A swinburne astrophysicist has leapt another hurdle in the path to proving that our fundamental theories of physics are not what they seem. Dr Michael Murphy is part of a team that has, over recent years, uncovered surprising and controversial evidence suggesting the laws of physics may have been changing through cosmic time. In this latest move, Murphy has debunked a study which claimed to disprove his findings. Murphy’s research into the laws of Nature goes back eight years, and concerns our understanding of electromagnetism, the force of nature that determines the sounds we hear, the light we see, and how atoms are held together to form solids. Through the study of electromagnetism in galaxies ten billion light years away, he has challenged the fundamental assumption that the strength of electromagnetism has been constant through time. “Back in 2001 we published evidence showing a small change in the fine structure constant, the number that physicists use to characterise the strength of electromagnetism,” Murphy said. “Even though the change that we think we see in the data is quite small, about five parts in a million, it would be enough to demonstrate that our current understanding must in fact be wrong. It’s an important discovery if correct. It suggests to physicists that there’s an underlying set of theories we’re yet to broach and understand.” Physicists have been chasing results like these for a number of years, but since 1999, Murphy and his co-researchers have been ahead of the pack.

They’ve published a series of observations from the Keck Telescope in Hawaii as further evidence of a varying fine structure constant. But, a few years ago, another research team claimed that data from a different telescope contradicted Murphy’s observations. However, he’s been able to prove that the contradictory work itself was flawed. “We’ve shown that the way the data was analysed was faulty,” he said.

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does this mean there are invisible unisex dwarfs everywhere ?

FINALLY!
Now that scholars are saying there may be something wrong with how we view the universe and our known reality, and not just ufologists, who have been saying it all along, maybe we can get somewhere.

Their getting closer to what cause's people to experiance thing's outside the norm, past live's, shift's in the perceived reality around us, and the other stuff to.

Great article

That is really a surprise to me. I thought we knew everything.

There is at least one fundamental flaw in this report.
The reporter states that electromagnetism is responsible for sound. That is false. Sound is simply waves of higher and lower pressure moving through a gas, liquid, solid or other form of matter. That has nothing to do with electromagnetism.
I hope that the reporter misunderstood Dr. Murphy's results or that Dr. Murphy was being "casual" and really, really lax with terminology.

Dr. Murphy's results may be valid but this report is not.

Oh, and all of this has NOTHING to do with UFOs, past lives, ESP, etc. This observation, if it is real, is of a very tiny change in the expected results of measurements of very, very, very distant galaxies.

this is interesting, however, why has it been deleted off the main page as a news blurb?

We're talking about miniscule variations here that many people have already suspected. It doesn't turn physics on it's head at all, just refine's some calculations. It has nothing to do with ufology.