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It's just a Planck bro (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for trying, your explanation is not nearly dumb enough. I feel like the match girl smelling the roast while having a bite of stale bread. There is knowledge I just can smell but not taste. The one thing I got though that clarified a bit is that Planck lengths is not a statement that space, the 3 dimensions, is quantized but rather that it's mathematically insignificant when trying to distinguish two particules separated by Less than that length.

[โ€“] gens 15 points 20 hours ago

The smallest particles are not actually balls, but are wibbly wobbly. To measure something we need to interact with it, even if we interact with it using light. But because those particles are all wibbly wobbly, we can't say for sure where they are exactly. And that unsure distance is Plancks length.

Disclaimer; I am not theoretical not a physicist, now eat your vegetables.