Anyone else besides me reminded of Vernor Vinge?

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Anyone else besides me reminded of Vernor Vinge?

Fox — 8/30/2008 3:36:17 PM (archived)

I know there's a few fans here, who will recall that the salient feature of Vinge's Milky Way (A Fire Upon the Deep; A Deepness in the Sky) was a change in physical constants relative to the mass density of the 'neighborhood', usually expressed as distance from galactic center.

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Nuclear Decay Rates May Be A Function Of Earth-Sun Distance - phil - 8/29/2008 2:27:39 PM
- Previous work on variations in the fine structure constant with Earth-Sun distance - ARRELL - 9/1/2008 5:48:15 AM
  - Given that there are so many approaches that can be used to explore the fine structure constant... - ARRELL - 9/1/2008 6:06:44 AM
- Would Mercury be older or younger radiometrically? - Adam - 8/31/2008 9:48:03 PM
  - A paper covering the possible effect on radiocarbon dating - Adam - 9/1/2008 9:49:14 PM
    - oops - Adam - 9/1/2008 9:50:54 PM
- [Finnish Babel deleted] - Space Moderator Nick - 8/31/2008 6:27:42 AM
  - BabelFinnish - Robert - 8/31/2008 6:09:26 PM
- Anyone else besides me reminded of Vernor Vinge? - Fox - 8/30/2008 3:36:17 PM
  - re: Anyone else besides me reminded of Vernor Vinge? - Hans - 8/31/2008 4:20:54 AM
- re: Nuclear Decay variation - nick hoffman - 8/30/2008 6:39:16 AM
  - Plasma Opacity and Optical Depth - ER - 8/30/2008 12:46:20 PM
    - I'm well aware of that time lag but there are other effects... - nick hoffman - 8/31/2008 6:35:24 AM
      - Hertz-prung-Russel not a sensitive enough probe of stellar interiors. a - ER - 8/31/2008 12:34:35 PM
        
        Mass and stars - Nick Hoffman - 8/31/2008 10:23:17 PM
        
        I haven't been able to find the full paper online.... - ARRELL - 9/1/2008 1:16:42 AM
        
        Sigh- another correction "determined the value of the FSC to be ~137.035999710 " should read: - ARRELL - 9/1/2008 2:48:30 AM
        
        "to low light interacts with matter" should read "to HOW light interacts with matter" (n/t) - ARRELL - 9/1/2008 1:19:14 AM
        
        Good Point - ER - 8/31/2008 10:51:22 PM
        
        What to look for? - Nick Hoffman - 9/1/2008 1:14:18 AM
        
        Good strategies - ER - 9/1/2008 1:54:51 AM
        
        Fine Structure Constant and fusion - ARRELL - 9/1/2008 1:40:03 AM
        
        re: Speculation on implications - Fox - 8/31/2008 3:45:54 PM
        
        Out on the 'Brane, all things are possible... - ER - 8/31/2008 5:02:04 PM
        
        Anisotropic physics? - Fox - 8/31/2008 11:23:30 PM
        
        re: Anisotropic physics? - ER - 9/1/2008 12:41:35 AM
        
        So, what's a constant? - Fox - 9/1/2008 1:02:34 AM
        
        That's the one all space groupies want to fall. (n/t) - ER - 9/1/2008 1:58:59 AM
        
        well, "c" IS one of the constants that makes up the fine structure constant (n/t) - ARRELL - 9/1/2008 3:02:27 AM
        
        My typographical apologies, Dr Hertzprung. (n/t) - ER - 8/31/2008 12:38:17 PM
- That theory is subject either to verification or debunking; and one or the other is quite possible thanks to... - Jacob - 8/29/2008 8:02:08 PM
- re: Nuclear Decay Rates May Be A Function Of Earth-Sun Distance - Post Sputnik - 8/29/2008 5:04:37 PM

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