Like, I think in terms of a musical instrument; if it’s played and played and played and played, over time it’ll get out of tune. And I would think the various physical “constants” of the universe would work in roughly the same way – over time, there’d be variations due to entropy. But, for example, the speed of light in a vacuum is constant, and continues to be constant. If entropy is an unavoidable aspect of our universe, shouldn’t it affect the speed of light in a vacuum too? Wouldn’t we expect to see some sort of slowdown or at least variation over time as a result of entropy?
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The constants are only magic numbers because that’s all we know about them for now. They keep popping up all over in important places regardless of what else we are actually calculating.
Eventually we may find that they can be derived from something else, but it’s not clear if that’s true.
Entropy is unrelated, it’s basically just saying things get messy if you don’t put effort into cleaning them up. They might randomly become clean on their own but it’s so improbable you can ignore that.
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