Call that shifty bum a constant?

According to a report in New Scientist, the constant µ, known to its friends as mu, is changing before our very eyes. Mu, as you're doubtless aware, expresses the relation between the mass of a proton and that of an electron, and should be 1,836. But, scientists have found, the ratio has changed by as much as 0.002% over the past 12 billion years. Meaning it's not a constant at all. Objects were later reported to be flying about in defiance of gravity as a result of the findings, their constituent particles no longer able to place their faith in any laws of physics.

MCN contacted a woman, who commented: "That's µen for you. Can't count on 'em one bit."

A particle pictured yesterday