[ExI] Space may not be quantized after all

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 17:17:48 UTC 2011


In other space news...
Black holes from the very early universe have been found in large numbers.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/H-11-183.html

Interesting stuff for physics junkies... :-)

-Kelly

2011/7/1 john clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>

> Apparently we don't know as much as we thought we did and our quantum
> theories need work. Quantum theories of Physics insist that space is
> quantized just like everything else, that is to say space can not be
> continuous but must be grainy and the lumps in space must be as large or
> larger than the Planck Length of 1.62*10^-35 of a meter because size is
> meaningless in quantum theories if things are smaller than that. But now to
> everybody's surprise there is experimental evidence that if space is
> quantized at all then the lumps must be smaller than 10^-48 of a meter;
> that's at least ten thousand billion times smaller than the Planck Length,
> the smallest size previously thought to exist and it makes one wonder if the
> smallest possible size is actually zero. For more see:
>
> http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-physics-einstein.html
>
>   John K Clark
>
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