• Asetru@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    I think it’s (1 Planck length / 1 Planck time). If you take the smallest distance that exists and divide it by the shortest amount of time that can pass, you have exactly c.

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      22 hours ago

      If you take the smallest distance that exists and divide it by the shortest amount of time that can pass

      btw that’s a nonsensical argument. there can be both space and time smaller than that.

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        22 hours ago

        Since the 1950s, it has been conjectured that quantum fluctuations of the spacetime metric might make the familiar notion of distance inapplicable below the Planck length.[23][37][22] This is sometimes expressed by saying that “spacetime becomes a foam at the Planck scale”.[38] It is possible that the Planck length is the shortest physically measurable distance, since any attempt to investigate the possible existence of shorter distances, by performing higher-energy collisions, would result in black hole production.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#Planck_length

        Same is true for the Planck time, although the English Wikipedia is oddly blank for that one: there can be no space or time smaller than that within the physics that we have come up with.

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          20 hours ago

          welllll i say that’s a reaaaly sketchy and irrational way to look at things.

          like, even if you smallest ruler is 1 mm, that does not mean that smaller things don’t exist. they can still play a role, i.e. through chaotic behavior smaller perturbations could be up-amplified until they are measurable.

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            11 hours ago

            welllll i say that’s a reaaaly sketchy and irrational way to look at things.

            Okay? You be you, I guess. I mean, stupid physicist eggheads, what do they know?

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              6 hours ago

              i don’t like trusting “experts” in fact. trusting “experts” is how we got into this mess. people let themselves be manipulated by the media. people need to think for themselves. yes, that includes not believing certain scientific results, but IMO it’s better to discard a scientific result that i cannot follow myself instead of becoming an authoritarian (i.e. one who believes in authors, i.e. other people’s writing) dependent.

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                5 hours ago

                Aaaahhhhh, you’re one of those… Good to know. Yeah, your reply makes sense then. Also thanks for telling me early in the discussion that you’re just a science denialist, then we don’t need to waste precious time with a discussion about things that you’ll just disregard at will anyway.

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                    5 hours ago

                    i don’t like trusting scientists in fact. trusting scientists is how we got into this mess. people let themselves be manipulated by scientific results. people need to think for themselves. yes, that includes not believing certain scientific results, but IMO it’s better to deny a scientific result that I dislike and do not understand than trusting scientists that spent their entire lives researching that particular aspect of the universe

                    by the way i’m not a science denialist

                    Can’t make that shit up.