Equation 18 · The Vacuum Has a History: Symmetry Breaking as Speciation
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where the are calculable functions of all the couplings together. This is exactly the machinery Degrassi’s and Buttazzo’s teams used to run the Higgs and top couplings up to the Planck scale, and it is not evidence that anything is changing over cosmic time; a coupling’s value at 100 GeV and its value at 10^{19} GeV are both fixed, calculable numbers at any moment in cosmic history, connected by a known equation, not two different eras’ worth of physics.
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- [16] Spatial variation in the fine-structure constant -- new results from VLT/UVES ↗
- [15] Fundamental constants: from measurement to the universe, a window on gravitation and cosmology ↗
- [17] Analysis of atomic-clock data to constrain variations of fundamental constants ↗
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