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If the form and structure of a system are principally determined by gravity, which is true for all large bodies, and if the gravitational constant varied, this form would also change. The consequences would be especially important for the Earth. Perhaps they already occurred; the real question is whether we can trace the countless transformations of the Earth and especially the Earth’s surface unequivocally back to a variable gravity whose strength has diminished over time.
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Breuer, R. (1991). Earth and Cosmos: Geophysics and the Anthropic Principle. In: The Anthropic Principle. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6741-1_7
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