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POLL: Is Space Continuous or Discrete?

Poll: Is Space Continuous or Discrete?
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POLL: Is Space Continuous or Discrete?
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RE: POLL: Is Space Continuous or Discrete?
July 14, 2017 at 8:02 am (This post was last modified: July 14, 2017 at 8:12 am by Anomalocaris.)
(July 14, 2017 at 7:30 am)Severan Wrote: Discrete space is space that has a smallest possible length (is maybe composed of "blocks" or "pixels" at some scale (presumably the planck length))
Continuous space has no smallest possible length, and any length or space is arbitrary.

Define you idea of what is meant by possible in the "smallest possible length"


For me, It seems to me there could exist a smallest length L over which it is theoretically possible to distinguish what is happening over one such length L1 from what is happening over adjacent length L2.  It would still be possible to conceptually subdivide such a length, say j=L/2. But j would have no practical meaning because it would be impossible to practically distinguish what is happening over j1 from what is happening in j2.
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POLL: Is Space Continuous or Discrete?

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POLL: Is Space Continuous or Discrete? - by Severan - July 14, 2017 at 7:30 am
RE: POLL: Is Space Continuous or Discrete? - by Alex K - July 14, 2017 at 7:42 am
RE: POLL: Is Space Continuous or Discrete? - by Anomalocaris - July 14, 2017 at 8:02 am

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