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  > A growing number of theorists explore the possibility that space is not continuous, but rather discrete at the smallest scales. > This discreteness hypothesis implies that given two different points in space, there is no continuous curve (a world line) joining them. Quantum mechanics, non-locality, and the space discreteness hypothesis - https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14836 https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14836 > Finite Nature is the assumption that, at some scale, space and time are discrete and that the number of possible states of every finite volume of space-time is finite. In other words Finite Nature assumes that there is no thing that is smooth or continuous and that there are no infinitesimals. http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/im/ftp/poc/fredkin/Finite-Nature http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/im/ftp/poc/fredkin/Finite-Nat... Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/08/remembering-the-improbable-life-of-ed-fredkin-1934-2023-and-his-world-of-ideas-and-stories/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/08/remembering-the-...