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How long can you break something apart until you cannot any longer? The things we are breaking apart are illusions in a sense. There will always be a smaller pa
by Noaidi 4mo ago
How long can you break something apart until you cannot any longer? The things we are breaking apart are illusions in a sense. There will always be a smaller particle because that is what we are looking for.
When we understand that everything that we see is a manifestation of a probability wave, then we will understand everything is a wave and end these foolish experiments.
- krapp 4mo agoI'll be sure to inform all of the physicists that @Noaidi on Hacker News has solved physics and that they can go home.
- GroksBarnacles 4mo agoDo you have a meaningful quantitative explanation with some math we can start building tech on, or will that require some... experiments?
- rolph 4mo agoplanck scale is the theoretical limit to disassembly.
- Noaidi 4mo agoIf something cannot be reduced, does it exist as an entity?
- rolph 4mo agosomething that cant be reduced would be the only entity, all other things are assemblages of that entity, the problem of variability occurs, if you can observe at the scale of absolute fundamental structure, how can difference occur?
- Noaidi 4mo agoMaybe it’s not the thing that is different, maybe it’s our minds that create difference? And by difference, I mean, establish boundaries between objects.
- rolph 4mo agoyou suggesting that there is a continuity of spacetime rather than a pixelation, which is perfectly valid, the whole problem with planck units is that they are extrapolations, just like the infinity or the point particle, they are mathematical extremes. the geometric structure of spacetime at planck scale is problematic, considering how you might visualise a planck polyhedron so that no space is defined in less than whole planck units i.e. all dimensions of length are whole numbers. you have to do some topological trickery to make a discreet planck volume that works.
- eggn00dles 4mo agoits only the limit we can probe things. just because we can’t measure something doesnt mean nature cant operate at that scale
- rolph 4mo agoactually the idea is that nature cant operate at that scale. the thing about planck units is they are extrapolations that end at single planck length that has some problems just with basic geometry, as well as a supposed instability of a planck space spontaneously collapsing. a planck unit volume must take a form that has dimensions of single planck units and pack together so that no smaller spacings are created. it cant be a sphere, at best it can be some sort of riemannian tetrahedron or triangle. it would be conveinient if that level was a 2D plane, but it still has issues.