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I understand that some do not accept LQG in particular, but any discrete spatial geometry in general, because that would be a violation of lorentz symmetry. It was explained to me as meaning that If a 2D plane were discretized into a grid or lattice, a vector would not have a continuous rotational symmetry group, there would be certain rotations that could not be performed. Therefore, as part of lorentz symmetry, the physics would be lorentz variant, something which we experimentally believe to be always true.
I was thinking about what it would mean for space to be continuous, but time to be discrete, and wondering if such ideas have been explored, or even how the math on such a vector space would work. In my mind, this would make the physics rotationally invariant still, since time as a single dimension can only undergo one rotation that will always map onto a previous time on an evenly spaced metric. Or is it that this discontinuity in the translational symmetry for time would violate the invariance too?
Anyhow, I'm very new to the mathematics used to talk about all this stuff, is there a place to get a good crash-course with applications along the way to demonstrate it?
I was thinking about what it would mean for space to be continuous, but time to be discrete, and wondering if such ideas have been explored, or even how the math on such a vector space would work. In my mind, this would make the physics rotationally invariant still, since time as a single dimension can only undergo one rotation that will always map onto a previous time on an evenly spaced metric. Or is it that this discontinuity in the translational symmetry for time would violate the invariance too?
Anyhow, I'm very new to the mathematics used to talk about all this stuff, is there a place to get a good crash-course with applications along the way to demonstrate it?