Dark matter might cause fundamental constants to change over

[Jason]

Phys.org)—The fundamental constants of nature—such as the speed of light, Planck's constant, and Newton's gravitational constant—are thought to be constant in time, as their name suggests. But scientists have questioned this assumption as far back as 1937, when Paul Dirac hypothesized that Newton's gravitational constant might decrease over time.

Now in a new paper published in Physical Review Letters, Yevgeny V. Stadnik and Victor V. Flambaum at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, have theoretically shown that dark matter can cause the fundamental constants of nature to slowly evolve as well as oscillate due to oscillations in the dark matter field. This idea requires that the weakly interacting dark matter particles be able to interact a small amount with standard model particles, which the scientists show is possible.

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-dark-funda ... s.html#jCp

Holy shit. Forget the perfectly shaped puddle, this changes everything.

[cronus]

Things haven't been right since I woke up this morning. Glad it isn't only me.

[Jason]

Can life adapt to exist in a universe with cosmological constants no longer suitable for autogenesis? That's a huge question that follows after the possibility of non-universal constants following local variation. I mean holy shit.

[cronus]

Can life adapt to exist in a universe with cosmological constants no longer suitable for autogenesis? That's a huge question that follows after the possibility of non-universal constants following local variation. I mean holy shit.

Calls into question a lot of established scientific thinking doesn't it? If magic keeps it all going maybe there are places with more magic than others, hence elves and orcs out there somewhere? maybe gods and woo what works also?