| Soleron said: - It's one paper I'm sure this is serious research, but for something this big it needs A LOT of checking before you can even consider it. As in high school science classes, this could easily be systematic or random errors from instrument faults. It's not like we can travel to those galaxies and check. |
alpha has been a pain in the *ss for the past 80 years or so. Nobody really knows what it actually is (only that it is NOT a constant, it is a number that depends on certain measurment conditions too complex to explain here). Whether the value varies over time (and now, according to the latest paper, also over space) has been debated ever since. What does this thread have to do with consoles? - Faint memories from nuclear physics classes tell me that combining all XBox360s and PS3s into a large supercomputer array, it would take months (years?) to calculate alpha to highest precision...
