Astronomy

I think this is usually a pretty good source, but I was disappointed that they didn't really dive into the prior plausibility of this hypothesis.

My understanding was we were pretty confident in our estimate for the age of the universe, verified from multiple different sources. What do peer scientists think about this theory of evolving coupling constants?

Is it just one or two cranks that fooled the science journalist or could this theory solve a bunch of our questions about the early universe by doubling our estimate of it's age?