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You can put limits on how much they could have changed, though. And people do this, e.g., [0], which found the proton-to-electron mass ratio has not varied by more than a relative factor of 4e-7, over…
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> If these each then accrete matter from the space surrounding them, they do so independently and each can accrue mass faster than a single singularity of equivalent total mass could while adhering…
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I made a typo: the linked paper in the parent comment to mine is about an object at redshift z=5.18, not z=2.5.
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The theory you link to would likely not have any bearing on the issue of the existence of this supermassive black hole at such a time. Based on my understanding of it, that new theory predicts that th…
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> Things like this make me very skeptical that the accepted model is correct. To which "accepted model" are you referring – the cosmological model for the Universe, the determination of …
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That is not the same paper. The preprint you linked was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, and discusses a different quasar (SDSS J013127.34-032100.1, at a redshift of z=2.5). The Nature …
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Interesting. I just visited the site and received a warning from firefox – the same invalid cert error was given, with the same domains. The cert was issued to: a.ssl.fastly.net
Fastly, Inc.
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Many people will note that you don't need to be able to code to get involved with open source, but contributing code is obviously also a good thing. Helping with documentation, bug reports (submi…
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> I never understood the "don't call 'magazines' 'clips'" fanaticism among gun enthusiasts. It's because "clip" refers to somthing different, if re…
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> Aka the shitty airport hotel in the moscow airport while they were waiting on a decision regarding his stay. The article specifically counters that: There was no sign of them at the lone hote…
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> Also, the Hubble can't even see most of the Observable Universe; it can see ~15 billion lights years away, whereas the radius of the observable universe is 47 billion light years. There is a…
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Another way to do this (if one wants all plots to be rendered throug LaTeX) is to modifiy the matplotlibrc to include: text.usetex : True
And something similar for the text.latex.pream…
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Does anyone know something about the synthesizer program they are using? I saw it is not yet published, but I wasn't sure if there was some information about what type of synthesis it was using o…
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> I find this the weakest theory. Nobody would have forced him to participate in the Manhattan project. It does not necessarily need to be the Manhattan Project. He was in Italy at the time, with …
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I think you meant to paste this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7870344 (Yours goes to a comment replying to the post about Majorana, rather than to the HN top-level post w…
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> My guess is that any edits made based on feedback from Nature's author network as well as the actual paper in the Nature format are under Nature's copyright. Half correct. The authors r…