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- From: cannon@scs.unt.edu (Dustin Cannon (Lab 3460))
- Subject: Quantitized Length
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- Organization: School of Community Service, UNT
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:33:55 GMT
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- I have a question. I was thinking about the problem of the man
- walking across a bridge, but he first walks half the distance and then can
- only walk half the remaining distance and so on. He never gets to the end,
- right?
- Well, I was thinking that if length was quantitized just like
- charge. Then the man would get to a point were he simply could no longer
- walk half the distance because he would be halving a quanta of length.
- I liked this because it also solves a rather disturbing idea one of
- my professors once said, which was that as two point charges come in contact
- with each other they have infinte potential energy due to 1/r. This, he
- said, was in his mind a proof of God's exsistence.
- I have asked several of my professors about quantitized length, but
- they seem to dodge the question. One however did tell me that quantum
- mechanics is couched in the idea of a countinous space-time and that this
- seems to be a good approximation, so why make the problem harder by throwing
- in quantitization of length. I can understand this, but I would still like
- to know the truth.
- I would greatly appreciate anything anybody can tell me on this
- subject. I have yet to take Quantum Mechanics so I'm deep in terra
- incognito. Thanks ahead of time.
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- Dustin W. Cannon "Just because some of us can read and write
- University of and do a little math, that doesn't mean we
- North Texas deserve to conquer the universe."
- -Kurt Vonnegut
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