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{{Infobox paper
| title = A Variable Model of the Fine-Structure Constant
| url = [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_5300.pdf Link to paper]
| author = [[Ioannis Iraklis Haranas]]
| keywords = [[Cosmology]], [[fundamental constants]], [[quantum-electrodynamics]]
| published = 2003
| journal = [[Vixra]]
| volume = ROAJ  13 and SAO/NASA Astrophy
| number = 1
| num_pages = 8
| pages = 25-30
}}

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==Abstract==

Recent evidence suggests that the fine-structure constant &#945; = ke<sup>2</sup>/hc, a measure of the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between photons and electrons, is slowly increasing over cosmological timescales. High-resolution measurements of quasar spectra suggest that there has been a variation &#916;&#945;/&#945; = -0.72 ? 0.18?10<sup>-5</sup> over the past 6<sup>-10</sup> Gyr. To model this, we propose variability in the speed of light that produces a cosmological time variation &#945;&amp; /&#945; = 10<sup>-15</sup> and 10<sup>-16</sup> yr-1 at z = 3 which also agrees with the observational spectral data.

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