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Letter: Debating the laws of nature (2)

Published 3 June 2026

From Spencer Weart, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, US

Magueijo’s fascinating speculation about the evolution of the laws of physics from a chaotic initial state begs to be extended. He presumes initially random variations of laws and constants over time, but there would also have been random variations over space. Thus, it might be worth looking for inconsistencies not only as time passes, as he suggests, but also from one region of the visible universe to another.

Issue no. 3598 published 6 June 2026

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