These articles are awesome, Hep! Thanks for sharing, I wasn't aware of these findings. What I hope to see (if these findings are accurate) is data that shows us if other physical constants vary throughout the universe, and if they vary, do they do so in proportion to the alpha variance. That would make sense to me, a kind of Doppler effect of physical constant waves getting longer throughout the universe, all in proportion to what we observe on Earth.
Things do pop into and out of existence constantly on the quantum level, but here on the "macro level", all we know to this point shows this cannot happen. Instead, things go from simple to complex in a very slow, gradual way...