spacetime – Uncommon Descent

Is spacetime granular on the smallest of scales?

At Physics Central: “a recent Physical Review Letter hints that granular spacetime could—just maybe—solve two of the most pressing problems in astronomy today.”

mike1962 WJM, By the way, when I wrote, "Shut up and get some humility", this wasn't against you personally. Just a... – 12 Successful Predictions of Mental Reality...
Querius EDTA, I think your approach in your point 2 is interesting. -Q – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
Querius Viola Lee and EDTA, Hmmm. I'm really not that familiar with the mathematics of infinities such as Cantor's and serious... – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
polistra Funding will NOT disappear, because all of these changes are EXPLICITLY COMMANDED by the funders. Partisan science is what the... – Science writer mourns the slow suicide...
mike1962 Me: Consider, readers, for a second, humans can’t even describe the difference between the conscious experience of red and blue.... – 12 Successful Predictions of Mental Reality...
Mac McTavish Aaron, as far as I know, authors don’t get paid extra for publishing open access papers. I think they have... – That notorious ID paper was the...
AaronS1978 Yeah and it’s also competing with other papers what are the authors pay as open access – That notorious ID paper was the...
Viola Lee Yes, I agree with your 1 through 4. You can proceed indefinitely, but you never “reach infinity” because infinity is... – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
EDTA Viola Lee & Querius, Pardon my interrupting, but this argument about infinity is very intriguing to me. I think I... – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
Viola Lee Hi Querius At #42, you posted the following to William, but I hope you won't mind if I respond, as... – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
Mac McTavish To put it in context, authors who pay to have their papers published as open access have a much higher... – That notorious ID paper was the...
Viola Lee I haven't been involved in the theology discussion, but I imagine you're right about that. And speaking of "equilateral triangles... – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
Querius Haha, joke! I bet the article actually meant "hominids" rather than hominims! It does make a difference. But on the... – Did hominins from 300 kya use...
Querius Viola Lee, One of my favorites is Morley’s theorem Cool—I didn’t know that! And from there, it’s equilateral triangles all... – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
jerry The theory is that the C19 virus does not kill many people. What kills most people is the over reaction... – BREAKING: President Trump, Mrs Trump &...
jerry RHampton just presented a study where HCQ had a positive effect. What has happened? – BREAKING: President Trump, Mrs Trump &...
AaronS1978 Jerry Coyne is obviously not keeping up with current Neuroscience he might wanna check out https://neurophil-freewill.org/ They are current they... – Jerry Coyne and Determinism
EDTA WJM, I too write, but not professionally (yet). Ideas do sometimes surprise me, but after I have written them down... – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
kairosfocus Q, Coriolis forces and similar virtual forces tied to non inertial frames of reference are always interesting. And yes, one... – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
Viola Lee Hi Q, re 43 The study of non-euclidean geometry produces many logical but surprising results. Actually, so does Euclidean geometry!... – The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines...
Viola Lee Thanks, Q. I have a high school English teacher friend who teaches the Parable of the Cave in her senior... – 12 Successful Predictions of Mental Reality...