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> The time symmetry is broken because disturbances the size of the Planck length have an exponential effect. Yeah, that's the point right there up front: Butt
by carapace 7y ago
> The time symmetry is broken because disturbances the size of the Planck length have an exponential effect.
Yeah, that's the point right there up front: Butterfly effect at the sub-Planck scale.
- perl4ever 7y agoI guess I'm too dumb to understand what is novel about this? What does it tell me beyond James Gleick's popularization of chaos theory circa 1987? In some other thread, people told me I was wrong about reality having finite resolution. So is there a "sub-Planck scale"? How can simulations tell you if there is or isn't?
- lonelappde 7y agoThere isn't a sub Planck scale. That's the point. You'd need a sub Planck scale in order to reverse the computation. Chaos theory is math. This is physics showing how the math applies to reality.