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kolkmvd
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Hi,
Unfortunately I am not actively involved in physics anymore since high school, but still very interested in the matter. Something has been on my mind for a while and I could not find a answer to this on the internet. But maybe that's because I don't know the right way to look for it, or maybe it is just too complex for me. But my question is:
Has anyone theorized whether space itself is quantized?
I mean: if there would be something like a "minimum distance" of for instance the Planck length divided by some considerable constant, this would have funny consequences for the interactions of particles at quantum scale.
I think this idea might have other possible consequences:
- having a quantized space would mean particles cannot be at every position
- quantized space would also imply quantized time, because for a new state of the reality to exist, something has to change, otherwise it would go undetected.
- 'light speed' is just the effect we see of this quantisation, as it is the interaction of two (or more) nearby 'space points'.
I got triggered to this by http://www.nature.com/news/theoretical-physics-the-origins-of-space-and-time-1.13613 and I think the idea matches 'Causal dynamical triagulations' best, but that concept deals not with quantization.
I wish I'd started a carreer in physics to understand the matter better, but maybe someone on this forums is will to give some comments on this...
Unfortunately I am not actively involved in physics anymore since high school, but still very interested in the matter. Something has been on my mind for a while and I could not find a answer to this on the internet. But maybe that's because I don't know the right way to look for it, or maybe it is just too complex for me. But my question is:
Has anyone theorized whether space itself is quantized?
I mean: if there would be something like a "minimum distance" of for instance the Planck length divided by some considerable constant, this would have funny consequences for the interactions of particles at quantum scale.
I think this idea might have other possible consequences:
- having a quantized space would mean particles cannot be at every position
- quantized space would also imply quantized time, because for a new state of the reality to exist, something has to change, otherwise it would go undetected.
- 'light speed' is just the effect we see of this quantisation, as it is the interaction of two (or more) nearby 'space points'.
I got triggered to this by http://www.nature.com/news/theoretical-physics-the-origins-of-space-and-time-1.13613 and I think the idea matches 'Causal dynamical triagulations' best, but that concept deals not with quantization.
I wish I'd started a carreer in physics to understand the matter better, but maybe someone on this forums is will to give some comments on this...