A.I. Shlyakhter, Russian physicist. Noted that the existence of the "natural"
nuclear reactor at
Oklo[?] in
Gabon gave evidence that the physical
fine-structure constant α has changed less than 10
-17 per year over the last two billion years. This idea was picked up and improved upon by
Freeman Dyson.
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