Can an atom be anywhere in space?

[clisp]

Is space like a checker board where the pieces can only be in certain places like X X X X X
X X X XoX
X X X X X
o being a mass and X being the border which the mass can cross but not exist in.
I thought that these places could over lap

 

[phinds]

it seems that to have an infinite number of locations an atom exists would mean that it would take infinite time to move an atom one inch

Now that's just silly. See Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise

 

[Bill_K]

clisp, You need to take a look at the PF Guidelines, particularly the part warning against posting of overly speculative ideas and personal theories.

 

[JeffKoch]

If there are a finite number of crackpots spread evenly throughout space, forever dissipating and reforming under new usernames as they are banished from places of light, could we distinguish this from the case of an infinite number of crackpots?

 

[clisp]

Well basically since I have never heard of anyone being able to trace a particle on it's exact path from one point to another that I would ask someone who might have.
The question is still there.
When traveling particle goes from 0 to 1 distance away does a particle have to go through .1, .11, .111, .1111, .11111 distance or does it jump from .1 strait to .2 with no infinitely small point in space in between.

 

[DrChinese]

Well basically since I have never heard of anyone being able to trace a particle on it's exact path from one point to another that I would ask someone who might have.
The question is still there.
When traveling particle goes from 0 to 1 distance away does a particle have to go through .1, .11, .111, .1111, .11111 distance or does it jump from .1 strait to .2 with no infinitely small point in space in between.

Folks are trying to tell you nicely that this is a well-known flawed argument. See Zeno's paradox and please understand that this is a poorly formed question in the world of quantum physics.