In Reply to: RE: The quantum world is 'digital'! posted by ahendler on July 14, 2011 at 19:44:31:
Just count the photons, 1, 2, 3...very digital. No such such thing as 1.3 photons!OK. You called me out. Is Space quantized? Is Time quantized just like it is in digital media?? Well, obviously if space is quantized, then time must also be quantized as they inhabitat the same continuum -- the space-time continuum of Relativity Theory (called continuum because it predates quantum physics).
Oh, I don't know: There is a planck length and a planck time which are very, very small. Are they the smallest possible measurements?? I think that traveling a planck length in a planck time gives one the speed of light! So what else is new ;-)
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