For years, astronomers and physicists have calculated the age of our universe by measuring the time elapsed since the Big Bang and by studying the oldest stars based on the redshift of light coming ...
It's a constant on SciNoFi that we do one post per episode of a given show. But as we all now know from watching the unexpectedly epic season finale of Fringe last week, constants can change, ...
The strength of the electromagnetic interaction, one of physics’s most fundamental constants, is actually very slowly changing, and has different values in different parts of the universe. This ...
In physics, there are a host of standard constants: the speed of light, the charge-to-mass ratio of the proton, and Planck's constant, to name just a few. Repeated measurements going back a few ...
YET another fundamental constant of nature may have changed over the last 12 billion years. If confirmed, the result could force physicists to radically rethink their theories and provide support for ...
Through extremely high precision measurements of a pulsar orbiting a white dwarf star, astronomers have found that the gravitational constant, which dictates the force of gravity, is "reassuringly ...
The cosmological constant is presumably an enigmatic form of matter or energy that acts in opposition to gravity and is considered by many physicists to be equivalent to dark energy. Nobody really ...