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While an article Jack recently found in the Guardian demonstrates that the way we measure minutes, hours, and days here on Earth might be shifting ever so slightly over time, a story recently published by Wired cites a scientific study working to prove that the laws of physics, as best as we can tell, are constant This was something originally posited by Einstein in his theory of general relativity, but a group of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, spent the last 14 years intensely studying an array of atomic clocks to actually prove it. The experiment itself is rather complicated (though Wired's Sophia Chen does a good job making it understandable to English majors such as myself), but the general idea is rather straightforward To prove that the laws of physics are constant, you need to observe a phenomenon over and over again, as. Source