Jim writes:

> "An international team of astrophysicists has discovered that the basic laws
>  of nature as understood today may be changing slightly as the universe
ages,
>  a surprising finding that could rewrite physics textbooks and challenge
>  fundamental assumptions about the workings of the cosmos."

As spectacular as this sounds, and it is fairly interesting, the effect, if
real, is only 1 part in 100,000, and the result is only statistical at the
moment. But should it turn out to be real, it will lend a great deal of
credence to string theory, the idea that the universe is composed of more
dimensions than we currently perceive and that these "hidden" dimensions are
still uncurling, albeit very slowly now, long after the initial inflation of
the universe 12 to 15 billion years ago.

If all of this is true, this newly measured result perhaps shouldn't be all
that unexpected. Every physical process is a continuous event. There are no
discontinuities, step functions or paradoxes in nature, and every physical
event very slowly approaches its ultimate asymptote towards the end of its
run.

Wirt Atmar

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