Comment on "Black holes constrain varying constants"
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 $\alpha=e^2/\hbar c$ [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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2002
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0208384
- Bibcode:
- 2002astro.ph..8384F
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 2 pages, RevTex