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Comment on "Black holes constrain varying constants"

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A recent paper [DDL] claims that the increase of the proton electric charge e leads to a (forbidden) decrease of black hole entropy, therefore, possible evidence for variation of α=e2/c\alpha=e^2/\hbar c [alpha] must be interpreted as a decrease of the speed of light. We argue that purely theoretical consideration of black holes possibly cannot give any model-independent limitations on variation of fundamental constants.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0208384,
  title  = {Comment on "Black holes constrain varying constants"},
  author = {V. V. Flambaum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0208384},
  year   = {2007}
}

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