The concept of "smooth" is fairly rooted in reality, right? This is one of the concepts that a continuous set of numbers like the Real Numbers can accommodate:

The concept of "smooth" is fairly rooted in reality, right? This is one of the concepts that a continuous set of numbers like the Real Numbers can accommodate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothness If it turns out that reality is actually jagged at the quantum scale that doesn't mean that our conception of "smooth" is void.