From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 23:19:40 MDT
http://www.websterworld.com/support/main.html
has an essay clarifying the earlier press hysteria.
< This news led to an Australian press feeding frenzy of claims that
Einstein had been
proved wrong, that we were seeing a paradigm shift and so on and so forth.
Here
at WebsterWorld, we just said ''oh yes, that's the story we ran last year,
revisited''.
To see what we were recalling, though, you will need to read Is the fine
structure
constant changing? from August 2001.>
They note that a third value instead might be construed as variable, making
it, ahem, `Planck's inconstant'. Although this path is not currently
favored by physicists, I find it entertainingly spooky to note that the
brilliant 1950s sf writer James Blish drove a number of his wonderful plot
devices by tweaking Planck's constant.
Damien Broderick
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