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Re:The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constant... by renewiltord on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @04:57PM (#41450719)
Impossible means it does not happen, not that it does not happen only when we look. Just because we can't see it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. After all, as the comment I replied to pointed out, other galaxies can have different constants. We have to be humble and admit we just don't know.
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Re:The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constant... by ezrast on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:34PM (#41451117)
This seems like a distinction without a difference, since we can never positively categorize any unobserved phenomenon as impossible (vs merely unobservable). To me, it seems ontologically cleaner to treat existence and observability as the same thing. shrug
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Re:The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constant... by renewiltord on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @06:04PM (#41451345)
Okay, fine, I'll come clean, I was just making an unfalsifiability joke. The original god-of-the-gapsy comment was the one that got me. Always just out of reach of our verifiability is the magic. Why not all the way out?
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Re:The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constant... by ezrast on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @06:24PM (#41451508)
Whelp, looks like I'm today's Poe's Law poster child. ;)
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Re:The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constant... by jiggawatts on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:25PM (#41451023)
The problem with these type of arguments is rigorously defining “we” and “look”.

Turns out that our gaze has no effect on anything and we’re uninteresting squishy bags of mostly water as far as physical processes are concerned.

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Re:The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constant... by renewiltord on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:31PM (#41451083)
Yeah, but no one has proven that this is impossible so it's still possible. Just like OP comment.
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Re:The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constant... by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @06:30PM (#41451555)
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-03-25
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