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| Jul 25, 2013 at 14:23 | answer | added | Jim | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 7:36 | comment | added | Qmechanic♦ | Possible duplicates: physics.stackexchange.com/q/9720/2451 , physics.stackexchange.com/q/35674/2451 , and links therein. Also related: physics.stackexchange.com/q/64197/2451 | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 7:31 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 25, 2013 at 4:35 | answer | added | aquagremlin | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 13, 2012 at 21:35 | comment | added | Josh MacKay | Thanks for your feedback. I apologize for my rambling question. What I am really asking is if infinity were to not exist in reality could we then conclude that space must be comprised of finite bits and what would be consequences if this were the case. | |
| May 13, 2012 at 19:52 | comment | added | David Z | Hi Josh, and welcome to Physics Stack Exchange! Since you've written so much, it's hard to see the essence of what you're really asking without looking at the title. Could you try to edit the question down to be more easily readable by eliminating some of the less important details? | |
| May 13, 2012 at 16:41 | comment | added | Zo the Relativist | The best counterargument is that there is no evidence of a smallest possible distance. There are some theories that postulate fundamental length scales (LQG, for instance, quantizes areas at a fundamental length scale), but, as yet, there is no reason to believe any of this. On the other hand, the mathematics of differential differentials and contiuous functions is much, much cleaner than finitary matheamatics of systems with a large N. It's simiply easier to talk about the continuous interval (0,1) than it is to talk about $10^{34}$ discrete subintervals. | |
| May 13, 2012 at 14:49 | answer | added | Arnold Neumaier | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 13, 2012 at 14:26 | history | asked | Josh MacKay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |