Is Space Continuous or Quantized?

[jadrian]

or is space itseld quantized meaning an object moving from a to b
would in some way look like A \/\/\/\/\0/\/\/\/ B

or is it smooth and continuous like A--------0------B

?

 

[Pythagorean]

We aren't sure yet; some modern theories lean towards quantized. Of course, there's no huge problems taking it as continuous for classical systems.

 

[phinds]

or is space itseld quantized meaning an object moving from a to b
would in some way look like A \/\/\/\/\0/\/\/\/ B

or is it smooth and continuous like A--------0------B

?

As Pythagorean said, nobody knows, but it's a commonly asked question and if you do a forum search you'll find a lot of discussion on it (the bottom line of which is, of course, nobody knows)

 

[ModusPwnd]

Space is currently modeled as continuous. There are hypothesis that quantizing it may lead to better models, but that idea is still being worked on.