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| | Clock Comparison Yields Clues to 'Constant' Change |
 | | If fundamental constants are changing, the present-day rates of change are too small to be measured using conventional methods. |
 | | Since the fine structure constant is defined in terms of the electric charge, Plancks constant, permittivity of free space and pi, then if it changes, one or more of those quantities must be changing, so no, they aren't absolute just because they seem to be. |
 | | Now it's still close because H0, the Hubble constant, is close to 1/t0 and in certain geometric units, the critical density of the universe is close to H0, and by measurement ρΛ is between 0.7 and 0.78 times this critical density, but it's nothing mystical. |
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