Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Variation

Abstract

There is no doubt that the field of Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Variation is one of the hottest subjects in modern theoretical and experimental physics, with potential implications in all fundamental areas of physics research, such as particle physics, gravitation, astrophysics and cosmology. In this Special Issue, the state-of-the-art in the field is presented in detail.

6 pages. Preface to the Special Issue on Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Variation. Typo corrected

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• A Search for Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant
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• The cosmological constant and entropy problems: mysteries of the present with profound roots in the past
• Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies
• Noether identities in gravity theories with nondynamical backgrounds and explicit spacetime symmetry breaking
• Gravity Theories with Background Fields and Spacetime Symmetry Breaking
• Higgs potential from extended Brans-Dicke theory and the time-evolution of the fundamental constants
• Vacuum dynamics in the Universe versus a rigid $\Lambda =$const
• Spacetime Symmetry Breaking and Einstein-Maxwell Theory
• Cosmological Evolution of the Higgs Boson's Vacuum Expectation Value
• Implications of Dynamical Dark Energy in the expansion of the Universe and the Structure Formation
• Studying the variation of fundamental constants at the Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory
• Naturalness as a reasonable scientific principle in fundamental physics
• Running vacuum model versus $\Lambda$CDM -- a Bayesian analysis