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- From: wilson@web.ctron.com (David Wilson)
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- Subject: Length Scales in Physics
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- Date: 19 Aug 92 14:24:12 GMT
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- In <1992Aug18.222608.501@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu
- (John C. Baez) writes:
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- > On the scale of the Planck length, it's possible that the structure of
- > spacetime becomes quite different from the four-dimensional manifold we
- > know and love. Spacetime itself becomes a foam (according to Wheeler)
- > or a bucket of dust (according to Wheeler) or a bubbling sea of virtual
- > black holes (according to Hawking) or a weave of knots or tangles
- > (according to Ashtekar, Rovelli, and Smolin). In short, it's weird, but
- > beyond that nobody really knows...
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- Others, such as myself, feel that spacetime at that scale is best
- understood a hodgepodge of peanut butter, grass clippings, and
- incessant reruns of "I Love Lucy." Someday, we may be taken seriously.
-
- --
- David W. Wilson (wilson@ctron.com)
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- Disclaimer: "Truth is just truth...You can't have opinions about truth."
- - Peter Schikele, introduction to P.D.Q. Bach's oratorio "The Seasonings."
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