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<DIV><SPAN class=859265305-02092010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Would you not
completely freak out if this turned out to be true?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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href="http://www.economist.com/node/16930866?story_id=16930866&fsrc=nwl">http://www.economist.com/node/16930866?story_id=16930866&fsrc=nwl</A></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=859265305-02092010>What if the fine
structure constant isn't constant? It gives us an immediate motive to find
ET life: we could ask them what is the fine structure constant in your
neighborhood. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=859265305-02092010>Of course if alpha
isn't constant, that messes up a lot of other things.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=859265305-02092010>I am realizing I am
the ultimate physical conservative. I spend way too much energy worrying
we will find something fundamentally wrong with one of our
current notions in physics, and then what other things in physics that one
wrong notion would mess up.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=859265305-02092010>spike</SPAN></FONT></P>
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