• Hapankaali@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    The Planck units are a choice of natural units relevant to cosmology. They aren’t the smallest or largest of anything. The Planck mass is roughly the same as that of a fruit fly.

    In our current established theoretical framework, there is no reason to presume that either time or space are discrete, nor is there experimental evidence for it.

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        15 hours ago

        The Planck constant [Js] was introduced to find a way around the UV catastrophe. The Planck length [m] is defined as \sqrt{\frac{\hbar G}{c^3}}, where G is the gravitational constant and c the speed of light in vacuum.