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this is probably a silly question, but why isnt the smallest possible quantization just planck length, or planck length cubed?
by bsamuels 8y ago
this is probably a silly question, but why isnt the smallest possible quantization just planck length, or planck length cubed?
- eximius 8y agoI think they're talking about _area_ specifically.
- smilliken 8y agoThe idea is that our universe has three spatial dimensions, but only two are needed to represent a given volume of space. All the information is on the boundary surface. In other words, we live in a hologram.
- spiralx 8y agoThe holographic principle says that all of the information required to represent a 3-D volume is encoded on the 2-D surface of its boundary i.e. in one sense there is no difference between e.g. a black hole and its surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle