Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-03-20
Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 083520
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 1 table, typos corrected, refs added. Published version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.083520
We derive strong observational limits on any possible large-scale spatial variation in the values of physical 'constants' whose space-time evolution is driven by a scalar field. The limits are imposed by the isotropy of the microwave background on large angular scales in theories which describe space and time variations in the fine structure constant, the electron-proton mass ratio, and the Newtonian gravitational constant, G. Large-scale spatial fluctuations in the fine structure constant are bounded by 2x10^-9 and 1.2x10^-8 in the BSBM and VSL theories respectively, fluctuations in the electron-proton mass ratio by 9x10^-5 in the BM theory and fluctuations in G by 3.6x10^-10 in Brans-Dicke theory. These derived bounds are significantly stronger than any obtainable by direct observations of astrophysical objects at the present time.
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