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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Is there a limit to growth^-1 ?
« on: 29/06/2020 10:51:04 »
This is my first post to this forum; I hope it doesn't immediately characterise me as a fool...
I am interested to know if there is a limit to how small things can be.
In the last 100,000 years of humanoid history our understanding of things has seen their size shrink by - a rough guess - between 5 and 10 orders of magnitude; from a large pebble in a river to the atomic nucleus. But the rate of shrinkage in the last 100 or so years has been greater than that of the previous 100,000 years. How far will it shrink in the next 100 years? Which is another way of asking how many orders of magnitude are we away from the infinitely small? Is there such a state ?
I am interested to know if there is a limit to how small things can be.
In the last 100,000 years of humanoid history our understanding of things has seen their size shrink by - a rough guess - between 5 and 10 orders of magnitude; from a large pebble in a river to the atomic nucleus. But the rate of shrinkage in the last 100 or so years has been greater than that of the previous 100,000 years. How far will it shrink in the next 100 years? Which is another way of asking how many orders of magnitude are we away from the infinitely small? Is there such a state ?