These mfers are like glitches in reality. Even trying to wrap my head around wtf they are freaks me out. How the hell can there be a thing in this universe that has infinite density? That doesn't even make sense.

Ugh

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Since I found someone willing to explain this in the wild, could you say more about Planck units?

    If so

    Am I understanding the implication correctly that, as far as our ability to measure things is concerned, the universe is organized into something analogous to voxels (in the true sense) and frames? How does movement work, is it just the rate at which quanta blip from one unit of Planck space to the next? If laterally adjacent spaces have the same mass, does that mean if they move laterally at the same speed, at each interval one space remains the same while one loses mass and another gains it? i.e. if you have 01100 and move it one to the right, you have 00110, with the middle one not changing.

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      It's been years since I studied it so I may need to brush up my knowledge to explain it properly.

      One thing to note is that there are different interpretations of QM, so one might agree with the interpretation of flipping bits, while another might argue that the object is moving through infinitely-divisible space, on a smaller scale than it is possible to observe, and the bits are just the limits of what is measurable. For practical purposes, either works and it's more of a philosophical question of whether we can extend scientific principles to things and scales where it's impossible to test or observe.

      I definitely recall something about using two-dimensional pixels rather than three-dimensional voxels in this context, even though it seems extremely counter-intuitive. It has something to do with surface areas but I definitely can't explain it on my lunch break lol.