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alistair
Oct31-04, 05:30 PM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>If loop quantum gravity had a minimum distance equal to the string\nminimum of about 10^-34 metres,could areas of quantized space be made\nfrom strings?\n\nThe planck distance would have to get bigger by making the speed of\nlight smaller.A photon is scattered and has its velocity changed by\nordinary strings so what about strings that could make up the fabric\nof space?\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>If loop quantum gravity had a minimum distance equal to the string
minimum of about 10^-34 metres,could areas of quantized space be made
from strings?

The planck distance would have to get bigger by making the speed of
light smaller.A photon is scattered and has its velocity changed by
ordinary strings so what about strings that could make up the fabric
of space?