{"id":106119,"date":"2020-04-27T10:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-findings-suggest-laws-of-nature-downright-weird-not-as-constant-as-previously-thought"},"modified":"2020-04-27T10:03:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:03:21","slug":"new-findings-suggest-laws-of-nature-downright-weird-not-as-constant-as-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-findings-suggest-laws-of-nature-downright-weird-not-as-constant-as-previously-thought","title":{"rendered":"New findings suggest laws of nature \u2018downright weird,\u2019 not as constant as previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-findings-suggest-laws-of-nature-downright-weird-not-as-constant-as-previously-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only does a universal constant seem annoyingly inconstant at the outer fringes of the cosmos, it occurs in only one direction, which is downright weird.<\/p>\n<p>Those looking forward to a day when science\u2019s Grand Unifying Theory of Everything could be worn on a t-shirt may have to wait a little longer as astrophysicists continue to find hints that one of the cosmological constants is not so constant after all.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, scientists from UNSW Sydney reported that four new measurements of light emitted from a quasar 13 billion light years away reaffirm past studies that found tiny variations in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fine+structure+constant\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fine structure constant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only does a universal constant seem annoyingly inconstant at the outer fringes of the cosmos, it occurs in only one direction, which is downright weird. Those looking forward to a day when science\u2019s Grand Unifying Theory of Everything could be worn on a t-shirt may have to wait a little longer as astrophysicists continue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}