Thanks u/Lupinate for linking the article itself and not the puffy sci-fi blurbs now being written about it!

The abstract is very promising! The authors have the right way to go and may have hit upon the right math too. It passed peer review at least, though that doesn't mean much.

Quick skim shows that it's not that deep, which means some results might be less significant, but it might well have enough staying power to build upon. I like e.g. the "fine-structure variable". However, I gather that their explanation of the JWST rapidly formed galaxies is via entangling them with later galaxies, which would be the wrong path if I'm reading that intent; so that's a yellow flag. Will need to do a deep dive with it some other time.

What happens next is that the paper's attempt to describe a handful of (about 18) effects in a different way from the Standard Model will be met by a hundred attempts to state effects that are allegedly not explained. This war will be popcorn-worthy.