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Reality, as best we understand it, is very much not discrete, and space is not split into chunks at the Planck length. A discrete space-time would likely mean
by messe 2y ago
Reality, as best we understand it, is very much not discrete, and space is not split into chunks at the Planck length.
A discrete space-time would likely mean observable Lorentz-violations.
- Lichtso 2y agoDiscrete spacetime does not necessitate a regular and nicely ordered tesselation, it could be pure chaos or be non-geometric. Before we thought that energy, mass and matter were completely continuous and that turned out to be wrong.