# That “26.7 Billion Year Old Universe” Paper

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/that-26-7-billion-year-old-universe-paper/3475>\
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**Tags:** cosmology, tired-light, crackpot, science-by-press-release\
**Created:** [19 July 2023 15:15 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/that-26-7-billion-year-old-universe-paper/3475 "2023-07-19T15:15:22Z")\
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While I’m, in a sense, “hopeful” that Dirac will yet be vindicated, I’m afraid I have an alternate “hope” in the Combinatorial Hierarchy that seems to not only be superior numerology, but which has a reasonable metaphysic behind it.

> [@Dirac's Way to Quantum Gravity (via "Numerology")](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/diracs-way-to-quantum-gravity-via-numerology/2524/5):
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> A rank ordering of particles and their use in calculating the dimensionless gravitational coupling constant, sorted by how closely they are to the combinatorial hierarchy’s 4th entry (the third entry being 137 corresponding to electromagnetic coupling aka the fine structure constant):

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