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Aphex_Twin
Oct13-04, 02:52 PM
Can two objects move towards each other as a consequence of their gravity a distance smaller than one planck unit of length?

selfAdjoint
Oct13-04, 04:57 PM
It's not clear that the idea of position, and hence of "moving toward" has any meaning at the Planck scale. Spacetime may be foamy, uncertain, and/or topologically complex at that scale.

Fredrik
Oct13-04, 04:58 PM
No one really knows what "distance smaller than one planck unit of length" means. So the question probably doesn't make sense. We'll have to wait for a better theory to know for sure.