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What is the particle size of spacetime?

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What is the particle size of spacetime?
« on: 03/11/2016 17:42:53 »
IF, and I repeat IF space and time reflect matter,....what. Would be the size of a particle of time or a particle of space?
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Re: The particle size of space?
« Reply #1 on: 03/11/2016 19:14:02 »
I think modern science has no answer on this question yet
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Re: The particle size of space?
« Reply #2 on: 04/11/2016 22:54:02 »
:)

Oh yea. imagination moves the mind, and unicorns
don't read me wrong, I like unicorns, they, most hopefully, will lead me to maidens that awaits
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Re: The particle size of space?
« Reply #3 on: 05/11/2016 21:57:21 »
Quote from: Robcat on 03/11/2016 17:42:53
IF, and I repeat IF space and time reflect matter,....what. Would be the size of a particle of time or a particle of space?

The Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) theory uses a similar concept.
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Re: The particle size of space?
« Reply #4 on: 07/11/2016 21:01:02 »
Quote from: Robcat on 03/11/2016 17:42:53
IF, and I repeat IF space and time reflect matter,....what. Would be the size of a particle of time or a particle of space?

Couldn't we measure the size of a particle of time by making increasingly accurate clocks. Until our best clocks don't get any better. Then we could say "we've got an ultimately accurate "chronotron" clock

As for space, it's not so simple.  The physicists keep on inventing new "particles". They've already gone from atoms, to protons, and quarks. No doubt they'll soon find sub-divisions of the quark.  Like peeling layers off an infinite onion.

So they'll never find an ultimate "spacetron". Because this would spell the end of experimental physics.  And curtail career-opportunities in building big new "particle-smashers".
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