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I didn't think the question of continuous versus discontinuous universes has ever really been resolved in a convincing way. Do you have any references?

• aswanson 18y ago
  No references and I may be going down the wrong path here, but wasn't there some relatively recent activity with respect to the quantization of space, with the Planck length being the minimal quantum?: http://www.scienceandresearchdevelopmentinstitute.com/planck.pdf http://www.scienceandresearchdevelopmentinstitute.com/planck...
  • DaniFong 18y ago
    As far as I know the question is completely theoretical: we haven't been able to use the idea to produce any predictions which we might use to measure whether the universe is this way or isn't. Also, that linked paper seems to be nothing other than numerology. It is interesting that the numbers are so close, but that could be a pure coincidence.
    • aswanson 18y ago
      Numerolgy, hilarious. I have to use that one someday, hope you don't mind. At any rate, I meant to post a Smolin paper on LQG that posited quantized space, and if I recall there was supposed to be some data coming in from an observatory that could lend some weight to the theory (back in 2005?).