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A new measuring method has reduced uncertainty in the constant's value by more than half, to 4.8 percent, Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore reported May 5, at the beginning of a four-day Space Telescope symposium on dark energy.
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From my understanding, this is neither new nor really science. A cosmological constant is something you shove into the existing Einstein equation, and playing around with it to account for the acceleration of the universe has been the name of the game for quite a while.
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The Constants Of Nature: From Alpha to Omega--The Numbers that Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe.(Book Review); Magazine article from: Science News ; ... Fundamental constant didn't vary after all.(Physics); Magazine article from: Science News ;
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Clonal adaptive radiation in a constant environment. ... 1: Science. 2006 Jul 28;313(5786):514-7. Epub 2006 Jul 6. Links ... Clonal adaptive radiation in a constant environment.Clonal adaptive radiation in a constant environment.
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I feel like I need to clarify the idea that I originally meant -- not that any one particular fact of science is "eternal", but that the notion of constant Truth is closer to the foundations of science than not.
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Constant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term constant has several uses: • In mathematics and computer science: • Mathematical constant, a number that arises naturally in mathematics, such as π and e • A coefficient or other paramete...
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