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Ah. I hadn’t thought of that. So putting aside Plank and all the experimental stuff, even on a philosophical level there are problems with thinking of space as
by lurquer 5y ago
Ah.
I hadn’t thought of that.
So putting aside Plank and all the experimental stuff, even on a philosophical level there are problems with thinking of space as continuous. For, that with which we measure space is necessarily discrete and the time-frames in which we measure are necessarily finite. So, even if space was continuous, two ‘states’ that are infinitesimally similar could for ALL practical purposes be considered identical.
Is that it?
- chriswarbo 5y agoPretty much. As a far less formal analogy, it's similar to how people complain that digital audio in general has lower quality than analogue, just from a discrete vs continuous standpoint. When in fact there's no limit to the quality of a digital representation (if we liked, we could store a gigabyte per sample, or a petabyte, or whatever). Yet we can always draw the line somewhere, beyond which there are no meaningful distinctions.