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by simiones
878 days ago
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Discreteness would mean that there exists some base distance p such that the distance between any two objects is Np, with N being a natural number (and any surface is some Mp^2 and any volume is Qp^3 and so on). Continuity is simply the opposite of that. It could be that objects can be at arbitrary real-valued distance d from each other, but that d > p is a precondition for any other law of physics. By contrast, discretness has various unintuitive mathematical properties that mean it's not easy to fit into some other theories (particularly those relying on differential equations). |
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