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PaulHouletoday at 12:32 AM2 repliesview on HN

If it wasn't the case then matter wouldn't be stable.


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tasty_freezetoday at 1:58 AM

Agreed (well, assuming the delta is more than a small fraction of a percent or whatever). But this is begging the question. If they are really independent then the vast, overwhelming fraction of all possible universes simply wouldn't have matter. Ours does have matter, so it makes our universe exceedingly unlikely. I find it far more parsimonious to assume they are connected by an undiscovered (and perhaps never to be discovered) mechanism.

Some lean on the multiverse and the anthropic principle to explain it, but that is far less parsimonious.

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libraryofbabeltoday at 1:00 AM

Is that actually true, if the charges differed at the 12th decimal place only? That’s non-obvious to me.

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