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Re:Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept by ianburrell on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:44PM (#48867725)
Spacetime isn't quantized as far as we know. We don't know since we don't have quantum gravity or ability to probe Planck scale. Quantum fields are continuous, it is excitations in the field, particles, that are quantized.
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Re:Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept by amwet on Saturday July 11, 2026 @12:19AM (#48868706)
Ah, I thought we didn’t have strong evidence either way. Regardless, I shouldn’t have stated spacetime quanta so matter-of-factly. I just have an easier time conceptualizing if I treat everything like hypervoxels and that leaked in.
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Re:Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept by lmpdev on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:08AM (#48879031)
The answer is we don’t know for certain

There are even some philosophers/mathematicians who attest to finitism (they’re not mainstream, though), but if correct would undermine our idea of fields and continuous structures more broadly

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