Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called “impossible early galaxy problem.”

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    2 years ago

    In another paper on the arxiv, the author uses time-varying fundamental constants (c, h, kB) and relates them to a time-dependent Newton coupling, and calls this “varying coupling constants”. Can you say whether the author also has time-varying fundamental constants in this paper, or only a time-varying cosmological constant? The language in the abstract makes it sound like multiple “coupling constants”, but you only mention Λ, if I’m not missing anything.

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      Covarying coupling constants is an established name, so it’s used as is. But the paper only mentions lambda, as far as I remember. There might be something else used in the equations, I haven’t delved deep into those, but nothing else should really be required for this particular discussion.