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I'm pretty sure there are others, it's quite a common trope.
In the (hopefully) real world, there was something fairly recently about possible violations of the Planck length: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110630111540.ht... (news wrapper around http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1068 )
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Permutation-City-Greg-Egan/dp/00610548...
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I'm pretty sure there are others, it's quite a common trope.
In the (hopefully) real world, there was something fairly recently about possible violations of the Planck length: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110630111540.ht... (news wrapper around http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1068 )
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Permutation-City-Greg-Egan/dp/00610548...