What "Constantine Bible" are you referring to? And what do you mean by the "political appearance" of the Canon? Are you making the risible assertion that the canonical books of New Testament were written in the 4th century?
Most scholars date gnostic mss in the Nag Hammadi library long before...
In this context, "authentic" can have several meanings, some of which can be mixed and matched:
-- Written during Late Antiquity on fresh papyrus.
-- Written during Late Antiquity by someone who believed what they were writing.
-- A pious fraud, written in Late Antiquity to justify...
That's very late indeed. The earliest gospel fragment in Rylands 52, a tiny scrap of the gospel of John. It's dated ca 125 CE, give or take a couple of decades.
The string theorists think the smallest particle is not a particle at all, but a vibrating one-dimensional string. The frequency at which it vibrates determines its characteristics and its position, which is indeterminate.
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