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Life & fun · July 13, 2021

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Large Numbers Hypothesis Revisited

I was reviewing Dirac's Large Numbers Hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_large_numbers_hypothesis) and decided to give it a second go, now with measurements of fundamental constants more precise than 100 years ago. And I stumbled upon a value for Hubble's constant that's uncannily close. Here are the full calculations. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1K1qoUFvqZp1fWbpcKJWq63nflgwS0ZHh?usp=sharing Meaningless, or meaningful coincidence?

Large Numbers Hypothesis Revisited launched on July 13, 2021 with 64 votes, #1,140 of 3,502 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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Large Numbers Hypothesis Revisited is a computational exploration of Dirac's Large Numbers Hypothesis using modern measurements of fundamental constants. The project presents detailed calculations in a Google Colab notebook examining whether relationships between physical constants yield a value for Hubble's constant that closely matches observed measurements. It is for physicists and science enthusiasts interested in theoretical physics and numerical coincidences. The work invites readers to evaluate whether the discovered alignment represents meaningful physics or statistical chance.

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