotten about the No-communication theorem. This led me into another rabbit hole :-) of why c is 299,792,458 m/s and for example not 499,792,458 m/s or some other value, and the fundamental constants that bring this value. [1] Is there a current theory that tries to justify those constants that bring the current value of c ? Are those values the ones that must be, for the current Universe to be feasible? [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205340&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/hep-ph_0205340/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>hep-ph</category></item></channel></rss>
