Dirac large numbers hypothesis
Hipótesis de los grandes números de Dirac
- Date
- 1937 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Paul Dirac
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Dirac's large numbers hypothesis is a numerological idea relating huge dimensionless ratios between physical scales of the universe, suggesting the gravitational constant might vary over time.
What it led to
- cosmologies with varying constants
- debate over the time variation of G
- influence on the anthropic principle
- alternative cosmological models