Laura Mersini-Houghton

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1969

Albanian cosmologist and theoretical physicist

Worked at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

physicist, cosmologist, theoretical physicist, university teacher

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If gravity is a fundamental force, then it has to be explained by an expanded version of general relativity, a more complete, a more fundamental theory. Whether that is quantum gravity of something more radical that requires a paradigm shift like, for instance, our research in multiverse theory, nobody knows at the moment.

You can vary Newton's constant and the fine-structure constant, which is responsible for the strength of electromagnetic interactions ... by six orders of magnitude, by thousands, and still get a universe that allows for life.