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cosmology > Dirac large number hypothesis

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Dirac large number hypothesis  

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  • The Dirac large numbers hypothesis (LNH) is an observation made by Paul Dirac in 1937 relating ratios of size scales in the Universe to that of force scales. The ratios constitute very large, dimensionless numbers : some 40 orders of magnitude in the present cosmological epoch. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_large_numbers_hypothesis)

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  • Dirac cosmology

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