arXiv journal 2022.0211

Mr. Tompkins world: Effects of extreme variations in fundamental constants on the structure of atoms, molecules, and periodic table
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.04228.pdf

abstract: In 1939, George Gamow published the book “Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland”, which tells a story about a world where fundamental constants have radically different values from those they have in the real world. Gamow’s classic predates modern theories that generically promote fundamental constants to dynamic entities. Constants are no longer constant. Enter Mr. Tompkins world where the speed of light c is reduced to that of a speeding bicycle. Here we show that reducing c from its nominal value truncates periodic system of elements, qualitatively changes the aufbau principle in atoms, and modifies the nature of chemical bond and the structure of molecules. Noble gasses are no longer inert. Water fails to serve as a universal solvent. In addition to pushing relativistic quantum chemistry to its limits, our analysis lends further support to the anthropic principle: life as we know it can happen only in a certain range of fundamental constants.

A Quantum 0 − ∞ Law
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.07456.pdf

abstract: We give conditions under which a sequence of randomly chosen orthogonal subspaces of a separable Hilbert space generates the whole space.

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